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F.E.A.R. 3 Announced For This Fall

Posted by Soulskill on from the creepy-psychic-girls-need-employment-too dept.

Warner Bros. has announced that the third game in the F.E.A.R. saga is in production and planned for release this fall. Unlike the first two games, F.E.A.R. 3 will not be developed by Monolith Productions, but by Day 1 Studios, who ported the original F.E.A.R. to the Xbox 360 and PS3. The new game is being developed for those two consoles and for Windows. "Day One is the studio behind MechAssault, MechAssault 2, and Fracture, so they've got all the mech and shooter experience one could hope for, but what about horror? Publisher Warner Bros. Interactive has that covered as well, with famed horror director John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing) and 30 Days of Night writer Steve Niles acting as consultants to enhance the game's scary bits. Alma returns for the third game, but her sons, Point Man and Paxton Fettel, are the stars, both featuring unique powers to help create what the developer is calling divergent co-op, where the characters' powers affect each player's game, and not just their own."

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  1. Oh great. by Laser+Dan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Everyone prepare for another console game with a dodgy PC port.
    I hope you like terrible graphics, auto-aim, and "combos".

  2. Oh, colour me excited! by billsayswow · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Wasn't Fracture kinda rather awful? Weren't the FEAR ports kinda disappointing when compared to the PC version? Weren't the MechAssault games made WITH the original MechWarrior people? Isn't Monolith, the company that does NOT get to do this the people behind such brilliant games as Condemned, No One Lives Forever, and Shogo, as well as the original FEAR game that eventually leads to this news story? I'll watch this with tepid spirits...