Name change: 'F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin'

by James Ransom-Wiley { Sep 8th 2008 at 4:50PM }

Monolith and Warner Bros. sure appreciate all the hard work you put in to deciding the name of the "spiritual successor" to F.E.A.R., but let's face it, Project Origin doesn't quite ring like ... F.E.A.R. 2. But, as the backstory goes, Sierra owned the franchise name and, up until the Activision-Blizzard merger, the company was supposedly working on its own F.E.A.R. sequel.

But then, well, Sierra hit a snag. Sensing that all was not well, Warner Bros. sent over a gift basket full of money, and back came the rights to the franchise name. So, here Warner Bros. and Monolith are with the original name and the name that's been used in all the marketing to date. Solution? Combine the two. And the final answer is ... F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin! In stores February 10th, 2009.

Tags: fear, fear-2, monolith, project-origin, sierra, warner-bros, wbie

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Haggard @ Sep 8th 2008 4:56PM

Didn't see this one coming. Ah well, at least the people who don't follow gaming news will know it's a sequel now.

Ninjakamster (PS360 FTW!) @ Sep 8th 2008 4:57PM

Will it feature the characters from the original game now? Probably not.

The novelty is gone when the Delta Force operative in the sequel gains the slow-mo powers from surgery when the Point Man from the original had it because he was the son of Alma. : (

Jakka(Naked Peach Brigade) @ Sep 8th 2008 5:03PM

OH, THE SPOILERS! THEY'RE BURNING MY EYES! MY EYES!!!1

Zeus.:God @ Sep 8th 2008 4:58PM

Can't wait for this game. Loved the original FEAR.

blehh @ Sep 8th 2008 4:59PM

happy festivus everyone!

Nick the Hero of Canton @ Sep 8th 2008 5:00PM

AKA, marketing.

I liked the original title better.

Qwirk @ Sep 8th 2008 5:02PM

Not sure how it can be FEAR 2 AND Project Origin. Should have named it FEAR: Project Origin. =|

Haggard @ Sep 8th 2008 5:23PM

Sounds like another shitty expansion pack if they call it that.

Averna @ Sep 9th 2008 2:56AM

I fail to see the point you were trying to make. This is how sequels have been named for a loooong time.

j.howlett @ Sep 8th 2008 5:04PM

i had a feeling this would happen and thought it should. if only i had evidence maybe i could get someone to pay me to make guesses about video games or i could be like bratner and get paid for branding.

äsdf @ Sep 8th 2008 5:04PM

Awesome ;3

imo this shooter should be on more people's radar rather than something like Killzone 2.

Anam @ Sep 8th 2008 5:10PM

Peter Jackson's First Encounter Assault Recon 2: Project Origin - The Official Sequel and/or Prequel of the First Game - Director's Cut Extended Edition

Titanium_Orchid @ Sep 8th 2008 5:29PM

PJFEAR2:POTOSPFGDCE2

Shagittarius @ Sep 8th 2008 5:24PM

Project: Origin is just about the stupidestest sounding name evar.

How about "Activity: Birth" I think I would'a bought that...

Anam @ Sep 8th 2008 5:31PM

It would sound better had they gone with Origin Project instead of Project Origin. But anyway, having a lame acronym to sound science-fictiony was pretty bad to begin with.

Vexorg @ Sep 8th 2008 5:27PM

I guess "Electric Boogaloo" was taken?

Courtney @ Sep 8th 2008 5:32PM

Can they find a way to fit more dots into the title.

F.E.A.R 2: Project.Origin.sequel

I'll wait until some in depth reviews are out before deciding whether to get it. It's going to need some serious improvement to the overall variety of the game (location, graphics, enemies) to justify buying. I had fun for awhile with the first one, then it was just too much of the same, over and over.

Anam @ Sep 8th 2008 5:34PM

Haha. There is something very funny about the "PJFEAR" and "POTO" parts of that acronym. It almost makes me want to make a game about a bad-ass cop named P.J. Fear.

Thanatos @ Sep 8th 2008 5:52PM

I loved the original Fear and Extraction Point but i was playing Perseus Mandate and after what felt like an hour and a half there was no freaky crap going on and i had forgotten why the hell i was shooting the other guys so i stopped playing so Hopefully this is more like the Original and EP than the latter. Was i Too hasty with PM? Does it get better?

theturtle363 @ Sep 8th 2008 6:07PM

i doubt it, i gave up even sooner than you

Ihavepants @ Sep 8th 2008 6:46PM

Perseus Mandate and Extraction Point were not made by Monolith who made the original game and have developed Project Origin.

offday @ Sep 8th 2008 8:03PM

I always wondered how the heck we could decide the name of a game that we knew nothing about.

Jonah Falcon @ Sep 8th 2008 8:07PM

It'll help sell the game. Believe it or not, most people won't know it's a sequel to FEAR without the FEAR 2 in front of it.

kftgr @ Sep 8th 2008 8:14PM

If you're going overboard with punctuation in the first place, you should do it all out:

F.E.A.R.: 2: P.R.O.J.E.C.T.: O.R.I.G.I.N.

Wubbytoes @ Sep 8th 2008 8:15PM

Awesome, I'm glad those guys got the right to the name back. It seemed really dumb to me anyway that sierra had held on to the name. What the hell were they going to do with it, pump out expansion after expansion for an old game? They didn't have rights to the storyline so any sequel would have been pretty pointless.