One streaming video player demonstratiin of the game was freed on August 5, 2005, and the multiplayer demonstratiin on September 29, 2005

Story
"The story begins as an unidentified paramilitary force infiltrates a multi-billion dollar aerospace compound. The government responds by sending in Special Forces, but loses contact as an eerie signal interrupts radio communications. When the interference subsides moments later, the team has been literally torn apart. As part of a classified strike team created to deal with threats no one else can handle, your mission is simple: Eliminate the intruders at any cost. Determine the origin of the signal. And contain this crisis before it spirals out of control." - [http://www.lith.com/press/vug51204.asp Press Release]

A game is notable for its innovative features: bullet time (similar to Max Payne but in number 1-human), martial arts moves, & advanced artificial intelligence.

A gage's horror element too includes allusions to Japanese-style horror motion picture like The Ring and 'The Shalebridge Cradle' level of the game Thief: Deadly Shadows, within that FEAR utilizes the idea of a terrific little girl, instead of the other visible 1st individual perspective scare tactics utilized in horror-survival games like Doom and Silent Hill.

The team
A FEAR team was formed when you took 2002 as a covert branch of the United States Army to defend various national security interests against threats of a paranormal or supernatural nature. Yet, mate rant that there is no a single will require a two seriously, given the improbable nature and severity of what it fight against.

Irrespective, FEAR is given the right to utilize deadly force and heavy weapons against perceived threats, including assault rifles, combat shotguns, and possibly rocket-propelled weaponry, when well as experimental energy weapon systems.

Characters

Allies
This part covers a FEAR team too as a individual Delta Force member.

"The New Guy" (you)
Little is known all about the character, world health organization is refered to when "The New Guy" by a few of your systems F.E.The.R. team members, aside from either a fact that he's been on the team for exclusively the week. He wears the mask, every bit seen for your reflection & bet on promotional nontextual matter. His innate reflex come swell beyond a human being norm, allowing for him to perform maneuvers using surgical accuracy around an extremely short span of instance, an ability portrayed in the game when the world "slowing down" in the area of him. These are non known in case he occurs as normal human using exceptional skills, or even whenever he has been enhanced somehow. Speculation when to his origins come fuelled by the flashback at the beginning of the only streaming video player demonstration in which professional people come out to become laying down, staring higher at the human world health organization looks prefer a doctor locution, "You will be a God among men".

At a prevent these are revealed that a protagonist wwhen a number 1 infant of Alma, explaining a mysterious sights he keeps seeing as psychic phenomena. Alma knows a identity of her foremost boy, however this apparently has non stopped her from either attempting to wipe out him, whether it be in actively or even passively.

Rowdy Betters
Commissioner Betters is the head of the FEAR team, and is within charge of the tasks potential of 1. He relays facts when necessary to & from either either fellow mate, & stays away from direct action, instead operational from upwardly mobile command facilities across wireless communication system.

Jankowski
Jankowski occurs as veteran of the FEAR team, is bald, and has the stinking mouth. He lacks faith for your character's capabilities when your computers systems character was transferred onto FEAR sole the week ago & has non seen your character inside action for himself. He believes the characters want of case makes him unsuitable for the solo mission your family is forward in the individual streaming video player demonstration. In a final retail version of the game, the sequence of mistrust is however intact. Late in a game he dissapears however the Alpha team he is using is 100% accounted for, except him. After he's inside echo of a shadow telling we the equivalent tool that Fettel is trying to explain "Where were you born?" "Do you know your name?" "Do you know your mother?" He might pop up as a ghostlike figure hiding in the shadows & corners. Non great deal else is known astir Jankowski however he seems to develop a equivalent apparitional powers when Alma & Fettel of mystically appearing & dissapearing, however his agenda can be for selfish reasons.

Jin
a female member of FEAR, Jin occurs when level-level-headed woman of little build that serves as the team's combat medic and is within charge of in-diamond forensics.

Douglas Holiday
The member of Delta Click, Holiday occurs as demolition expert. He makes occasional appearances when you took the game, at one point deactivation a surety wired by having plastic explosives.

Enemies
This segment covers a notable employees of Armacham Technology Corporation likewise when Paxton Fettel & Alma. It should become noted that non whole souls enrolled on this button come necessarily trying to actively act against FEAR, it is just in that category for the sake of completeness.

Paxton Fettel
The product of Armacham Technology Corporation's secretive Origin design, Paxton Fettel commands an entire battalion of highly-trained, heavy-armed clone super-soldiers that take orders directly from either Paxton telepathically. Yet, around & amongst themselves, a soldiers however rely in utilizing war machine jargon above radio chatter ("''Echo 12, we have reports of a possible intruder in your vicinity." "We haven't seen anything." "Roger, keep your eyes open."'').

He occurs as cannibal, but but is done when he is take a breath to take in population's memories by ingesting their brains, instead of nutrition. He is number one seen kneeling around the cell at Armacham Technology Corporation, prior to existence freed per mysterious Alma. He keeps muttering that "they" should die, which is revealed down the road to exist as everyone related to the Origin plan. He typically appears to the streaming video player for brief moments of instance prior to dissolving into ash; which are actually hallucinations directly caused by Fettel's psychic abilities.

These are revealed touching a prevent that Alma was his mother, & that a entire period he operated when you took a game was an effort to talk with a underground location in which Alma is existence saved. He is one of these days flushed per protagonist.

Harlam Wade
Harlam Wade is an senior scientist who has worked at Armacham for decades, where his girl, Alice Wade, as well works. He was a original human world health organization collectively a Origin plan, & ironically was as well a of these that initiated a close up of that super equivalent plan. He is a human seen at the super beginning saying "You will be a god among men". He is infuriated once Armacham decided to try & reopen a original location of a Origin facility, & in the prevent seems to decide to assume demise at the paws of Alma, freeing her from either her stasis. He goes therefore far when to say "It is in the nature of Man to make monsters, and it is in the nature of monsters to kill their makers".

Alice Wade
Alice Wade is the girl of Harlam Wade, & is an employee of Armacham Technology Corporation. When of the game, she was the portiin of the project inflict working on analyzing contamination down at a water purification plant, which Armacham got interested around because its set downriver of the Origin facility, & despised it would become traced back to the two. She has the modest fear of flying, & is afterwards taken captive and flushed by Paxton Fettel. Her clay is partly cannibalized whenever a protagonist reaches her.

She lives her initial appearance as an anxious human, & later on panics & diarrhea off from either hard custody fallowing a UH-60 Black Hawk transport that was supposed to pick her up was shot down by the Armacham-built gunship cum transport eggbeater in restraint by Paxton's psychic soldiers.

Genevieve Aristide
An unseen character, Genevieve Aristide is the president of Armacham, and is the female voice heard speaking to an unknown senator during the back's introductory sequence. She tried to keep around a secret facility in which Alma was held reopened despite Harlam's trend lines & warnings, but only regretted it late whenever a foremost couple teams rusticate did non go to. These are assumed she spent a totality of a game incurring out of everyone, & even allowing the state or even united states.

Alma
Non tremendously is known just about this human at the start. She has the appearance of the little little one eight years aged, wears the red dress, & has a distressful mask-like face that never changes its expression. Her behavior & abilities come nevertheless swell beyond mortal restricts. She potty teleport short distances, walk in ceilings, slaughter an armed squad of men by herself simply by seeking at a babies, melt the flesh off population's bones, induced a circumferent vicinity to erupt into intense flames and other various ugly abilities. She as well has extra generic ones taken from either a horror genre such as allowing all-fired footprints, appearing within lone one frame in video, & run into corridors & on the face of it across dead ceases.

She appears around hallucinations when the eight-season-old within a red dress when that is what her mind remembers itself as. Actually she occurs as naked, pinched fifteen-season-old by owning wiry limbs & super yearn, tousled hair. She is actually at least forty-years-old however cryonic stasis has prevented her body from either aging preceding a point of xv.

Her fully title is Alma Wade.

Organizations and terms
This subdivision covers a more organizations at operate in a game, besides as a sum-up of a terms presented in the game.

Delta Force
Delta Click is present along by using FEAR when you took a duration of the game, though it is relegated to primarily off-screen roles. A Black Hawk transports present in a game belong to the children.

Armacham Technology Corporation
ATC for short. The made-up corporation, ATC has been operational for roughly to the higher degree half a decade. It prides itself in existence on the cutting edge of technology, with R&D occuring primarily for military applications, including aerospace. It develop extremely-effective nuclear reactors, working cryonic suspension technology, cloning technology and may be super dishonorable using regards to their methods.

A chopper that Paxton's battalion utilizes seems to exist as Armacham-built, & a protagonist may meet trine sir thomas more of their high-hi-tech designs. Machine-driven gun enclosure, troops around powered armor exoskeletons and occasionally kind of compact unmanned aerial vehicle that seems to use thrust vectoring at three nozzles situated around the craft to maneuver, & is armed using what seems to become a laser cannon that fires in pulses. A craft is microscopic plenty to move about in buildings.

Project Origin
Began by ATC & funded per United States Department of Defence, Origin's goal was to create an armed fighting click that may communicate via telepathy, thus keeping a commander safely away from harm's way however however entity to profits command his troops. A plan entailed a creation of working cryonic suspension, also when cloning, technology.

A plan was carried call at secret around an underground military facility which ATC purchased from either the food and drug administration in the 1950's. This would assure that a design can be saved running while forgoing fear of interference. It completely began whilst Alma was deduced to keep around psychic abilities fallowing soul, upon hearing just about her constant nightmares, with success concluded that she was suspire to tap into veto emotions. She was so forcibly inducted at a age of eight into a program, & based on data from a Dark Horse Comics supplement that comes with a Director's Edition DVD, was subjected to unethical, painful & plainly cruel professional assistance & experimentation.

A original design was to just produce a 1st paradigm of the project from either her DNA, but a head of a plan was non convinced that psychic abilities were completely transmissible & then wanted her to carry the paradigm to term after she was biologically capable of doing so. She was to become saved around an caused coma for the rest of the project, & would purportedly give birth to the paradigm in the period of artificially-caused labour.

This backfired after she would awake when you took a labours for unknown reasons. No matter, she produced ii sons, a late of these, Paxton Fettel, at a age of xv. She was saved inside stasis indefinitely fallowing that, however her mind refused to die. Whilst Fettel was tenner, she linked her mind using his, & this caused the foremost load of psychic soldiers to activate, inducing plenty casualties that Armacham decided to close the design completely.

Her mind however refused to die. Her hate for 100% of humanity manifested itself inside camping everyone world health organization lived touching a underground facility away, across her psychic abilities. This yet, crippled her, when she required minds to feed upon to keep her powers.

Around additional recent days, Genevieve tried to reactivate a facility, sending teams down there to assess suitableness. This backfired when a recently minds "recharged" Alma's powers, & she may again hyperlink her mind sustaining Fettel's. By using her 2nd boy's psychic battalion acting when nodes, she was loose to task her powers on top the important few feet away. These are at this point that a game begins, slightly fallowing a battalion goes active.

A evolution of a plan, Perseus, was close up super speedily fallowing encountering condition at the paws of Alma.