So what exactly is supposed to be scary?
Everything being on fire and Alma popping up? Personally i think that's rather cheap, like your going into a horrorhouse at a carnaval.
I dont get any feeling of suspense from this game, or the previous FEAR at all. I always rush through the 'horror' bits to finally get some clone soldiers to shoot up again. Alma popping up randomly is just not scary, and it even gets announced with radio static before it happens.
It can finally kill you now in FEAR 2, something which couldnt happen in FEAR 1, adding more to the meh-part, but it still doesnt feel like Alma can pose any danger at all except to some random soldiers you run in to.
Personally i thought the demo was rather boring, mainly because there wasnt enough combat. A flaw just like the original demo had, is that its just not long enough. There is a small bit of fighting, and mostly just walking through hallways with something popping in and out of view every now and then, while the atmosphere isnt haunting at all.
I think we get to kill about 20 soldiers before the demo ends in a mechsuit, which i didnt like at all.
The combat was ok, AI seems to be pretty good, but that they dropped leaning which even the original had, is pretty mindblowing. It's all like 'we are going to invest a lot of time and effort into making the AI tactical' but the player cant even lean around a corner? Even the AI is able to, why shouldnt we? Again, the mechsuit part is totally meh, much like the tank-parts in BiA: Hells Highway are.
Final thing that annoyed me were the 'movie bars'. It's hard for me to get immersed into the game when i look at 2 huge black bars the entire time, and it gives the graphics a 'compressed' feeling. It's nice if they want a movie-like experience and all but this **** just needs to go!
I would like to play around with the AI some more, but the idea of having to wade through the entire parade of cheap frights before finally getting to some soldiers is really putting me off. And if i do play it again, i can get maybe 5 minutes of enjoyment out of fighting those soldiers before they are all dead and then all that's left is some more cheap scares and finally the meh-suit. For comfort i think i'm just gonna leave the C out of mech-suit, because that would be a more fitting description.
Man, and i didnt even want to sound so critical, but this just left me totally unsatisfied, considering i took the time to download a 1,8 gig file.