Seriously, the fact that we have Far Cry 3 footage should be enough to get you to watch it. But the promise of a bear? What are you waiting for?! Feast your eyes...
The thought-to-be-an-April-fools joke is actually real. We're not kidding. We got to play it. Get our impressions the downloadable stand-alone here...
The events of Project Origin promise to bring the player closer – physically and psychologically – to Alma than the flittering twitches its predecessor, FEAR allowed. “You play Michael Beckett,” enthuses John Mulkey, Project Origin’s lead designer. “You’re going in to rescue Aristide, the president of Armacham – the woman who restarted Project Origin and wakened Alma.
Monolith’s second outing for her of bedraggled hair and psychic entombment is crash-landing in a very different pool of expectation to the original FEAR. In the past few months, shooters have changed.
Monolith tells me that its pint-sized mascot of terror, Alma, is going to “touch me more” in FEAR 2, and that’s a bad thing. I’ve got a general policy of keeping 8-year-old girls who command psychic clone armies at arm’s length, and if you’re like me, you perfected your “backpedal-while-screaming-and-jamming-the-trigger” technique in the first FEAR.
Have you been following the plot of the F.E.A.R series? Ha ha, that was a joke. As much as I enjoyed the first two games, about all I know is that Alma is creepy and psychic, Point Man and his brother, Paxton Fettel, are her sons, and she’s pregnant again (which is a bad thing). That’s why Point Man and Fettel team up to stop her womanly processes in F.E.A.R 3, and that’s a little different – action game as it may be, F.E.A.R.'s horror-ey elements make the “buddy cop” thing seem out of place. At least, that's what I thought at first (ugh, does everything have to be co-op?), but after playing a level as the ghost of Fettel, I’m pretty sure it isn’t quite like that...
These days, having a multiplayer component in the latest AAA blockbuster in-your-face awesome-fest is something of a given - and all but inescapable if that game is a first-person shooter. FPS games have been an online multiplayer staple for almost two decades now, so it's not entirely surprising to see that Warner Bros. and Day 1 Studios are building in a little some-some for gamers looking to shoot their friends in the face from afar...
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