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April 9th, 2010, 19:11 GMT · By

F.E.A.R. 3 Coming with More Alma, Cooperative Play

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Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has announced that it will launch a new installment in its F.E.A.R. Franchise in the fall of this year. The game will be developed by Day 1 Studios and will be outed on the Xbox 360 from Microsoft, the PlayStation 3 from Sony and the PC. F.E.A.R. 3 will keep the same signature horror atmosphere seen in the previous two titles while introducing a cooperative play enabled narrative, which stars both the Point Man and Paxton Fettel.


Warner Bros. is saying that John Carpenter, the well known horror movie director who has worked on titles like Halloween, The Thing and Big Trouble in Little China, and script creator Steve Niles have been brought in to enhance the horror feel of the game, which was rather weak in F.E.A.R. 2. Alma will again serve as the main antagonist of the game but Warner Bros. has not said what the plans for the player will be this time.

It seems that in F.E.A.R. 3, a full squad of special operatives will not be accompanying the player. The Point Man, the genetically engineered soldier with hyper quick reflexes, can tackle the challenges of the game alone or he can rely on another human who plays the role of Paxton Fettel that bases his powers around telekinesis. In addition to the single player narrative, F.E.A.R. 3 will also deliver a host of multiplayer modes allowing for competitive play.

Martin Tremblay, who serves as president at Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, stated as part of the announcement that “Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is evolving the F.E.A.R. brand with top horror, co-op and first person shooter combat in F.E.A.R. 3. Monolith Productions has passed the torch to Day 1 Studios to create a quality, powerful game that stays true to the roots of the F.E.A.R. franchise but takes players to a heightened level of gameplay.”

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Comment #1 by: iCE on 10 Apr 2010, 19:21 UTC reply to this comment

One word, Monolith: MOVIE!


Comment #2 by: Seishuku on 11 Apr 2010, 00:44 UTC reply to this comment

Wow, I definately will not be getting F.E.A.R. 3. The first F.E.A.R. was an incredible horror FPS and had an amazing story, but once WB came in, that all went away. Now the story is done for, and the horror is barely there. Now for F.E.A.R. 3 they've got some movie director from generic slasher movies to "enhance the horror feel"? Let's get something straight: Slashers are not scary. I already know that the only changes to the "horror" will be more of Alma popping out at random, which sure, will make for a few jumps, but nothing like when you walk around a corner as your communicator flickers with "Unknown Origin" and you see a young Alma at the end of the hall, making you paranoid for the rest of the night. o_O

Also, I'm getting kinda tired of making Alma the antagonist. Sure, the older form is definately a bit too violent and needs to calm down, but after finding out what happened to that poor girl, a bit of revenge against that BITCH Aristide and Armacham is understandable. Personally I'd like to see the very beginning of F.E.A.R. 2 extended, where you're going to find GA and arrest her, except I'd also like the option to slowly torture her to death. ^_^ Or let Alma do it, I don't care.

Anyways, the point I'm getting at is that they've strayed from the story a bit too much, especially with that pointless idiot Becket running around for 6 hours of my life, just to find out nothing about the story, and have Alma do wrong things to him, which, I still don't even understand why she would want to do that. Because he's got similar powers to hers? That's.... dumb.

Move on to something else, guys, you already ruined my happiness by releasing F.E.A.R. 2, and unless I hear that everything I just complained about has been fixed, I'll stick with Extraction Point, however confusing it may be.


Comment #3 by: Applez on 21 Jul 2010, 09:32 UTC reply to this comment

i really can't wait till number three comes out i've played all off the games including the expansions and think that yeh it can be scarier but its fun shooting im a girl an love my shooting games and horror games like crazy,i suggest they should have full evil foetus
that messes with your head or something extreme creepy mind play would be fun :)

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