Retail boxes of F.E.A.R.2: Project Origin have been hitting store shelves this weekend to allow consumers to pre-order the game and prepare for its release this coming February.

Surprisingly, the boxes indicate that the game will use Valve's SteamWorks feature, and a Steam account will be required to activate retail copies of the game.

At present it does not look like F.E.A.R.2: Project Origin will use the SteamWorks achievements system or incorporate stats, instead it looks like Steam is being utilized to act as the DRM for the retail versions of the game.

http://www.steamfriends.com/news/3850/fear2-project-origin-using-steamworks

This is awesome!!! Valve is becoming a juggernaut. 2009 will be a huge year for Steam and it will increase it's costumer base by millions and millions because this year there will be several HUGE games that will be Steam integrated:

• FEAR 2
• Dawn of War 2 (optional)
  
• Empire: Total War
• Football Manager 2010 (not confirmed, but most likely)
• Whatever Valve releases (hopefully HL2: Episode 3)

Thats cool.

Im getting it on PC and 360. I hope the PC version has contoller support...the demo didn't

I know...controller voer mouse is blasphemy...but I like to kick back in a chair and play on my big screen TV, and its kinda hard to do with a mouse and keyboard.

All right! F.E.A.R. 2 on PC is definitely something else (having played all versions)!

Wow I didn't expect that, I was always worried Monolith would try to branch out and do their own thing...Steam really suits their games though, so going full integration is great for everyone.

If HL2:Ep3 hits Valve will own 2009.

Wow another title where publisher wants to kill second hand market.

Well I guess that makes it go to

second hand market on PC?! Even in PC-centric countries there is almost no second hand market for PC games.

Yeah I can't think of anyplace that sells used pc games, much less even lets you return them.

EB Games used to be a second hand market till the internet become part of game registration

Then welcome to Poland - the place where good selling PC game sells more than GTA IV :) (For example best selling pc game to date - Witcher sold more copies than combined number of X360+PS3 users we have )

And no I wasn't talking about shops selling used games - but rather about ebay and other user selling to user services.