FEAR is one of those games we lament because the things that were great about it feel like they've been lost, for few now live who remember it. Sure, there's Trepang2. But FEAR was so good there should be an entire subgenre based on it. There should be an entire cottage industry of indie studios making singleplayer shooters with slow-motion and advanced enemy AI and something supernatural thrown in to give you the willies just when you're feeling overpowered.
Anyway, instead of being all sad about how history becomes legend and legend becomes myth, let's celebrate the fact that FEAR remains incredibly playable today—if you download the Echo Patch. It's not one of those games that's completely busted without mods, but if you play it at any resolution above 1080p all the text will look like it was written for ants.
