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Fear Effect Sequel On Hold
Thanks to Gamespot for this story confirming Eidos' Fear Effect:Inferno is officially 'on hold'. The third in the series of Resident Evil-styled 3rd-person action titles was shown at E3 in 2002, but not this year. It was recently rumored in development at Crystal Dynamics (home of Legacy Of Kain) instead of former developer Kronos Digital, but apparently progress has stopped for now. The first two games were particularly known for salacious marketing - thanks to Gamerspress for saving this advert for Fear Effect 2 which pretty much says it all.
OMFG have you seen the Halo 2 trailer it's like slow and it's telling you all the stuff you did in the first one then the music kicks in and and the chief comes out and gets a gun the earf is on fire and chief is like fuck this im jumping and HE JUMPS PUT OF TEH SPACESHIP with angels singing and he lands on the bad guys and that annoying ai lady is like GO GET EM TIGER! WILDCAT IS ON TEH SPOKE!!!~`1 and theres less polys but rawkin bumb mappings you can view this on a special MICROSOFT xbox disk that comes with EB games store.
Thanks to Gamespot for this story ...
Yeah, thanks so very much for submitting this story that no one gives a flying fuck about. The story's been up for over half an hour and still no comments. That's how utterly fascinating this shit is.
Next time Gamespot, you can go fuck yourselves instead of using slashdot as advertisting for your worthless rag.
I had very high hopes for the first game, went and bought it, and the load times drove me crazy. The game itself was fun and looked great, but the wait times killed it. It prevented me from trying the second one, and not caring about the third.
I found the first one quite amusing, too bad I never got around to playing part 3 though.
But what is so important about this? It's not like they're delaying Duke Nukem Forever...uhm...
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If we're going to talk about overtly sexual Fear Effect 2 ads then you can't top this one.
Oh god, help, my eyes, my fucking EYES. I came here from the main page and now I don't think I'll be able to see long enough to close my browser and go to the ER. This color scheme is the reason animals claw their eyes out.
I know more than you drink.
If you're going to suck the bandwidth off my old server, don't forget the Fear Effect 2 walkthrough.
I was torn about Fear Effect in general. There were parts of the game I liked, such as such of the puzzles, and the plot was certainly more mature than you'd find in other M rated games.
On the other hand, I think the whole "look, we're hot lesbian girls (maybe!) who have guns! Whoo!" was a little overdone. Did we really need Raine being sexually assaulted by a mechanical robot bug?
Fear Effect 3 looked to go further with the idea, but if they have the puzzle stuff down, it might be enjoyable.
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