http://www.joinfear.com/us/

SIERRA ANNOUNCES F.E.A.R. COMBAT

F.E.A.R. Multiplayer to be made available for free.

LOS ANGELES, CA – (August 8th, 2006) – Sierra Entertainment today announced that the multiplayer component from the award winning PC title F.E.A.R.™(First Encounter Assault Recon), has been renamed F.E.A.R. Combat, and will be made available to the public as a free download on Thursday August 17th, 2006.

F.E.A.R. Combat is the complete multiplayer component of F.E.A.R. and includes all the updates, additional official maps and additional official game modes all in one downloadable file. F.E.A.R. Combat users will be able to play against the owners of the retail version of F.E.A.R. as well as the other F.E.A.R. Combat users.

F.E.A.R. Combat features:

? 10 Multiplayer Game modes.
? 19 Multiplayer Maps.
? 12 different weapons.
? Punkbuster support for anti cheat support.
? The capability to download user generated content.

To play F.E.A.R. Combat, consumers simply go to http://www.joinfear.com and register to obtain their free, Combat keycode. When the file is made available for download on Aug 17th 2006, consumers can install, enter their keycode, and get ready to join F.E.A.R. Combat!

To get more information on F.E.A.R. Combat, please visit http://www.whatisfear.com or http://www.fearfans.com.

F.E.A.R. Combat will be available for download on August 17th 2006. If you have any questions about anything related to F.E.A.R. Combat please post them in this thread and a member from the F.E.A.R. team will pop in and answer as much as he can.

8/17/2006 6:57:13 PM

how does it compare to war rock?

8/17/2006 7:12:36 PM

This thread is awesome and win

8/17/2006 11:39:07 PM

Wtf, how long does it take them to send you the cd key?

8/17/2006 11:43:51 PM

took em a couple of seconds for me. now to just find a quick download of the actual game files

8/18/2006 7:46:43 AM

The website keeps looping between registration info and info about how you got there so I can't get a key - anyone mind offering theirs so I can try it out?

8/18/2006 9:09:18 PM

the game is ugly and the mechanics suck ass. warrock is a LOT better

8/19/2006 3:19:50 PM

is it free?

8/19/2006 5:44:10 PM

Yah, so I just got my cd key, anyone want to form a tww clan?

Hopefully dem bitches got voip?

8/20/2006 2:35:43 PM

if i thought this would have any hope of running on my laptop i'd dl it

8/20/2006 3:37:38 PM

i downloaded it but have not installed it yet. multiplayer any good?

8/20/2006 6:29:21 PM

its only multiplayer, did you even read the first post?

and no, it's horrible

8/21/2006 12:20:57 AM

Punkbuster is a BITCH... If you have anything that might remotely make your computer perform better running, it will kick you, ban you AND mark your machine as a hacked machine for ANY other game that uses punkbuster.

8/21/2006 12:25:21 AM

i'm glad they give you a choice on installing it or not.

8/21/2006 12:52:07 AM

^^^ i realize its multiplayer only, thanks cap'n obviouse. i was reffering to the multiplayer aspect of FEAR in general . shame it isn't that good. i'm gonna give it a try tonight probably.

[Edited on August 21, 2006 at 7:18 AM. Reason : its early]

8/21/2006 7:17:49 AM

I'm too lazy to read.

Is this a free retail add-on that adds MP functionality or is this a free, don't have to own the original, standalone game?

8/21/2006 8:11:49 AM

Is this the official "I didn't read the first post" thread?

8/21/2006 9:01:13 AM

Well I read things like:

Quote :

"F.E.A.R. Combat users will be able to play against the owners of the retail version of F.E.A.R. as well as the other F.E.A.R. Combat users."

Which hint at it being free for everyone, even for people that don't own the retail version. Then I read things like:

Quote :

"F.E.A.R. Combat is the complete multiplayer component of F.E.A.R. and includes all the updates, additional official maps and additional official game modes all in one downloadable file."

Which hint at it being a free add-on for the retail version. Just posed a straight question in hopes that I would get a straight answer.

[Edited on August 21, 2006 at 9:39 AM. Reason : -]

8/21/2006 9:39:06 AM

No, dude it's *completely* free!

8/21/2006 1:05:44 PM

ok, so i finally installed and played it last night. it was ok, but def not different from every other FPS online gameplay out there with the exception of being able to slide and jump kick... still had fun but the damn nades never go where they are supposed to. I prolly just suck at throwing them .

8/24/2006 7:42:09 AM