F.E.A.R. 3 Soul King multiplayer footage

Cool, will play this as much as I played Fear 2's multiplayer.

As in maybe once or twice, like the vast majority of people.

Gears, Uncharted, Halo, Call of Duty, GTA 4, Red Dead Redemption, Assassins Creed 2, Crysis 2, Killzone and Resistance at least TRY and make you care about the single player portion of their game. Heck they even have a story to make you care about. These trailers are all about multiplayer and I'm bored of multiplayer. Really bored.

Brought Quake Live the other day, ZERO people online. Not because it's rubbish either, there's simply too many out there, and all bases are covered already, the market is bloated. If I owned all the games I've mentioned already, what are you offering that going to stop me playing online with them? Even though I can only dedicate myself to play one at a time anyway.


Left for Dead covers the area where this game hopes to fill.

Then there's Call of Duty, and Bad Company, and soon to be Battlefield 3.

Halo, Gears covers the whole Sci-fi, futuristic genre.

Uncharted and Red Dead even have their unique places in the market.

Please be bigger than Homeworld's 4 hours, or even give me a reason to play it more than once, but don't expect Multiplayer to cover all bases. Even Infinity Ward's Call of Duties saw that things could get dry and added in the Arcade, and Spec Ops. Rainbow Six added in Terrorist hunt, which is fantastic, Halo Reach added in a few things.

Tacking on multiplayer onto everything and then releasing DLC to the inevitable dying community is getting old.

It's not like every game is Gears either, at least they have bots in their games so the DLC doesn't feel like a waste of money even when the community does dry out a little.

We're far too long into a generation for any new shooter without proven pedigree to even make a dint in the market, especially since people are too invested in the games they've already brought DLC for.


There's only so many ways people can compete with each other online by shooting at each other, it's no longer going to sell your game. Bioshock, and the first Dead Space one demonstrated how it should be done.

I know publishers pretty much demand multiplayer these days hoping that they find the next big thing, but it's bloody tiresome.

It's like trying to compete with WOW, it's just futile.

@FeralYouth

quite the rant mate! Do ya feel better now?!
Actually, "Fucking Run' looks like a pretty sweet multi mode.
But agree with your basic argument - what about FEAR 3 single player?
That's what they always did best.

@FeralYouth
Fear has always had a multiplayer component. What's wrong with advertising singleplayer later on instead of a year in advance like most companies do