F.E.A.R. SDK Released

Voodoo Extreme reports that an SDK for the excellent First-Person Shooter F.E.A.R. has been released. F.E.A.R. captured best FPS nod at the SpikeTV VGAs. From the article: "The post launch support begins Wednesday, November 23rd with the launch of the F.E.A.R. SDK (Software Development Kit), allowing consumers to create their own custom content for both single and multiplayer aspects of F.E.A.R. Also available now is the F.E.A.R. stand-alone server software for both Linux and Win32. VU Games is also pleased to announce that as part of its ongoing efforts to improve the in-game experience for gamers, a deal has been signed to incorporate the Punkbuster Anti Cheat software into F.E.A.R. ."

Comments

Re:Wrong audience

[JamesTRexx]

First Encounter Assault Recon. I've heard the game was supposed to be very scary to play, so I got me a copy to try it out but it disappointed me. There were a few shockers, but after a few levels I got bored, looked up cheats, gave myself unlimited ammo because I got tired of going back and forth switching weapons and completed the whole game while waiting for the scary bits.
Maybe it's because the game's too demanding on the graphics hardware, but I just didn't feel like I was pulled into the eerie atmosphere. So far the only game that really scared me was Doom II with the Alients TC mod. Now That gave me the creeps at night and made me twitchy and wanting to run the f*ck out of there.

My advice, try it before you buy.

Spike TV?

[88NoSoup4U88]

F.E.A.R. captured best FPS nod at the SpikeTV VGAs

And we should take this seriously, why ?
SpikeTV also awarded KingKong (the game)... A game that would not be out for another two weeks... A game they said was rated -by the public-...

Anyhows, F.E.A.R. -is- an excellent game (one of the best single player games of the last years imo), but judging a game on SpikeTV's awards is ridicilous.

Re:Excellent FPS?

[KDR_11k]

I don't know but I haven't seen it lately (at least not singleplayer). IMO the genre is dead, noone can come up with anything new for it anymore and I should really stop myself from buying an FPS just because everyone on the internet is raving about it, got burned on Doom 3, Half-Life 2 and FEAR lately, Doom 3 was the only one of them that I actually finished, the other ones I stopped playing after two or three "chapters" because they became so boring. Don't ask me why I managed to slug through Doom 3 but I think the gameplay may have been more fun (turning up the brightness works pretty well, I never needed the flashlight in combat). Multiplayer was unbalanced and very flawed, FEAR was the worst of the bunch since you'd drop dead all the time without even seeing the enemy and often you get killed after spawning by the guy who just spawned behind you. They're only worth it for the mods and UT2004 would have been enough for that.

The SDK itself isn't great, it bites for modelers who'd like to use free software since the exporters are only available for the newest MAX and Maya versions (expensive) and it doesn't come with format documentation so us Blender users are left out. I hope someone reverse engineers the format, so far only Doom 3 has any plugins for Blender (and those are usermade).