By Jim Rossignol on October 29th, 2010 at 1:30 pm.
Hell, if anyone was going to make an effort for Halloween, it should probably be the studio making FEAR 3. The new trailer is suitable something-curdling. Also, the game has been dated for 25th March 2011 in the UK, and the 22nd everywhere else. Boo. And I mean that in a derisory/commiseratory sense, rather than the Halloween sense.
29/10/2010 at 13:38 Alex Bakke says:
Move over, Amnesia!
29/10/2010 at 14:12 ZIGS says:
Hahahahaha… no
29/10/2010 at 14:17 Malagate says:
Speaking of amnesia (Alex Bakke), there’s a 50% deal for frictional games this weekend that might need a front page promotion ;-)
Yes, get your $20 indie game for $10 on a spooooky weekend of rain. Beats a trailer in my book.
29/10/2010 at 19:39 mwoody says:
It’s $10 at gamersgate but $13 at Steam. Not often you see Steam out-sale’d.
29/10/2010 at 13:39 Taverius says:
I still say they should have called it F.3.A.R.
29/10/2010 at 13:49 westyfield says:
The logo at the end of the trailer says F3AR, but in other places it says FEAR 3. Confusion!
29/10/2010 at 21:01 Jake says:
I would have gone with Fthrear.
31/10/2010 at 21:34 Noc says:
Or F.T.H.I.R.D.
29/10/2010 at 13:44 poop says:
A GHOST RUNS FROM ONE SIDE OF THE SCREEN TO THE OTHER VERY FAST
A THING DOES NOT MOVE BUT THEN MOVES VERY QUICKLY WHEN YOU GET CLOSE TO IT
THESE SEGMENTS WILL NEVER INTERRUPT OUR BORING GUNPLAY
PLEASE BE SCARED NOW
29/10/2010 at 13:45 Flaringo says:
BROTHER!
29/10/2010 at 13:47 Flaringo says:
I’m probably going to play it just for the family puns.
29/10/2010 at 13:49 westyfield says:
Playtime bro.
29/10/2010 at 13:46 sneetch says:
Don’t feel bad Jim.
http://www.fear3.co.uk/news-27-f.e.a.r.-3-to-be-released-on-march-25th.html
“F.E.A.R. 3 will be available on March 25th in Europe on Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC.”
29/10/2010 at 13:49 Alex Bakke says:
“Just kidding, we’re releasing it 3 years later on the PC. Boy, we really had you going for a moment there, didn’t we?”
29/10/2010 at 14:40 sneetch says:
Dammit! That bit was supposed to be a surprise!
29/10/2010 at 13:50 OldRat says:
So wait, was the critter actually running away from the camera in the shocker at the end? I think it’s a bit shy.
29/10/2010 at 17:50 jeremypeel says:
It looked like a pro-special infected information video.
“And y’know, witches really are more scared of you than you are of them. Just watch!”
29/10/2010 at 13:58 Heliocentric says:
It takes 3 days to mod all references to all other hot drinks to tea and to change color to colour.
29/10/2010 at 14:10 origo says:
mother’s expecting again… who’s the father this time?
29/10/2010 at 14:14 Rick says:
That be Beckett, the poor Delta force sap you play as in FEAR 2.
29/10/2010 at 14:15 OldRat says:
Looking at the apparent kids, I might have to go with a Xenomorph. Or possibly a hairless mutant rat.
29/10/2010 at 17:08 Stense says:
Benjamin Disraeli.
29/10/2010 at 17:53 jeremypeel says:
Jon Irenicus.
(And they’ve inherited his cutscene lip-syncing ability, though sadly not his voice itself.)
29/10/2010 at 14:14 ZIGS says:
Call me crazy but I think this game is gonna be balls
29/10/2010 at 14:39 lemming77 says:
Sounds about right.
29/10/2010 at 14:23 Fergus says:
What’s Quentin Tarantino doing in the middle of that video?
29/10/2010 at 14:30 Supraliminal says:
The thing that bothered me in the first one, would probably bother me in this one too.
It’s hard to be scared when have an assault rifle and bullet time reflexes.
30/10/2010 at 22:31 pupsikaso says:
Except that the things that creeped you out in the first one weren’t actually things you could shoot. It was all just Alma fucking with your head.
Then Fear 2 came along and ruined the first game’s reputation.
29/10/2010 at 14:53 coldwave says:
F.E.A.R.
F.E.A.2.
F.3.A.R.
F.E.4.R.
F.E.A.5.
F.6.A.R.
7.E.A.R.
F.E.A.8.
F.9.A.R.
1.E.0.R.
I hate designers who think it’s cool.
29/10/2010 at 15:22 Scott says:
3 fast 3 furious was a pretty good spoof on this. It almost always looks silly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4rtXYgqaPQ
29/10/2010 at 16:44 Quasar says:
You should know that this is hilarious. You are good at funny.
29/10/2010 at 14:59 Gap Gen says:
That “How do you kill… your own blood?” thing is ripe for parody.
29/10/2010 at 17:55 jeremypeel says:
Zombie Cow are gonna have to scrap the tagline for their Privates: Red Blood Terrorist Cell expansion.
29/10/2010 at 21:04 Jake says:
You may think it’s ripe for parody, but you don’t know the twist is that not only do you have to kill your blood (your brother) you also have to kill your actual blood when it, I don’t know, possesses a rocking horse, or small girl or something. It’s a fucking clever tagline.
30/10/2010 at 02:54 steggieav says:
F.3.A.R. doesn’t need parody. It borders on self-parody already.
29/10/2010 at 15:19 Vandelay says:
Ah, you’re all very mean. That trailer wasn’t that bad, particularly when compared to the previous we’ve seen for this game. Sure, it may not be the most imaginative form of horror, but it can still be fun, which the original FEAR managed to pull off quite nicely in a few sections.
I’ve not played the sequel as of yet, but I see it is only £2.something on Games for Windows – Live, so I probably get hold of it in the next couple of days.
29/10/2010 at 15:46 Kefren says:
Argh! The HORROR!
(GFWL)
29/10/2010 at 17:56 jeremypeel says:
G3WL?
30/10/2010 at 00:53 Miker says:
G4WL, sirely.
29/10/2010 at 15:45 SquareWheel says:
Every time I play FEAR, I keep wondering if I’m supposed to shoot at the ghosties. I mean, your reticule turns red, but they don’t seem to hurt you.
Either way, Alma’s hot.
29/10/2010 at 15:47 Kefren says:
How can a young girl who has been abused and locked up be ‘hot’?
29/10/2010 at 18:20 Dervish says:
@SquareWheel
Not sure which ghosties you mean, but there are definitely ghosties in both FEAR 1 and 2 that hurt you. So, the answer is, “Sometimes?”
29/10/2010 at 18:21 Humble says:
How can she not?
29/10/2010 at 18:26 Gundrea says:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n6iQDtAxDI
FEAR 2 is you dating Alma
29/10/2010 at 18:03 Tyraa Rane says:
Apparently I’m the only person here looking forward to the game. The FEAR series is no Grim Fandango-esque masterpiece, and yeah, it’s hard to be scared sometimes when you’ve got bullet-time and enough ammo to equip a regiment.* But I can’t help but love the games anyway; they’re like popcorn to me. They’re decent shooters and they’re fun. What’s so wrong with that?
Plus, you’ve got to love how every line of Paxton Fettel’s just screams “we wrote this for the trailer.” He’s walking ghostly trailer fodder!
* I foiled two out of the three Remnant boss fights in the second game by whipping out the rocket launcher and taking care of them in 2 – 3 hits. Somewhere I suspect a designer at Monolith was stamping his foot in frustration at me, but honestly, if they didn’t want me to use it, they shouldn’t have given me the option in the first place. So there.
29/10/2010 at 20:08 Jason Moyer says:
I’m looking forward to it too. I enjoyed the first 2 Monolith-developed ones and the Rebirth DLC was a good time. My only worry is how a different studio is going to do, since the non-canon expansions to the first one were pretty shit.
29/10/2010 at 23:38 Gatsby says:
Not to mention being able to conquer childhood fears of ‘The Ring’ by flying-****ing-kicking a 9 year old ghost girl in her hell-hole of a face.
God damn that was a satisfying day.
29/10/2010 at 20:02 gulag says:
I’m starting to get the same vibe from FEAR I got from SAW once it became apparent we were in for more of them. There is a faint whiff of the ridiculous from it.
29/10/2010 at 20:34 Bhazor says:
Well at least it isn’t Monolith working on it. Hopefully it is because they’re busy working on NOLF 3 (NOL3) but it’s probably because they’re working on an expansion pack for F.E.A.R 2.
One thing that always bugged me with F.E.A.R and Bioshock. Who the hell has enough blood to write all those messages and still remain coherent? I mean especially here where it looks like they used a Spirograph.
30/10/2010 at 00:49 Tyraa Rane says:
@Bhazor
Can’t speak for Bioshock, since I’m in the middle of playing it right now, but in FEAR 2 the Abomination’s Spirograph art was done with their victims’ blood, not their own. Or so it seems from the bodies you usually find scattered around their artwork.
29/10/2010 at 20:43 Darth Dialup says:
This is certainly a step up from those horrible live-action trailers, but nothing too noteworthy either. FEAR 2 was completely forgettable and not nearly as good as the original – not that FEAR was a mind-blowing game or anything. I’m cautiously optimistic.
29/10/2010 at 22:07 Zogtee says:
They seem to have all the bits and pieces for a really ace horror FPS (except art direction, which appears to be all over the place). I just hope they know what to do with them.
30/10/2010 at 00:21 Shadrach says:
Who’s this Peggy18 and why isn’t she in the video :(
30/10/2010 at 00:56 Miker says:
Speak for yourself, I’m still looking for Peggy16.
30/10/2010 at 22:26 pupsikaso says:
@Miker
…
30/10/2010 at 01:24 eclipse mattaru says:
I f’ing hate this series and the fact it keeps going on and on while Condemned 2 didn’t even make it to the PC >=(
30/10/2010 at 06:09 Shadowcat says:
> The new trailer is suitable something-curdling
milk-curdling?
frog-curdling?
space-time-curdling?
30/10/2010 at 13:35 Jacka says:
I tire of your confusing horror stories, Monolith. You know what I want. Another No one Lives Forever. And if you feel like it, a modern take on Shogo:MAD wouldn’t go astray either.
30/10/2010 at 14:55 soylentrobot says:
Sorry, but “How do you kill your own blood” is the lamest phrase I have ever heard.
Also Im getting sick of the bits at the end of trailers where it shows the logo, goes quiet, and then has a sudden monster thing do something accompanied by garbled screaming. its just stupid now
31/10/2010 at 17:02 BeamSplashX says:
Good thing this game is going to be the last to do that, huh?
…
BLAGAWARGAFURBLEE!
30/10/2010 at 22:00 Kronyx says:
Closet jumping monsters and shadows aren’t scary anymore. Screw that, they never were scary.
The only way to redeem the game is to allow us to flying kick Alma in the face when she tries to “scare” us.