How can someone start an article about F.E.A.R. 3 and not mention its origins? Few years ago when I was younger, had more hair and was full of ideas and dreams, a new FPS caught my eye. It was F.E.A.R, an FPS that was developed by the talented Monolith team – the same studio that was behind some incredible games like Shogo, No One Lives Forever, Blood and Tron 2.0. F.E.A.R. was meant to be one of the best horror-themed first-person shooters and featured amazing AI, great fire-fights, engrossing story and mind-blowing graphics. It also featured the first slow-mo effect we’ve ever seen in an FPS. It was refreshing, original and scary. It was one of the best games of 2005. Continue reading F.E.A.R. 3 PC Performance Analysis→
Since we got our PC review code of Warner Bros’ and Day 1 Studios’ latest FPS title, we’ve been messing with it to see how it performs. Although Nvidia has already included an SLI profile for F.E.A.R. 3 in their latest ForceWare drivers, that particular profile is bugged and actually causes negative performance. Continue reading F.E.A.R. 3 SLI Bugged – PC gamers advised to run in Single GPU Mode→
It’s a fact that the PC version of Day 1 Studios’ latest FPS title was plagued by a weird stuttering effect when the game was running at a really high framerate. And since it really pissed off most PC gamers, the company decided to release a patch to fix it and offer – among other things – an option to adjust your FOV and support for wider than 16×9 aspect ratio displays. Continue reading F.E.A.R. 3 PC Patch is now Live→
Although F.E.A.R. 3 is scheduled for release next week, a PC preview build was leaked today to various torrent sites. Given the fact tha there won’t be any demo, PC gamers will have the – illegal – option to test it before getting it. As you may have guessed, we won’t be sharing those torrent sites and we strongly advice you to avoid downloading this preview build. Continue reading F.E.A.R. 3 PC Preview Build Leaked→
