Difficulty:

Just Right

Time Spent:

10 Hours or Less

The Bottom Line:

"Rent it first"

$30, for this?! It's just not worth your gaming dollars. (luckily, I found my copy new, half-priced, at an auction site)

Extraction Point is basically nothing more a 4-5 hour epilogue to the original F.E.A.R., but without a real story to be found. It's your usual run-and-gun survival tale, offering up more of the same enemies and weapons, with a few new toys and a new foe, for those gamers that just couldn't get enough of FEAR on their first go-round.

Yes, Extraction Point is a lot of fun while it lasts, in more of a Painkiller sort of way... considering it's lack-of-content and hefty price-tag (which IMHO is criminal) there simply must be another full-length original title (or a better Exp-Pack), out there that you'd find to be a more worthy addition to your collection.

I really was looking forward to playing E.P.; but as it turned out, opposite of my experience with the original game, here- before I reached the final level, I was already wanting it to end.

If you're standing in the store, or browsing your favorite website, trying to decide between buying Extraction Point or HL2: Episode One... put down Extraction Point, grab Half-Life 2: Episode One, run for the checkout and don't look back!

Heed my advice on this one... There's a better bang-for-your-buck game out there that you haven't yet experienced. This is a rental, previously-owned, or bargain-bin-priced title at best.