The Mad Gamer: Lucas making another blockbuster 2007-06-03
LucasArts - games developer of Star Wars and Indiana Jones fame (to name but a few) - is working on a major next-gen futuristic sci-fi war game called Fracture for PS3 and Xbox360 due to be released next March.
Development partner Day 1 studio wants it to be groundbreaking and promises that players will reshape the battlefields in a futuristic conflict with global implications. This epic war fought on American soil pits cybernetically enhanced soldiers against warriors who are augmented by the benefits of advanced genetic engineering.
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 devastation and 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 and 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 unauthorized military preparation in Pacifica for the newly restored
