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Good day. Now FEAR would go on to become fairly popular, as it should have simply because
it was a good game even if it wasn't very scary. Now it would receive two expansion
packs and we're going to be taking a look at the first one today called Extraction Point.
Now Extraction Point takes place immediately after the first game. And you have to try
to escape the city after a nuke goes off in it. That still, of course, did not stop Alma.
And also apparently couldn't kill the titular Point Man, who is the main character that
never speaks and generally just doesn't interact with anybody. Although you have to wonder,
when people talk to him and he doesn't respond, do they think he's a complete ***? I don't
know. Gordon Freeman gets away with it so maybe Point Man does too.
Now this game is virtually unchanged from FEAR 1. You shoot pretty much all the same
enemies, and you do pretty much all the same things. There's some freak out moments where
they don't really actually matter all that much cause you don't get hurt, although they
do actually send some spectral enemies after you that you do actually have to shoot. However,
it's fairly rare and they're easily killed in one or two hits.
The atmosphere in this game is still just as good as FEAR 1's, although it now is kind
of old seeing as how you just played through pretty much the exact same atmosphere in the
first game, but it still works.
Unfortunately, the game's story doesn't make a lot of sense. Now, in the first game, the
sub-boss was a man named Paxton Fettel, he was the eeeevil psychic commander of all the
clones. Now in the first game, spoiler alert, you kill him. In this game, he comes back
to life. Somehow. He even says it doesn't make any sense! And I guess you kinda have
to have him come back because if he doesn't you don't have any enemies because Alma apparently
doesn't want to attack you or send spectral enemies after you, even though she does at
times. This game is already losing logic already at the first bloody expansion pack.
Now really, there's not much else to say about this expansion pack. It's just FEAR 1 rehashed
again. But that's really what an expansion pack does; it gives you what you liked in
the first game and just adds on to it. It's definitely a good expansion pack if a bit
repetitive at this point. And so, this is Jon, signing off.