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GAME · 2009 · USA

F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin

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F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin is a 2009 first-person shooter. Its Toy Soldier Update added a multiplayer mode that shrinks players to inches in height and drops them into oversized everyday settings.

11 Interesting Facts About F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin

Interesting Facts (10)

  1. #001

    At the entrance to the elementary school level, a message board announces upcoming parent-teacher conferences. Four letters have dropped to the bottom of the sign: A-L-M-A, spelling the name of the game's main antagonist, Alma.

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  2. #002

    The man on the Snake Fist IV posters in the game is F.E.A.R. director Nathan Hendrickson.

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  3. #003

    In the first game Alma appeared in two forms: an 8-year-old girl in a red dress, as she looked when she gained her powers, and a 26-year-old emaciated woman, as she looked when she died. The second game added a third form, a young teenager of about 15, the age at which she was first impregnated, which she used to seduce Becket.

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  4. #004

    Legal issues initially prevented Monolith from using the F.E.A.R. name. Beyond Monolith's own project, Vivendi Universal, which held the rights to the name, had its own F.E.A.R. 2 planned. After Vivendi merged with Activision, a number of its titles were dropped, including its F.E.A.R. sequel. That gave Monolith the chance to reclaim the rights, and F.E.A.R. 2 was merged with the original Project Origin title.

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  5. #005

    Before the Activision merger, Vivendi brought in screenwriter Mark Wheaton to pen its take on 'F.E.A.R. 2,' a story that drew on urban legends and folklore surrounding the U.S.S. Eldridge, the purported Philadelphia Experiment and the decommissioned Air Force station at Montauk.

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  6. #006

    'F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin' continues directly from 'F.E.A.R. First Encounter Assault Recon' but disregards what happened in that game's two expansions, 'Perseus Mandate' and 'Extraction Point.' Monolith Productions made the original F.E.A.R. and Project Origin, whereas TimeGate Studios handled 'Perseus Mandate' and Wargaming Chicago-Baltimore handled 'Extraction Point.' Not wanting Project Origin tied to other studios' work, Monolith chose to overlook both expansions and declared them non-canon.

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  7. #007

    Released on April 16, 2009, the Toy Soldier Update introduced a multiplayer mode in which players stand just inches tall and battle in settings such as a pinball machine, a hospital lab room and a playground sandbox.

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  8. #008

    FullTilt, a map from the Toy Soldier Update, takes place inside a retro 1970s pinball machine, where flippers, targets, spinners and pop-bumpers double as cover.

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  9. #009

    Cockroach is a blood-soaked hospital room where players climb electrical cords, laboratory equipment and pill bottles.

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  10. #010

    On the Recess map, players fight from the top of a giant sandcastle down to the cockpit of a toy bulldozer, and can blend in among plastic army men.

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  1. #011

    One of the characters who assists you during the game goes by the code name Snake Fist. Later, you come across a theater showing a Die Hard-style action movie titled Snake Fist IV, suggesting that is where he took his name from.

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