Evil Avatar writes: "Any more, any console based shooter that does not have the name "Halo" in it really needs to do something special. Some go with time manipulation, others just give you the biggest baddest weapons they can. Maybe they're set in a past time (okay okay, WWII) or in the middle of space. Fracture gives us ground deformation technology set in a future world where one side of the US has taken to genetic modification and the other has decided that cybernetic modification is the way to go. Politics ensue and civil war beings. Hence is the world of Fracture.
Now we're not here to discuss the politicking that goes on in a fictional world, we're here to find out what it's like to destroy one another in its setting. So, this last week I went to the Presidio in San Francisco where Lucas Arts and Executive Producer Dan Hay had plopped it's lovely employees down (trust me, lovely employees) to be challenged by other gaming journalists and some QA folks to a few rounds of Death Match, Team Death Match, Capture the Flag, Conquest and unique modes mobile King of the Hill and Excavation. How many you ask? Why, twelve! Fracture will support 12 player online modes over Live and the PSN."
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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