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F.E.A.R. (series)
''F.E.A.R.'' is a first-person shooter psychological horror video game series created by Craig Hubbard in 2005. Released on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360, there are three main games in the series; '' F.E.A.R.'' (2005), '' F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin'' (2009), and ''F.E.A.R. 3'' (2011). There are also two standalone expansion packs for the first game; ''F.E.A.R. Extraction Point'' (2006) and '' F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate'' (2007), but these games are no longer considered canon, as their plots were ignored in ''Project Origin'' and ''F.E.A.R. 3''. In 2014, ''F.E.A.R. Online'', a free-to-play game, was released, but the servers were shut down in 2015 with the game still in open beta. Monolith Productions developed the original game and ''Project Origin''; Day 1 Studios developed ''F.E.A.R. 3''; TimeGate Studios developed ''Extraction Point'' and ''Perseus Mandate''; Inplay Interactive developed ''F.E.A.R. Online''. Initially, the series' publishing rights were owned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First-person Shooter
First-person shooter (FPS) is a sub-genre of shooter video games centered on gun and other weapon-based combat in a first-person perspective, with the player experiencing the action through the eyes of the protagonist and controlling the player character in a three-dimensional space. The genre shares common traits with other shooter games, and in turn falls under the action game genre. Since the genre's inception, advanced 3D and pseudo-3D graphics have challenged hardware development, and multiplayer gaming has been integral. The first-person shooter genre has been traced back to ''Wolfenstein 3D'' (1992), which has been credited with creating the genre's basic archetype upon which subsequent titles were based. One such title, and the progenitor of the genre's wider mainstream acceptance and popularity, was ''Doom'' (1993), often considered the most influential game in this genre; for some years, the term ''Doom'' clone was used to designate this genre due to ''Doom''s i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
