Fracture Comments by David Jenkins
Has LucasArts cracked it?
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Not too sure on the plot, but I really liked the terrain deformation weapons - hoping they have some good puzzle elements to put them to good use, all I saw was "hey look we'll make a hill to cover ourselves from enemy fire" and "hey we'll make a hill under the enemy and for some reason it kills him".
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stoopidgreg
02/06/08 @ 08:41
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'"Terrain deformation" is the term LucasArts has concocted'
damn i didn't know lucas had dibs on that term that's been around for years... anyone remember the game treadmarks? awesome fun that was. |
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Grim Fandango was great. Really great. Then everyone good at adventure games in Lucasarts started leaving. Making Grim Fandango now would be disastrous. If they couldn't even make Escape from Monkey Island good (when they still had a few good people working there) then I don't even want to think about GF2 without Tim Schafer at the helm.
Maybe it's best to let LEC carry on with whatever they think they're doing, and remember the good ol' days. Hey, Force Unleashed might even be good for a Star Wars game, and after playing GTA4 I'm looking forward to an Indy game that uses euphoria. As for fracture, terrain deforming all very well, but am I really going to be compelled to do it in the dullest sounding universe imaginable? |
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They loose big time for me because this just looks too similar to gears and halo. What the frak is it with this stupid armour every character is now wearing. The unreal 3 characters look like rejects from gears. Fractures characters look like rejects from gears etc. etc.
True we now seem to be actually moving towards military exoskeletons but, they certainly aren't brightly coloured affairs (probably something to do with NOT wanting to stand out in a battle!). Until this get's some original character and location design I'm not biting. |
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afghan_jones
02/06/08 @ 09:28
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Looks a bit shite.
Its that classic mistake of having some sort of weird tech that seems quite cool but in practical terms is no better than just using guns and bombs. Surely the cost of developing a grenade that deforms the earth would be monumental. especially given that an actual explosion would do the job just as well 99% of the time. Its similar to the hammer of dawn in Gears. Yes, its quite powerful but its basically a massively expensive orbital satellite which can kill one bloke per pop providing they arent standing under a bus stop or something. Silly. |
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BadBoyBonner
02/06/08 @ 09:37
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So they used the Unreal engine and weren't bothered to change the models I see.
Well at least they used the "slimmed down" models that are only taking Human Growth Hormone instead of horse steroids. |
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reality_cheque
02/06/08 @ 09:46
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Hammer of Dawn can quite easily kill 2-3 people if they are huddled together (as I did to two of my team-mates once after not answering when I asked "Is anyone behind the oil-tank thing?", lol)
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barnard666
02/06/08 @ 09:54
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This unfortunately looks crap...its like someone went,what crazy mechanic can we come up with to make our own portal (and yes I know they have been making it for ages), its a mess visually...for the strategy of building your cover to work, you'd have to make cover very valuable, which means you'd probably have to make all the characters move slowly, which then makes it not much fun. Or make them move really fast and give them hardly any health, which then makes it simply hard for the casual gamer.
it is - Doshin the giant FPS. |
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RandomTerrain
02/06/08 @ 10:09
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Sounds like some cool weapons, but to have the whole game be about them?
Red Faction was fun back in the day, but it's 2008 now, so.. meh. |
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MasterNameless
02/06/08 @ 10:29
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The guy on the front actually looks like David Beckham... maybe his wife fell over and was so thin, it made the ground look like it was fractured?
/gets coat |
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muscleblade
02/06/08 @ 10:57
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"The main characters in games are always ruggedly handsome bodybuilders ffs.
Not always. Personally i prefer that the characters look like me kind of so i like the ruggedly handsome bodybuilder look. If i was a fat ugly dude i might have prefered the charachters to look like that though. Im not so i dont. LOL.
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Monkey_Puncher
03/06/08 @ 11:15
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I saw this being played on Gamespot and to be honest it looked rubbish. The terrain deformation was incredibly limited and the levels were stupidly linear, to be honest the whole thing looked like Brute Force.
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