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Radioactive IT Review: Fracture – not all it’s cracked up to be
Radioactive IT Review: Fracture – not all it’s cracked up to be | Review: Fracture – not all it’s cracked up to be |
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| by Mike Bantick | ||||||||||||||||
| Monday, 20 October 2008 | ||||||||||||||||
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Unlike the pulp fiction world of a divided United States presented in such games as Crimson Skies, Fracture gives us a totally divided world where the Eastern half of the U.S. has teamed up with Europe to form the Atlantic Alliance (AA), whilst the West has thrown its lot in with Asia under the banner of Pacifica. Now the AA has put its faith into technology; big guns, sleek vehicles and armour augmentation are the flavours of the military month. Meanwhile those dirty dirty Pacificans have been dabbling in DNA manipulation to create an army of super humans. Being divided by the ‘great flood’ of the Mississippi River is not enough to keep these two factions from coming together in warfare, and that’s where Mason Briggs steps in. Playing the part of Briggs, the player must spearhead an assault deep into Pacifican territory, starting with the desolate and dry San Francisco Bay area. Dropped in with a couple of AA buddies, Briggs races to capture the Pacifican leader Sheridan in a cross country cat-and-mouse game. The main Fracture gimmick is the Entrencher, along with more traditional armament; Briggs carries the Entrencher enabling – within reason – him to alter the height of battlefield terrain. With a quick blast, Briggs can create a barrier between himself and the enemy, or dig a new path under a wall, or enable access to a previously high ledge. The Entrencher is at the heart of Fracture game play, and once you have the hang of it, is essential to game progression. All I could think was “How cool is this going to be in multiplayer?” CONTINUED on page 2 |
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