F.E.A.R.: Perseus Mandate

The Good
It still has the same AI as the original F.E.A.R., the enemies are still very tactical and flanking your enemies is still the best choice you can make.

Now you can team up with three NPC's to fight the Replica soldiers which is a lot of fun. You just got to love their reactions whenever you use slow-motion.

Unlike the previous expansion, I didn't notice any glitches that got on my nerves.

The Bad
I am sure everybody agrees that Monolith wanted F.E.A.R. to be about Alma Wade (they even made an official statement saying so), but in this game both Paxton Fettel and Alma are pushed to the side. This story is more about some PMC that employs psychic themselves. You can't believe how fast I lost interest. It gives the impression that somebody was just making a generic shooter using the F.E.A.R. AI and crow-barred some horror into it one week before release.

This story is even more simple then Extraction Point, you are just chasing people. There aren't even any good horror moments, the only one that startled me was one they copied from Extraction Point. The only new enemy in the story is an over-obvious dark hole in the ground that will suck you in, but there is no way anybody could ever fall for that more then twice.

The game introduces a completely new F.E.A.R. team, but fails to endear them to the player. I really didn't care what happened to the new characters. Even Point Man is absent, you are now playing as another F.E.A.R. operative with psychic powers and a lack of emotion, but they forgot to explain why that is so.

The game took me three hours more then Extraction Point, but the problem is that the game is incredibly repetitive and stretched out. The last few minutes were quite interesting, but everything before that was in dire need of an editor armed with a chainsaw.

The Bottom Line
The only people I can recommend this game to are the ones that just can't ever get enough of the franchise. Even if you got the game for free on Steam you might want to pretend it's not there.