FEAR 3: How To Kill Your Franchise

[@brunovance8101]

So, about 5 years ago now I happened to meet a dev from FEAR 3 on a beach not far from here. His name was either Tim or Tom and he was a really nice guy. I felt kinda bad because when I asked him what games he'd worked on, he said "Do you know the FEAR Franchise?" to which I replied "Dude you work for Monolith?!" and he went "No I worked on Fear 3" I immediately said "I'm not going to hold that against you". He basically explained to me that after working on the Xbox exclusive expansion packs, they were hired to do FEAR 3 and randomly one day a WB exec walked in and said "My kid's playing this game called Call of Duty and we have to make our game like that if we wanna make money!" Long story short: They did not make money. I really wished I'd kept in contact with that guy; he even worked on the Mechwarrior series

[@planescaped]

Game development run by old guys in suits who've never played a game. Gotta love it.

[@brunovance8101]

@@planescaped It's an obvious trend with WB specifically; their film franchises haven't been bringing in the money they were back in the 90's and thats why they constantly push this "Games as a service" BS like with Mortal Kombat, Shadows of War and now Suicide Squad. They're so desperate for a hit they'll risk ruining every franchise they own

[@shiguriyamamo6730]

It's unfortunate but alot of good video game franchises during that time also tried to become cod due to how much money it was making. Heck even Resident evil wasn't immune to it, seeing how influenced it was by re6

[@Gatorade69]

​@@brunovance8101It seems like WB is just constantly behind on the times. Even EA is now making decent singleplayer games without micro transactions or battle passes.

[@sojh17]

Every time you cut from a fear 3 to a fear 1 shot it’s amazing how much better fear 1 looks

[@HL3AlcAida]

Or FEAR 2 the lightning etc was on point FEAR3 just looks like a cashcrab mobile game ;)

[@enricofermi3471]

FEAR 1 had atmosphere and level design (even though it was too realistic to the point some people said it gets boring after a few hours, it created the impression of a *real* office / slums / laboratory). It also had high-end graphics *at the time* to further the immersion. FEAR 2 tried to follow that path with ruined city, labs, underground complexes. But it was flawed by a more futuristic / cartooney design (especially enemies with all the glowing bits on their equipment) and almost no graphical upgrade, I would argue it borders on visual simplifications (no soft shadows, ugly SSAO which is better turned off / replaced with ReShade, I think there was no parallax mapping anymore, at least not where it matters). FEAR 3... Just look at the textures. Everything but few select shader effects is a downgrade. And to top it off it runs like crap. When use VSR to run FEAR 2 at 7680x4320 for supersampling it spits out 90+ FPS no prob. Could probably hold 120, but I don't want to torture my GPU with 100% load / 85°C all the time I play. FEAR 3 drops under 120 FPS at 5760x3240 already.

[@cappedminer369]

@@HL3AlcAida idk, mobile games these days are MUCH worse than before

[@HL3AlcAida]

@@cappedminer369 they are evolving but backwards. Remember the Dead Space for Mobile Phone. Good old times.

[@cappedminer369]

@@HL3AlcAida i saw it, but never played it. but there were alot of good mobile games i played. yeah those times were so much better. wtf happened these days with mobile adds

[@EnclaveSOC-102]

One thing that always bothered me about F3AR regarding Jin having survived is that you don't see the Delta Force soldier, Douglas Holiday from FEAR 1 being referenced at all. Did the writers forget about him or did they kill him off in the helicopter crash that happened in the prelude comic for F3AR that almost nobody had read because it wasn't advertised as much as the game itself?

[@cappedminer369]

The guy explained in the video why the story was a mess

[@dantefettman354]

Douglas Holiday was a cool character. Even when experiencing supernatural craziness, he kept a cool head and looked out for Jin and Pointman. It also helps that he's voiced by David Scully (Johnson from Halo). Seeing that Extraction Point isn't canon (Thus, him not being dead), it would've been cool to see him in the later entries - probably working alongside Jin and Pointman in continuing their mission.

[@theinvictus6431]

Fear 3 is such a tragedy. I'm still feeling the burn that we haven't had a traditional sequel in a decade. A remake or reboot with refreshed and refined gameplay, levels and enemies - keeping the same AI of the first two - would for sure make a splash in the survival horror boom. Alma and Pointman will be missed. I would love to see your thoughts on the Little Nightmares series, Brandoss. Your Evil Within video makes me feel you'd enjoy how surreal the games are. They're horror platformers, akin to Limbo, but have such gruelling visuals. The series has no formal dialogue but it has so much world-building through visual storytelling. Would really like to see you analyse them.

[@nottheatf6129]

Look up trepang 2 it’s the successor to fear

[@ZombiAstral]

Fear isn't a SURVIVAL HORROR game you FKNG smoothbrain. It's a pure run/gun FPS. As much as a SH title as Dark Souls. What's next? Bioshock is survival horror as well?

[@ZombiAstral]

​@@nottheatf6129 Trepang2 has nothing to do with Fear. It isn't even as good as F2.

[@duncanfirth]

Trepang 2 is not a direct sequel different developers it is the spiritual successor to fear 1 imo.

[@ZombiAstral]

@@duncanfirth Trepang2 is as much of a "successor" as Dead 2 Rights is to Max Payne. A run and gun FPS that is inspired by the likes of FEAR. Has nothing to do with the IP, & doesn't involve the devs. What's next? Evil Within being a successor to RE, because it's a horror game that Mikami developed?

[@doyleharken3477]

"john carpenter served as idea man, only giving input to story notes and cutscenes". look, i know the studio went through a broken dev cycle. but what were they expecting? carpenter was presented with a fully formed fictional universe, he's not gonna make fundamental changes. and of course he wants to direct cutscenes. that's literally what his job for the last 5 decades was!

[@DSFARGEG00]

That's really the only thing you could EXPECT him to do - direct cutscenes, pitch script ideas, or compose music.

[@jeonghutamilim2259]

The look you give someone who keeps yapping and expecting you to say something knowing that you are canonically mute.

[@hilexprmntl3929]

I bet a single person could make a sick fan project of jin going through the city with good scares and scarce ammo while she fights cultists

[@VGAnxiety]

For me, FEAR ends with Extraction Point. Perfection. Then Trepang2 happened. 🖤

[@ibragimowbekhan0987]

Lmao, yeah, Trepang is like real F2 When all that happened in F1 was happening, other Armacam's branches succesfully created super humans with unknow abillityes And then F3 wouldve been about such superhumans fighting paranormal monstrosities that Alma opened dimensional doors for

[@uncommonsaucers2355]

The only thing more depressing than the tale of Alma in this series is the tale of the series itself. Very nice video! It's a shame to look back on things and see how they ended. If you want something FEAR-Like but with their own twist I suggest taking a look at the Half-Life 2 mod Underhell. It's criminally underrated for how high quality it is, genuinely freaked me out sometimes!

[@Gruntvc]

Giving FEAR 3 to another dev was a gigantic mistake. They tried to beat Call of Duty and failed miserably. AAA gaming... Glad we got Trepang 2. I just wish it wasn't so fast paced like pretty much every FPS these days thanks to Doom and boomer shooters. The original FEAR plays more like an action focused tactical FPS. And franchise killers are interesting, especially when you've got multiple ones in the case of 343I's Halo games. I miss the Bungie years.

[@slowmercy69]

I have a question about Trepang 2. Is there a Trepang 1?

[@Gruntvc]

@slowmercy310, There actually isn't a Trepang 1. It isn't even Trepang 2, it's Trepang Squared if you look at the listings for the game on consoles or pc. Trepang doesn't even refer to any organization or unit in the game unlike FEAR did back in 2005. I dunno why they went with that name for Trepang. Still I recommend checking it out. Supposed to get dlc this year that'll add a katana to the weapon roster.

[@cappedminer369]

I wouldn’t say it was a mistake, their version of FEAR 2 sounds cool but Warner brothers just got way too hands on and made it follow trends and etc

[@RileyCoyote846]

I remember playing FEAR 3 with my cousin when we were young. It's another one of those games like Dead Space 3 and Resident Evil 5 and 6 that we love way more than anyone else, it seems. And it could be bias due to playing these games together, he and I are closer than even my siblings and I, but we always seem to love games others hate.

[@tacticolty1552]

Fear 3 did not kill the franchise to me, it was not the last game. FEAR online did. Despite its issues FEAR 3 is a lot of fun especially with a friend and while the story is really meh, I like the concept it offers.

[@INFILTR8US]

Agreed. The game isn't bad; just different. But negativity generates traffic.

[@Gruntvc]

Fear 3 failed to meet WB's sales expectations. Many don't even know FEAR Online existed. I only learned about it years after being shut down. So, Fear 3 often gets the blame for killing the franchise.

[@LegioXXI]

The game was fun as a coop-Online-Shooter, but that is not was FEAR was ever about. The concept of coop alone will always reduce any horror tension, even if the single player would have been good. Imho FEAR 3 would have been better without the name and expectations of the FEAR franchise. Just put the game in its own universe and go with it.

[@hilexprmntl3929]

I expected fear online to be really really bad but my God it was worse than I thought

[@MoskHotel]

Fear Online ALSO never happened. That game is now dead and what TRULY killed the franchise, even as going far as to ruin the experience by bringing up the events of the second game.

[@nonya883]

Crazy timing, I just finished your review on origins and looked for your review on 3 and it just came out

[@ArmouredCommander]

These FEAR video essays really taking me back to my youth hahaha. One of my favorite game series. Loved your videos man.

[@randobandobby6443]

If your not too burnt out about talking about FEAR, it would be interesting to hear you thoughts and ideas about a "what if" scenario if you were in charge of the OG trilogy. Or going with the idea of rebooting/remaking the originals. Also, I agree about the sentiment's with what happened with Beckett, FEAR 2 was my introduction to the series, then after that I played FEAR 1 and only had a brief moment playing FEAR 3 and I really did feel bad for the guy, don't know if this is true or a made up theory but apparently the dude had ONE kind moment with Alma when they were kids and that sparked the interest, then the whole weird psychic pizza shiz happened and the dude lost his whole crew, had to fight through nightmares to reach that core thing and then got betrayed and R-worded in the end, then to top it all of in FEAR 3 they end up torturing the guy and then killing him right after. I kept on thinking that all of this was a bit much and out of his control, and IF the theory was true, DAMN, imagine being just a decent dude and all of a sudden because of that your life gets screwed. You really weren't kidding when you said the guy got the short end of the stick.

[@MariaIsabellaZNN]

Gonna talk about Trepang² and if it's a good FEAR spiritual successor? If you can afford it that is.

[@SlasherTheMod]

You said about a possible potential reboot of FEAR, I would love that honestly. I would also love to see some sort of sequel to FEAR: Perseus Mandate, I know its not the best out of the expansion packs but I honestly LOVED Perseus Mandate, especially with the introduction of the Nightcrawlers, see more story about this rouge mercenary group going after Alma's DNA.

[@RaceForFadio]

Yes. You will do F.E.A.R. 3 content and nothing else. Dance monkey, dance!

[@ORLY911]

4:53 Fears 360 port was not rubbish, it ran very well on the system, so much so its an excellent way to still play the game via Xbox Series backwards compatibility, which ups the resolution and FPS, also having access to unique Instant Action maps, the Machine Pistol and the Holiday bonus mission gives this port of the game an edge over the pc version. It's the PS3 version that ran poorly, not both.

[@PikaLink91]

32:00 Kid Alma actually looked spooky as shit in the original game with her face that was covered in shadows. Here... I don't know what the fuck went wrong. They wanted to show her face more clearly to show how great their facial texture technology had become, but then realized that removed all the spookiness from her, and thought it was enough to just smear her eyes with black ink, making her look like a discount superhero. Honestly I think she'd look scarier without it.

[@canobus1906]

When you compare it to games released today it's a masterpiece.

[@okagron]

No, it isn't. Many games released these days, specially shooters, are far better than this game. This game is actually pretty bad, even in 2011.

[@Revan-skj]

Anyone missing F.E.A.R. should go play Trepang². Spiritual successor, very good game.

[@michaelpieters1844]

Trepang2 is more a combination of Doom, Crysis and F.E.A.R. than a real F.E.A.R. sequel. Yeah I played the demo. AI is not so good. Action is great but you go waay too fast in that game. Also slowmo is not coded so good as in F.E.A.R.

[@Revan-skj]

@@michaelpieters1844 ok

[@hankdedalus]

I saw two guys do a let's play of this game and they nicknamed it "The disconnection zone." they where making fun of it and said pointman looked like a caveman.

[@KingOhmni]

Don't remind me. The sheer travesty that is the direction the FEAR franchise took. The second one, which I admit grown has on me with mucho time, was just not as good as the first. Okay big stompy bot was fun, the sky boxes and over all fidelity increase was nice. But when my first encounter with the enemy resulted in me breaking it when I simply refused to advance. Wot! Say wot! They did nothing but shuffle between 2 pieces of the same cover each and plink at me as I crouched by some cover. No flanking, no nade and rush. No chance to hide either as they were scripted into awareness and stayed alert put did not fan out or anything. Yeah. That was not going to be a SWAT mimicking stalked by Ringu FEAR 1 experience. I mean, they don nerfed my bicycle kick and slide tackle. Utter blasphemey. Next I won't be able to roundhouse kick a fool so hard it breaks the phsyics engine even as I catch his gun mid air and kill his mate with it. And then the squad commander radios in asking if everything is okay. A common occurrence in FEAR 1. Not so much inFEAR 2. Unlike many however I applaud it's ending. The moment during the boss battle, that I realised what Alma was doing to my character and why. That creeped the ever loving bejesus out of me. Such a violation...and the implications. Crazy ghost GF that ,ahem, forced you into fatherhood? Possibly making you the father of the apocalypse. I mean, would you just ctrl alt del or try and avert the apocalypse by stepping up to tame the most cray of cray of women. That also sometimes appears as an 8 year old girl in a red dress. That would be awkward around the family dinner table. Wait she was how old when they pulled the plug? Ermmm. (sound of banging on the door.) FBI OPEN UP! So overall, despite how frustrating the final boss battle can be, good horror in my book. And I suppose the AI does have it's moments to shine, like when the replicants first pop out of their pods and there's a brief bit of that FEAR 1 combat magic to be had. Also the underused puppeteer enemies, especially the piano man, are great bits of horror and indeed gameplay. So while it's grown on me it's still not what I wanted from the franchise. To many set pieces, grand environments, lights that highlight and not enough playgrounds to toy with a well scripted AI and scares that scare. But then Freer. Because I refuse to indulge that bit of myopic and cringe advertising. FEAR 3. What were they smoking? From the coop focus, to the weird point system all the way to the almost comedic attempts at horror most of the time. Fear 2 with the clingy Alma was pushing it, indifferent pregnant Alma was just meh. I just don't understand how they thought people that liked FEAR would like Freer. Once again it had some pretty cool moments, the supermarket level being a standout for people starved of a bit of genuine horror in their FEAR game but the combat was just weird in the campaign. The guns feel right, the melee feels better, the AI is more responsive and has some new moves as well as some interesting enemies. But the tone of the game, combined with the point system and a combat system that could do much more than a, then, COD style shooter? Total fail. Who else learnt you could use the cover mechanic that allowed you to partially look over cover but the game still allowed you to ADS? Who else kept a pistol on them ever after? Who then systematically ticked off the per mission objectives like achieve X number of headshots, X number of environmental kills and whatever else you could? From nigh on perfect safety cos cover shooters. Who else had their FEAR experience ruined by it becoming a laundry list of to do items even if you never discovered the cover exploit? Who else couldn't care less which brother was more favoured at the end? One was always looking to do this or that rather than it organically happening. And it ruined the vibe. There are however 2 things I offer as redeeming qualities of FEAR 3. A. That menu animation yo. Now if there had been more that in the game then my horror itch would have been better filled. B. The multiplayer. They sure expected FEAR 3 to be more popular when you look at the wierd and wonderful multiplayer modes that replaced ye olde deathmatch with some strange soul seeking game of glorified dog tag mode. Then there was The Wall. An advancing wall of screaming tortured souls (suprisingly nice horror touch by the devs there) that you have to run away from, kill along the way and hopefully make it to the end zone. Good honest gamer fun with friends. But then there was the wave survival mode which personally, I think is one of the better examples out there to this day. From the atmosphere to the mechanics of it all, I really enjoyed the time I spent playing with randoms or friends in that mode. But other than that, I'd just stick with the first 2 FEAR games. Fear 1 is a pretty much a masterpiece of gaming. Fear 2 is a (gritted teeth moment) game. Freer is an insult to anyone that liked FEAR. Even Perseus Mandate is better. There, I said it. Well that turned into a longer rant than I expected but in my defense I'm still salty about the fact I bought a new graphics card purely for FEAR 2 releasing. It was the first time I had installed my own graphics card into my own PC that I bought as a working man. I bought it between night shifts. I had scant few hours before I absolutely had to get some sleep but hey, at worst an hour to get things set up and installed. Right? I was right but then the installer said it needed to download steam. And steam then said the game had to update before running. Update time was something like 6 hours on my pre broadband let alone fiber optic internet. Just enough time for me to rage, go to sleep, go to work and come home to write a scathing review of steam and forced online nonsense. Little did we know the direction gaming in general would take, would make Freer look like a normal and everyday thing. Amma shut up now. Peace!

[@deadpixelscreative]

Omfg you’re killing it with content my dude

[@4T3hM4kr0n]

glad you viewed the Dead Domain interview, it was quite an eye opener.

[@shaunbeckett9128]

I hate how they treat beckett, that poor dude has been through so much just to die like cattle

[@LadyBern]

Pointman looks like one of steps in the evolution of manki... Oh someone already said it. Honestly Paxton's character and Becket's possession and death scene are the only things that I loved about the game. It's kinda funny that the whole 'family' theme only happens in Paxton's ending. He possesses Pointman, eats Alma, and raises the baby so technically they're all together at the end.

[@rinoz47]

I do not care about Harland Wades "character assassination". What we see about Harland is only a fraction of what Alma saw, and went through. A last second pang of guilt doesn't absolve him, nor is his physical death. I do not recall if it is literally a manifestation of him, or a manifestation of him created by Alma.

[@enocescalona]

god, Harlan Wade having a biased psionic version would have worked, if the "real" one was given references, like how he was remorseful. Maybe give audio recordings, camera footage of him arguing with Genevieve. Stuff that makes the real one look more nuanced than the fake one, as Alma lacked the context that her father was remorseful.

[@Chinothebad]

Honestly, having some recordings of Harlan and his ghost making some appearance where he really sees just how deep his actions are to the point of how Alma saw him as a monster would of also been a good way to have the character other than just having an "Evil Harlan simulacrum."

[@TheLorenzorenz]

If Fear 3 killed the franchise, Fear online was the worst funeral possible

[@FrostbiteDigital]

Unironically this game was very fun to play. Yeah it's nothing like the first or second games and is in fact such a departure from the original formula but it was still very fun, especially when you play co-op with a friend. I will die on this hill.

[@PaganPilot]

41:40 Playing as Jin and Stokes makes sense for co-op horror as you're both normal soldiers going up against a physic sociopathic family. Maybe using wits and teamwork to survive.

[@kangstakangsta]

13:40 was perfect comedic timing. Glad you caught that.

[@SparrowwithaMachinegun]

F.E.A.R 1: lost count of how many time I played through it and its expansions.. F.E.A.R 2: I was one of those wierdos who enjoyed it more than the first, Also played to death and still in my Steam favorites. F.E.A.R 3: I didn't even finish... Says it all.

[@mimato8900]

I had more fun with Fear 3 and consider it a better game than 2. Could be because I played it with a friend though.

[@empty2892]

Well, if anything, I can't say that I am mad that pregnant Beckett on a leash got written out of the final product

[@rx-0727]

I love these reviews. Enjoyed all of your F.E.A.R. Reviews, thank you. Liked and subbed man 👍

[@Phantron]

Xbox 360 FEAR port is absolutely fine. no idea what you heard...

[@Gruntvc]

The Xbox 360 port is good. Plus it is backwards compatible on Xbox One X and Xbox Series X and gets to run in 4K at 60 FPS. Closest thing to an actual remaster for FEAR. The PS3 port is not good. It suffers a lot of FPS drops and Sony has done nothing to fix this.

[@kingdomkey2262]

Yeah the 360 port isn't bad at all,its not the ideal way to play but it was definitely serviceable, it even had the cool exclusive dual smgs, the PS3 version was terrible though.

[@Zorrio]

I think u forgot to put the dead domain video in the desc but other than that amazing video again, keep it up!!

[@killercurrentdotink]

And comes the end of the FEAR series reviews for this channel. The main takeaway I get from this review series is that if the FEAR series needs a spiritual successor that takes its good elements and refines some of the rougher elements. Straight up, I would enjoy a game series these days that's just about encountering spookiness and being able to stomp or shoot their faces in. And FEAR really scratched that itch and it's a shame how the series went the way it did. Now then, would you try your hand on the Condemned series also by Monolith?

[@gdj2438]

If you're looking for a FEAR spiritual successor, I HIGHLY recommend Trepang2. It's the most fun I've had with a single-player FPS game in a long time

[@gamingjunkie707]

Try Trepang 2.

[@WAcrobat19]

With the prequel comic, I genuinely did like how PM still had his F.E.A.R. BDU at least.

[@miller_de]

9:40 B4Brandoss: "[...] you get told you're doing it wrong every step of the way by people who probably think that Tetris is still next gen." Tetris Effect: "Am I a joke to you?"

[@cburger4life144]

“Old” games like Bioshock. I feel attacked 😅

[@QueenSydon]

I've yet to watch this video but going by how much I enjoyed this whole FEAR series so far I know it'll be fantastic. I wonder if you'd consider doing one on Trepang2? It's the closest thing to a true follow-up and even though it's an indie game it's far far better than FEAR 3. It's got slow-mo, spookiness, evil corporations, and oh yeah a shotgun so powerful it almost rivals the one from FEAR 1.

[@ARStudios2000]

17:48 Okay to be fair, Paxton also ambushed Point Man at the beginning of FEAR 1 with a board in the face. But I'm glad that you also brought up how off all the characters look in-game. Point Man looked so perfect in the first game! They massacred my boy!

[@justhere4637]

I have a request: Can you review Condemned 1 and 2 and The Suffering as well please? I guess you are already busy though.

[@B4BrandossOG]

Condemned Is the next series I'll be covering :)

[@mr.pointman1930]

2011 is all game being kill, Duke Nukem, Red Faction and especially FEAR.

[@WGasmss]

im so happy i found this video, one one i talk to ever knows what FEAR is, the first two games where so fun for me as a kid. I would get scared shitless xD but still love playing it. never rememebered the 3rd one, and i guess thats for a reason.

[@cyrus2546]

⁠FEAR 3 couch co-op was a lot of fun. I’ll die on this hill.

[@doclouis4236]

I hope you eventually make a video about the Fear spiritual successors, Trepang.

[@B4BrandossOG]

I will. Waiting for the dlc to drop first though.

[@Chinothebad]

I will admit, I enjoyed playing F.E.A.R. 3 when the only PC I had on me for a time was a laptop that wasn't built for gaming but even with all the enjoyment I had from playing the game, it was nowhere near as good as F.E.A.R. The most memorable part I can say was the last phase commander fight. And I say it was memorable simply because of how poorly done the last commander was in that one can simply just spam shield bashing against the boss. And for the organization of F.E.A.R. not being in F.E.A.R. 3 is disappointing. They could of at least throw in a few red shirt operatives that would of just explained to Point Man what was going on after escaping the Walmart or had Betters speak through a radio in trying to get a hold of any surviving operatives. Edit: just to say on Pointman in the game, the reddit post summed up his appearance perfectly, looking like the father of the baby from Ice Age.

[@DSFARGEG00]

The gameplay ideas for the co-op are at leas pretty interesting, and in a better game which aggressively pushed cooperation and where the arenas were actually designed to work with the AI, it might be better.

[@leo_jay2739]

They could've just released a remaster of F.E.A.R and would've objectively made more money

[@holo7070]

I love Fear 3 but that is also because I only Coop it if I am ever playing it.

[@jeremy6647]

I liked fear3..and this reminds of Kilzone shadowfall

[@normalwhiteguy1555]

Just found you the other day through the fear series. This channel is fucking awesome.

[@B4BrandossOG]

Thanks man :)

[@zesty2023]

RELEASE MONOLITH FROM THE LOTR DUNGEONS!

[@mr.pointman1930]

No can do. Unless, Monolith go Defunct. However, it won't be that long for very long time.

[@jaysanj152]

Calming F.E.A.R 3 killed the franchise and saying F.E.A.R 2 is masterpiece when compared to is quite the exaggeration because i actually remember having way more fun playing F.E.A.R 3 over 2 and dare i say even the Original and this is solo btw. Maybe it's because the controls actually feels tight,responsive and refined with the combat being super heavy heated thanks to AI finally being decent again unlike F.E.A.R 2's brain dead ones and the arenas for the most part were actually solid. and of course the extra fact that you can replay the entire game as THE Paxton himself just straight up felt like playing a different game entirely.I just love how he play so different to his brother. Overall the game was extremely fun as hell,Heck I'd even dare say it's the most fun out of the Franchise and you could pretty much 1up that by simply playing with a buddy. Sure you could say it's not a 'FEAR' game because it lost all of the horror factor but I do feel like this is the kinda of franchise for me personally where the Combat and Gameplay and the AI caries over the Horror elements. My only con with the game is that its a bit too short and i guess replaying as Paxton probably makes up for it. Thank heavens we got Trepang 2.

[@rump438]

The character models in this look exactly like they’re from hunt down the freeman. Pointman especially.

[@3ofSpades]

I disagree. Fear 3 didn’t kill fear, it was the lack of games afterwards and army game fatigue in the end of Xbox 360. People were getting sick and tired of shooting games. Fear 3 was mostly positively received by most people, and was fairly polished and well made. They abandoned the series but the last game was a fun coop game like Dead Space 3, minus the dumb gun paywalls. If Fear 4 expanded the coop and fettel’s ghost mechanics, I’d be sold. That’d be great.

[@ilyasbambrik1765]

Sorry if you seen this question pop before but have you seen TREPANG 1 OR 2?

[@woldemunster9244]

This was one of the funniest co-op experience i've experinced and there is bit of competition/tactics to get different endings. I would't recommend this for solo-play, the paranoral shit happens only when co-op.

[@y2kboris186]

The sad story of FEAR isn't entirely unpredictable, or unexpected. Whenever you get some dumbasses from the corporate world who think they know better than devs how to make a game, usually that series ends up becoming shit. FWIW FEAR 1 was, and still is one of the GOATs when it comes to classic games. People may have different opinions on whether the Timegate addons or FEAR 2 are any good. Personally I first got into FEAR by playing FEAR 2, I played FEAR 2 when it first came out, and thought it was really good, and then I went back and played the originals, and enjoyed them just as much if not more. Shortly thereafter when FEAR 3 came out I was kinda blinsided by how much more nerfed it felt compared to FEAR 1 & 2. I think a big part of the problem was that FEAR was always about the horror, terror, action adventure fps elements. When they made it too much about nukes and bombs going off in the streets of Fairport, and made it too much some pissing contest between Alma's shadow world, the FEAR ops, Armachan, and the US military where it was just chaos and people shooting one another (and not soo much about the supernatural horror elements), I think FEAR lost too much of its identity. The thing also that made it compelling was its absolutely stellar AI for enemies. In the first games enemies really could fuck with the player, based on the tactical situation. There just aren't a lot of games nowadays where care was taken to design an environment where there are sometime as many a 6 different ways to reach the same location, enemies can duck, go prone, crawl through vents, under garage doors, tactical dive across banisiters and through windows, jump, scale walls, and use environmental objects to their advantage).

[@skornie123]

I love your Betters outfit ^^

[@PaulChangs]

Just like Dead Space series, EA killed it after the 3rd one. But at least in Dead Space, the 3rd one still acceptable to a certain degree compares to F..E.A.R 3.

[@TheMrFancyKiwi]

I remember liking Fear 3 when it first came out but every time I replayed it I liked it less and less. Fun gameplay but I'd rather Fear 1 gameplay. As for a reboot you should check out Trepang2. It's kind of a spiritual successor to Fear 1. Probably the closest thing we'll ever get sadly.

[@XxVendetaxX1]

Fear 3 is better than 2

[@mikeylitchfield4651]

For me It was just the fact the mechanics of Fear3 were a call of duty clone. That's how it played and felt. If it had played and felt like a Fear game I would have ignored all of the bad story elements. The Dues Ex prequels had terrible stories too but they had implemented enough of the game mechanics and fun elements from the first game that it was still an enjoyable game play experience. I don't know why they changed the format so much. I don't know why they didn't get advice from the original devs to help them replicate it but that is where they went wrong. With the story it still would have been a mediocre game but I think it was the gameplay that killed the franchise, You can survive a bad story but you cant survive a bad gameplay experience.

[@cappedminer369]

i know this is late but warner brothers literally became more involved taking most of the control, they hired Steve niles who made a lot of scripts that came late into development, and they forced the game to be like call of duty

[@thecosmicentity5597]

The design of Fear 3s shotgun is pure heresy.

[@fernandodeoliveiradasilva4991]

Can't wait for you to make a Max Payne 3 restropective with how much of it's soundtrack you scatter thoughout your videos.

[@justhere4637]

26:39 You did talk about this a tiny bit in the Fear 2 review.

[@justhere4637]

Time to watch this one too. Then all the FEAR videos are done.

[@mouse2542]

this makes me think about the dead space trilogy...

[@cappedminer369]

same here

[@Wigggy]

No shot 😂 I finished the Fear 2 vid last night and was wondering when your Fear 3 vod would drop

[@MoskHotel]

Fear 3 is non-canon. It never happened. It was made by a lesser development team who barely knew anything from the last two games, had no idea on what made the first Fear game so iconic and incredible and discredited the expansion packs, Extraction Point and Perseus Mandate, as unrelated to the first and second games. And there are even some parts of the game that don't make sense. Such as Paxton being able to phase through a wall in the first cutscene, and yet doesn't do so in the actual gameplay. Say what you want about Fear 2, but that game has some interesting stuff to bring up, and some good parts that I like, such as the Hammerhead gun, the sniper rifle, the destruction of Fairport and the Auburn District, Michael Becket and the Dark Signal team, Genevieve Aristide's involvement in the second game, and the ending being a sinister and shocking cliffhanger.

[@Tycholarfero]

I genuinely will never understand the blind fury Fear 2 tends to get when this pile of shit exists. Fear 2 tried, yea it wasn't great and the Fear 1 expansions do absolutely have some stuff better, but it still left me wanting to know what was going to happen next. The only thing this game made me feel at the end is that it never should have been made at all

[@bipstymcbipste5641]

@@Tycholarfero I dislike fear 2 more cause I had so many issues running it and wasn't that entertained by it but playing that, I figured the franchise was going down in flames. Fear 3 confirmed that but it's better for mindless fun

[@Sad_Elf]

holy shit the original script sounds amazing, even if it turned out shit the absolute insanity of it alone sounds like it would've put fear 3 as a cult classic

[@dustinbrilliant2113]

1 was simply the best. Fear 3, Harlan's character story is like what Disney does with Star wars characters. lol

[@hylianxbox6586]

Pointman looks like Blackwall from Dragon age inquisition

[@Wolfcrafter_HD]

boiiii, where‘d u find that adorable big daddy plushi in the background, because I want one too :

[@saschaberger3212]

Crunch being normalized in games development for decades now. Never direct disappointment or anger to the debelopers. It's almost always the publishers fault. It will never change

[@Fooshiiii]

Funnily enough, F3 had the best multiplayer and I see myself wanting to play it years later. Shame it was tacked on the worst singleplayer and one of the greatest franchises ever.

[@Haveniceday5]

Oi, you forgot to mention the possible sucessor to fear named trepang 2!!! I swear go check it out

[@zesty2023]

The Chad Pointman cracked me up! XD

[@AlphaZeroX96]

Am I the only one who's sick and tired of the Giga Chad meme?

[@conan2096]

im pretty sure it does say at some point, maybe perseus, that wade was the sperm donor so they are inbred. fear 1 was so amazing, its tragic how the series just nosedived right after extraction (it was the most true to the original and was just intended to give more hot fear action)

[@shodanxx]

Fear 3 is a co-op masterpiece, try it with a friend

[@enricofermi3471]

Dead Space 3 wasn't *that* bad, it just didn't live up to the expectations. The bar was set *very* high by the previous two installments, in fact, it was almost impossible to jump over DS2's level in any truly major aspect since it would damage the other ones. And as we can see, it actually did. Devs were pushed to double down on the action / shooting, which impacted other prime components. Together with the addition of some paid content, complex (relatively, obviously, but still unnecessarily - I'm talking 'bout the nodes) weapon crafting system, the push to include multiplayer (well, co-op, still technically multiplayer) mechanic that further struck on the horror aspect... Bad moves were done all around. Funnily enough, if this was the first game of the franchise (with DS 1 and 2 following as the prequels) it would still get a nice reputation, but after people already experienced earlier games, DS3 felt like a major downgrade in all but action. What I'm saying is, unlike DNF, FEAR3 or modern trash like Saint's Row Reboot / Redfall, Dead Space 3 is a good game actually, it just pales in comparison to the predecessors. I actually feel that's why Valve never released Half-Life 3 - unlike some other publishers they took a look at it, and said "Well that's fine and all, but it's just an OK game while people expect a masterpiece. We'll just ruin the reputation and series with this one".

[@the_future_of_AU]

It's Almost a hour video's of F.E.A.R. 3 game.

[@justhere4637]

40:53 Pregnant man? Huh? Alma can impregnate men?

[@thegoose8663]

Wait, what?! People forgave CDProject for Cyberpunk? People just dont learn, do they...

[@FavoriteHoney]

Now we have trepang2

[@user-di1po5bn5k]

paxton ears go crazy tho

[@Phantron]

40:04 Stokes died. poor story writing too, if not WORSE

[@KoalaMarch77]

Who's this PM you keep talking about?

[@naraiansingh1837]

“Psychic clap!!!”

[@justhere4637]

22:16 😐 A pun? I'm not sure, but that doesn't really fit in what is supposed to be a horror video game franchise or something.

[@The_Texorcist]

So many good franchises ruined by one game that missed the mark. Sadly games like halo which has been floundering since Bungie left has had 3 games that have missed the mark but the franchise keeps being dragged along, like a dead dog being drug along by its leash.

[@Theottselmaster]

Beckett deserved better :( FEAR deserved better.

[@Isaacfess]

Yeeah.....F.E.A.R 3 is an experience. First time I played the campaign with both characters. Then I played the coop story mode and had a slightly better time, laughing at the story instead of taking it seriously. How far the series has fallen.