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Warner Bros has announced that a playable demo for F.E.A.R. 2: Reborn, the upcoming DLC pack for Project Origin, is available now on PSN and Xbox Live.

It’s the single-player campaign with four new levels featuring the aftermath of Alma’s destruction with a point-of-view told from Replica Soldier Foxtrot 813′s standpoint.

The DLC will be made available for purchase on September 3 for consoles and PC. On that day, a patch will be made available as well for all three ports, featuring the new Slow-Mo Deathmatch mode.

Full press release is through the jump.

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Monolith has announced via a very strange little video that FEAR 2: Project Origin will get a multiplayer update in the form of “Slow-Mo Deathmatch” for free on September 3.

The video is posted after the break courtesy of Joystiq, and it is rather interesting to say the least.

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The Armored Front map pack is now available for PS3 and Xbox 360.

F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin players can shoot their way through maps Conductor and Decoy, and use four unique heads to add a bit of customization to their character.

It will run you 560 MS Points ($6.99 USD).

Map details from the press release are posted below.

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F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin will get a new multiplayer map pack on May 21 called “Armored Front” for PS3 and Xbox 360.

It consists of two maps, Decoy and Conductor, as well as four character heads to swap out.

Details:

• Conductor Map: Push your way out of a train yard into the vast and open-ended junction station built around a turntable. EPAs will battle their way through the ground floor, as infantry can choose to either support from below or scale the heights of the station and engage in long-range combat.

• Decoy Map: Put your skill to the test in this full-scale training ground for Replica soldiers! Once a controlled arena for combat exercises, now it is under a full-blown assault for control between Replica and ATC. Watch out for ambushes, and don’t let the pop-up target dummies fool you!

• Character Heads: Four unique heads to customize your character.

The map pack will run you 540 MS Points ($5.99) and another pack is expected sometime this summer.

Read on for the press release.

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Monolith’s released screens for F.E.A.R. 2′s Toy Soldier DLC, announced yesterday.

Shacknews has them.

Expect it to hit in April for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. We’re still not sure which one gets it first though.

Monolith and Warner Bros announced new downloadable content for F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin today, to release in April.

The new content includes a Toy Soldiers multiplayer map pack and a premium theme and picture pack.

No word yet on exactly which format to expect it on first, but we will keep you posted.

Monolith is currently at work on a PC patch for F.E.A.R 2.

The patch will add toggle film grain and head-bob options, as well as other stuff. Most notibly, the patch aims to make the hard setting more of a challenge.

“There are a couple other items we are also exploring which might make it into this patch, but we need to do research to evaluate the time and resources that it will take to add these changes to the patch”, says Monolith’s community manager.

Expect it to land in a few weeks. It is not known at this time if one will be released for the PS3 and 360 versions.

Thanks, StrategyInformer.

Laura Fryer‭, Gears of War 2′s executive producer, has jumped ship to Warner Bros.

She will now head up FEAR‭ ‬2‭’‬s Monolith Productions, as well as Snowblind Studios, as the general manager of Warner’s Seattle operation.

“‬Laura’s extensive career demonstrates her great understanding of the process and her ability to innovatively grow our development studios,‭” said Samantha Ryan,‭ development boss at Warner Bros.‭

‬“Utilizing her expertise to direct our‭ ‬Seattle studios in several key areas,‭ ‬we are looking forward to developing quality games under her leadership in the most efficient ways.‭”

Press release here.

The Major has updated to reveal that the demo for Monolith’s highly anticipated action shooter sequel, F.E.A.R. 2 Project Origin, is now available for download for what appears to be Live Gold subscribers only.

It weighs in at 759Mb and you can add it to your download queue by clicking here.

The demo is not available in Germany or Asia.

By Mike Bowden

Warner has announced that Monolith’s F.E.A.R. 2 Project Origin demo will be available for download for PC, 360 and PS3.

Subscribers of US PSN’s Quore, got the shooter taster a couple of weeks ago.

The demo will drag you through bloodstain corridors and narrow hallways whilst showing off the game’s many locations, promises Warner.

F.E.A.R. 2 Project Origin is released on February 13.

By Mike Bowden

According to IGN, the kind of hardware capabilities you need to be looking at if Monolith’s F.E.A.R. 2 Project Origin floats your boat is as follows:

Minimum System Requirements:

• CPU: P4 2.8GHz (3.2GHz Vista)/Athlon 64 3000+ (3200+ Vista)
• GPU: DX9-capable graphics card with 256MB (SM 2.0b). NVidia 6800 or ATI X700.
• RAM: 1GB (1.5GB Vista)
• Hard Drive: 12GB
• OS: Windows XP SP2/Vista SP1
• DirectX: 9.0c
• Sound: DX9.0c compliant
• Optical drive: DVD (boxed only)
• Internet: Broadband

Recommended System Requirements:

• CPU: Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz processor family/Athlon 64 X2 4400+ (required for MP host)
• GPU: Fully DX9-compliant graphics card with 512MB (SM 3.0). NVidia 8600 GTS or ATI HD 2900 XT.
• Ram: 1.5GB
• Hard Drive: 12GB
• OS: Windows XP SP3/Vista SP1
• DirectX: 9.0c
• Sound: DX9.0c compliant
• Optical drive: DVD (boxed only)
• Internet: Broadband (768kbit/sec upstream required to host 16 players)

Project origin is release next month.

Update: There’s a rather tasty new Mech video after the break. Watch it.

By Mike Bowden

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Warner Bros. confirmed to SI today that a demo for F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin will be released on both the EU PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Marketplace at the end of January.

News broke earlier that the US PS3 demo would be exclusive to Qore subscribers only.

More through the link.

By Mike Bowden

Sony has announced that the F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin demo will be available exclusively to Subscribers of Sony’s network show, Qore.

As DarkZero points out, that fact that it’s a Qore exclusive could mean Europe won’t be getting it but we’ll check with Sony today on that one.

Monolith’s F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin is set for a February 13th release on PC, 360, and PS3.

According to this IGN report, Warner Bros. has had F.E.A.R. 2 successfully classified MA15+ in Australia, overturning last month’s ban and putting the title back on schedule for a February 2009 release.

Warner appealed against the ban by submitting the game to the Australian Classification Review Board, which agreed to release it with no cuts.

Almost as if the OFLC is heavy-handed and over zealous.

More through there.

Update: It’s true. See here.

Gamasutra’s reporting that F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin’s been refused classification in Australia.

The ruling effectively means the game has been banned from sale.

The OFLC’s website doesn’t show that the game’s been rated as yet: do a search and see for yourself.

The shooter sequel’s scheduled for European launch next February for PC, PS3 and 360.

Monolith’s paranormal shooter is looking sweeter by the minute, we reckon. But that’s enough about us: what do you think?

After the break.

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Over at Shacknews. This video looks at the game’s story, which has always scared us witless if we’re honest. The first one was great, this one looks like it will follow suit.

Game’s out for 360, PS3 and 360 on February 10. Check it out.

By Mike Bowden

According to IGN, Monolith horror shooter Project Origin has moved from “fall” to Q1 2009.

“We’re going to release multi-SKUs,” said art lead Dave Matthews, speaking at Games Convention this week. “So PC, PS3, 360, Q1 next year.”

More through the link.