during the initial setup there was a surprise that caused a "wtf?!" moment, there is NO 1280x1024 screen resolution available! what the hell the developer thought?
here is a list of the available resolutions for my 19 inch screen:
- 640x480
- 720x480
- 800x600
- 848x480
- 1024x760
- 1152x648
- 1152x864
- 1280x720
- 1280x960
1152x864 looks good enough for a decent game experience for me...nonetheless it's still ridiculous.
The Story
I will not waste too much time about the story because to fully understand it you need to know the first 2 F.E.A.R. games too. for the ones that played the first 2 parts already it will be a little surprise, because you are playing as the "Point Man" (known from part 1) and your buddy is...and now it comes: Paxton Fettel.
The Gameplay
F.E.A.R. 3 has some new features I really like, for example an improved "take cover" functionality (by pressing Q you take cover and when pressing W you can peek and shoot), but what I like the most is the point system: for almost every activity you can get points, like for headshots, time spent in slow motion mode, items picked up, amount of frags without getting hurt (yes, it even announces the good old "Godlike!"), etc. additionally there are special "glowing" corpses to find that can be "absorbed" and so give extra points. the gathered points lead to level-ups which grant extras like a "jump kick", additional slow motion mode time or faster healing.
besides that not much has changed, standard FPS controls.
First Impression
I have to admit I was a little disappointed at the beginning because it all looked a little unmotivated to me, some rare shock effects that didn't really shocked me, and I expected the scenario to be a little more horror-like. but then, from the the 3rd level on the old magic was back: scary, shocking, spooky soundtrack...that's how I like it, and that's what I loved it the other parts already!
instead of screenshots I've captured 2 videos of good old b_b fraggin' around, have fun:
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as you can see the graphics are not THAT awesome, CoD is still king, but it's still good enough to create a scary atmosphere you can dive into....I especially love the grain effect that appears from time to time.
Conclusion
after some troubles and annoyances at the start and the hope for a screen resolution patch F.E.A.R. 3 is a great game, to give a final and complete conclusion is not possible at the moment for me because I haven't played the game through yet, but if you like some scary fragging action it's definitely a must have! btw, the first 2 parts are also still more than worth to be played, even if the graphics in the initial F.E.A.R. are far away from being up to date (but hey, the "insane asylum" levels will still scare the crap out of you!).
8.5/10
can I copy this review for my blog pls?? 
