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F.E.A.R. 3 Trailer Released, is a Bit Silly
Because Live Action Isn't Funny 3/4 of the Time
by Coop
To follow-up on yesterday's exciting F.E.A.R. 3 announcement, Warner Bros. has released the first trailer for their upcoming horror-FPS. Actually, it's not so much a "trailer" as it is an announcement video, since it features more real-time footage than gameplay. Not real-time as in pre-rendered, either. Real-time as in with a video camera. And people. And cheesy special effects. In other words, the video above might be the best worst thing to ever happen, and you might want to click play like, a minute ago. Or leave now, and reserve judgement for a real F.E.A.R. 3 trailer. I'm sure there's one just around the corner.
Did you watch it? I'm sorry. I really should have given you better warning. This video is sort of terrible, and that's coming from a guy who's absolutely, positively excited for the sequel. I mean, sure, the idea of F.E.A.R. with co-op is wonderful, and I have faith that they can pull it off, but... this announcement trailer comes off as cheesy, and that doesn't really fit the mood they're going for. WB is promoting this game as being a horror story, and that doesn't match up well with this much corny. Well, unless the "fear" element is in more of this real-time stuff showing up. I'm already shaking.
Still, there's some information that can be taken away from this video. There are a few flashes of gameplay (and a fetus, at one point), and, for as dumb as the real-time stuff is, it shows what they mean by unique cooperative play. At one point, the guy who looks like Kotaku's Brian Crecente shoots another guy that is being held in place by the guy that looks like Ghost Rider. It shows what they're planning with the co-op, and it, again, has me with a smile on my face. Different powers that work together? Wow, there's the commercial right there. Have two women walk into each other, each holding a different power. Then one shouts "you got bullet-time in my machine gun!" and they're selling a billion copies on day one.
What about you? Excited for this game? Does this trailer do anything for you? I think it's a swing and a miss, especially when compared to the trailer for Crysis 2 that was released earlier.
Comments
I'm feeling six shades of "meh" about that...
Just because Live Action trailers work for some it does not mean it will work for all. For some reason the industry jumps on these fads until they are shot, buried, unburied, sawed in half, and then left on the side of the road for paraodies to come collect.
That being said it really wasen't effective from a horror standpoint or ability to generate interest of the game.
I loved the first game, but the 2nd game was o.k to lukewarm. After seeing that trailer, it really does not get me excited about this coming sequel.
haha - nice tone for the article. I remember thinking, "Live Action? Eff that" when I saw this on other sites. I mean, its cool to see Warner Bros - a film studio that happens to have a decent gaming division - throw it's "movie" weight around. I mean, unlike the article here, I think the live action stuff is quality. Its far better than EA's stuff for Command & Conquer or NFS, and better than SyFy Channel movies, y'know? Still though, I just thought we were past this. The Japanese still release "game trailers" that are all anime, and you still the west throw out "game trailers" that have pre-rendered footage and live action in them. It's silliness.
And Day 1 working on this one, instead of Monolith? I'm actually okay with that. FEAR 2 was awesome, but if they're too busy to handle F3AR personally, maybe they're off making Shogo 2. Like I want them to:) And Day 1 ain't a bad studio - Fracture was actually really fun. Like Red Faction Guerilla, it was a solid third person shooter with a fun gimmick. Unlike the third person shooters of today, like Dark Void, where it's not fun to shoot at anything and Nolan North ruins the main character. Man, how did we somehow get WORSE at making shooters in the last year?
Anyway, Day 1 will do a fine job, I'm sure.