Fear 3 is weak.

[Kimarhi Ronso]

Still funnish shooter, wait until price drop before you buy. That is all.

[PsyKore]

I kinda expected it to be weak. I would like to try co-op though; it'd prolly be funny.

I wonder if the online will die in the arse like the others.

[Kimarhi Ronso]

There is nothing really competitive about the MP aside from soul collector. The rest your survival directly effects your team.

So, I don't t expect it to last long at all.

In general I play the FEAR games for the SP campaign. This one probably had the best shooting mechanics (and a cover system that actually works), but its SP is seriously lacking in the scare department as well as a sensical storyline.

[Evil_Crawling_eye]

I just completed it, the usual Consolitis gripes are my main distaste to be honest, fuck-ass tired of being hand held needing to push a button to cover, or getting hints if i stand still for more than 2 seconds, then the overly zoomed in view.

Anyway, it got good for me, would of preffered real world weapons instead of the futurey crap we get, and i did notice some Modern Warfare 2 rip offing with the Favela level. The scares were ok, but it kind of feels like when The Ring got remade by Hollywood and Americanised the shit out of it.

Bottom line, F.E.A.R 1 and Project Origin are still better to this day, awesome games, especialy Project Origins evolved scares and use of movement with eye catching, but yeah F.E.A.R 3 is a consolitis laden number with simple pop up duck enemies, wait for the price to drop on this one, then its still worth the playthrough and John Carpenter "The Thing" himself worked on this and you get some well designed enemies.

[Shataan]

What killed FEAR for me was the blatant rips. Japanese idea dead wet girl. Alma a direct rip of Alma Mobley in Ghost Story, great movie btw but still. And they won`t just move on and come up with something a tad more original.

Absolute most memorable stuff for me in FEAR 1 was the fire effects, the slow mo bullet time effects, the A.I. of the enemy was sweet considering the closed in enviros we had to endure. Too bad these things never made it into AVP 2. Or an AVP game.

Oh yeah, sweet enemy character detail and movement.

[Kimarhi Ronso]

I loved the Japanese scares. Its probably why overall the third is my least favorite.

I definately felt that things like the Ring/Grudge were being ripped, but I didn't mind. Akira and ghost of the shell's massive military cyberpunk industrial complex as well as its ideas on mental powers were ripped off as well.

Just made the game more fun for me. Since I'm a sucker for just about every covered category used in the original.

FEAR 3's AI played out much better than FEAR2's I thought. On the harder difficulties they were doing everything they were doing in the original.

The cover system was much improved, since it actually covered you, and you could still shoot without seperating from it like you had to do in FEAR 2.

FEAR 2 had the best level in the series though. In wade elementary.

[Evil_Crawling_eye]

Yeah dude, im all about the Wade Elementary, i think we should start a facebook group.

[PsyKore]

Haha, I loved Wade Elementary too. That's one of those video game moments that has stuck with me. I think it worked so well because you weren't confined to a small space watching a scripted sequence like what was usually typically done, but rather you were still in control and could move around while all this shit went down around you which made you feel involved. It was a nice change from the trend of cutscenes that plagues video games nowadays.

I just wish the series had more and longer sections like that. I think the Fear series has an unbalanced ratio of action over actual "fear." It'd be nice if developers went all out and made long survival-horror style parts rather than just brief snippets of it.

[Kimarhi Ronso]

Undoubtedly I think FEAR 4 is inevitable do to the wtf ending that was left open after the game.

But I'm wondering if they shouldn't do a game where FEAR is in its infancy as an organization and is using tech (that would basically take the place of the Marines motion tracker in the Alien series games) to locate the malicious ghost and psychics roaming about. Maybe actually get rid of slowmo for your character in favor of faster but shorter action sequences.

Perhaps adding more squad based action to lower the difficulty.

I played a couple of sp maps for the original fear where this was the idea, and though short they were pretty solid.

SPOILER!

In FEAR 4, Becket better return as some sort of ghost. Shitty way to end a character. Yeah he didn't say anything in FEAR 2. But you got aspects of his personality through what his squadmates said of him, and he had potential as a psychic to help out the FEAR cause.

Killing him for no reason was crap imo.

[PsyKore]

I'm sorry I'm late, but I just recently played this on PC (bought it for a cheap price) and it's a fucking horrible game. WTF is this cover-pop-and-shoot nonsense? Why does it feel like COD? Why do you have to make psychic links? You die so stupidly easy in this too; you're forced to take cover like a stupid gutless coward rather than get into cool action shooting like in the prior games.

Fuck, the cover shit just pisses me off. Why did they think this would be fun? Run to barrier, press E, pop shoot pop shoot, run to next barrier, press E, pop shoot wank wank wank..... And if you try to play it like the Fear games of old (i.e. like a standard FPS where you manouver yourself around structures), you die annoyingly and get shot by curvy bullets or bullets that clip through edges of structures. Annoying is the word best used for this game. Stupid is another good word for it too.

This game is the shittiest game made in history as of 2011.

Worse than Black Ops.

[nemarsde]

Originally Posted by PsyKore

Fuck, the cover shit just pisses me off. Why did they think this would be fun? Run to barrier, press E, pop shoot pop shoot, run to next barrier, press E, pop shoot wank wank wank...

Sounds like Mass Effect, doesn't it. A good thing ME has story and characterisation, is all I can say!

[bartelcabe]

I kinda expected it to be weak. I would like to try co-op though; it'd prolly be funny.

[yee haw]

Originally Posted by bartelcabe

I kinda expected it to be weak. I would like to try co-op though; it'd prolly be funny.

This game sucks all the way around i thought.

[PsyKore]

I decided to suck it up and play through the entire game recently; and admittedly it does get better later on. However, the first two levels - "Prison" and "Slums" - are just direly bad in my book. I mean, those are two horrible levels that they should never have kicked the game off with. But after those, it's more decent, and good grief I actually had some fun. I did make some adjustments, though, when playing, like increasing the FOV from 75 to 95 which made the game surprisingly more playable....... It's still not the best FEAR game by any stretch, but it's decent.

[J A Eyers]

I'm currently playing the first FEAR on PS3. When does the horror kick in? So far I've wandered around a few generic abandoned industrial/laboratory levels that involve the usual missions of 'finding another way around' which end in the most bizarre places (halfway down a ladder, etc). The first time I saw the shadowy figure walk past at the end of the corridor I was moved to chase him/her, not go and clean up my underwear (despite being promised this was a "three pair of pants" game). And now a shadowy figure crops up at least once a level, and it doesn't seem to be leading anywhere.

Please tell me there's some plot development.

[PsyKore]

It's not very scary as most of it is scripted sequences. The fear games are mostly action, however. From memory, the plot, if you can call it a plot, develops further towards the end.

[J A Eyers]

I'm on the last level now and I'm still waiting for things to take off. All I've done is wander around corridors without any real sense of there being a point to it.

I'm worried now, because the same people who recommended this also recommended Dead Space, which I was going to play next.

[Cpl._Badass]

Dead Space 1&2 are entirely different from the FEAR franchise.

I would say Dead Space is far superior though imo...

[PsyKore]

Dead space is more of a challenge and is like event horizon crossed with the thing. Very cool but I'm not a fan of the game's habit of making monsters jump out at every turn; needs better tension implemented to make it proper scary.