Appointment With F.E.A.R. Reviews

PLEASE FIX THE CRASHING!

Thaddius Fapper

As someone who collected all the "Choose Your Own Adventure" books growing up, GameBooks such as this one really appeal to me. Unfortunately, in its current state, 'F.E.A.R.' Is utterly unplayable due to frequent crashing. The game saves automatically, but this rarely prevents you from having to replay significant portions of the story. Please Developers; Fix all the crashing and this becomes a Must Buy 5-star App

Feels Like a Step Backwards

Fan4F.F.

Update: Still crashes sometimes although not as much as previously but now a bunch of other bugs have popped up that have actually made the game less playable. The worst bug deletes your progress and sticks you back at the beginning or crashes whenever you try to abandon a game and restart so you effectively can't play a different character (had to re-install to start a new game). Also lots of issues with various stats going down for no reason or not going back up. All in all the last update actually made the game less playable for me. Technical Issues: Currently crashes a lot, F.E.A.R. Cards and achievements are not actually saved, Luck Points seem to disappear for no reason, incorrect character portrait appears sometimes after crashes, not sure if this was supposed to integrate with Game Center like previous FF titles but if it was it doesn't Issues: There is no real main menu the game just begins and you can access the non-functioning extras by clicking on the top left (of course this throws you back to the last save point, see below), previous FF titles with main screens worked much better, no rules explanations like in previous FF games, there are save points but this system is vastly inferior to the previous FF games' bookmark system and with all the crashes especially this results in having to click through the same sequences over and over again, no original artwork or multiple difficulty levels like in previous FF games, combat system quickly gets boring (I know the digital dice had limitations but they were vastly superior to just descriptors) and does not follow original book's restriction on not killing villains by having to aim to only reduce them to 1 or 2 Stamina, luck stat has been reduced to just a way to get extras but does not affect game results, stamina always starts at 20 and is no longer randomly created during character generation, not sure if Skill is randomly assigned for 3 of the 4 powers since character generation process is not clear unlike previous FF games, skill checks are now just a pass/fail box with no indication of difficulty where you are simply informed of the results. The comic style smaller text blurbs visually look great but also result in having to keep tapping the screen over and over again to get to the next decision point. Good Things: Having your alter ego just be a picture of you in costume with a hat and glasses overlaid is a nice touch, the comic book style blurbs looks nice, being able to choose gender, costume color scheme, hero physical appearance, and a randomized super hero name is great. Summary: Once the major bugs are fixed I will add another star but probably no more. If this were a first FF release by this company I might have been more forgiving but having seen and bought the previous FF titles I know what this game could have been and the version they have released just seems like a step backwards. It is still a fairly entertaining game but if this is how future FF titles will be handled it will probably be my last FF purchase from TinMan.

Can't start

101fanatic

It sounds like a fun app, but even with the update, I can't even start the game. I get to the preload screen but then the app crashes. I tried starting it several times, but it keeps crashing at this point.

ehh

Lh..........

Interesting idea, but story was more frustrating than fun. The story is just too random, and dependent on a collection of choices that you need to get right by luck rather than previously gathered information.

Fun and fixed

SC2009

Update 9/18/14 All bugs are fixed. There is a lot more depth to explore in this gamebook from random elements to the choice of initial powers unlocking some unique solutions and even some serious dangers. Older review: On the iPhone FEAR crashes after about two minutes, earned luck points disappear, and FEAR cards and achievements do not appear. When these are fixed it deserves a higher rating.

Looks great, horrible writing.

Sirkillawatt

For a gamebook, writing is key. Unfortunately for this particular gamebook, the writing is absolutely dreadful. Things are often repeated in the same sentence they were introduced. "Courageously dodging your grab, radiation dog leans away from your grab..." That's just redundant. Did the creators fail to check the writing on this one? Seriously, it's terrible! I expect much better writing from something like this, especially tin man games.

great presentation - not Tin Man's best to date.

Big Voice

This game doesn't feel like a typical Tin Man game. The writing is occasionally cleverly ironic in its overt obviousness, making fun of stereotypical superhero dialog - but it not the creative story telling that surrounds the imagination that you encounter in most game books.

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