The Fear Effect series has had a bumpy road throughout its life. The first game released in 2000 and was met with positive reception, with a lot of gamers drawing parallels between it and other fixed-camera angle games like Resident Eviland Dino Crisis. The second game, Fear Effect: Retro Helix, released one year later and served as a prequel to the first game. It would then be 17 years before Fear Effect Sedna would serve as the sequel to the original game, and it's where the original series stopped. After long stretches of silence, a new teaser was dropped by publisher Forever Entertainment on August 24, promising the remake Fear Effect Reinvented is still in development, and it's coming soon.
Fear Effect Reinvented was announced in August 2017 as part of the Square Enix Collective program, with Fear Effect Sedna developer Sushee set to create this remake of the original game. After years of troubled development, including a complete developer change from Sushee to MegaPixel Studio, fans finally got a new look at the game in a new brief trailer with an unusual wording for its release window at the end of the video.
New Fear Effect Game Coming to Nintendo Switch
In a 46-second trailer posted to YouTube from the Forever Entertainment account, a few things were confirmed about this remake, while a lot of information was left up in the air. The game will no longer have fixed-camera angles as in the original game and will adopt a Resident Evil 4-like over-the-shoulder camera. The game will also have cover-based shooting mechanics, similar to the Gears of War series. The expanded remake will also have three separate campaigns. The big stand-out moment of this trailer, though, is the vague release window, which just reads:
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