History VideoGame / FearEffect

''Fear Effect'' is an action/adventure/horror game published by Eidos Interactive. Released midway through the original UsefulNotes/PlayStation's life cycle, the game is the tale of three merciless mercenaries -- Hana, Glas, and Deke. The daughter of a rich and powerful businessman has run away, and the trio have learned of this via an inside source and plot to find her. Although, the three of them plan to ransom her back to her father if all goes well. However, everything is not what it seems to be, and the girl in question is the key to an epic ordeal -- possibly involving the fate of the world itself.

A third game, ''Fear Effect: Inferno'', was planned to be released for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2, but was cancelled. With IP holder Square Enix's blessing, French indie developer Sushee launched a Website/{{Kickstarter}} [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sushee/fear-effect-sedna campaign]] in 2016 for a new game titled ''Fear Effect Sedna'', which was released on March 6, 2018. ''Sedna'' takes place four years after the events of the first game.

* CelShading: The games use an impressive ''fake'' cel-shading technique - instead of using real time lighting for the cel-shading, the developers textured the character models to look like they were cel-shaded, then applied basic flat lighting to achieve the full cartoon-like look. True real time cel-shading would not arrive until the UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast, most likely due to a lack of hardware power in the fifth-generation consoles or a lack of precedent in programming cel-shading effects.

* GotOverRapeEasily: Happens when Rain gets strapped to a device that was clearly violating her; she cracks jokes about it with Hana and an hour later takes part in a DistractedByTheSexy scheme with Hana to get access to a private elevator.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Rain is new to the mercenary business, somewhat innocent and naive, doesn't swear, apologizes profusely for mistakes, is a little klutzy and comes across as a genuinely sweet and caring person. She also kills more people during the game (including her own mother and twin sister) than professional assassin Hana, former special forces soldier Glas and psychopath Deke combined.

* PermaStubble: Glas has the "[[Franchise/TheSimpsons Homer Simpson]] 2 day growth permanently painted on" one.

Due to the interest ''Sedna'' drew, a remake of the first game, titled ''Fear Effect Reinvented'', is in development. A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkxIJuzBH1Y teaser trailer]] was released on August 24, 2022.

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: After [[spoiler: Glas lose his hand]], he couldn't use his shotgun anymore, and that weapon is automatically crossed off his inventory. Because it's impossible to fire a shotgun with a single hand. But still...

** It is possible for Glas to run dry of ammo in the first stage (at least, for the pistol), and yet make it to the final area to bust Hana out. In the following cutscene, Glas will then drop down and fire his pistols all over the place for Hana to get out, even though his inventory shows him having no pistol bullets at all.
** The first game's village stage has a moment where Glas gets surrounded by zombies, and must fight his way out. It's possible to take them all down with a single pistol, or with Glas' smackjack (for skilled players who wants to conserve ammo) -- the following cutscene will have Glas holding two smoking pistols amidst a pile of dead zombies.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: On the far right side of the second floor of the Wing Chun Tower is a group of people doing the Macarena. Keep in mind this game takes place about 50 years after it was released.