Alma is expecting and a new level of terror grows as you and your cannibal brother battle through a hellish nightmare. Fight together or die alone on a deadly mission to confront your twisted mother. Players can take on the role of Point Man, a genetically enhanced soldier with superhuman reflex...
Alma is expecting and a new level of terror grows as you and your cannibal brother battle through a hellish nightmare. Fight together or die alone on a deadly mission to confront your twisted mother. Players can take on the role of Point Man, a genetically enhanced soldier with superhuman reflexes and the ability to manipulate time, or the undead spirit of his brother Paxton Fettel, a paranormal entity who possesses incredible psychic powers.
Key Features
Blood Runs Deep, F.E.A.R. Runs Deeper: F.E.A.R. 3 delivers all the hallmarks that define the F.E.A.R. brand: terrifying paranormal experience, frenetic combat and a dramatic storyline.
Frenetic Combat: Active 360 degree cover, evolutionary slow-mo modes, scoring systems and best in class mech- combat aid players in facing an army of soldiers and paranormal enemies.
Experience the Almaverse: The game world is tainted by the Almaverse, the alternate dimension where Alma’s psychic essence subsists. New sinister and fantastical enemy creatures birthed in Alma’s warped mind spill into reality and intensify the panic.
Generative System: Proprietary technology creates random events to increase the feeling of isolation and unpredictability when playing alone or with a friend, and offers new experiences each time gamers play through.
Masters of Horror: Legendary film director John Carpenter and writer Steve Niles provide their expertise and guidance to take F.E.A.R. 3 ’s intensity to the next level. Niles co-wrote the twisted storyline that reveals the motivations and family dynamics of the main characters, and Carpenter helped craft the cinematics for maximum storytelling and fright factor.
Please note that this DRM-Free version of F.E.A.R. 3 is single-player only. Multiplayer and co-op modes as well as related in-game challenges are not available.
I don't know why people are complaining, this classic title is brought back to life on modern machines. Even on steam, there's no multi-player option. This game is the full game without the multi-player. People put too much priority on the multi-player. To me, there's more value in the story and in the single player version of the game.
I don't need people coming in and spoiling the game play for me. There are and always will be bad players, so I opt for single player games. Like the people whining about the multi-player function not being there, it's players like him that I want to avoid.
Like, I guess I got it cause it was cheap. It's completely unfun and just a chore to get through. The story is really just incredibly bad. The story in the other FEAR games isn't stellar or anything, but this is uniquely terrible. On the gameplay front it's just okay. There's a weird cover system, bad melee-rush enemies, and other spongey enemies. By around the halfway point the game just loses all of what made it semi-entertaining and it just becomes one of the most dull experiences I've ever played.
[Review originally written in 2011 for X360 version]
After dragging myself through the mediocre FEAR2 in 2009, my expectations were insanely low. I didn't expect it to be this bad. Let's get the positives out of the way first: tight controls & quite challenging difficulty. Phenomenal sound design; those with a 5.1 surround system or headset are in for a real treat. There, all done. Everything’s downhill from here.
After shaking my head in distaste at the terrible presentation & starting up the single player, I was greeted with cringe-worthy voice-acting in a poor effort to gain the player's interest.
The story’s a nonsensical mess. The levels get progressively more generic as one ends & the other begins. Carrying the same 2 guns throughout the entire game save for a few encounter-specific occasions where the game conveniently places a sniper rifle or rocket launcher to use against an enemy type that requires such treatment. There's nothing to hold one's interest other than some mildly entertaining mech shootouts (think of the same battles in FEAR2 minus the thrill).
Completing the campaign as the silent & generic Point Man unlocks Fettel, who offers an admittedly more exciting experience as it does spice up the foul-tasting main course.
Alas, this campaign counts as one of the most tedious, unsatisfying experiences I’ve ever encountered in my 30+ years of gaming. Abysmal story, piss-poor voice-acting, lackluster level design, failed attempts at horror & a cover mechanic ripped straight from Killzone 2.
Every single thing about it reeks of sour milk & pus squeezed straight from a cancerous breast-like blob on life support. FEAR3 is what happens when some dollar-sniffing bloke in a suit says: “Let's not break a sweat. Put in some generic shooter stuff, prison & sewer levels at the start, focus on multiplayer because that's hot nowadays."
This is shooter #596451 with a FEAR stamp on the front of the box. A proper and final insult to fans.
The bad:
1. It's the most video-gamey (least immersive) in the trilogy with super stiff & clunky controls and overly simplistic design choices that serve as constant reminders that you're playing a video game.
2. I can play it fine now, but upon release it made my rig absolutely howl with its poor optimization. Not nearly pretty enough to run as poorly as it does/did (as I said, it will run on almost anything now, but it's by no means a smooth running game)
3. It's neither spooky nor fun; the jump-scares are both frequent and unsurprising and the combat gets old FAST. I was bored of the gun-play before I even got out of the first area which was maybe the only surprise, since I am a huge fan of FEAR and FEAR 2.
The good:
Nobody can make you install and try to play it
The game was relatively easy except a couple places where stuck with some mechanized armor attacking in a tight space, but that was ok... until I reached interval 7 where the difficulty was very badly balanced to the point of frustration.
All in all, Fear 1 and 2 are much better games I think.
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