The Let's Play Archive

FEAR 2

by Lazyfire

Part 34: SnakeFist V the lost script

Speaking of Snakefist V scripts there was one in particular that we should focus on.

Simply titled Snakefist V this script sees a focus away from Snakefist as the titular character and instead focus on Sergeant John Jackson, new recruit in SFOD-D or Delta Force and Snakefist would've instead taken the role of his squad leader.
The plot of the movie would've begun Snakefist's squad perform a raid on a ship on a rainy night in the Bering Strait which would reveal it containing two nuclear devices, with one missing, followed by the ships subsequent sinking by unknown attack aircraft from which the squad would barely escape from.
The plot would then take the Delta team on a wild goose chase across the globe as they seek to stop the madcap scheme of a former Russian general turned fanatic Imran Zikhov who seeks to restore his homeland's glory and someone Snakefist encountered before.
Highlights of the script include an intense flashback sequence where it would be revealed that Snakefist was the one who blew off one of Zikhov's legs in a botched assassination attempt in the Ukraine as well as a massive shoot out at a missile base leading to a wild car chase across a Russian mountain highway involving a Mi-24 Hind and several armoured vehicles. In the end Zikhov would die by Snakefist's hand from a thrown knife before seemingly perishing from his wounds but leaving the true ending ambiguous to the viewer.

At least two sequels was on the slate as well but sadly the script was never picked up by anyone due to the declining interest of the genre but rumors persist that the script was at some point fell into to the hands, through various unknown ways, of a pair of video game developers and was modified and made into a major hit even if the creators to this day refuse to acknowledge the rumour. However critics have pointed out several similarities between the script and various scenes of the game such as the assault on an enemy stronghold searching for the son of Zikhov that ends with a chase on foot through a derelict town.