In mild of Warner Bros. Video games latest (and poor) resolution to shut Monolith Productions, I can’t assist however consider all the nice occasions I’ve had with the studio’s video games all through the years. The primary of its video games that I attempted was 2005’s F.E.A.R. on my eMachines desktop that would barely run it. It’s a trendy action-horror FPS that made Half-Life 2, which launched lower than a yr earlier than, appear tame by comparability. There’s no higher time than now to check out the sport on PC, particularly because it’s simply $0.99 by way of GOG. That worth is in impact by way of March 1, and it will get you a DRM-free copy of F.E.A.R. Platinum that additionally comprises the 2 story-based add-ons, Extraction Level and Perseus Mandate.
F.E.A.R. has a particular place in my coronary heart as a result of it felt next-gen on the time (it nonetheless feels fairly cool to play), due to its slow-down results that activate once you press a key, making all the particle results, bullets, sounds, and enemies sluggish to a crawl, so you possibly can soak up its dazzling, blood-soaked presentation.
The sport was deliberate to be inducted at a later date into the GOG Preservation Program, which has not too long ago added traditional video games comparable to Dino Disaster, the unique Resident Evil video games, and extra. It not solely re-releases the video games, however ensures that they run nicely on fashionable machines. Nevertheless, given the information of Monolith Productions’ closing, GOG is “accelerating this launch to correctly acknowledge Monolith’s contributions to gaming,” in response to an announcement shared on Wario64’s Bluesky profile.
