Full-priced F.E.A.R. port is no treat

by James Ransom-Wiley on Oct 25th 2006 12:10PM

Sierra has confirmed that F.E.A.R. for Xbox 360 is gold and will ship out on Halloween. Aside from last year's PC game, the port will include some new levels (apparently, not the Extraction Point expansion), Instant Action mode, and 16-player Xbox Live support.

While it's the competitive price, we were surprised to see that F.E.A.R. will retail for $60, given that the meat of the game has been ported from a year-old PC title. Despite an early jump, F.E.A.R. is competing in a shooter-jammed holiday and a $50 -- or dare we say, $40 -- price tag would have been more inviting. Where does F.E.A.R. rank on your priorities list?

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Tags: F.E.A.R., Instant Action, InstantAction, port, Sierra, Xbox Live, Xbox-360, XboxLive

Reader Comments (62)

Too much, like a lot of other 360 games. I'll pass.

Come on, $60 for a FREE multiplayer game? Not nearly as many people are going to buy it for the single player. Fourty would be a little much. The game retails now for thirty.

It ranks about dead last on my priorities list. Good luck there, Sierra.

i'm glad i'm an adult now and have a good job because this is going to be an expensive holiday to be a gamer. back when i was younger, my father would definitely not pay $300+ to buy me a system and then $60/game. i feel bad for some of the younger kids that don't have rich parents and won't be able to play some of this cool next-gen stuff

Played it already on PC a year ago so I'll be spending my money on, you know, new games like Gears of War, Rainbow Six Vegas & COD3. At least when Half Life 2 gets ported to 360 it'll have extra shit that's actually worth $60.

Agreed. I'm sure that hiring a separate studio to handle the conversion duties is driving some of the economics here, but this just isn't going to sell at $60.

Not when games like Rainbow Six Vegas, Gears of War, and Call of Duty 3 ship a week later.

Didn't Sierra buy out FEAR in order to cash in and the actual people that made it still own the right to make new stuff but without the name?

This is a definate DO NOT BUY money sucking game.

While I enjoyed the demo of FEAR(and like the idea of a survival horror/FPS hybrid), Gears of War and Rainbow Six Vegas are a much better investment of $60.

I'll pick this one up when it hits $30.

Where does F.E.A.R. rank on your priorities list?

On my priority list? Hmmm. It's fith on my GameQ list at gamefly.

This one just went from buy to rent. I'm one of those rare birds that enjoys the single player aspect of shooters.

The price doesn't bother me, but it could be the kinda game you thought you were going to buy and then you don't. It's a wildcard pick. With CoD3, GoW and a good looking wrestling game in the pipe before the end of the year, FEAR will really have to impress come release time especially given the lackluster impression I took away from the demo.

Was it just me....or did anyone else think that the graphics in the demo were horrendous?

For an Xbox 360 game, it just wasn't what I expected...and the gameplay was pretty boring on top of it.

I don't have a beefy computer, so I'll rent it.

Rainbow 6, GoW, GRAW2, Mass Effect, Team Fortress2, Forza2, Halo 3... dozens of other good games... NHL 08-11 and then maybe FEAR.

With a wife and kid to support, the days of buying games are long gone for me. I'll be buying Gears, but otherwise I'm a Gamefly guy.

But my brother-in-law loved F.E.A.R. on the PC, so it's in my queue. Plus, I was pretty blown away by the demo. AI that actually dives through windows to evade my bullets? That's pretty sweet.

im in. ill buy it for 60.
there are certain games i want the week they come out for whatever price they are asking.
this is one that i am excited about, so im buying.

I forgot it was coming out! I'll rent it but will not buy for 60!!!

Meh. I'm passing. I'll be getting GoW and R6:Vegas instead. That's enough shooters for me. But JRW is right -- they shouldn't be selling this one for more than $50, being as it's a port of a year-old game that you can pick up for $30 most places. With all the sweet games coming out next month, this one is gonna wind up near the bottom of the heap.

Nate: I'm with you. The graphics in the demo were not "next-gen" by any means. The fact that this is a shoddy port and they aren't including the Expansion Pack I am going to pass on this game completely. And considering what's being released in Nov. I see this title not doing well at all with this price point.

Importance from top to bottom:

1. Gears of War - $60.00
2. Live Headset - $60.00
3. COD3 - $60.00
4. TH Project 8 - $60.00
5. Fuzion Frenzy 2 - $50.00
6. Fear - $60.00

Should have been a launch title. Don't get me wrong, F.E.A.R. with XBOX Live support will rock. But with the PC multiplayer version being free, and the $60 price tag, I'll spend my money elsewhere.

I agree I thought I was playing an xbox game when I tried the demo it looked so bad, I even let my sister see it and she said it looked bad, so this is a no go.

FEAR - 0 PRIORITY!!!

just buy it for the pc I got it for 10 bucks

No thanks on this one. There's plenty of other slick 360 games to pick up through the holiday$. Not to mention Wii and DS expenditures...

L.A.S.T

someone had to do it

My holiday purchases

Gears
THP8

Maybes
XBlive cordless headset
HD-DVD player

I'll be going with Half.com to get this one in about 3 months... when a game's been out for a year already - I can wait 3 more months for it to be much cheaper.

Besides I've only put in 65 hours in Oblivion and feel like I have only completed about 1/2 of that... damn that game is long.

Hundo

its a MUST HAVE. But not a must have right now. GOW and R6 are more important this month. The release timing of the game will hurt its sales. Man, sucks owning a xbox 306 with all the great games being released.

why not mention that it is also a PS3 title for the exact same price. Is this suppose to be a negative 360 article or Fear article. Its hard to tell when such a glaring omission is made.

Too many great games coming out this season to be worried about ancient ports.

Actually, it may be of interest to some to know that the full multiplayer element of FEAR for PC is available free in the form of F.E.A.R combat:

http://www.joinfear.com/main

And yes this is the full multiplayer element with all the levels and servers.
It's just ok really, though some levels are quite well designed and creepy.

Hundo...

I'm with you on Oblivion. Once Gears of War and Final Fantasy III (DS) come out I'll be fully booked timewise.

Also - Are you in Cincy, Hundo?

After playing the demo for RB6 I can't imagine wanting to play FEAR...again. After the RB6 demo I was thinking I was more excited for that than Gears of War. But then that new Gear of War promo ad popped up on Xbox Live today. Gears is back on top of my list.

My list:
1. GOW
2. Call of Duty 3
3. Rainbow Six 3
4. FEAR

I might switch up FEAR and RB6. Depends on reviews of FEAR. I agree $40 they would have sold 2x the copies.

My list changed a bit from before, as I removed NFS: Carbon, because I hated the drifting portion of the demo. I also zapped Phantasy Star Online, and Sonic because the demos did not appeal to me.

As it is now.....
The following are already pre-ordered and paid.

Gears of War
Call of Duty 3
Dead or Alive Xtreme 2
Bioshock
Lost Planet
HD-DVD unit.

Others I am considering purchasing
Viva Pinata
WWE Smackdown Vs. RAW 2007
Rainbow Six....the demo was great.
Star Trek: Legacy
Alan Wake
Blue Dragon (as soon as I can pre-order this puppy, I will)

Hmmm I do agree this holiday season will be expensive.

Blah... I'll pass. Definitely not worth $60.

btw...I know that Bioshock and Lost Plater will not be out for a while, but FutureShop had 10% off...so I pre-ordered it up....long in advance (more so for BioShock than Lost Planet).

hmmm, I hope I did not pre-order "Lost Plater"....more like Lost Planet....

That is what you get for typing a message while at work, and between boss visits.

F.E.A.R. ranks in on my priorities list just above Viva Pinata.(trust me thats at the bottom!!)

I'll pick it up once its a Platinum Hits or a year from now when a used copy will probably go for 20-25 bucks.

F.E.A.R. ranks in my priorities list just below Viva Pinata ... Actually, way below it. I'll actually buy Viva Pinata. It isn't because F.E.A.R. is a year old, that its a port, or even that its $60. It just that its another shooter. Against Rainbow Six: Vegas and Gears of War (and Call of Duty 3, for that matter) what is there to attract me to F.E.A.R.? The "psychological" scares? Puh-lease; I'm married.

I'm not buying it... nope.
I have other games that have higher demand for my cash.
Gears of War and Rainbow Six: Vegas all the way!

Was an awesome game on the PC over a year ago when I played it. Pretty dumb move to try and repackage a year old game and try to resell it for $60. The game was good, but not that good...

This one is on the lower end for sure. So many interesting fps titles coming out to be concerned with. GoW & COD3 are top billing with R6 too.

I can't see myself in a hurry to spend $60 on a game I liked and thus played through on pc. Especially with the free pc multiplayer out there. They should have sweetened the deal a bit more.

Wow to the guy who listed Fusion Frezy 2 over FEAR

is that really necessary? Thats really harsh....ouch....

(hopefully everyone can tell im kidding around here)

Much like most of the people here i will be getting fear later on. I need to get GOW, Rainbow 6, Call of Duty 3 all first before I jump on the fear bandwagon.

it's not on my list. I won't play old PC ports on a console they weren't designed for. Halo2 May pull it off (Maybe) but old PC > 360 games do nothing for me.

...maybe if they were £19.99 (yes, that's GBP to you)

Selling it for MORE than the PC launch price (I'm pretty sure it was $50 new for the PC, and if not new than within the first month) is way past ballsy, and straight into greedy. FEAR got priced at $60 because if they price "new" titles (new refering to the system, not the game) below the $60 price point, gamers will come to expect prices to go back down to the more reasonable $50 overall. And the studios don't want that.

What puzzles me is this myth that these newer games cost more because they are so much more complex. PC games have been generations ahead of consoles for years, and will always continue to be so. Yet most PC games debut for $50 (with rare hyper-anticipated titles hitting at $60 and dropping shortly there-after). And on the whole, PC games are more complicated to code, because you're not dealing with just one specific piece of hardware that the game can be fine tuned for. Though in the studios' defense, making games on a NEW console is a bit of a challenge, due to the relative inexperience with the platform.

But $60 for a port of a game that already made a healthy chunk of profit? Give me a break.

of course I meant HALF LIFE 2 not Halo 2 in #45 lol.

Not going on my list until they add mouse support to the 360, so never. Prefer to play on the pc where I can actually aim at something. Played the demo, even in slow-mo its hard to pull off headshots.

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