Finished.
The game was fun, the story was decent enough and the ending, while not exactly what I was hoping from the series was conclusive enough, even if it does open the door for a 4th game. I enjoyed seeing the backstory of the two brothers evolve.
Gunplay was satisfying, slow-mo felt like a step down from the first two games, enemies were mostly boring fodder (although the creep design was very cool). Visually the game looked decent and had some of the best gore effects I've ever seen in a game, the ghosting was annoying however.
The length was decent, about as long as FEAR 2. I think the second half of the game is a big step up from the first half, which really dragged and seemed very uninspired. Later the environments became more interesting, the set pieces and gun fights improved and the weapon choice opened up.
The A.I was really good, and the difficulty was testing (hardest entry in the series). Music was faithful to the previous games and was a decent overall soundtrack.
The biggest disappointments were the lack of scares and atmosphere and the complete omission of humour (the previous games both had a lot of black-comedy elements and pop culture references, where as this one seemed very hollow and lifeless). Finally the cutscenes and jump to different locations really effected the flow of the game.
I enjoyed FEAR 3 but feel it was the weakest link in a fantastic series. With a little more personality, some genuine scares and more atmosphere to accompany the gunfights this could have been up there with the other two games.
