To refresh my memory on how F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin (Xbox 360) played I ran through the Demo level they have up on Xbox Live right now.  I remember attempting to play through the original F.E.A.R. way back when and loving the paranormal stuff that was going on but realizing that I spent most of my time in static office building environments waiting for generic grunts to come running at me.  The slow motion stuff was quite cool at the time but didn’t make for much amusement after the 20th or so time you watched some dude fly back in slowmo from a strategically placed shotgun blast to the crotch.

I am glad to see that Fear 2 is shaping to add a little more variety into the environments that you’re traversing throughout the game.  Thankfully I have not been through a single office hallway, though I did visit a creepy blood-coated school.  I am glad to see that just within the 30 minutes or so worth of gameplay contained in the demo there already seems to be a substantial amount more of the paranormal activity that drew me into the first one.  I also loved the fact that you will have a chance to enter the badass mechanized suits that were huge headaches in the original game.

Overall the Demo seems to be a perfect vertical slice of excitement that I’m hoping is duplicated throughout the rest of the game.  The game is absolutely gorgoeus and gives equal graphical attention to the gore and the destroyed world around you. Each of the weapons I was able to get my hands on felt and played like exactly how I would like them to have.  I know it’s hard to judge how a full game will be just from what companies provide you through demo’s but I can say in confidence that I am thoroughly geeked about F.E.A.R. 2′s release on Feb 10th, 2009.