I am old enough to have played fear on CD. It's combat AI gets praised almost as often as the game comes up in internet discussions, but I think that has more to do with the current state of garbage brained NPCs than how well they were coded. The original stalker trilogy gave me more satisfying gunfights than fear or many modern games. Even the big modpacks like anomaly don't feel as good. But they could have been better, and that's what I'm hoping for.