Fracture Media

..just up and down ?

Gotta get this game, just on the grounds that the main character shares my wacky ass name.

i liked this game better when it was called Populous!

The terrain deformation would look much, MUCH cool if it happened faster. The grenades look like they are causing stuff to grow or move rather than creating some type of devastating reaction that warps the terrain.

Magic Carpet all over again!


:P

Anyone else find that last shot to be INCREDIBLY PHALLIC?

Traditional first person shooters have a lot of "okay, find the key to the gate, and then climb onto the secret overhang to press the button to lower the bridge to the gate" sorts of paths in them, and these sorts of "architectural challenges" are very often are a consequence of forcing the player into an overly restrictive model of navigating the environment (the worst are situations where any reasonably fit human being could easily overcome the obstacles that block you from your goal, like not being able to jump over a small hedge or climb a fence).

I can't picture any game like this working well unless they basically kill "navigational puzzles" altogether, and force the point of the game to be about reacting quickly to monsters/NPC's trying to kill you (which means your enemy AI has to be smart and believable). If they try to be stingy with your opportunities to deform the terrain, and make it heavily about gimmick situations like "hey, you need to balloon the earth upward in this one spot here into a little bridge so you can climb over this chasm!", then it's going to get boring quickly. The core gameplay mechanics are going to have to be fun; it's going to have to be *consistently* fun to knock enemies around again and again and again, because jumping puzzles are going to seem even lamer than usual if you're thinking about how they completely break the free-form aspects in the rest of the game. Especially if they make half the game take place in non-deformable steel or concrete terrain just so they can sneak jumping puzzles in on you to artificially extend the game.

It makes me think a little bit of Tribes, where players did some pretty interesting things getting around the map, between the skiing and jet-pack rocket jumping and all that. If players aren't able to solve most of their navigational hassles just by deforming the terrain in a relatively straightforward way and traversing it, then they'll get frustrated. If the puzzles get too complicated, then people will get hung up on the whole "digging a hole to China" thing and get mad that they've just turned the world upside down and still can't get where they need to be.

TLDR: If they try to market this game around terrain deformation, and then try to shoehorn that into some minor gimmick of a traditional FPS maze-runner, this game will fall flat.

i dont even know what to say...except "meh"

I am always skeptical when a feature is promoted as major point of gameplay.

I don't know what it is, but something just doesn't look right about that. Maybe the slightly lame throw animation or the disconnect between the character and the TERRAIN DEFORMING, but something's definitely amiss...

That looks awesome, but I know I won't enjoy it because it looks like all terrain deformation happens with grenades. I hate using grenades in games because they never seem to go where I want them to. Gears of War had a good grenade system, where it would show you it's approximate trajectory, I don't see any of that in this game though. :(

Looks like some cool new game play elements.

coooooooool. shit choice of music though.

Honestly this terrain deformation has been done before and it's never been a great gameplay gimmick. I admit this looks kinda nice and all, but I get the feeling that it would get boring pretty fast. It looks more like a tech demo than anything else.

Why did they have to make the deformation look like someone threw a stone on a waterbed? :( Couldn't they have made it a little more realistic

Damn, that looks pretty awesome!

Kwame is back, and he's pissed.

Wait, what? I'm confused... I didn't see anything about StarWars....

Multiplayer could be so cool.

WHOA!

/joeylawrence

Is this X360 or PC or both?

This trailer is not new.... saw this Pre-E3 this year.

OH
MY
FUCKING
GOD.