Edited on: November 2, 2025

Posted on: June 10, 2023

P-Rock

Games: 166 Reviews: 31

Nothing to F.E.A.R.

The Good - Punchy weapons - Better enemy A.I. than F2 - Drive a Powerful Mech - Play as Paxton Fettel - Pretty challenging The Bad: - Very poor story - Sometimes feels like CoD - Invisible walls everywhere - John Carpenter adds nothing - Point Man is a hobo The Ugly - No co-op mode - Basically killed the franchise

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Posted on: March 5, 2025

MLGorange

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Games: 41 Reviews: 7

What a massive letdown

The Game itself is a decent shooter with good graphics, but it suffers severly from the fact, that it's everything BUT a F.E.A.R title. It completely cuts ties with F.E.A.R and F.E.A.R 2 with a completely different gameplay, artstyle and a overall feeling. Regardless of how hard you may try to ignore it you just can't look over the ridiculous COD and Resident Evil like gamedesign. It does not fit into the F.E.A.R franchise at all and it doesn't even seem to remotely try to. The Co-op is a nice feature but oh well.... it also doesn't fit to what a F.E.A.R title is supposed to be. If I had to point out the worst things about this whole mess, it would probably be: - The absolute break with established titles - The fact that it plays like an arcade game - The complete butchering of the story (it's an absolute mess) - A lot of well known characters get butchered aswell (poor Becket) - Movie Sequences... just why??? It kills the immersion - Main character has a (fugly) face now (He looks like Leon Kennedy mixed with the Undertaker) - Bad balancing (half of the weapons are useless and they still don't seem to know how a shotgun works apparently) - Lackluster AI (They feel worse compared to the older titles) - "Phase commanders". That enemy type mainly exists to straight up trash-talk you and be a massive A-hole progression blockade and I'm not even exaggerating at that point. - EVERYTHING in this game just yells "LOOK, I'm a F.E.A.R title. we have the story and the characters from the older games!" and it absolutely fails to sell it. TLDR: It is supposed to be F.E.A.R but it's not. It's just a generic COD & Resident Evil hybrid with a label slapped ontop of it and a poorly written story to justify it. I feel kind of bad for the developers because they certainly are skilled, but probably got hit up with the wrong project / franchise and that actually killed the company along with the whole F.E.A.R franchise aswell. 1 star extra to pay respect to the devs efforts.

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Edited on: September 18, 2025

Posted on: December 19, 2022

NebL13B

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Games: 653 Reviews: 25

A terrible finale to a great series.

The amount of people praising this garbage here is utterly depressing. "Why be afraid when you were afraid during the previous two games. It's time to end with a SPARKLING ACTION!" THE NAME OF THE GAME IS FEAR 3. THE FRANCHISE WAS LITERALLY ENVISIONED TO BE A HYBRID OF JON WOO ACTION AND J-HORROR. AND THIS GAME FAILS AT BOTH. You wanna know why? They built the entire game around Co-op. It's not that they have a singleplayer campaign and a co-op one, THE ENTIRE GAME is a co-op modern military shooter with the F.E.A.R. name and universe slapped on. No horror, no effective AI, weakened bullet-time, regenerating health, a cover system, more action, and no F.E.A.R. in every sense of the term. Combine this with a bizarre plot that ignores the events of the F.E.A.R. 2 expansion, and tries to (among other things) retcon Harlan Wade into the true main villain of the series when the previous game LITERALLY ended with Alma raping the protagonist, and you have the ultimate recipe for a dreadful closure. I'd only recommend this game, if you're curious. Screw this game. It's honestly tied with Resident Evil 6 as the worst videogame sequel I've ever played. If games like THIS are what's becoming the cult classics of a new generation, I'd rather take my chances with an ACTUAL paranormal haunting.

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Posted on: February 19, 2023

heiselong

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Games: 316 Reviews: 4

Your time could be better spent

If like me, you plan to buy F.E.A.R. 3 having ignored the negative reviews on F.E.A.R. 2 and loved it, then you are likely to be disappointed. I couldn't be bothered finishing F.E.A.R. 3, after getting about halfway through. On the surface, it is another F.E.A.R. game, a lot like 2, and when I started playing I actually wondered what people were on about in the other reviews. The horror is there, weak as it ever was in this series. Certain mechanics are similar too, you've still got slow motion, grenades, and a sliding kick. As you keep playing however, it starts to sink in that it really IS more like Call of Duty or some other, more plain, FPS game. It is very watered down, even though a lot of elements from F.E.A.R. 2 are still present. It's also difficult, in a boring way. The health bar is gone, replaced by a regenerating health system. Quicksaves are also gone. Those changes alone make the game something of a headache to play, but overall it is still "ok". There are plenty of other, better, FPS games and I recommend playing one of those instead.

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Posted on: June 3, 2023

TurboVirgin64

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Games: Reviews: 24

Terrible idea removing co-op

As a F.E.A.R. game i give it 0 stars. But as a standalone FPS I give it 4, it's fun. Great, Violence and Gore, Gameplay, Sound, Music, Environments. A.I is alright

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