Review

A novel concept, but Fracture ultimately fails to deliver. Hopefully the terraforming concepts can be applied to another title, in the meantime this looks like being just a rental.

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Fracture gets U.S. release

NEWS by Dan Cheer 8 Oct 2008, 10:31 am

LucasArts and Day 1 Studios have announced that Fracture is now available at on store shelves in North America for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The game will release in Europe on Friday, October 10 and in Asia-Pac on Wednesday, October 15. A new intellectual property, Fracture gives players unprecedented control of the battlefield in a fight to save the very future of mankind, where the differing ideologies of cybernetics and genetics lead to a massive civil war.

[quote]Play the role of Jet Brody, an Atlantic Alliance soldier wielding a revolutionary new technology – Terrain Deformation. Build cover on the fly to thwart enemy attacks, discover hidden pathways, gain a height or tactical advantage against your enemy, and explore the world around you with a multitude of Terrain Deforming weapons and tools that literally reshape the battlefield beneath your feet.

Fracture demo to be released

NEWS by Dan Cheer 11 Sep 2008, 5:26 pm

LucasArts announced today that they will release the official demo of their upcoming action game Fracture on Xbox Live Marketplace and PlayStation Network on Thursday, September 18.

The demo will introduce players to the revolutionary gameplay behind Terrain Deformation, a key gameplay mechanic that allows for the dynamic creation of on-the-fly cover and geographic manipulation.

Developed in partnership with Chicago-based Day 1 Studios, Fracture takes place in the year 2161 in a United States plagued by disaster. Years of environmental neglect have split the nation in two and resulted in two conflicting ways of life. Survivors of the Atlantic Alliance have turned to cybernetics and technology, while the Pacifican States in the West have turned to stem cell research and genetic engineering for a better way of life. These two conflicting ideologies come to a head in a deadly civil war for not only the fate of the free world, but also the future of mankind itself.

Fracture website revamped

NEWS by Dan Cheer 3 Jun 2008, 7:30 am

LucasArts has announced that the official website for Fracture has been revamped, now including lots of info and screenshots.

We've seen Fracture being played recently, and managed to score an interview with the executive producer. Check it out here.

The newly revamped official site is here.

Fracture Q&A

INTERVIEW by Dan Cheer 2 Jun 2008, 7:00 am

Fracture, for the uninitiated, represents an ambitious project for LucasArts and developers Day 1 Studios.

Set in the year 2161 amidst a backdrop of worldwide ecological and seismological chaos, the United States has been split in two by the “Great Flood”. As a result of the polar ice cap melting, the Mississippi River has destroyed the central portion of the United States, causing an ill-equipped Federal Government to fail and literally cutting the country in half. These two halves are left to fend for themselves in the aftermath.

The East, now known as the Atlantic Alliance, symbolic of their union with Europe, puts its faith in surviving this new world in cybernetics, an established yet evolving technology now more than 150 years old.

Game info

Description: Reshape the battlefield - and the fate - of a broken nation in Fracture™, the new IP from LucasArts and Day 1 Studios. “Groundbreaking” in more ways than one, this 2008 blockbuster utilizes technology only possible on the Xbox 360™ and PLAYSTATION®3. Amidst a backdrop of worldwide ecolog... (more info)

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Reshape the battlefield - and the fate - of a broken nation in Fracture™, the new IP from LucasArts and Day 1 Studios. “Groundbreaking” in more ways than one, this 2008 blockbuster utilizes technology only possible on the Xbox 360™ and PLAYSTATION®3.

Amidst a backdrop of worldwide ecological and seismological chaos in the mid-2100s, the United States has been split in two by the “Great Flood”. As a result of the polar ice cap melting, the Mississippi River has destroyed the central portion of the United States, causing an ill-equipped Federal Government to fail and literally cutting the country in half. These two halves are left to fend for themselves in the aftermath.

The East, now known as the Atlantic Alliance, symbolic of their union with Europe, puts its faith in surviving this new world in cybernetics, an established yet evolving technology now more than 150 years old. On the other side of the flooded continent, the Western states, now called the Republic of Pacifica and having allied with Asia, resort to solving their problems at the genetic level, effectively restructuring the DNA of its inhabitants - a method the Atlantic Alliance finds morally reprehensible.

By 2161, it only takes a hint of unauthorized military preparation in Pacifica for the newly restored president to order a strike in the heart of Pacifican territory - an outpost in the now dry San Francisco Bay. This strike leads to the unthinkable: an epic conflict with global implications fought on U.S. soil. As a soldier in this struggle, Mason Briggs uses explosive, terrain-deforming weaponry to change the face of battle: He not only destroys the land in his path, he outright transforms it to gain the strategic advantage in completely unscripted ways no game has ever seen. With such a devastating arsenal at hand, Briggs never leaves any battlefield the way he found it.

In addition to extraordinary weaponry that allows players to do things previously only imagined, each side of the conflict, Pacifica and the Atlantic Alliance, boast soldiers with powers beyond those of ordinary men. Genetic augmentations provide Pacifican forces with amazing abilities, while Atlantic Alliance soldiers like Briggs counter the threat with the more “traditional” method: cybernetics. The differing states of superhumanity result in balanced yet stylistically different combat tactics that have never been seen before.

Product Information

Truly next-generation gameplay - Groundbreaking terrain deformation allows players to reshape the battlefield on the fly with futuristic weaponry of the year 2161, allowing for unprecedented power, freedom and control.

All new story and characters from the company that brought you Star Wars and Indiana Jones, as well as Mercenaries and Thrillville - Players assume the role of Mason Briggs, a demolitions expert in the mighty Atlantic Alliance army and the next great action hero.

Plausible future conflict - As stem cell research continues to proliferate and spirals out of control, ideological differences over genetic enhancement place the player at the threshold of an epic battle of tomorrow between genetics vs. cybernetics as two powerful armies, with vastly differing tactics and advantages, square off. The battlefield will change forever.