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Fear Effect

Genres
Action
North America February 18, 2000 Eidos Interactive
Europe 1999 Eidos Interactive

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Fear Effect review

When your fear meter is in the 'red' zone, a single shot will knock your character dead. It's much harder to bring your fear meter back down than it is to bring it up. You must shoot without being seen, and basically do all the opposite things it takes to make the meter increase.

James Gordon

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Fear Effect review HG exclusive

Barring how incredibly easy each of its three difficulties are Fear Effect stands in the center of an awestruck crowd. Code Kronos’ masterwork shamelessly shows off a smirk. By combining the spirit of PC point-n-click adventures of yore with shades of stealth oriented combat and…

carcinogen_crush · November 19, 2007

Fear Effect review

Every once in a while fantastic new technology is introduced to the game playing masses, and eager to show off this new technology designers can all too easily forget the fact that the new technical mumbo-jumbo is supposed to be used to help make games greater. A prime example…

tomclark · March 6, 2004

Fear Effect review Review of the Week

At the nexus where Resident Evil, Metal Gear Solid, Blade Runner and Big Trouble in Little China meet, there is Fear Effect (FE), one of the toughest, darkest and most lurid survival horror outings to arrive late in the Playstation's career. In FE you control a team of three…

bloomer · December 16, 2003

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