"The PS3 got off to a pretty bad start, but these days developers are pumping out better games, whether they're exclusive or multi-platform. In the hope that we're nearing the end sloppy PS3 ports of Xbox 360 games we've put together our Top 10: Worst PS3 Ports. Which games hit the PlayStation 3 in far worse shape than they were in on the Xbox 360? Which ports really shouldn't have made it out of the QA department? Read on to find out.

10. F.E.A.R.

F.E.A.R. was ported from the PC to the ..."

"FPS - First person shooter. Three words, one genre and a whole host of games; it's almost the de facto style for a PC game today. That's you holding that gun, casting the spell and swinging the sword; you get to choose exactly where you look, touch and move to. It's the closest you can get to that virtual world.

Shooting games have been around since... well, if electricity was around when Noah was rebuilding after the floods, I'd bet money that he'd be playing a shooting game of some kind..."

"Vivendi Games has turned off the lights again and announced a new F.E.A.R. expansion pack for PC and Xbox 360.

The new campaign is called Perseus Mandate and offers us a fresh perspective on the original campaign. So off we go to the creepy halls of Armacham as a different soldier in a different team, to discover a parallel story the first assault team never saw coming."

"Today Sierra announced two separate expansions to its spooky first-person shooter, F.E.A.R. For the PC version, the Perseus Mandate expansion gives players a new angle on the events at Armacham with a new team. The story runs parallel to the original's and includes new enemies.

On the Xbox 360, F.E.A.R. Files includes both of the expansions that have been made available for the PC version: F.E.A.R. Extraction Point and Perseus Mandate.

Look for more details on Perseus Mandate and F.E.A...."

"As bug discoveries go, we can't technically claim to have discovered this one. Still, it seems that by stumbling upon a major slowdown in F.E.A.R. during a recent Maingear desktop review, we've come across what might be a more universal issue in PC gaming performance. We're not trying to cause a panic. F.E.A.R is the only game we've seen suffer a significant frame rate loss. But an intriguing post on the official F.E.A.R. forum indicates that the issue might be more widespread. The potential ..."

"Ubisoft releases five new maps for recent Tom Clancy title, while free modes arrive for Sierra's supernatural action game, with multiple map packs on the way."

Monolith has opened a new contest where participants get a chance to christen the sequel to their celebrated FPS, F.E.A.R. Entries can be as simple as a suggestion, but contestants can also submit files (up to 30MB in filesize) for images or movies of their own design to sweeten the deal. The contest runs until June 22nd.

Incidentally one of the contest rules advises against the use of acronyms for title submissions. Maybe they felt the first game's title was too corny; well, that and M...

A split-screen comparison of F.E.A.R. on the XBox 360 and PlayStation 3

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