The story is weak and fizzles out a bit at the end. Whether than means climbing up a conventional ladder, avoiding an incoming electrical current on a zipwire, or holding onto a helicopter for dear life. But everything else you do aside from wasting hostiles is so much fun. It is a bit short, clocking in at around three hours. It is uncomplicated and undemanding – like the best action movies that inspire these kinds of games. But I feel that keeping things streamlined and simple is part of why the game works so well. Some will argue that Fracked would have benefited from some more enemy types and weapons. I particularly loved the laser guided magnum. There are additional weapons you can pick up, but they are limited use and drop once you have expended all their ammo. This is because you are able to virtually slot cartridges into your gun with ease. Manual reloading is another control aspect that is expertly implemented. You get to keep these two as your main arsenal, switching on the fly. You begin with a weak pistol, and find a machine gun. The AI is surprisingly intelligent, and you will find yourself being flanked on the regular and having to make best use of moving around your environment to survive. They all require different strategies to take down. There are the standard grunts, tanks, and kamikaze style troops. There are also further forays into the skiing side of things, with added snowmobiles and baddies to think about.įracked keeps things simple with just three main types of foe to think about. You’ll veer between crisp arena battles with enemy troops, mild puzzling, precarious climbing, and zipping. Capcom, if you are listening, please give me a VR Steel Battalion. It also made me a bit sad, as I imagined how well this kind of setup could have worked for one of the most crushingly disappointing motion-controlled experiences of my life. There are loads of comfort settings and parameters you can tweak to ensure the best possible time is had by all, which is just lovely. This is a seriously smooth and intuitive experience. It all works so well that I am pleased to say I had absolutely zero issues with the controls. You can comfortably play this from a seated position, with one controller used to wield your firearm and the other used for moving and to go in and out of cover and grab onto stuff. There’s a well implemented cover system that allows you to grab onto the cover and then peer around it. But also to climb, negotiate zipwires, and operate environmental puzzles. You don’t just use them to blast your enemies. Developer nDreams has done extremely well getting a tune out of the ancient Move controllers. Once you have negotiated this life or death Ski Sunday scenario, it is time for the meat and drink of the game. I would have never guessed that the controversial method of gas extraction would give us one of the most entertaining games of the year, but that’s 2021. This rapidly accelerating snowslide has been triggered by – you guessed it – fracking. ![]() Using a turn of the head to steer, your aim is to reach the goal whilst being pursued by an avalanche. Then you are sent slaloming downwards in probably the best homage to James Bond ever committed to a game. You’re dropped onto a snowy slope in a gorgeous cel-shaded world. ![]() You are plunged into the action with immediate, stunning effect. ![]() It has a refreshing sense of immediacy that gets you into the thick of things in as economical a fashion as you could possibly ask for. With a title that sounds like a guttural swear word, Fracked simply doesn’t mess about.
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