TL;DR: only the first FEAR is worth playing
Synopsis: 30 minutes or so before the end of FEAR, you play as a potentially psychic soldier who is tasked with taking the president of the ATC into custody.
This is a massive disappointment. In a similar vein to Resident Evil, the game has become less of a horror game and more of an action game over time, which is not necessarily bad — it worked out well for Resident Evil, until game 4 at least. The issue here is that the game just, well, isn’t that good.
The gunplay went from A+ tier to B- tier. It’s CODlike and there are too many random things that can kill you like grenades or rockets. Taking into consideration that this is now an action game, this diminishes the enjoyment of the game quite a bit. The original Resident Evil had mediocre gunplay, but it was not a big issue, as it really was a horror game.
Didn’t care that much for the story, especially after the beginning. I’m no prude, but the characters swear way, way too often and there are too many odd lines of dialogue. Borderlands could pull of the quirk chungus routine fine but these developers had no idea what they were doing. I stopped playing the game sometime after a huge reveal turns out to be a disappointment and a shock death happens.
It does go to show that a lot of times, when somebody makes a really good game or movie, they have no idea what they did that made it great, and just put together a bunch of things that felt right and took a bunch of risks that paid off. Gwern, arguably the west’s #1 Evangelion expert, claims this was the case for Anno and Evangelion as well; I like Anno but I see no reason to disbelieve Gwern on this matter.
you should play vanilla doom 3 next