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LucasArts Breaks Ground On New Fracture Website
Posted by Mike Fahey at 2:40 AM on May 31, 2008
LucasArts and Day 1 Studios is getting ready to release their terraforming shooter Fracture this fall, and they're rolled out the newly updated website for the game to help get the hype train started right! Along with the standard videos, screenshots, and developer blogs, the site is launching a brand new community-oriented Wiki site that will allow fans to interact and access exclusive content meant just for those who care enough to hang about and their friends in the gaming press.
You can visit the newly updated site at http://www.fracturegame.com, and be sure to tune into GameTrailers TV tonight on Spike for the premiere of the new Fracture trailer. Hype machine away!
LucasArts Launches Newly Updated Fracture™ Website; Prepares Fall Release
"Groundbreaking" Action Game Web Site Features Development Blog, Community Forums, Gameplay Videos, Screenshots and Much More
Fracture Exclusive Trailer Premiers on Gametrailers TV Friday, May 30th at 10:00pm PT/1:00am ET
LucasArts and development partner Day 1 Studios today announced the redesign and relaunch of the Fracture™ Web site. The newly enhanced site will allow fans of LucasArts' newest franchise to explore, interact and immerse themselves in the world of Fracture like never before. Development blogs, podcasts, contests as well as a plethora of videos, screenshots, story details and other background information are now just a click away at http://www.fracturegame.com. Fracture is slated for release in October 2008.
To complement the newly updated Fracture website, LucasArts will also offer gamers the opportunity to immerse themselves in a special community-oriented Wiki site. The site will give gamers the chance to interact with other fans of Fracture, watch exclusive videos, and gain access to in-depth information about the exciting features to be found in the game. Discuss Fracture and interact with other fans at http://community.fracturegame.com.
Fracture takes place in the year 2161. A series of ecological and seismological disasters have radically altered the planet's landscape, and a classic ideological clash between the genetically altered Pacificans and the cybernetically enhanced Atlantic Alliance has brought the world to the brink of war. Players find themselves right in the middle of the genetic vs. cybernetic conflict as Jet Brody, a highly trained weapons expert fighting for the Alliance.
Fracture features truly next-generation gameplay with the use of "groundbreaking" terrain deformation engine technology. Players are able to literally reshape the battlefield as they see fit using advanced, futuristic weaponry that provides unprecedented power, freedom and control. Use Tectonic Grenades to jolt the ground skywards to access otherwise unreachable areas; take out hidden enemies with strategic use of the Torpedo Gun; or, blast out a crater to provide cover with the Entrencher during particularly intense encounters.
Fracture will be available October 2008 for Xbox 360™ and PLAYSTATION®3. More information about the game can be found at the official Fracture site, www.fracturegame.com.
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FightingChance
Posted 3:21 AM 31/5/08
David Beckham?
Looks like a cool testbed for some new gameplay technology. Pity the character design is so trite.
Someone should really make a collage of all the bald space marines in games.
FightingChance
karasu is my homeboy
Posted 3:15 AM 31/5/08
Been following this for a while. It's a pretty cool idea, I hope x 1,000 it's fun.
karasu is my homeboy
Xeeros
Posted 3:13 AM 31/5/08
in a galaxy far far away?
Xeeros
onidavin
Posted 3:13 AM 31/5/08
@Arklop: No, don't. That's really nerdy!
Seriously though that's very semantic.
onidavin
Krondonian
Posted 3:12 AM 31/5/08
That is one very nice site there. Although the short terrain deformation clips take ages to load.
I really like the idea of this, as something different within the FPS genre is really needed, I think. However, after watching some of the video's, the actual deforming just looks weird, with the land looking similar to the hilariously bad water effects in the first Ratchet and Clank. It also seems that the weapons fall into a limited number of categories for actually changing the landscape. However, I'm still optimistic that it'll be good fun at the very least.
Krondonian
redgopher
Posted 3:12 AM 31/5/08
@LittleBigPlaneteer: Yeah, and it's called Unreal Tournament III.
[www.gameguru.in]
redgopher
glibby
Posted 3:11 AM 31/5/08
Massive Gears of War? Effective?
glibby
Arklop
Posted 3:09 AM 31/5/08
@pagancollective:
Star Wars is not futuristic. It's from "a long time ago."
Arklop
7ucky
Posted 3:09 AM 31/5/08
@iRloading: What does? That picture of some guy from UT3? :D
7ucky
debloon
Posted 3:07 AM 31/5/08
Man I hope this game doesn't suck.
debloon
LittleBigPlaneteer
Posted 3:07 AM 31/5/08
@Mike Fahey:
Kinda Indiana Jonesy at some points. I like it too
LittleBigPlaneteer
iRloading
Posted 3:05 AM 31/5/08
reminds me of red faction.
iRloading
enewtabie
Posted 2:58 AM 31/5/08
@WordMan:
The character and suits were changed.
enewtabie
Mike Fahey
Posted 2:57 AM 31/5/08
I actually really like the music on the website. Forgot to mention that.
Mike Fahey
pagancollective
Posted 2:56 AM 31/5/08
@scrappy:
B...bu...but how are they going to milk a franchise that isn't already established?
pagancollective
Shiryu
Posted 2:56 AM 31/5/08
I hope this one pulls off the gimmick. At least it's tryign to bring something new to the genre. I got some positive vibes from EDGE's special preview a few months back.
Shiryu
StopTheOncoming
Posted 2:54 AM 31/5/08
BALD SPACE MARINES.
StopTheOncoming
WordMan
Posted 2:53 AM 31/5/08
Where'd the cool flat top go?
WordMan
Cloudizme
Posted 2:53 AM 31/5/08
This could be good from the looks of it.
I look forward to the demo.
Cloudizme
TalKeaton: A Force to be Reckoned With
Posted 2:53 AM 31/5/08
@LittleBigPlaneteer: Character looks like he's straight out of Unreal Tournament 3 to me.
TalKeaton: A Force to be Reckoned With
LittleBigPlaneteer
Posted 2:52 AM 31/5/08
Looks like Mass Effect meets Gears of War
LittleBigPlaneteer
enewtabie
Posted 2:51 AM 31/5/08
Pretty neat..demo on PSN in Aug/Sept.
enewtabie
scrappy
Posted 2:51 AM 31/5/08
@pagancollective:
After some hardcore internet Matlockery, I've come to the conclusion that this game is indeed NOT about Star Wars.
scrappy
pagancollective
Posted 2:48 AM 31/5/08
I don't understand...it says LucasArts...it looks futuristic...yet it isn't a Star Wars game...?
Clearly I'm reading this wrong, if someone could clear this up for me that'd be great.
pagancollective
noots
Posted 3:33 AM 31/5/08
@StopTheOncoming: BALD SPACE MARINES
noots
mind in rewind
Posted 3:33 AM 31/5/08
I dunno, guys. The character's name is Jet Brody. JET BRODY (insert awesome sound effect).
mind in rewind
kosbee
Posted 3:53 AM 31/5/08
Watching all the weapons makes me a little bit wet.
Just a little.
kosbee
Vetterli
Posted 3:52 AM 31/5/08
Will LucasArts finally release a game where the explosions don't look like something from 80s?
Vetterli
TheCakeIsALie
Posted 3:41 AM 31/5/08
Instead making this Mass Effect/UT3/Crysis/Gears of War clone, they could have been getting me my KOTOR 3 more quickly...
T_T
TheCakeIsALie
Jonn
Posted 3:39 AM 31/5/08
@noots: Space marines.
WHO ARE BALD.
Jonn
Ghinn
Posted 4:22 AM 31/5/08
@Arklop: If time is cyclic, then Star Wars also happens in the future.
Ghinn
Count_Elmdor
Posted 4:20 AM 31/5/08
oh, sweet. I've been looking for a game where I cold play as K Fed for a while now.
Count_Elmdor
Arttemis
Posted 3:59 AM 31/5/08
@TheCakeIsALie: Shouldn't you be telling that to BioWare?
@Krondonian: I'm also skeptical about the unusual "deformation" animations. Explosions are one thing, but the ripples seem a bit hokey.
I'm under the impression that this title is used to test the terrain engine for future releases, but if they manage to create some interesting gameplay elements with Fracture, separating it from a generic 3PS, I'm all for it.
Arttemis
MarcusZin
Posted 4:37 AM 31/5/08
Anyone else reminded of the main guy from Haze but wearing a UT3 outfit?
MarcusZin
v-rus
Posted 4:32 AM 31/5/08
The story sounds like crap, but the gameplay sounds kinda interesting
v-rus
JohnnyLA
Posted 5:03 AM 31/5/08
@iRloading - ..reminds me of red faction."
Very, VERY, good eye. The Art Director used to work for Volition on that series and helped create the main characters. I can see that that style influenced this one too. :)
JohnnyLA
Astrofox
Posted 4:57 AM 31/5/08
omg, that character design is so derivative it's embarrassing.
Where is the imagination in this industry?
Astrofox
kidko
Posted 4:47 AM 31/5/08
they just need more dirt/rock particle effects on the rolling terrain (and sweet tearing earth sounds)
kidko
Mearns
Posted 5:34 AM 31/5/08
Hooray, more bulky industrial armor! Just what we apparently love to see!
Mearns
Count_Elmdor
Posted 5:51 AM 31/5/08
@Astrofox,
Strangely enough, when it comes to scenario and character design, the imagination all seems to be coming from Japan at this point. The character designs out of the Shin Megami Tensei series are especially original. Even the MGS series has pretty imaginative villains.
Count_Elmdor
castout
Posted 6:37 AM 31/5/08
i cant wait for this one
castout
SS Ymer
Posted 7:42 AM 31/5/08
That is gonna be one glitchy yet awesome game.
SS Ymer
Eon.
Posted 8:00 AM 31/5/08
I'm officially interested, what time is the new trailer up on GT?
Eon.
TSlade
Posted 1:05 PM 31/5/08
Jet Brody? Really? That's the best they could do?
TSlade
Sullyville
Posted 2:08 AM 1/6/08
I need a name that's more masculine.
How about Dick Pound?
Sullyville
psymunn
Posted 3:11 AM 31/5/08
I instantly thought Mass Effect 2 when I saw that screenshot. Lucasarts only confirmed it for me
In some backwards, 'precoffee' logic, the fact that this was a lucasarts game made perfect sense: 'lucas makes starwars. bioware makes kotor. bioware makes mass effect. it's basically a lucasarts game...'
It's entirely possible that someone at lucasarts went through that same backwards logic leap
psymunn