Fear Effect

Overveiw

Back Cover Summary: Days before her eighteenth birthday, the quit, 
enigmatic Wee Ming Lam, disapperas under mysterious circumstances.
Hana, Glas, and Deke, three self-motivated and ruthless mercenaries
conspire to rack her down and randsom her off to her father, Mr. Lam,
the most powerful Triad Leader in Hong Kong, for a large sum of cold, 
hard cash.
What Begins as a simple extortion mission to retrieve the young 
runaway becomes a lesson in survival against teh most unimaginable
of enemies.
Immerse yourslef in this intense thriller featuring revolutionary 
Motion FX technology where you direct your cast of 3D characters 
within dynamic, full-motion-video worlds. Who lives? Who dies? Only 
you decide, if you can... Control Your Fear.

My Summary: Cast in a Japanese animated world, Hana must kidnap a
runnaway girl for randsom money from the girls father, Mister Lam.
What turns out to be a regualar illegal operation turns out to be 
a monster filled mission of survival... Control Your Fear.

Graphics

The graphics of Fear Effect are awesome. For anime lovers, you're
bound to live this perfectly crafted game. The luminating backgrounds
are completely constructed of FMV sequences, giving an atmospheric
presence of fear. Character models are crafted very well, with
very good facial expression and realistic movement. This is a 
totally good visual game.

Sound

Eerie footsteps, ringing gunshots, and the moaning of the dead bring
out the fear in you in this game. The sound effects are a delice 
while the soundtrack is up to par also. With scary sound affects
such as wind and motors runnin combined with a mysterious soundtrack,
you really get into the game very fast.

Gameplay

As with many other survival horror games, the control of Fear Effect
is very shaky. Up is always forward, left is always left, right is
always right, and down is always backwards. With this control, 
sometimes it is very hard to control the character on the screen
at wierd camera angles. But I would say it controls a lot better than
the Resident Evil Series, with less of a pivoting movement. And
I guess this type of control fitted into Fear Effect was needed for
the dodging and strategic fighting scenes. 

Though I must add the frustration some may have with the game. Many 
will experience that the only way beating the game is to put on 
cheats, since the style of the game is die, load, die, and load.

Actually playing the game is quite fun and amuzing. With many 
differnt guns and real life AI, the game is ver pleasurable to play. 
Your fear really gets to you as does the actual character on screen. 
Up above is a fear meter of how scared your character is. Meaning 
when your character is full of nervousness at some bad situations, 
muscles tense up and death is at the end of the string with one shot.
You feal what your character feals.......

Lasting Apeal

Even though Fear Effect spans a whopping four discs, it still is a
pretty short game. Why? because of the extreme detail the game puts
in every ounce of the game takes much memory. I beat the game in
less than on week. I'd say it's a tad bit shorter than Metal Gear 
Solid. But I think most players will squeeze at list two or three
times beating the game on the account that this wonderful game has
three, count 'em and weep!, three brilliant endings to explore and
marvel at.

Bottom Line

System: Sony Playstation
Genre: Survival-Horror
Developer: Eidos Interactive
ESRB: Mature
Preheribles: 1 Player, Memory Card (1 block), Analog, Rumble
CDs: 4

Graphics: 10/10
Gameplay: 8/10
Sound: 9/10
Lasting Apeal: 7/10
Average: 8.5/10
Should you get it?: Yes


This review was written on August 17, 2001 by Ryan Lin.