High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! F.E.A.R. (an initialism for First Encounter Assault Recon) is a psychological horror first-person shooter developed by Monolith Productions and published by Vivendi Universal and the first game in the F.E.A.R. (series). It was released on October 17, 2005, for Microsoft Windows, and ported by Day 1 Studios to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.Timegate Studios has released two expansion packs, F.E.A.R. Extraction Point in October 2006 and F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate in November 2007. Both the expansions were ported to the Xbox 360 packed under the title F.E.A.R. Files. A direct sequel titled F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin, was released by Monolith Productions in February 2009. A second sequel, F.E.A.R. 3 (or F3AR), was released on 21 June 2011.