With a variety of generic shooters lined-up for 2008, it's getting hard to tell some of them apart. Gameplay wise, very few of these promise innovation. Day 1 Studios' Fracture, however, has a little something - the ability to alter the shape of the terrain during combat, gaining tactical advantage in both multiplayer and single-player. So, it's kind of like taking terrain-deformation and Red Faction-style gameplay to new heights.
Tony Grandlich, Producer for Fracture at LucasArts, talks about some of the game's key features, including terrain deformation, adapting the game's AI to an ever-changing environment, new design decisions, weapons, multiplayer modes and more.
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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