Fracture is "Competition for Gears of War"

Lucasarts' terrain-deforming shooter Fracture - which is in the shops today - is definitely competition for genre big boys Gears of War and Resistance 2, the developer told CVG.

Speaking to us in a recent interview, Lucasarts producer Shara Miller said that players going back to other shooters after Fracture will miss terrain deformation, which is apparently proof that the feature isn't a gimmick.

"When we've done focus groups people have said, 'This is definitely a Gears quality game' and 'Why can't I have terrain deformation in Halo?'," she said, "so it's great to be compared to those really well loved games.

"For a new IP I think that we've done a great job of evoking in people's minds that it's a game of that calibre."

You say your half-assed gimmick based game is a contender alongside Epic and Bungie, and then you roll a line like:

According to Miller it was important to Lucasarts to get Fracture out before the Christmas onslaught. "That was very important to us," she said.

That?!

IGN and myself think differently...

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Fracture= 5/10

Competition for Gears 2...LOL

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Its sad when devs rely so heavily on a single hook, that isnt even very interesting.  If they made a 'Populous' minigame however...

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NTGneDh-SMY&NR=1

....EA

Plus any game with a bald-headed space marine as the main character automatically gets minus points from now on.

Fracture is competition for Red Faction

Terrain deformation = awesome, but it the game still has to be good

"If you knew how good I am you would think I'm modest."

Plus any game with a bald-headed space marine as the main character automatically gets minus points from now on.

Unless the voice acting is done by Jason Statham.

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Actually that would be cool.  :P

No game in November will be competition for Gears except World at War.

I dont want to celebrate, I want to sell you hate.

Left4Dead

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Agent Ghost


Left4Dead

No where near the PR and Marketing buzz of Gears or WaW.

I dont want to celebrate, I want to sell you hate.

Some people will still buy Left4Dead over Gears 2.

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immortaldanmx

Agent Ghost


Left4Dead

No where near the PR and Marketing buzz of Gears or WaW.

You'd be surprised how many people buy games over Steam now. They may not have a lot of advertising for wider appeal, but they sure can reach 30+ million Steam users pretty quickly. This is where most of L4D's sales will come from.

I'm definitely buying Left4Dead before Gears 2, I mean I was even before that fateful day.