Five Nights at Freddy's 2

Pros

• New mechanics make the game an interesting improvement over the sequel.
• The game is available on virtually every console, including all mobile devices.
• For a point-and-click game, Five Nights At Freddy's contains a surprisingly detailed plot, complete with lore and extensive theories. This game adds further background to the plot.

Cons

• This game represents a serious difficulty spike over its predecessors, and some players may find the game too tough to play.

Five Nights At Freddy's 2 is the sequel to the popular first game of the Five Nights at Freddy's series. In this version, you play as a security guard for the Freddy Fazbear's Pizza and must use limited resources to protect yourself from the evil mascots at the restaurant. At the same time, the game goes into further depth about the FNAF universe, revealing more about the location, security guard, and deadly animatronics that can murder you at almost any moment.

Story

Five Nights At Freddy's has now seen multiple releases and contains a significant amount of lore. In this version, you return to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Restaurant where you must again do battle against sentient and evil mascots.

The game opens with an employee calling you up and explaining your job, as well as the various tools you must use for your success. This is a fantastic way of not only explaining the way the game works but also adding to the lore of the series. According to this employee, mascots are programmed to use facial recognition to attack criminals onsite. They also are supposed to walk from room to room, searching for noise. This explains why YOU are always their target.

If you are found, the mascots will assume you are simply a mascot without a costume and will respond accordingly: By stuffing you into a spare Freddy Fazbear suit. This, of course, results in your death.

This mystery employee appears throughout the game, alerting you to new mascots and helping you make sense of their evil patterns.

Gameplay

Five Nights At Freddy's 2 is a point and click game. You play as a security guard and cannot leave your security office, even as the mascots move. You must rapidly shift between a variety of security cameras in order to track the mascots movements and ensure that they are not getting too close to you. You have a limited amount of tools available, including a flashlight, masks, and more. These tools can be used to scare off the mascots and allow you to survive the night.

This game is all about quick reflexes, resource management, and pattern recognition. Certain mascots can be frightened off by the flashlight, others masks, others neither. As such, you have to think quickly, pushing mascots back while watching three of the entrances to your office. If a mascot makes it in, you're dead, and one of Five Nights at Freddy's legendary jump scares will signify that you lost the round.

This game also adds to the lore by unveiling a series of mini-games that are done in the style of old-school video games. By playing them, players learn more about the troubled past of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Restaurant, including the alleged mass murder of five children that took place at the very location you are working at.

Your job is to survive five nights in the game, with each round taking a little longer than seven minutes. Your job, quite simply, is to survive.

On the whole, Five Nights at Freddy's 2 was believed by most players to be an improvement on the previous version, with the removal of the power limitations on some of the cameras and tools viewed as a major improvement. This came is frightening to its core and does an excellent job of integrating its plot-heavy story into its masterful gameplay.

Pros

• New mechanics make the game an interesting improvement over the sequel.
• The game is available on virtually every console, including all mobile devices.
• For a point-and-click game, Five Nights At Freddy's contains a surprisingly detailed plot, complete with lore and extensive theories. This game adds further background to the plot.

Cons

• This game represents a serious difficulty spike over its predecessors, and some players may find the game too tough to play.