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F.E.A.R. 3
Day 1 Studios' inventive multiplayer modes look kind of awesome, believe it or not. See for yourself with this trailer and a big batch of new screens.
F@#$ing Run! is a cooperative game that has players booking it to escape an unstoppable wall of death. Of course, there's no shortage of Armacham troops between you and the exit. On the plus side, at least there are checkpoints along the way for when you inevitably get owned.
Contractions is also cooperative, and resembles Call of Duty's Zombies mode. Your team has to work together to build barricades, scavenge weapons, and ultimately survive the ever-encroaching fog that covers the advance of twenty waves of enemies.
Soul Survivor starts cooperatively, with a squad facing off against Armacham goons. Alma corrupts one player at a time, whose goal then becomes to wreck his or her former allies. The Soul Survivor wins the round, but it's unclear how the mechanics work and how you win once you've been corrupted.
Soul King is the most competitive of the modes. In this free-for-all match, each player is a specter that can possess the AI enemies running around the level. You then use your host body to kill anything that moves and collect its soul. You respawn as a specter when killed, but at the price of half your souls. Whoever has the most souls when the timer expires wins.
I have to be honest here: I've been off the F.E.A.R. train after the first game, which I adored. The expansions left me cold, as did F.E.A.R. 2. These multiplayer modes sound cool, though, and I salute Day 1 for doing something that fits the setting and gives players something new, rather than trying and failing to compete with the Call of Dutys and Battlefields of the world.
More into single-player? See the previous trailer, titled The Ides of March, here for a look at what the creepy, gory action/horror adventure will be like on your own.
We'll see how it all turns out when the game launches on Xbox 360, PS3, and PC in May.
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