Few game makers have attempted to tread the hallowed ground that LucasArts and Day 1 Studios let you mercilessly manipulate in their upcoming sci-fi action game Fracture. And for good reason - allowing players to terraform their environment willy-nilly raises all sorts of challenging issues when it comes to level design, learning curve and difficulty balance. How do you build a compelling game world when the players are given the implicit ability to blow it up? Answers to that question and much more can be found in the first part of our exclusive Fracture web documentary series.
There is also a video after the jump.
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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it looks like a good game
I wonder what the multi-player will be like.
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