Fracture (2008) - Video Game Review

[caption id="attachment_330" align="alignright" width="220"] Official Score = 2 1/2 Devils[/caption]

You know, I have to admit, the more I get in to these modern, Horror/Science Fiction video games, the more I find that I really like them!

You see for me, I pretty much skipped over a few generations of some of the video game systems that are now considered to be 'retro'... A good example (albeit I have to admit that I am glad I skipped it), was the era of, 'Playstation 2' & the like... Don't get me wrong, I know that there are people that probably are out there that still swear by this system... But the few games I did have the opportunity to play on it, I found to be so boring that I ended up just skipping that generation entirely... Well thank god that with the birth of the XBox 360 and other more modern video game systems that we have relief!

And one of the games that I recently played that is the reason that I mention all of that is the video game, 'Fracture' (2008)!

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="640"] This game is literally, 'Groundbreaking'![/caption]

Developed by: Day 1 Studios and Published by: LucasArts for both the Playstation 3 & the XBox 360, this video game told the story of a future Earth, where in the United States, the population has become so divided by the East Coast side and their belief in perfecting mankind's technological acumen, and the west coasts belief that mankind should focus on improving man itself, that a civil war erupts that will eventually involve the newly formed, 'Alliance' (really east coast forces with some international assistance), and the, 'Pacificans' of Pacifica... (A newly formed nation on the west coast of North America.)

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="480"] The battle in Washington for the fate of the, 'Alliance'...[/caption]

The truth is, is this game has an amazing story, with shockingly fun special effects, and great graphics... The problems... The controls are a little bit difficult to maintain (especially since when I was playing, I continuously ducked when I was fighting (and that is particularly annoying when it came to fighting because ducking really slows you down...)) The other problem that I had... Now before I begin, let me say this... I absolutely love hard games... This game had the hard parts in all the wrong places!

In the end though, despite it's few problems, and I found it worthy of going through, and if you try it out, you might find the same thing as well!

http://youtu.be/BssuyrNxIHs

Star Wars: The Force Unleased (2008) - Video Game Review

[caption id="attachment_330" align="alignright" width="220"] Official Score = 2 1/2 Devils[/caption]

I will admit that I spent some time away from the video game world... So coming back in to the world of video games I found that I was a little bit of a novice, but I got to say that I was really quite impressed! The X-Box 360 is an amazing system that has taken video  games to that point where it has come very close to being a sort of controlled movie! And one of the first Video Games that I played as a novice to the X-Box 360 Was the video game, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (2008)

Based on the Star Wars movie saga, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is a video game that was released by LucasArts for PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii, and Xbox 360 consoles and on the iOS, second-generation N-Gage, Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable, and Java-equipped mobile phone handhelds, and told the story of how just after the Emperor betrays the Jedi, Darth Vader decides to take on his first apprentice in the child of another Jedi...

Now this child's name is, 'Stakiller' and at first would ultimately do anything that his Sith master, 'Darth Vader' asked him to do, including infiltrate the newly formed Rebel Alliance... But while on this mission, the light side of the force so to speak begins to take hold and the longer he spends with the rebels, the more and more he ends up defecting to help the Rebellion... (You could almost say that he did what Luke could never do for Anakin in the movies! )

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="533"] The dark apprentice for Darth Vader is about to get a rude awakening to the truth about his dark master![/caption]

And in the end, Starkiller will end up going after the man who was his father and trying his best to destroy him!

In the end I played this game on X-Box 360, and so I can't really  say how the game was for the other systems, but I can say this about the X-Box 360, it took me a little while to figure out the controls on this one. As for the story, it was pretty awesome... (Although if we consider the fact that the whole reason that Anakin Skywalker went over to the dark side was to protect his family... Then why through out this video game did they not get mentioned?

As for the special effects, they were obviously pretty awesome! And as for the music... Well what can I say... They did a pretty amazing job!

In the end, the only other thing that I don't really understand is why non of the characters from the prequel trilogy were not more predominantly displayed?

This video game is a hard one to get used to, but if you really work on it, trust  me when I say that it is worth the effort!

http://youtu.be/asvKQOJZXcs