Following Star Wars: The Force Unleashed from the bowels of Lucas Arts was another gunman. This time he intends to be sold not by the terrible coughing Darth Vader, and thanks to the unique opportunity to freely deform the landscape ....
In the pessimistic version of the future of Fracture greenhouse broke no joke: the North Pole melted glaciers and continents around the world began to go under the water. To combat the cataclysm, scientists have come up with a special unit, which can change the amount of land, and with it kept North America above sea level. Pretty stupid, it should be noted, a way to fight global warming, but something just did not invent the writers to justify the new tricks in the gameplay. By this time, according to the story, scientists completely recreated the mechanism of action of stem cells and even appeared fanatics trying to take a superman. They began to modify the people at the genetic level, while all the others did the same, but with the help of cybernetics. Soon the United States split into two warring camps - the fans of the "natural" modifications proclaimed himself a "Pacific Republic", and cybernetics have been called "Atlantic Alliance". For unknown reasons, namely the Alliance soldiers are withdrawn in the game "pious" and Republicans, respectively, the villains.
Acquainted with this wonderful story you can, if you bother to peruse the numerous interviews with the developers. In the game everything seems much easier: there are red marines, there are green, and they fight among themselves. And the Reds in the arsenal of guns, going up and down layers of soil.
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One such tool is attached to the hand of the protagonist. Press LB and RB (in the Xbox 360 version) you deformiruete world, with the charge of guns filled very quickly - terraforming can be practiced almost without stopping. With such weapons on the battlefield feels like a map editor: a panorama of the level of a few seconds changed beyond recognition. In addition to the arsenal includes four types of tectonic grenades: two of them with a special explosion lowered or raised ground, and the third creates a hill (very soon "post"), and the latter is a small hurricane. With all this wealth remains unclear just one - and what actually deform the ground in a shooter?
Replies developers have prepared a few: "to create a shelter and hide from the bullets," to throw enemies increase and a second lead them out of combat "," to finally solve the puzzle. "Sorry, shelter of the hills are obtained useless, enemies do not lose their composure after a slight nudge, and the puzzles the authors came up with only two pieces (and only try to present them in different ways): either "to raise the bridge pillar of the earth" or "deform terrain, to connect or separate the contacts of large machinery. And remains the main unique feature of Fracture hanging in the air, nobody really not needed.
And yet the gameplay it has left its mark. Since the terrain on the battlefield constantly changing, the enemies have given so much "universal" intellect, that they are in any situation behave like complete idiots. For example, run all in a heap directly at you with guns blazing. A decent crowd here - just mind every single enemy did not come out, try to take a number. Fight alone against ten to twenty soldiers - in Fracture rate. And doubly sad that any attempt to tactically use the strain relief is doomed to failure. Calculation is required here, only to find the flammable barrels and undermine all ten idiots at once. Itself terraforming works fine, but in a game of it except remember that out of boredom.
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Fracture does not expect that someone will undertake the re-transmission. The only thing that can do bored players - to gather at the levels of all the hundreds of "secret bonuses. For finding the first ten offers access to an additional level ground. As the secrets of finding out there there are more weapons and in the end even open transport. At this level there are dedicated buttons for calling the enemies and clear the map objects. Fun to play with them - a pity that such opportunities do not occur in the very story campaign.
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A bored by monotonous, featureless levels of Fracture you have time. Remove from futuristic locations of enemies and bonuses, and they can not hesitating to use at least once a game for "Star Wars", though an amateur conversion of Halo - vivid and memorable Fracture will not name. The original came out only levels with transport - a fancy buggy can dig under the ground and make a makeshift ramps.
But hey Cheer up, there in Fracture and something unqualified good - interesting weapons. For example, with a grenade launcher "Black Widow" can be spread directly on the level of a few bombs and detonate them all at once, with a gun ALM-37 - freeze enemies, and with the ST4 - releasing underground torpedo. Enemies, too, have tried to diversify. Some of them can teleport, others jump on the level as grasshoppers, and others and did crawl under the ground.
And in multiplayer competitive mode, this time in small arenas converge to 12 players, and everyone is trying in his own way to change the landscape. There is always a mess, but matches are obtained, at least, unusual. Here are just a few months the server has certainly become empty.
Yes, Fracture does not call a bad game, but it is not high marks. Even with a set of interesting mechanic project remains a mediocre shooter without a rod, a year of him and no one will remember. Good idea with the deformation of the soil, unfortunately, not been able to pull on his entire game.
| SECRET! |
Go to the menu during a single game and press: Up, Right, Left, Down, Up, Left, Right, Down. This opens an alternate costume for the character.
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