There’s a disturbing lack of horror titles on current generation systems, even more so within the past few years. F.E.A.R 3 has launched its self onto the gaming masses bringing the familiar gore, bullets and Asian cinema inspired jump scares, does the new entry in the franchise offer brutal gunplay and top notch horror? Or does it fall flat on its face like a Platinum Dunes remake of a classic horror.
F.E.A.R 3 follows straight after its predecessor with the difference being here that the player sees’s things from the perspective of Pontman and Fettel. The two Brothers embark on the mission to reunite with their super evil charged mother Alma, who is now pregnant after her sexual assault on the protagonist of F.EA.R 2.
DualShockers Writes "F.E.A.R. 3 (or F.3.A.R. if you’re a marketing executive) isn’t a great singleplayer game. It’s fine, competent even, but Day One Studios had an unenviable task in trying to wrap up Monolith’s F.E.A.R. series. With two timelines and two highly different styles of horror attempted in its wake, F.E.A.R. 3, well, it tries its best."
F.E.A.R. 3 wasn't even really a horror game when it came to the campaign. It was a good action game, but lost just about all of its horror roots along the way.
There have plenty of great horror games, but others haven't been so lucky as to stick around. They deserve to get a new lease on life.
That was probably the first time ever that I saw Castlevania in a list of horror games.
ps: Be warned, you have to click a lot to see every game in the list. I stopped after the 4th time.
What is divergent co-op and how could more games benefit from it?
Very nice review, Link. Keep up the good work and all that good stuff.
I borrowed it and have played it for a couple of hours. To me it feels very uninspired and I just can't get into it. It's more challenging (on the Commando difficulty) than most other FPS games but the enemy AI isn't as good as in FEAR 2, which was a much better game in almost every way.
I played the single player for a couple of hours but got bored by the shallow story and the repetitive gameplay, so I decided to try out the multiplayer. To my surprise I couldn't find any games at all to join. I'm playing the 360 version and I've never encountered this problem before with a new game.
I loved FEAR 1&2 but this one is a dud imo. I wouldn't give it more than 2/5. Try before you buy is my advice.