Fear 3 (also known as F.E.A.R. 3 or F.3.A.R 3) is a first person-shooter developed by Day 1 Studios for Playstation 3, Xbox 360, and Microsoft Windows as a sequel to F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin. Announced on April 8, 2010, it is scheduled for release this June.
The story begins nine months before the game, when the F.E.A.R. Pointman and his squad are tapped to stop an unknown man who had taken over a battalion of Replicas at the Armacham research facility in the Northwestern US city of Fairport.
During the mission, the Pointman learns that the man was not working alone – in fact, the same people the Pointman was ordered to subdue were his telepathic, cannibalistic brother, Paxton Fettel, and his tortured and psychically powerful mother, Alma Wade, products of Armacham Technology Corporation’s perverse paranormal experiments.
Despite this revelation, the Point Man moves forward – his F.E.A.R. team orders are to stop the targets at any cost. In a last-ditch attempt to end the pair’s murderous rampage, the F.E.A.R. team manage to stop Alma and Paxton, but in the process, they ravage the city, its inhabitants and almost all of the Point Man’s squad mates.
For months following the blast, events in Fairport have made it clear that Alma’s psychic influence survived. Even worse, her paranormal power is growing and spilling into reality. Now her supernatural agony repeatedly rocks the city as she attempts to secure the survival of her bloodline and reunite her family.
Armacham’s security force remains violently set on eliminating all evidence of the events in the city, and the remaining F.E.A.R squad carries on the mission to stop Alma.
F.E.A.R. 3 includes new features such as co-op, an evolved cover system, and more scares. In the game the player will be able to control both Pointman and Paxton Fettel, the protagonist and antagonist respectively, from the first instalment of the game. The controls for the Pointman are the same, with shooting enemies and slowing time. As Fettel, you assist the Pointman by using telekinesis, stun, possession, and other abilities.
Expectations for the game are high and we hope that Day 1 Studios will deliver, especially considering that the game’s release has now been delayed three times already.
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