Project Origin is the name of the sequel to F.E.A.R. (a frightening FPS game from Monolith). However, because of licensing issues, it will not be named FEAR 2 or anything like it. Nevertheless, this filiation should attract a lot of attention (the story will start just 30 seconds before the explosive end of the previous opus).

But knowing that F.E.A.R. has had the dubious fame of being a major PC power hog, it is well worth checking what we will need to run such an FPS game. And it is definitely difficult to get some reliable information of that kind for Project Origin, while we are waiting for a realease at the end of the year 2008.

Minimum requirements

• Processor: Athlon 64 3000+ or Intel 2.8GHz
• Memory: 1 GB of SDRAM
• Graphics: DirectX 9.x on GeForce 66xx or Radeon X16xx

Recommended requirements

• Processor: Dual core CPU
• Memory: 2 GB of SDRAM
• Graphics: DirectX 9.x on GeForce 7800 GT or Radeon X1800 series (Shader model 3)

Trailer

And here is a trailer for the game:

Project Origin trailer (click to play the video)

I was very troubled by the initial annoucement of Far Cry 2. This FPS game, taking after the exceptionally good Far Cry, was not really a sequel and not even done by the same team. So, what would you expect? Probably a major failure merely re-using the name of a previous hit. But, months after months, news after news, we discovered that the development team was really working to make it nice and big. An enormous area where you will be able to move around, a Wild African landscape with lots of efforts put in making the changes to the environment as credible as possible (some day-to-night effects that should make it interesting even after STALKER similar effects).

So, before the full availability (sometime in September according to our latest information), it is important to try and check the PC requirements for the FPS gamer willing to run Far Cry 2.

Minimum requirements

• Processor: Pentium 4 3.2 Ghz, Pentium D 2.66 Ghz, AMD Athlon 64 3500+ or better
• Memory: 1 GB of SDRAM
• Graphics: GeForce 68xx or Radeon X1650

Recommended requirements

• Processor: Dual core CPU (Intel Core 2 Duo, AMD 64 x2 5200+, AMD Phenom or better)
• Memory: 2 GB of SDRAM
• Graphics: GeForce 8600 GTS or Radeon X1900 series (Shader model 3.0 and 512 MB of graphic memory)