F.E.A.R. (First Encounter Assault Recon) - The Game Plot
The story of F.E.A.R. is presented in such a way that only a few minor plot elements are presented in the game’s beginning, thus allowing players to experience the adventure as “the hero[es] in [their] own spine-tingling epic of action, tension and terror.”The manual briefly mentions the player character’s recent induction as “Point man” to the F.E.A.R., a secret special operations group of the U.S. government specialized in dealing with paranormal threats. The character’s extraordinarily reactive reflexes are described as well, hinting that the government is interested in his abilities.When the game begins, the player witnesses a man named Paxton Fettel taking command of a battalion of telepathically controlled clone supersoldiers, seizing control of the Armacham Technology Corporation (ATC) structure and killing all its occupants.
Now fully in control of the Point Man, the player attends a briefing held by Commissioner Betters, in the company of his F.E.A.R. team-mates Jankowski and Jin Sun-Kwon. The team’s mission consists of eliminating Fettel, operating in conjunction with Delta Force.
Fettel is located by means of a satellite tracking device and hunted by F.E.A.R. and Delta Force over several locations. The search for Fettel begins at a water treatment plant and later continues at Armacham headquarters. While the villain evades capture by the special forces, the player witnesses unexplained and occasionally life-threatening paranormal phenomena, including frequent hallucinations, all of which center around a little girl in a red dress named Alma. Laptops found during the course of the mission, hacked by Commissioner Betters, provide details regarding the background story. The player learns that Fettel was raised to become a telepathic military commander as part of ATC project Origin. He is the son of Alma, who is described as being a powerful psychic. The player also learns of the existence of another child of Alma, who was before Fettel.
All clues lead F.E.A.R. to believe Fettel is under control of Alma, who was buried within the Origin facility when ATC closed down the project because of the danger posed by the woman. Now the villain is searching for that same facility to free his mother.The player eventually takes the Point Man to the abandoned structure, fighting back both the clone soldiers and ATC, whose security agents have received orders to cover up the whole affair. When the protagonist finally comes face-to-face with Fettel, he is drawn into a hallucination where the player learns that the Point Man is Alma’s first son. After this hallucination, the player is able to kill Fettel. Nonetheless, Alma is freed when her storage chamber is opened by an ATC researcher, Harlan Wade, who feels guilty about the company’s treatment of her; eventually, it is revealed Alma shares Wade’s name, implying that he is her father. The player is then called upon to sabotage the structure’s reactor, to destroy the facility. In the aftermath of the detonation, a Delta Force UH-60 Black Hawk extracts the Point Man from the rubble. While the player and the survivors of the F.E.A.R team survey the results of the explosion from the helicopter, Alma makes one last appearance, preparing to pull herself up into the helicopter’s cabin. The destruction of the Origin facility has not stopped her quest for revenge.
After the game’s credits, the player can listen to a phone call between a mysterious senator and ATC president Aristide, which offers some further explanation: The president considers the project under control and deems the first prototype (ostensibly the Point Man) a success.
Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.E.A.R
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