I mean seriously folks. Its like half of you took STUPID PILLS just because an occasional crate is to square. This game puts Doom-III and H2 to shame graphically for what it does.
I think it looks much worse overall... animations are poor, level design is incredibly bland and blocky (like all Monolith games... guys, hire some decent level designers!!), characters aren't even close to Half-Life 2 realism, etc. The HL2 engine is pretty average/poor in terms of technology, but it is more convincing that any other game has managed - through physics, models, animations, atmosphere, it manages to convey a real environment. Whilst the FEAR engine may have the potential to be better than D3 and HL2 it certainly doesn't achieve it.
Doom 3 did darkness/atmosphere well... HL2 did characters, physics, plot, narration and large environment wells. FEAR does a lot of things reasonably but I feel it falls flat.
Still, to each their own.
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