Extraction Point feels almost like a mod, not so much an official expansion. The artistic direction of the first game that so carefully tried to follow the traits of J-Horror mixed with an almost futuristic aesthetic is thrown out the window. In its place are random generic corridors, warehouses, construction sites, and a church at the start at least, idk. I haven't gotten too far in the game. I bailed at this table that seems to have melted into the floor and blocked an exit for me. Is this part of the intended level geometry or just a random object that glitched out? I don't know, but I couldn't see an obvious path forward from there.

The level design in general is much less intuitive, despite being more linear. And because of its linearity, the AI functions much worse because it was designed for the specific level layouts of the original game. Here you often find yourself in long corridors with rooms that lead nowhere or straight up big open locations where you have to pick enemies out from a great distance because running towards them is suicide. So there's much less encouragement for mobility and much fewer options to retreat and circumvent.

Visual cues are also all over the place. I've often seen doors that seemed accessible, but weren't. Plenty of invisible walls. And often the scripts won't trigger unless you approach a certain spot. At some point you're given an AI companion, and that guy is really dumb and slow, and he's the one who has to open all the doors for you. Can't progress without him, until he gets killed in the most ridiculously over-the-top way possible.

I know F.E.A.R. 2 is controversial for being noticeably different from the first game, so I was wondering if maybe these expansions did a better job at staying true to the original (that certainly seems to be one of the narratives pushed on the internets). But I don't think this expands on it in any meaningful way. If anything, it cheapens the systems and assets of the original by re-using them incorrectly.

I'm not gonna bother with the second expansion, since both of them are non-canon anyway.