Fear Effect Sequel On Hold

Thanks to Gamespot for this story confirming Eidos' Fear Effect:Inferno is officially 'on hold'. The third in the series of Resident Evil-styled 3rd-person action titles was shown at E3 in 2002, but not this year. It was recently rumored in development at Crystal Dynamics (home of Legacy Of Kain) instead of former developer Kronos Digital, but apparently progress has stopped for now. The first two games were particularly known for salacious marketing - thanks to Gamerspress for saving this advert for Fear Effect 2 which pretty much says it all.

Not going to be missed

[Anonymous Coward]

I had very high hopes for the first game, went and bought it, and the load times drove me crazy. The game itself was fun and looked great, but the wait times killed it. It prevented me from trying the second one, and not caring about the third.

Re:Not going to be missed

[alcharn]

I couldn't agree more. The load time was so slow that it took away from the excitement of the game. I didn't even care about when the 3rd game in the series was dropping!

I found the first

[jimius]

I found the first one quite amusing, too bad I never got around to playing part 3 though.

But what is so important about this? It's not like they're delaying Duke Nukem Forever...uhm...

Oh please

[Linguica]

If we're going to talk about overtly sexual Fear Effect 2 ads then you can't top this one [gamers.com].

And don't forget the...

[Dark Paladin]

If you're going to suck the bandwidth off my old server, don't forget the Fear Effect 2 walkthrough [gamerspress.com].

I was torn about Fear Effect in general. There were parts of the game I liked, such as such of the puzzles, and the plot was certainly more mature than you'd find in other M rated games.

On the other hand, I think the whole "look, we're hot lesbian girls (maybe!) who have guns! Whoo!" was a little overdone. Did we really need Raine being sexually assaulted by a mechanical robot bug?

Fear Effect 3 looked t

Re:And don't forget the...

[jxa00++]

"Did we really need Raine being sexually assaulted by a mechanical robot bug?"

YES!!!

Amazing what you can get for $6

[Masami Eiri]

I used to work at Blockbuster. After the discount, I got FE2 pre-played fro $6...

I was beginning to think I shouldn't have bothered...

Though now I think I need to figure out where I put it...