I havent watched the video, but i've seen enough FEAR 3 vids to know one of the 2 ways it can go: you either hate it and think it sucks or think its mediocre but overhated, and both takes are right and valid, compatible, even. Its not a fantastic game, but its one of those games that has a lot of virtues that are wholly unrelated to it being a sequel to FEAR, which makes it a very interesting game to look at and analyze. Im still gonna watch the video, i love your content! while im here, do orcs must die 3 pls, your review of 1 and 2 is what got me to buy those and 3 is also stellar.
I’ve been playing through the mainline FEAR games for the past few days, and I just so happened to beat the 3rd game today. Imo I am genuinely not sure what my favourite of the games are, since each of them have really good mechanics, awesome/scary moments and overall playing through them all in a row was a good fun time. By the way, I played 3 solo, and yeah, it’s quite the challenge. Thought it was a fun challenge though.
I like FEAR 2&3 quite a bit, but ever since I first played FEAR 1, I have wanted FEAR 1: The Sequel, lol if that makes sense... The first FEAR really is special. I enjoyed your review of the series.
I liked FEAR 3. I thought the action was good and loved the mech sequences. There were a couple of annoying parts (one part in an aiport I think and the last boss). The upgrades should've been better and allow you to chose what you wanted to upgrade. I need to go and try it out as Fettel.
Yeah, I preferred FEAR 2 to this one. I know that FEAR 1 & Extraction Point are the best games in the franchise, but I still had fun playing 2. I really didn't like the story or characters in 3. Plus it was hard to even become immersed while playing as the game constantly reminds you it's just a game with those annoying challenges. At FEAR 2 kept the upgrades from classic FEAR. Very disappointing end to a once amazing franchise. WB will probably never make a game like FEAR today. At least we've Trepang2...
FEAR 3 felt like another shooter from the early 2010s competing with COD from its gameplay and action. Just like every other shooter from that time. Halo 4 for instance.
I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one that prefers 3 over 2. 3's melee system actually works, playing as Paxton can be a lot of fun, grenades explode on impact again, the ragdolls are better, better destruction and particle effects, occasionally interesting art direction and use of lighting. Just an overall net improvement. F.E.A.R. 2 ruined a lot of the gunplay of the original and 3 doesn't fully fix it, but it remedies some of the mistakes 2 did. I don't care about the lack of horror, personally. I never truly liked the horror in the series fully, it always had problems, despite its positives. Atmosphere was good but the scares themselves was bad. Melee fights with the zombies is fun since, unlike most Replica, they don't die instantly to melee. I also like how, when a grenade doesn't impact an enemy before it hits the ground, it will instead become timed, and enemies can trip up on it. Also, this game's mech sections are incredible. I love them. You can run through the walls, not just shoot them, which lends to great pacing and forward-momentum. The scavengers aren't that hard to fight solo on mouse and keyboard.
I know you focus mostly on single-player but the horde modes in this are quite good, and they're arguably more fun than the campaign. They can be played in both solo and co-op (also in split-screen).
I quite liked the Fucking Run mode. It was a nice spin on the usual extraction mode we get. Campaign coop was interesting for a little bit but end up being the most generic of the 3. Wasnt fan either of the outcome of the protagonist of fear 2. They couldve flesh out his character more from the trauma he got.
The first game was a classic. The second was terrible. 3 I found to be quite good and entertaining for what it was and knowing it was quite a bit different going in helped soften the blow.
Because the series alienated fans of the original. I played them all over the last few weeks and, while I enjoyed aspects of each of them, 2 and 3 have almost no idea what to do with the series. The biggest mistake was moving away from the original idea of the FEAR team moving through different paranormal experiences in future games as opposed to focusing solely on Alma which was fully resolved before 2 ever came out.
@@FrostbiteDigital ah no it was quite resolved, she killed her father and pretty much fucked over armacham with the whole Fairport incident, because we all know Jin leaked everything after Alma died
Because Fear 3 didn't sell well? WB wanted CoD sales numbers, 3 didn't get anywhere near those. Man do I miss games like FEAR and original Far Cry. Way too many retro 90s FPS games lately.
I didn't like this at the time but I do want to give it another shot. I found it janky, unfinished, had worse graphics, repetitive copy and paste level design and was huge step backwards from Fear 2. I didn't get round to the Paxton Fettel missions which I've heard are better.
I like this game better than FEAR 2 tbh. Playing it coop is a lot of fun, and I think the gun play is better than 2. The melee in it is closer to 1 than 2 as well, which is a good thing
A very fair review and one I agree with. It wasn't a bad game, but a poor sequal to the original. When fear 3 came out I was disappointed for the first hour or so, but then I kinda got into it. The gameplay is excellent and the combat arenas were a step up from fear 2. Fear 3 didn't manage to scare me like fear 1 (and 2 did have maybe one or two moments I jumped at) but I did appreciate its approach with the cultists, who were kinda creepy at first. It isn't as good as fear 1, but if I was to mark it on its own merits I would say its a good shooter. I will always feel alil bitter that fear 2 and 3 didn't take more inspiration from the original. But they are all good games....... But the og is the best And extraction point is the cannon ending.... ;) Nice review 👌
I agree. Then they hammered the last nail in the FEAR coffin with FEAR Online. Wasn't made by Monolith Productions or the FEAR 3 devs, but some random South Korean studio.
Every reviewer talks about the great AI in FEAR but does it really play into anything? Most of the gunfights are over before they do anything meaningful and it just always feels like I'm fighting CoD enemies except I can understand them.
The original fear and Halo has the best AI in history. The Fear 2 AI was close to the 1st one but the shooting mechanics was a step back. It wasn't smooth and fluid like the 1st one. Fear 3 AI was two steps back from the 1st but is wasn't bad, with it being 2 steps behind the 1st one but it still is a step above Cod AI. Fear 3 was fun at that's the problem. Fear suppose to have intense gun fights and decent horror elements and the physics of the 1st one was ahead of it's time and still is.
I always enjoyed this game. Its not amazing and an afwul FEAR game, but after the mediocre boredom of 2, it was so much better! Also, the coop is a disaster. Whoever plays as Point Man slows down the game for both players, which is stupid as hell.
Thank heavens they didn't continue down this line with a FEAR 4 or... (sigh) F.E.4.R. 😮💨 I imagine it would have been a 4 player co-op shooter like Left 4 Dead, with dozens of enemies spawning in and rushing you. *Scary*
Oh boy, here we go... before i watch the video im gonna say what i felt when playing this game: "this tries too hard to copy Call of Duty instead of building on the actual basis this franchise once stood on..." lets see what the video says...
Okay i watched it and, just like as your opinion to Extraction Point, i have to disagree. While FEAR 2 was a downgrade and basically a console port, it still had good moments to shine and a decent story. But FEAR 3 lost everything the series stood for. Coop may be fun but the AI is no threat and it ain't scary. It has no tension at all. The characters are irrelevant, you care for no one and therefore you dont care about the story. All the questions after FEAR 2 (what will happen to Beckett? Will he maybe even be the final boss of FFEAR 3?) are answered in the most lame possible: A cutscene where he just gets killed by Fettel for no real reason. Like seriously, the *one story line* that actually had the chance to be interesting is just wasted this way? Also the gameplay, like i just said, is so typical for that era: Every single shooter tries to be the next Call of Duty clone. (Endless) Sprinting, regenerating health, boring as hell cover shooter mechanics, dumb AI just being cannon fodder... and did i mention regenerating health, the most casual thing ever invented within the shooter genre? There is zero resource management at all, even ammo is basically no problem - since Fettel can just possess enemies. You just rush trough the levels without care for anything. The AI is not dangerous, you dont need to manage health packs, the story is uninteresting... If you take the title of "FEAR" away and remove characters like Alma and Fettel, what remains to define this game? What makes it unique? Nothing. FEAR 1 would still be a mysterious action-FPS with kickass melee-attacks, creative weapons and amazing AI. FEAR 3 has nothing that makes it unique - its as soulless and generic as a shooter can be. It fell into the same trap so many other CoD-Clones did: If one wanna play CoD, said person is going to play CoD - and not one of its clones with a smaller player base. FEAR 2 has a different identity and approach, but FEAR 3 has no identity at all. And to me, just being one of thousands generic COD-Clones is far worse than just trying something different (even if its not hitting the mark 100%).
I havent watched the video, but i've seen enough FEAR 3 vids to know one of the 2 ways it can go: you either hate it and think it sucks or think its mediocre but overhated, and both takes are right and valid, compatible, even.
Its not a fantastic game, but its one of those games that has a lot of virtues that are wholly unrelated to it being a sequel to FEAR, which makes it a very interesting game to look at and analyze.
Im still gonna watch the video, i love your content! while im here, do orcs must die 3 pls, your review of 1 and 2 is what got me to buy those and 3 is also stellar.
We need a new FEAR
I’ve been playing through the mainline FEAR games for the past few days, and I just so happened to beat the 3rd game today. Imo I am genuinely not sure what my favourite of the games are, since each of them have really good mechanics, awesome/scary moments and overall playing through them all in a row was a good fun time. By the way, I played 3 solo, and yeah, it’s quite the challenge. Thought it was a fun challenge though.
I like FEAR 2&3 quite a bit, but ever since I first played FEAR 1, I have wanted FEAR 1: The Sequel, lol if that makes sense... The first FEAR really is special. I enjoyed your review of the series.
I liked FEAR 3. I thought the action was good and loved the mech sequences. There were a couple of annoying parts (one part in an aiport I think and the last boss). The upgrades should've been better and allow you to chose what you wanted to upgrade. I need to go and try it out as Fettel.
Yeah, I preferred FEAR 2 to this one. I know that FEAR 1 & Extraction Point are the best games in the franchise, but I still had fun playing 2.
I really didn't like the story or characters in 3. Plus it was hard to even become immersed while playing as the game constantly reminds you it's just a game with those annoying challenges. At FEAR 2 kept the upgrades from classic FEAR.
Very disappointing end to a once amazing franchise. WB will probably never make a game like FEAR today.
At least we've Trepang2...
Totally agree. The second is much better than this COD clone.
FEAR 3 felt like another shooter from the early 2010s competing with COD from its gameplay and action. Just like every other shooter from that time. Halo 4 for instance.
I feel like this game when way overboard with the paranormal and supernatural aspect. A departure from the more grounded feel of the first game.
I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one that prefers 3 over 2. 3's melee system actually works, playing as Paxton can be a lot of fun, grenades explode on impact again, the ragdolls are better, better destruction and particle effects, occasionally interesting art direction and use of lighting. Just an overall net improvement. F.E.A.R. 2 ruined a lot of the gunplay of the original and 3 doesn't fully fix it, but it remedies some of the mistakes 2 did. I don't care about the lack of horror, personally. I never truly liked the horror in the series fully, it always had problems, despite its positives. Atmosphere was good but the scares themselves was bad. Melee fights with the zombies is fun since, unlike most Replica, they don't die instantly to melee. I also like how, when a grenade doesn't impact an enemy before it hits the ground, it will instead become timed, and enemies can trip up on it.
Also, this game's mech sections are incredible. I love them. You can run through the walls, not just shoot them, which lends to great pacing and forward-momentum.
The scavengers aren't that hard to fight solo on mouse and keyboard.
Fear 3 honestly feels closer to the original than fear 2 did. The action in fear 3 was awesome
@@stevenarnett4471 I agree.
I know you focus mostly on single-player but the horde modes in this are quite good, and they're arguably more fun than the campaign. They can be played in both solo and co-op (also in split-screen).
Although less scary but the co op was awesome.
Fear 3 is great. I understand why a lot of fans don’t like it, but I’ve always had a fun time with it
I quite liked the Fucking Run mode. It was a nice spin on the usual extraction mode we get. Campaign coop was interesting for a little bit but end up being the most generic of the 3. Wasnt fan either of the outcome of the protagonist of fear 2. They couldve flesh out his character more from the trauma he got.
The first game was a classic. The second was terrible. 3 I found to be quite good and entertaining for what it was and knowing it was quite a bit different going in helped soften the blow.
Why do you think we haven't seen a new FEAR game in over a decade?
Because the series alienated fans of the original. I played them all over the last few weeks and, while I enjoyed aspects of each of them, 2 and 3 have almost no idea what to do with the series. The biggest mistake was moving away from the original idea of the FEAR team moving through different paranormal experiences in future games as opposed to focusing solely on Alma which was fully resolved before 2 ever came out.
@@jarg8 Alma's story was not fully resolved after the first one dude wtf are you on about?
@@FrostbiteDigital ah no it was quite resolved, she killed her father and pretty much fucked over armacham with the whole Fairport incident, because we all know Jin leaked everything after Alma died
Because Fear 3 didn't sell well? WB wanted CoD sales numbers, 3 didn't get anywhere near those.
Man do I miss games like FEAR and original Far Cry. Way too many retro 90s FPS games lately.
@@FrostbiteDigital It really was, Alma was Unleashed and murdered all the people who hurt her and took a large part of the town with her, the end
Bad FEAR ,but fantastic shooter!
I beat the game once with my friend, we were laughing whole time, bc the plot and the gameplay were so bad 😁
You also mentioned that there were no technical problems but failed to mention that the game has no FOV slider.
I view it as 1>EP>PM>2DLC>3>2
1 and the expansions (fear files if your a 360 guy like me) are the best but I love the shit out of 3.
More like F.A.R.T. 3.
Hahahah yeah 🤣
I actually have a soft spot for FEAR 3. Gunplay is solid and I rather liked the ending.
once again excellent review!
I still own Fear and Fear 2.
I don’t still own this one.
My favourite coop game ever. Mix of cooperative and competitive gameplay, short length allows to pick it up and play anytime
I know everyone on Earth hates this game but I had a lot of fun running through coop with a friend.
I didn't like this at the time but I do want to give it another shot. I found it janky, unfinished, had worse graphics, repetitive copy and paste level design and was huge step backwards from Fear 2. I didn't get round to the Paxton Fettel missions which I've heard are better.
I like this game better than FEAR 2 tbh. Playing it coop is a lot of fun, and I think the gun play is better than 2. The melee in it is closer to 1 than 2 as well, which is a good thing
A very fair review and one I agree with. It wasn't a bad game, but a poor sequal to the original. When fear 3 came out I was disappointed for the first hour or so, but then I kinda got into it. The gameplay is excellent and the combat arenas were a step up from fear 2. Fear 3 didn't manage to scare me like fear 1 (and 2 did have maybe one or two moments I jumped at) but I did appreciate its approach with the cultists, who were kinda creepy at first. It isn't as good as fear 1, but if I was to mark it on its own merits I would say its a good shooter. I will always feel alil bitter that fear 2 and 3 didn't take more inspiration from the original. But they are all good games.......
But the og is the best
And extraction point is the cannon ending.... ;)
Nice review 👌
It’s..bearable
This was a terrible way to end the series
I agree. Then they hammered the last nail in the FEAR coffin with FEAR Online. Wasn't made by Monolith Productions or the FEAR 3 devs, but some random South Korean studio.
Every reviewer talks about the great AI in FEAR but does it really play into anything? Most of the gunfights are over before they do anything meaningful and it just always feels like I'm fighting CoD enemies except I can understand them.
The original fear and Halo has the best AI in history. The Fear 2 AI was close to the 1st one but the shooting mechanics was a step back. It wasn't smooth and fluid like the 1st one. Fear 3 AI was two steps back from the 1st but is wasn't bad, with it being 2 steps behind the 1st one but it still is a step above Cod AI. Fear 3 was fun at that's the problem. Fear suppose to have intense gun fights and decent horror elements and the physics of the 1st one was ahead of it's time and still is.
I always enjoyed this game. Its not amazing and an afwul FEAR game, but after the mediocre boredom of 2, it was so much better!
Also, the coop is a disaster. Whoever plays as Point Man slows down the game for both players, which is stupid as hell.
Fear 3 sucks 2 and 1 are the best
Fear 3 is not good.
It's basically them saying "Come see us play, we're awful!", but they are actually awful unlike Sex Pistol
Thank heavens they didn't continue down this line with a FEAR 4 or... (sigh) F.E.4.R. 😮💨
I imagine it would have been a 4 player co-op shooter like Left 4 Dead, with dozens of enemies spawning in and rushing you. *Scary*
Fear 3 is the best
Some of the best dual wielding in games 🫶🏻
I was only interested to see what they did with paxton. Besides the childhood flashbacks, i was disappointed.
Oh boy, here we go... before i watch the video im gonna say what i felt when playing this game:
"this tries too hard to copy Call of Duty instead of building on the actual basis this franchise once stood on..." lets see what the video says...
Okay i watched it and, just like as your opinion to Extraction Point, i have to disagree. While FEAR 2 was a downgrade and basically a console port, it still had good moments to shine and a decent story. But FEAR 3 lost everything the series stood for. Coop may be fun but the AI is no threat and it ain't scary. It has no tension at all. The characters are irrelevant, you care for no one and therefore you dont care about the story. All the questions after FEAR 2 (what will happen to Beckett? Will he maybe even be the final boss of FFEAR 3?) are answered in the most lame possible: A cutscene where he just gets killed by Fettel for no real reason.
Like seriously, the *one story line* that actually had the chance to be interesting is just wasted this way?
Also the gameplay, like i just said, is so typical for that era: Every single shooter tries to be the next Call of Duty clone. (Endless) Sprinting, regenerating health, boring as hell cover shooter mechanics, dumb AI just being cannon fodder... and did i mention regenerating health, the most casual thing ever invented within the shooter genre? There is zero resource management at all, even ammo is basically no problem - since Fettel can just possess enemies. You just rush trough the levels without care for anything. The AI is not dangerous, you dont need to manage health packs, the story is uninteresting...
If you take the title of "FEAR" away and remove characters like Alma and Fettel, what remains to define this game? What makes it unique? Nothing.
FEAR 1 would still be a mysterious action-FPS with kickass melee-attacks, creative weapons and amazing AI. FEAR 3 has nothing that makes it unique - its as soulless and generic as a shooter can be.
It fell into the same trap so many other CoD-Clones did:
If one wanna play CoD, said person is going to play CoD - and not one of its clones with a smaller player base.
FEAR 2 has a different identity and approach, but FEAR 3 has no identity at all.
And to me, just being one of thousands generic COD-Clones is far worse than just trying something different (even if its not hitting the mark 100%).
Wish there is a 4
Trepang2 on Steam. Closest we're going to get.
@@Gruntvc But soon, it developer going to be brought big big publisher and screw everything again.
FEAR 3 is much betteer than 2. And both are awful compared to the first game + Extraction Point
Very unfairly criticized game, fear 2 and fear 3 were far better than the boring fear 1