Monolith has revealed a couple new trailers for the upcoming sequel to F.E.A.R., Project Origin. As you can expect, the two videos show off some more of the impressive graphics and atmosphere of the game. The first trailer demonstrates one vehicle you’ll be able to command, called the “Elite Powered Armor.” It’s essentially a mech suit that you can use to rain destruction down on your enemies. The second video shows off some of the environments in the game, which are naturally pretty creepy. Sadly, they’re both behind age gates, so you’ll have to check them out here and here.

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Monolith has unveiled a new batch of screens from Project Origin to go along with that new trailer. This sequel to F.E.A.R. s already starting to look a lot like its predecessor, but in a good way. These screens show that the game will contain the usual creepy crawlies, insane physics, and…uh, robots…and lasers? Yeah, the new screens show a weapons that fires a laser beam, plus something that looks like a Transformer (the cartoon kind, not the crappy movie kind). That’s a little more sci-fi than the last game, but I’m sure there’ll be an explanation for that at some point in the story. You can check out all the screens here.

Monolith has unveiled a new trailer for Project Origin, their upcoming sequel to the smash hit, F.E.A.R. This new video shows some actual gameplay for the FPS, which looks, well, almost exactly like F.E.A.R. Of course, that’s not necessarily a bad thing with that game’s tenacity for jaw-dropping visuals and some real scares. It basically shows someone trying to shoot a little crawly guy, who is sure to give me nightmares at some point. Unfortunately, this being an M-rated game, you’ll have to go through an age gate here to view the full trailer.

Sierra has many titles in the works right now, and the ones scheduled for release sometime this year will stay on schedule. However, the titles that are currently in development and scheduled for a 2009 release are to have their fate decided soon by Activision.

Those of us who are eagerly anticipating The Bourne Conspiracy, Prototype, Brutal Legend, or Ghostbusters should just sit back, relax and wait for our games to hit shelves - they are safe. Sierra titles for 2009 though will have to be resubmitted to Activision and go through the approval process all over again.

Changes always happens when a new company buys your old one, and gaming is no exception. Hopefully all of the hard work that Vivendi’s Sierra line had put into these projects will not have been in vain, but you know something has to go and it may just be something you have looked forward to, so be prepared. One example of a conflict of interest may be Activision’s sequel to F.E.A.R. and Warner/Monolith’s Project Origin  -  I would sincerely hope that Activision is not dense enough to waste the time and money spent on these two massive projects - they may put them on  hold, but I doubt they feel the headsman’s axe any time soon.

When corporations merge, loads of changes happen and it is not always for the better. We will just have to wait and see how this goes down.

Source: Ben Fritz, Variety Online

The new Project Origin Community site has opened and is kicking it off with a new trailer.

The trailer contains apocalyptic scenes straight out of nightmares and features Alma heavily. However there are also new strange enemies encountered inside like the disintegrating madmen. Outside has the ultimate tease, mechs, which I hope means you’ll have a shot at driving them. The content is not suitable for young impressionable folks, legal minors or those with no stomach for terror.

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viaProject Origin Community

Here at Gaming Today, we always welcome the opinions of our readers. After all, we possess a very opinionated staff. And as far as news sites go these days, equally opinionated in content. I feel if you’re going to give some love, why not accept some love in return? So you can imagine our pleasure when one of our companion sites joins in on the fray.

Fear Files‘ Death Dream has given a most excellent break down of the new Project Origin Trailer. I covered news of the trailer earlier, but in all honesty, I simply jotted down the first few things that came in my mind within my first couple of viewings. The F.E.A.R. storyline is somewhat vague and confusing, even for me. In fact, the only events I can properly recall in the F.E.A.R. expansion Extraction Point were meeting a seemingly resurrected Paxton Fattel in a church, blowing up a bunch of pillars in a subway, being freaked out in a maternity ward, and having an anti-climatic battle on the rooftop. Perhaps I need to have a second go?

Death Dream, however, has taken it to the next level (and perhaps more) by dissecting the near minute of gameplay footage given in the Project Origin Trailer. Here is an excerpt taken from Death Dream’s critique:

For the time being let’s say that it is someone from the past and the guy on the bench is the main character you play. The only reason I say this is that both the arms of this guy on the bench and the arms holding the gun in the first person view look the same. Then half way into the trailer we see the guy kick over a bench and you see his knees, again these are the same knees as the guy on the bench. This is a real long shot since there are many white guys in the game but it is worth throwing the idea out there. Then this leaves open the question who is the guy watching over the surgery and Alma as this goes on? It shouldn’t be Fettel because the younger version of Alma seemed to be against him in the Extraction Point expansion. This doesn’t leave many options open and could be a new character watching over the whole situation. With that out of the way let’s say the main character you play is now the guy watching the surgery, this really leaves a lot of questions unanswered. Why are they working on that guy? Who is he? What importance does he serve to Alma? There are just to many questions to try to answer with what little information we currently have. So for the rest of my review I will go from the view point that the guy on the bench is the main character.

Quite a perceptive observation there. I certainly took the trailer more at face value. I think I’ve been inspired to have a second go at F.E.A.R. & expansion.

So if you are F.E.A.R. fan, definitely check out Death Dream’s compendium to the Project Origin Trailer (link below).

Project Origin Trailer and Tear Down @ Fear Files

Gametrailers have just put up an exclusive trailer to the F.E.A.R. sequel showing off some of the first in-game footage we’ve seen. Not to be confused with the expansion F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate, Project Origin represents a true sequel to F.E.A.R.

Since Vivendi Games owns the rights to the title F.E.A.R., Monolith was forced to rename the sequel after deciding to change publisher. The title Project Origin was actually taken from a contest directed by Monolith to dub the F.E.A.R. sequel. You can read all about the origins of Project Origin at the game’s official website. The game (for PC, Xbox 360, & PS3) won’t see light of day until 2008.

Don’t know about you, but so far the game looks just like the PC version F.E.A.R. with all the graphics settings cranked and some next-gen effects (motion blur) thrown in. Kind of a disappointing trailer in that regards. Let’s hope the gameplay differs enough to not seem like just another expansion.

Here’s a new trailer for the upcoming sequel to F.E.A.R., now called “Project Origin.” Unfortunately, it doesn’t show any gameplay or reveal any new information about the game itself. It does however show one of the review sessions the team had to choose among the many submissions for the name to the sequel. It’s actually pretty funny to watch some of the ridiculous names that were rejected; many of which were obviously meant as a joke.

You may remember awhile back Monolith was asking fans to vote on several fan-submitted names for the sequel to F.E.A.R., the hit FPS. Well it looks like the votes are in, and the new name to look for on store shelves later on will be “Project Origin.” Says producer for Monolith, Troy Skinner:

“Our team really enjoyed letting the fans drive the naming process, and we are excited to expand upon the work we began in the original game and establish Project Origin as a premier gaming franchise in its own right.”

The sequel will pick up where the last game left off, with the mysterious Alma now having free reign, and her rage and supernatural powers threaten to destroy a major American city. The game is being produced for the PS3, Xbox 360, and PC; and it is sure to be one creepy game whenever it comes out.

Via Press Release