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F.E.A.R. - First Encounter Assault Recon!

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FEAR is one of my all time favorite old style shooters. It is also a story heavy game that tells a good horror tale. With Halloween coming up in a month or so, it seems like a good choice. I may do a series on it, depicting all the intervals. But, it won't be a play through. It will be telling the FEAR story with action sequences that add to the story and excitement. This video concerns Intervals 01 and 02. The first is mainly story background and some time learning what your character can do. I stuck to the story elements and cut the orientation bits. In 02 you start to encounter the enemy and are trying to run down Paxton Fettle. This is where the fight starts. The game was put out in 2005 I think. So the AI's aren't brilliant, but they can be tricky and very aggressive. If you play on extreme difficulty, which I did, you take a lot of damage quick. So use good tactics and be ready for anything anytime. Here is the video description from YouTube: FEAR is a story ri...

Wildlands - Truck Depot Community Challenge - Bushwacker's Way

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Truck Depot Mission - My Bane I must have tried this mission a million times when trying to complete the campaign. Eventually, I just skipped it and took the big bad guy down. Then comes the community challenge: Truck Depot mission replay with no guns! Ouch. Well I had to give it a try. Again, after a half dozen tries or so, I found I could bash them on the head all day long without penalty. See, I kept getting caught on the way out usually. One time I had it completed and was jumping off the compound wall when it failed the mission on me. That was it. It was bushwhacking time! My idea was I would take out all the guards encountered on my way to the intell. That way my escape path should be pretty clear. I didn't take that for granted though. Still, I almost got caught when I thought one marker was a guy out in the street, but he was inside! That was a close one. Should have checked my mini-map I guess. Here is how it turned out: The video is 1080p60fps so full...