If you've played the first F.E.A.R., you know the drill. If you haven't, you are a guy with a gun and great reflexes and ENERGY LEGS THAT KICK THE SOULS OUT OF BAD GUYS. Your opponents are a battalion of soldiers made up of some of the best AI in a game ever, with a healthy smattering of a creepy ghost girl who liquefies the skin off of her victim's body, leaving behind only a multicultural skeleton.
Thankfully, you got good guns too, like submachine guns, assault rifles, sniper rifles, rocket launchers, slug throwers, a beam cannon that also creates multicultural skeletons and a Shotgun that was so dominant and awesome and violent in close quarters that should have been called the FLESH-RAPER 4000 but is instead just written as a pronoun. This is no mere shotgun, it is the Shotgun.
And now, here comes F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin! Now with: more guns, a new hero (with odd similarities to the old hero), more soldiers, more creepy girl who is also sometimes a creepy naked teen, more hallucinations with more danger to you, more power armors, more environments and more ENERGY LEGS!
Xbox 360 demo is OUT NOW (unless you live in Asia or Germany)
PC demo is OUT NOW (also on Steam)
PS3 demo is OUT NOW
US Full game is out 2/11/09, UK is 2/13/09.