Ten years ago today, Monolith Productions did not release a sequel to Shogo: Mobile Armor Division. Instead they embarked on a horror-filled first-person saga that would leave players questioning supernatural age of consent laws.
I won’t spoil anything about the F.E.A.R. series here—well, any more than I just technically did, but not really. The original game came out at a time when narrative-driven first-person shooters were really coming into their own, and the final one—2011’s F.3.A.R.—came much later than it should have.
Here are the bits we skipped.
Interested in playing? I bought my copy off of GOG.com for $2.49, which includes the original game and its two expansion packs.
Happy birthday, you creepy bastard. It’s okay that you weren’t a new Shogo game.
Not really.
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