So, FEAR was pretty good, if a bit snooker loopy. It had slow mo before slow mo became completely overused, and the environments got nicely shot up. The scares made me shit my pants the first time through, but they're kinda just annoying now.
FEAR 2 blew chunks. I played a bit of it and was profoundly disappointed by it...the whole feel of the game was just wrong, and the story was...well, even more snooker and even more loopey. Add to that the fact that you were playing YET ANOTHER silent protagonist in a game where it made ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE.
Seriously, the kicker was that in a level, I saw people following a ghostly voice. They died. Over the radio, one of my squadmates said, "I hear ghostly voices. I'm going to follow them."
Now, in real life, my character would have said, "No! The last people I saw who did that died horrible horrible deaths."
In FEAR 2, the guy stayed quiet and BAM! Squadmate was turned into fine puree.
And so, the news that they were making F.E.A.R 3 (or F.3.A.R, I guess they're calling it) made me full of complete apathy.
And then I saw the trailer.
And you play as Paxton Fettel.
...
I sat there for a few moments.
I...
You...
That...
You play as Paxton Fettel.
And from what I can tell the gameplay swaps between you possessing people, ripping them to pieces with your mind powers, or working with a shaggy faced man who - and I'm going out on a limb here - is most likely your brother, the main character from FEAR 1.
Holy shit, that actually sounds fucking awesome.
Also, hey, the trailer is part FMV. I just noticed.
FEAR 2 blew chunks. I played a bit of it and was profoundly disappointed by it...the whole feel of the game was just wrong, and the story was...well, even more snooker and even more loopey. Add to that the fact that you were playing YET ANOTHER silent protagonist in a game where it made ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE.
Seriously, the kicker was that in a level, I saw people following a ghostly voice. They died. Over the radio, one of my squadmates said, "I hear ghostly voices. I'm going to follow them."
Now, in real life, my character would have said, "No! The last people I saw who did that died horrible horrible deaths."
In FEAR 2, the guy stayed quiet and BAM! Squadmate was turned into fine puree.
And so, the news that they were making F.E.A.R 3 (or F.3.A.R, I guess they're calling it) made me full of complete apathy.
And then I saw the trailer.
And you play as Paxton Fettel.
...
I sat there for a few moments.
I...
You...
That...
You play as Paxton Fettel.
And from what I can tell the gameplay swaps between you possessing people, ripping them to pieces with your mind powers, or working with a shaggy faced man who - and I'm going out on a limb here - is most likely your brother, the main character from FEAR 1.
Holy shit, that actually sounds fucking awesome.
Also, hey, the trailer is part FMV. I just noticed.
