F.E.A.R.2: Project Origin Demo now on Steam

News Reader · Post by **News Reader** » January 23rd, 2009, 8:00

F.E.A.R.2: Project Origin Demo now on Steam
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Publish Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:31:40 -0800

Alma wants to know if you can come out and play. The official F.E.A.R.2: Project Origin demo is live on Steam today.
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buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » January 23rd, 2009, 12:19

1.8gig.

Ah well, hopefully it'll be worth it.

Post by **Dog Pants** » January 23rd, 2009, 12:29

1.8g for a demo? Brink back the Amiga Power coverdisks with half a dozen demos on please.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » January 23rd, 2009, 12:35

Those were the days.

It's understandable though really, most of the core game code and assets are getting fairly large, plus I bet there's a prerendered movie in there for a few hundred meg.

I've noticed a trend for most demo's to pretty much be the beta .9 version just with the levels stripped out from the full game, which is a shame as it probably means you could trip another 25% of space up by cutting unused assets, it used to be fun when they were mini stories themselves like Valve's Uplink hl1 demo.

cashy · Post by **cashy** » January 23rd, 2009, 13:15

Well, it's definately F.E.A.R.. They seem to throw every aspect of the orginal game into the demo, so either it's going over all the basics early as it has some new things to throw at you, or it's really fucking short/ repetitive.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » January 23rd, 2009, 15:40

cashy wrote:Well, it's definately F.E.A.R.. They seem to throw every aspect of the orginal game into the demo, so either it's going over all the basics early as it has some new things to throw at you, or it's really fucking short/ repetitive.

It started off reasonably promising and very FEAR. Then it gives you all the weapons and loses the point of a spooky FPS. I'd imagine the final game would be a lot more stretched out but it's still just more of the same.

Post by **deject** » January 23rd, 2009, 16:09

Everything I've seen/read about it so far has been that it's F.E.A.R., but not as repetitive. Hopefully that's pretty close to truth.

Post by **FatherJack** » January 23rd, 2009, 16:17

Dog Pants wrote:1.8g for a demo? Brink back the Amiga Power coverdisks with half a dozen demos on please.

Do magazines bother with cover CDs any more, or do they just assume everyone has fast internets?

I guess they'd have to be cover Blurays or something to fit much of anything on anymore.

Post by **Dog Pants** » January 23rd, 2009, 16:35

They still have DVDs, but none have been in my drive for about 6 months, and even then it's usually for drivers or patches.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » January 23rd, 2009, 17:59

I liked that.

Two things stand out, Alma is around a lot more and is pissed, not really surprising on both counts, and the bit at the when you're leaving the cinema was awesome, might have had a little panic

Secondly, fucking mech suit!

Judging by the video at the end there's at least 3 or 4 more weapons, so that's nice.

I reckon it's going to be quite good, and Monolith generally put out alright games, with the good and excellent surfacing occasionally.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » January 26th, 2009, 10:20

Thread locked, discussion continues here:
http://www.5punk.co.uk/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=166328