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http://web.media.mit.edu/~jorkin/gdc2006_orkin_jeff_fear.pdf Here's a (pdf) paper presented by Jeff Orkin, lead AI programmer on F.E.A.R, at the 2006 GDC. He talks about how he made the enemies behave in a human-like manner using a technique called Goal Oriented Action Planning. http://web.media.mit.edu/~jorkin/ This is his MIT student page.