Reshape the battlefield – and the fate – of a broken nation in Fracture™.
Amidst
a backdrop of worldwide ecological and seismological chaos in the
mid-2100s, the United States has been split in two by the "Great
Flood". As a result of the polar ice cap melting, the Mississippi River
has destroyed the central portion of the United States, causing an
ill-equipped Federal Government to fail and literally cutting the
country in half. These two halves are left to fend for themselves in
the aftermath. The East, now known as the Atlantic Alliance,
symbolic of their union with Europe, puts its faith in surviving this
new world in cybernetics, an established yet evolving technology now
more than 150 years old. On the other side of the flooded continent,
the Western states, now called the Republic of Pacifica and having
allied with Asia, resort to solving their problems at the genetic
level, effectively restructuring the DNA of its inhabitants – a method
the Atlantic Alliance finds morally reprehensible. By 2161, it
only takes a hint of unauthorised military preparation in Pacifica for
the newly restored president to order a strike in the heart of
Pacifican territory - an outpost in the now dry San Francisco Bay. This
strike leads to the unthinkable: an epic conflict with global
implications fought on U.S. soil. As a soldier in this struggle, Mason
Briggs uses explosive, terrain-deforming weaponry to change the face of
battle: He not only destroys the land in his path, he outright
transforms it to gain the strategic advantage in completely unscripted
ways no game has ever seen. With such a devastating arsenal at hand,
Briggs never leaves any battlefield the way he found it. In
addition to extraordinary weaponry that allows players to do things
previously only imagined, each side of the conflict, Pacifica and the
Atlantic Alliance, boast soldiers with powers beyond those of ordinary
men. Genetic augmentations provide Pacifican forces with amazing
abilities, while Atlantic Alliance soldiers like Briggs counter the
threat with the more "traditional" method: cybernetics. The differing
states of superhumanity result in balanced yet stylistically different
combat tactics that have never been seen before. FEATURES: - Truly next-generation gameplay:
Groundbreaking terrain deformation allows players to reshape the
battlefield on the fly with futuristic weaponry of the year 2161,
allowing for unprecedented power, freedom and control.
- All new
story and characters from the company that brought you Star Wars and
Indiana Jones, as well as Mercenaries and Thrillville – Players assume
the role of Mason Briggs, a demolitions expert in the mighty Atlantic
Alliance army and the next great action hero.
- Plausible future conflict:
As stem cell research continues to proliferate and spirals out of
control, ideological differences over genetic enhancement place the
player at the threshold of an epic battle of tomorrow between genetics
vs. cybernetics as two powerful armies, with vastly differing tactics
and advantages, square off. The battlefield will change forever.
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