Fracture Comments by Tom Bramwell
Painful.
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konstantinos
10/10/08 @ 06:15
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ouch...! that's a bit harsh, ainnit...? maybe a break, a sabbatical to clear your head and re-evaluate...? it can't be that bad...!
cheers...
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NegativeZero
10/10/08 @ 07:18
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@Rodney: while I agree with the sentiment, I really don't want Lucasarts to raid X-Wing / TIE Fighter again. They'd only screw it up.
Seriously, if Fracture and Force Unleashed are their best examples of what their internal development teams are capable of, then maybe canning internal development wasn't such a bad move. No offense to the teams themselves - I suspect that Lucasart's problems are at a higher level - but I get the feeling that a better developer would have canned Fracture at the prototype stage when they failed to find a decent game in the concept, and they would have delayed Force Unleashed for 6-9 months to iterate on it and playtest it more thoroughly. EDIT: WTF, replying to a comment posted in the future?
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3william56
10/10/08 @ 07:56
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I had my money on "Give me a break" for the review tagline. Oh well.
LOLture. FracLOL. Erm... dammit even the name is cr*p. So... a dead cert this is going to feature in the next 360vsPS3 faceoff - and I sincerely hope the 360 version is better. So to summarise: Nice concept for a single weapon in a good game (like the Gravity Gun), but not something to base an entire game around. Who'da thunkit? Ohwell - more time for LBP. |
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Royal Fool
10/10/08 @ 08:19
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The single fact that you recommend Dark Sector instead of this is enough of an insult. I truly feel sorry for the people who worked on this game.
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Max_Powers
10/10/08 @ 08:39
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The demo was awful. One of the blandest pieces of shit I ever had the misfortune of playing.
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I know this is going to come up sooner or later so I may as well say it now, where is our current-gen x-wing game or XBLA x-wing vs Tie-Fighter!
LA has such a strong back catlogue of strong IP's I just wish they knew what to do with them. I really miss the LA star wars games from the 90's. it may just be nostalga on my part, but the art style of the original trilogy star wars universe was just so much better. more Rogue Squadron, X-Wing, Dark Forces, Jedi Knight please |
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GamesConnoisseur
10/10/08 @ 08:50
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I thought the demo was fine but did wondered how much gameplay you can stretch the deformations to, but 4/10 yipee and even havethe not so good placing at the metacritic that sealed its fate for me.
Not even worth the £1.99 price point for the visual 'interactive' demoscence 'Linger in the Shadow'?! |
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squarejawhero
10/10/08 @ 09:25
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Good to see some Dark Sector love. Solid if a teensy bit unremarkable with bags of atmosphere, I'm glad I rented it.
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muscleblade
10/10/08 @ 09:26
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I like The force unleashed, but i hated the demo of Fracture so i think 7/10 and 4/10 seems spot on imo.
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Well I thought the demo was the blandest, most unoriginal game I've played in months with the landscape deformation feature clearly being the game's sole gimmick (and a completely silly one at that if you think about it). That the game got 4/10 from EG is of absolutely no surprise to me... I wasn't even thinking of renting it never mind playing it and the demo was deleted long ago. With the large number of potentially great games out over the next 10 weeks you'd be a fool to buy this IMO. The only way it would impress anyone is surely if they'd slipped through a timewarp from five years ago and have never played a third-person shooter?
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rhubarbandcustard
10/10/08 @ 09:56
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Worth Playing scored this 85
Daily Game scored this 79 Gamer 2.0 scored this 74 Eurogamer score this 40 Eurogamer LOL!!! |
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Judging from the demo, this review is spot-on. The terrain deformation looked kinda interesting in the demo, but it was painfully obvious how you could only do it in select places, which I found very limiting. Main character is boredom in a space-suit and the story seems bland as well.
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spookyzombie
10/10/08 @ 10:30
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A 4/10 is about right. It's just not very slick and becomes a chore to play. The demo was short and quite varied. This may be the reason why people can't understand a 4/10 score for the full title.
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You know, I started reading this, then my boss called me away for something. When I came back I continued reading, forgetting exactly what the title of the game was, and started thinking I'd clicked on the Gears of War 2 hands-on by mistake. I even got confused when you mentioned the name of the guy you control.
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Monkey_Puncher
10/10/08 @ 21:21
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Game looks like Brute Force with explodable floors, in other words completly shit.
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OneMoreSunday
11/10/08 @ 07:31
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If you click the "Reviews" link on this page, it says Fracture's score is 8 out of 10 instead of 4 :I
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Wow, Eurogamer scoring harshly! Good to see. Personally I (and a number of friends actually) thought the demo was extremely poor. In its ownright, not strikingly bad by any means but held up against similar games it offers nothing.
Deformable terrain is not a strong point to build a game around IMO - smacks of tech leading design. |
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i played fracture(360) and i'm sorry it's never a 4/10, i had a lot of fun, everything is working well and the grounddeformation is fun too
in this review all is written down to crap, i coud not found any of it, very strange or????? it's for sure a 7/10 and nothing less on eurogamer.de the Ps3 version got 8/10 and it's exactly the same game ;) |
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Another review here, doesn't bode so well for the game either - http://parentalguidanceuk.blogspot.com/2...
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