Great news for the multiplayer component of the award winning PC title F.E.A.R. (First Encounter Assault Recon).

Sierra Entertainment recently announced that F.E.A.R’s multiplayer component has been renamed F.E.A.R. Combat and will be made available to the public as a free download on Thursday, August 17th, 2006.

F.E.A.R. Combat is the complete multiplayer component of F.E.A.R. and includes all the updates, additional official maps and additional official game modes all in one downloadable file. F.E.A.R. Combat users will be able to play against the owners of the retail version of F.E.A.R. as well as the other F.E.A.R. Combat users.

The multiplayer component features 10 Multiplayer Game modes, 19 Multiplayer Maps, 12 different weapons, Punkbuster support and the capability to download user generated content.

To play F.E.A.R. Combat, gamers should simply go to http://www.joinfear.com and register to obtain their free, Combat keycode. When the file is made available for download on Aug 17th 2006, consumers can install, enter their keycode, and get ready to join F.E.A.R. Combat!