Fear Effect
2000 video game
Fear Effect is a 2000 action-adventure video game developed by Kronos Digital Entertainment and published by Eidos Interactive for the PlayStation. Set in the year 2050, the player controls three mercenaries in Hong Kong. The game contains elements of survival horror and stealth.
Fear Effect received a mainly positive critical reception, with praise given to its cinematic presentation and unique visuals but criticism given to its difficulty. A prequel was released one year later entitled Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix. Another game, Fear Effect Sedna, was released in 2018.
Gameplay
Fear Effect features gameplay with unshaded characters textured to resemble cel-shading, notably being one of the first games to attempt the technique. Rather than using pre-rendered 2D backgrounds, the environments are composed of streaming or looping full-motion video. As a consequence, the game is composed of four discs. There are also puzzles interspersed between action sequences, similar to other games of the survival horror genre.
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