First Encounter Assault Recon (F.E.A.R) has been a one of a kind experience through its past iterations, with the absolutely crazy and absurd ending of F.E.A.R 2, can F.E.A.R 3 move the game and the story forward, or is it still stuck in 2005?
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?
Agree with the score. it's good but not great.
I'd give it an 8 personally. It's better than the 2nd game and in many ways better than than the 1st. What lets it down compared to the original is in its story telling, and also the actual story its telling.
The first game had an excellent plot, and it was drip fed to you in a way that you had to piece it together to get a real idea of what had happened. All the phone messages and various other elements of getting that info were expertly woven into the game. It was up to you ultimately to work out exactly what had happened and why. And although it was repetitive in environments it was very well paced.
Fear 3 is a good sequel, bordering on great for what it does, but the atmosphere is lacking. It also lacks all those great little touches the first game had, the creepy moments of seeing Alma at the corner of your eye, the tension building moments and scares. There are no messages or anything you can interact with that give you some backstory or sense of what has happened in the areas you encounter besides the cutscenes in the game.
In terms of gunplay and fps mechanics, such as the AI and cover system, well, it excels in those departments. It's missing a gun that is as fun to use as the railgun of the first, but it is still more satisfying overall.
It's a very enjoyable game, moreso than the 2nd game but not quite as much as the original. If it had the story telling aspects the first game had it would have surpassed it, but as it is then I would say it's the second best game of the series.
And there's also the co-op angle to the game, which makes it value for money considering you can also go through the game a second time with Fettel in the SP levels once you've
finished them with 'Point Man'.
I'd say it's worth buying.
Good points made and worthwhile writeup. Good read and I concur with the general population that it sucks it's only 8hrs long.