GRcade Retro Gaming Chat 2.0

To put it mildly, Fear Effect 2 is not one for the kids. I actually refused to play it when younger people were in the room - I genuinely think this sort of content does not deserve an audience.

Immoral

Presenting violence and sex in a game is an art that requires careful manipulation of the subject matter, whereas Fear Effect 2 is just a gross depiction of the obscene. There are hideous things on these four discs, stuff I'm not prepared to put down on paper, even if some of my peers at rival websites might be. Look at it this way, it's not as if it's a survival horror game - but it will horrify you because it's tasteless in the extreme. It's the sort of thing that gives gamers a bad name.

On a personal note, I think Eidos ought to go back to making Tomb Raider games, at least they aren't quite this depraved.

Fear Effect 2 managed to offend me. Not only will a lot of the content in this game bother the sensitive, straitlaced, or uptight, it will probably also bother more or less anybody with taste. It is such a geek show sometimes, a bunch of ugly images hung out on the washing line to turn the stomach of anybody who happens to pass by. We have hideous transmutations, throttlings, blood-spewings, really big needles, draining corpses mixed with the Eszterhasian sex-is-death phobia, gratuitous rat massacres, gratuitous massacrings by rats, heads pierced with giant spikes, mechanical insect cunnilingus, some of the worst pick-up lines ever devised by man, and crimes against fashion deserving of the bastinado, none of which is presented with any evident intent other than as if to say "Wow, we can get away with some wacko s-word in games these days!" We are not quite in I Spit On Your Grave territory, but this is a very B-grade affair nonetheless, and unless you get a real kick out of that sort of cheese-and-sleaze melange, you're going to do a lot of cringing during this game.