Once you’ve played through the story once, it becomes very apparent that the game is designed primarily for co-op and online play. You can play co-op either online or split-screen. For example, Fettel can levitate an enemy and Pointy can shoot him. What’s truly fun is the ability to play co-op and use both brothers’ abilities in tandem. However, even that isn’t really anything new to gamers.
Once you finish a mission, you unlock the ability to play it as Fettel, who has some cool psychic powers, such as levitating enemies or possessing their bodies and using their abilities and weapons. Creepy brother has plenty of advice and commentary - which is good since Point Man never says anything - but he doesn’t really affect the bulk of the game. When playing as Point Man, the single-player campaign comes across as a plain-and-simple shooter. The ghostly Fettel appears to Point Man and helps him break out of the prison with the intention of finding their transdimentional mother, who got herself pregnant again at the end of “FEAR 2.” Fettel and Point Man make a very odd couple, but one that’s very fun to play. The game unfolds nine months after the first two episodes of “FEAR.” Point Man is rotting in an asylum run by the evil Armacham corporation while the city of Fairport reels from the psychic disturbances unleashed by Alma. He has uncanny combat skills and can even slow down time, which made him a key member of First Encounter Assault Recon, a team that tackles missions involving the paranormal. In the single-player campaign, you start off playing as Point Man.