GB reports:
''Continuing this week's theme of "third-person shooters that may or may not be ripe for multiplayer" (as examined the other day in Bionic Commando), here's a look at the competitive modes in Fracture. That's the near-future action game from LucasArts and Day 1 Studios that lets you drop seismic bombs that raise, lower, and otherwise mess with the terrain in front of you. I went into the hands-on multiplayer session pretty skeptical because Fracture's unique mechanics seem a little too specific and gimmicky to be useful in a broad range of situations. I haven't had a shot at the game's campaign yet, but I'm not convinced that stuff will even work well there, either.
If anything, Fracture's terrain-fiddling actually seems more suited to a multiplayer environment; it turns out there's a lot of interesting things you can do with those abilities when you're using them to advance team objectives or just kill a lot of people. In every multiplayer mode you start out with three types of grenades: one that raises terrain, one that lowers it, and one that superheats the ground and causes a big fat spike of semi-molten rock to shoot up. The upside to the grenades is, they have splash damage that will hurt anybody nearby when they go off. The downside is that you have to wait a few seconds for the grenade to fly and detonate, so you can't really pull off split-second terrain mods as combat demands.''
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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