Admit it; Fracture is looking good. The art style might be a bit generic for a current-gen shooter (bald space marine, anyone?) but in motion the technology looks fantastic, and there's certainly not a lack of creativity in the game's other areas.
The Lucasarts floor-bender is set in 2161. There's a war on, and the world's relying on you and a whole bunch of creative weapons to get the job done.
Again, not the most original of premises, but it sounds fun; Using 'tectonic' and 'subsonic' grenades you can magnetically draw in enemies like a black hole, and deform the terrain like in some sort of Peter Molyneux god game.
CVG managed to squeeze in a few questions with Jeffrey Gullett, Assistant Producer at LucasArts.
YouTube’s ‘John GodGames Emus’ has shared some video showing Jurassic: The Hunted, Chaotic: Shadow Warriors and Fracture running in the latest DirectX 12 version of the best Xbox 360 emulator, Xenia. These games came only on consoles and the first two titles appear to be playable in Xenia.
"ZL: The reception was less than underwhelming. Fracture is one of those games that has already been forgotten; “terrain deformation” failed to impress gamers, the struggle between the Pacificans and the Alliance (though I’m not sure who they’re aligned with) inspired no one, everyone hated the main character and the online servers are host to nothing more than tumbleweeds."
We're well into the first week of August, and the summer's hottest days could be just ahead. There's still a debate being waged over climate change policies proposed to help curb its effects, but in some video game that debate is over and the effects of climate change lead to a bleak future. We speak to Dr. David Robinson, New Jersey State Climatologist and Professor in the Department of Geography at Rutgers University, to find out if these video games' vision of a post climate change future holds more fact or fiction.
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Well written, thought provoking and intelligent. Great job to Steven Wong.
definitely interesting, though I am worried it might turn out to be one of those mediocre shooters. Has a lot of potential though, as long as the TD is done right.