Conclusion

F.E.A.R. Extraction Point is about to be launched. The title seems to be very similar to its predecessor and it is pretty unclear whether the game will really be an exciting one: the original F.E.A.R. definitely turned out to be frightening, but pretty boring. The demo does not show much variability in locations and this is not a good sign.

Graphics-wise and audio-wise, F.E.A.R. Extraction Point is an amazing game: ambient music, scary sounds and realistic visuals make this title a very appealing. But in order to play the game with maximum amount of special effects, you need to have a truly high-performance personal computer, as mainstream and performance-mainstream graphics processors and microprocessors will hardly enable users to play F.E.A.R. Extraction Point with the highest eye candy.

During our testing we experienced noticeable swapping on a system with 1GB of memory with “force restart” option enabled. Computers with 2GB of random access memory worked much better, even though we would not call it rapid operation. We would strongly recommend you to use 2GB of memory and a high-performance central processing unit for smooth performance of F.E.A.R. Extraction Point.

Obviously, F.E.A.R. Extraction Point is tremendously hungry for graphics card’s performance and we the better one you use, the more pleasurable experience you will have. Based on the numbers we have obtained today, among comparable graphics cards based on visual processing units from ATI Technologies and Nvidia, the GeForce boards would deliver higher performance. The exceptions are the Radeon X1950 Pro and the Radeon X1900 XT, which either beat, or come in line with the rivals – the models 7900 GS and 7950 GT.

As far as our present testing found out, the best options for F.E.A.R. Extraction Point are Nvidia GeForce 7950 quad SLI and Nvidia GeForce 7900 GTX SLI which deliver blazing speeds at the highest quality settings. Even though ATI’s Radeon X1950-series offerings also deliver nice performance, they cannot match the competitors today.