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{{refimprove|date= October 2008 }} {{Infobox VG |title=Fracture |image= Fracture front.jpg |developer=[[Day 1 Studios]] |publisher=[[LucasArts]] |designer= |composer=[[Michael Giacchino]]<br>[[Chad Seiter]]<br>[[Chris Tilton]] |engine=Day 1 Studios’ proprietary engine |released={{vgrelease|NA=7 October 2008|EU=10 October 2008}} |genre=[[Third-person shooter]] |modes=[[Single-player]], [[multiplayer video game|multiplayer]] |ratings={{vgratings|ESRB=T|BBFC=12}} |platforms=[[PlayStation 3]], [[Xbox 360]] |media=[[Blu-ray Disc]], [[DVD#Dual layer recording|DVD-DL]] |requirements= |input=[[Gamepad]] }} '''''Fracture''''' is a [[third-person shooter]] [[video game]] developed by [[Day 1 Studios]] for the [[PlayStation 3]] and [[Xbox 360]].<ref name="gamepro">{{cite web |url = http://www.gamepro.com/article/previews/206993/fracture/ |title = Preview: Fracture |accessdate = 2008-09-26 |author = De Marco, Flynn |date = 2008-09-03 |publisher = [[GamePro]] }}</ref> It was released on October 7, 2008 in North America and on October 10, 2008 in Europe.<ref name="ign">{{cite web |url = http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/915/915794p2.html |title = Fracture Review |accessdate = 2008-10-29 |author = Miller, Greg |date = 2008-10-02 |publisher = [[IGN]] }}</ref> ==Story== Set in the year 2161, ''Fracture'' tells the tale of a [[xenophobia|xenophobic]] [[United States]] which has been split into two sides, the [[Pacific]] and the [[Atlantic]], by rising water levels caused by [[global warming]]. The Atlantic is devoted to advancing the technological prowess of humanity, while the Pacific is devoted to enhancing the [[human genome]]. When the xenophobia reaches an unfortunate peak, war erupts, and an army from the Atlantic is dispatched to deal with the Pacific force. Players control Sergeant Jet Brody as he leads his attack team against the Pacific force. His first target is Alcatraz Island, where Brody is able to test all the Pacific's found weapons. Both the Atlantic and the Pacificans have a trade monopoly in the area to promote the sciences. Jet Brody is ordered to capture Sheridan, the Pacifican commander, the player's team is ambushed and Sheridan escapes. During the pursuit in a dropship, the ship is shot down, and Brody is the only survivor of the crash. after evading enemies, he meets up with a squad of Atlantic soldiers. The squad infiltrates a Pacifican bunker, but most of the members are killed shortly afterward. After fighting through the bunker on alone, the player discovers HYDRABALLS, a new, highly explosive Pacifican weapon. After destroying a large number of the weapons, the player breaks through and takes an elevator to a secret underground facility, where the player locates and destroys key manufacturing equipment. After destroying the equipment, the player aids an allied squad in capturing the [[Golden Gate Bridge]] from Pacifican forces and fixing another bridge using multiple spike grenades. The Golden Gate Bridge is captured, but a giant, {{convert|1000|ft|m|adj=mid|-tall}} machine called Dreadnought awakes from the Bay and destroys most of the Atlantic forces, then marches towards the East Coast invincible to aerial attack. The player is taken out of San Francisco to a remote Pacifican base in the desert, where he is supposed to find information about destroying the Dreadnought. Along the way to the communications center the player fights a new enemy, the ground-burrowing Creepers, and shuts down the base's defense systems by destroying power generators. Brody also destroys both the radar systems and their generators, therefore knocking out all Pacifican communications. At this point in the game the player is required to use the Lodestone, a vortex-creating weapon, to solve platform puzzles by creating magnetic vortices. Also introduced are the super-fast Cheetah soldiers, who can move from place to place in the blink of an eye. Next Brody encounters a creature called the Bolla, a large [[minotaur]]-like monster that throws boulders and charges the player. After killing the Bolla Brody is given an Alliance vehicle, the TDV1, that has an automatic turret and terrain deformation powers. Using the TDV1, the player is supposed to jump large pits of toxic chemicals and destroy the base's supercomputer, while fighting Pacifican soldiers and another Bolla. At this point the base's supercomputer goes on meltdown and starts destroying the base, just as the player receives another TDV1 to escape to a landing pad. Sheridan escapes once again, this time with some of the toxin, and locks a traitorous biologist, named Marico, in a prison cell guarded by a Pacifican squad. The player must destroy the Pacifican forces and rescue Matsuharo before proceeding to [[Washington, D.C.]] to destroy the Dreadnought and take down Sheridan. Another boss creature, the Spike Flyer that can create personal [[shields]], is encountered as well as another Bolla as Brody brings the defense shields back online by connecting the generator beams together. Brody breaks the Dreadnought's shields and destroys it from the inside, then kills Sheridan in a final battle to destroy the Pacifican Army. ==Enemies in Fracture== Pacificans-The common grunts of the Pacifican army. Armed with light machine guns, they are the main infantry force of Pacifica. Raptors-Heavier Pacifican infantrymen armed with heavy rifles as well as grenades. Although harder to take down, they are less in number than regular Pacificans. Hydras-Barely human, these genetically engineered humanoids can jump VERY high and often carry rocket launchers to fire when up in the air. They have only light armor to give lift, and as a consequence can take only a small beating before death. Shermans-a prototype, heavily armored, grenade launching brute. Launch neon-green grenades that cause extreme damage and pack a punch with their firepower. They also explode on death. Invaders-soldiers with heavy armor, can only be taked down with explosives, melee or headshots. They use shotguns as their weapon. Creepers-Nonhuman, burrowing monsters that turn on Pacificans just as they would the enemy. Can be dug out with terrain deformation. Bollas-Giant, minotaur-like monsters that can charge and smash enemies. Can only be hit in certain areas. Spike Hydras-Hydras that use spikes from the ground to create personal shields. Use rocket launchers as well. Cheetahs-Superfast, land-based Pacifican supersoldiers. Use machine guns and can go at the speed of light. ==Gameplay== Fracture's unique selling point is its [[deformable terrain]]. The player has futuristic weapons, both in the form of guns and grenades which can raise or lower the terrain. This ability allows the player to create cover, jump to areas not normally reachable, and launch enemies into the air and into ceilings. Examples are the entrencher, the tectonic grenade, and the subsonic grenade.<ref name="gamepro"/> The player can collect data cells to unlock a weapons testing facility and the weapons within it. Notably, the game requires puzzle solving using terrain deformation. ==Development== Music for the game was composed by composer [[Michael Giacchino]] along with [[Chad Seiter]] and [[Chris Tilton]]. {{clear}} ==Reception== {{VG Reviews | EuroG=4/10 | IGN=5.9/10<ref name="ign" /> | GameZone=6.5/10 | Gamespot=6/10 | GT=7.2/10 | TX=7.8/10 | OXM=6.8/10 | OPMUK=6.0/10 | X-Play=3/5 | GI=7.5/10 }} ''Fracture'' received average to mixed reviews with [[IGN]] giving ''Fracture'' a 5.9 stating poor sound effects, lack of replayability, and repetitiveness as reasons for its low review score.<ref name="ign" /> [[1UP.com]] criticized ''Fracture'' for taking multiple features from other shooters such as ''[[Halo (series)|Halo]]'', ''[[Gears of War]]'' and ''[[Resistance: Fall of Man]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3170407&p=4 |title = Fracture Review |accessdate = 2008-10-29 |author = Suttner, Nick |date = 2008-10-07 |publisher = [[1UP.com]] }}</ref> ''Electronic Gaming Monthly'' described character Jet Brody as "perhaps the single most derivative character in the modern age of gaming, a direct combination of the heroes from Resistance/Mass Effect/Gears of War/Too Human. If the narrative weren't so staunchly heavy-handed, I'd put my money on Brody being a literal parody of shooter-genre character [[Trope (literature)|tropes]]."<ref name="egm">Nick, "''Fracture'': Crumbling under a mediocre crust" ''Electronic Gaming Monthly'' 234 (November 2008): 73.</ref> ''Game Informer'' continued this theme by ranking Brody first on its list of "the top 10 worst character names."<ref>"The Top 10 Worst Character Names," ''Game Informer'' 188 (December 2008): 22.</ref> Moving beyond the character's name, ''Game Informer'' notes that “Jet Brody is a detailed character, but ends up looking like an Unreal reject.”<ref>Reiner, “Fracture: Reshaping the Battlefield,” ''Game Informer'' 187 (November 2008): 123.</ref> By contrast, ''Electronic Gaming Monthly'' describes the Entrencher gun as "''Fracture'''s ''true'' star."<ref name="egm"/> ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== *[http://www.fracturegame.com/ Official Website] *[http://community.fracturegame.com/ Fracture Community Website] *[http://www.lucasarts.com/company/release/news20070502.html Press Release] *[http://gamia.gamepedia.com/index.php?title=Fracture ''Fracture'' on Gaming.Wiki] *[http://xbox360.gamezone.com/news/05_15_07_11_07AM.htm Inteview at Gamezone] {{DEFAULTSORT:Fracture (Video Game)}} [[Category:2008 video games]] [[Category:LucasArts games]] [[Category:PlayStation 3 games]] [[Category:Science fiction video games]] [[Category:Third-person shooters]] [[Category:Video games developed in the United States]] [[Category:Xbox 360 games]] [[ja:フラクチャー]]
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