first trailer with gameplay:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzGxXaJSSfA

So it's not scary as it is just shooting shit up for 8 hours. Yeah, my $50 will be better spent elsewhere.

I don't know, they haven't released much info about the game's story.
Maybe you can play as both guys in co-op like it was in the trailer, one guy throwing the barrel and the other one shooting it. Made for consoles, you know... ;)
Live-action is always cheesy, no matter what. But FEAR3 has John Carpenter and another famous guy involved, so let's wait before judging its scariness.
Yeah, I got the feeling I will be paying 50% for the FMV costs+the other 50% for the game itself (and its respective quality).
Let's wait, I say.

As this latest sequel is not being made by Monolith, but some other studio I've never heard of, I'll be taking a 'wait and see' approach to this game.
I enjoyed F.E.A.R. 2 more than the original, and think Monolith did a good job adding variety to the environments and encounters, so I was looking forward to the next outing. But now I'm just not sure. Without the original creative vision behind it, this next game could go off at a tangent, or change the gameplay, so I'm not sold on it until I see a trailer with actual gameplay - and a lengthy trailer at that.

Agreed on all points about FEAR 2, but the button mashing was completely unnecessary and unwelcome. That aside, it was a good game.

Come on, folks. You could as well complain about movies called Sesevenen, or Men In In Black, or Lafouryer Cake, or Saonemazeronee. It's dumb, but it's just the sort of silly typography that crops up in general marketing from time to time, not a symptom of the mass adoption of leetspeak by the mainstream gaming industry.

Okay you have a point but still....for some reason I can't half-rate movie looks, it just doesn't fell right no matter what. I hope they release more info. of the game story.

I loved FEAR 2... not as good as the original, especially as a PC release, but it was polished, controlled well and was a blast to play.
This one is another studio though, so... that is a little off-putting.

This studio did the console versions of FEAR 1, IIRC. They did worked with FEAR before so, but only porting and something small here n' there.

HAHAHAHAH
Also: whoa Alma is good-looking.

I remember PC Gamer had a cover featuring a naked Alma or something like that for the FEAR 2 review issue and it scared me.
Found it.

*runs off to toilet*

Fear seems to be a favored punching bag for people who like to say HURR IM TOO TUFF IT NOT SCEARY, but I really liked it. Great visuals, fun shootiness, convincing AI (which actually tricked me once or twice), and a creep show that was, if not at all original, still pretty effective. What made the scares work in Fear where they didn't in Doom 3 is that in Fear, the forces that the developers are hoping will spook you are not typically not susceptible to your high-powered weaponry... not that they didn't have me spraying bullets into thin air from time to time, all the same.
The first game did have uninspired level design (mostly running around an office building, as I recall), but the competent expansion Extraction Point improved on that. I never did play Perseus Mandate, but nobody seems to like that one anyway.
I passed on the oft-maligned sequel, because it was a Steam exclusive and I'm not interested in messing with Steam. I guess that means I'll be passing on Fear 3 as well, because even if it's not joined at the hip with some online service I'd rather avoid, I'll still have missed out on whatever happened in Fear 2.

It was rather creepy in the game when one minute you were fighting hot naked Alma, then the next minute she was emaciated Alma with a massive swamp bog on her head and between her legs.
People said that game wasn't creepy, but man that stuff, and the ending where it all comes into play, was certainly at least unsettling.