Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix
Set in a crazed, alternate future of Hong Kong, Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix is the prequel to the survival-horror hit Fear Effect. You play as one of four deadly mercenaries on a team that's been commissioned…
Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix is an adventure developed by Kronos Digital Entertainment, released 21 February 2001 on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation.
What Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix is
Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix is an adventure game developed by Kronos Digital Entertainment and released in 2001. It was published by Eidos Interactive. It is available on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix begins in Hong Kong in the year 2048. The player delves into the colorful histories of the original cast of three mercenaries and newcomer Rain Qin, as well as the extraordinary circumstances that brought them together. In the wake of a degenerative global pandemic called EINDS (Environmentally Induced Nucleotides Degeneration Syndrome – pronounced "ends"), theft, murder, and terrorism have become big business. Hana Tsu-Vachel and Rain Qin are freelance operatives, Royce Glas is a washed-up former soldier, and Jacob "Deke" Decourt is a cutthroat assassin. Much of the game's intrigue lies in how these unlikely allies even manage to come together for one cause. From…
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.
How it was received
Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 7% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2001 averaged 72, so it scored 22 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix launched on 21 February 2001, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages, The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons, Severance: Blade of Darkness and Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages, The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons, Severance: Blade of Darkness, Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns.
Official trailer
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