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Fear Effect

Fear Effect is an action adventure waiting to unfold! Wee Ming Lam disappears a few days before her 18th birthday under mysterious circumstances. Three ruthless mercenaries conspire to track her down and…

24 February 2000

Fear Effect is an adventure developed by Kronos Digital Entertainment, released 24 February 2000 on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation.

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What Fear Effect is

Fear Effect is an adventure game developed by Kronos Digital Entertainment and released in 2000. It was published by Eidos Interactive. It is available on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Set around the year 2050. When Wee Ming, the daughter of a powerful Hong Kong Triad boss disappears, a trio of mercenaries search for her in the city. They have not been hired to find her, but they intend to kidnap the girl before her father's men locate her and hold her for ransom. Wee Ming has vanished into the fictional Shan Xi protectorate; Hana Tsu-Vachel, the lead character and femme fatale of the group, used to work in a brothel somewhere in that region. Hana arrives in Hong Kong accompanied by her partners, Royce Glas and Jacob "Deke" DeCourt. What begins as a simple snatch and grab turns into a fiasco: The father of the runaway, Mr. Lam, attributes his fortune and power to a pact…
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, horror, science fiction and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Fear Effect launched on 24 February 2000, within three weeks of The Sims, Soldier of Fortune, Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes and Rollcage Stage II.

Released around the same time: The Sims, Soldier of Fortune, Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes, Rollcage Stage II.

Official trailer

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Characters

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When did Fear Effect come out?
Fear Effect was released on 24 February 2000 for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation.

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