Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced the third sequel to the heart-pounding paranormal horror first-person shooter unleashing stunning and intense combat, titled F.E.A.R. 3 (F.3.A.R.). F.E.A.R. 3 is expected to release on the Sony PlayStation 3 gaming console, The Xbox 360 gaming console, and Windows-Based PCs in autumn 2010. The game is expected to evolve the franchise with compelling narrative and cooperative game play.

Alma will return in F.E.A.R. 3, but this time her sons named Point Man and Paxton Fettel will introduce divergent cooperative game play, giving players different abilities which will affect their own play as well as the experience of their cooperative game-play partner.

F.E.A.R. (First Encounter Assault Recon) is a modern horror first person shooter developed by Monolith Productions. Published by Vivendi Universal, the game was released in October 2005 for Windows, and was ported for the Sony PlayStation 3 in April 2007 and Xbox 360 in October 2006 by Day 1 Studios. There are two expansion packs for F.E.A.R. released by Timegate Studios, F.E.A.R. – Extraction Point in October 2006 and F.E.A.R. – Perseus Mandate in November 2007. F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin is the direct sequel of the game and was released in February 2009 by Monolith Productions.

F.E.A.R. (First Encounter Assault Recon) uses a proprietary engine developed by Monolith Productions, which later on formed a separate company named LithTech INC. to deal with the development of the engine.