If you didn't read my other blog on Fracture, I'll give you a tiny back story. I started it, got through about an hour of it and hated it. Then, a bunch of people on CAG began to tell me it gets better the deeper you get, and so I decided to give it an honest shot and set out on a mission to beat it. I can't do it. It is horrible.

I picked the game up about at the second mission. I have been playing through it each night up until this morning. I did not have to head off to ye ole' job today, so I got up about 8 and gave it some more of my time. I had to turn it off before I broke my PS3 controller. I only made it to the next to last level before I almost started to curl up into a ball and cry myself to death.

The gameplay half works and half doesn't. The terrain tool is practically useless except for game-forced use in puzzles that are all the same. You can't use it effectively for cover because as soon as you get a decent sized cover wall set up the enemy knocks it right back down. It doesn't harm enemies in any way, and it doesn't really aid in much. Yet the whole game is based around this broken concept that wasn't implemented well at all.

The story takes off into a really odd, confusing, and WTF plot. It starts out with emphasis on this guy named Sheraton and how the west coast uses genetical manipulation to make soldiers while the east coast uses technological advancement to make better soldiers. It ends up turning into you hunting discovering and having to hunt down this big robot. What that has to do with anything, who knows. It really did not keep me engaged at all because I didn't have any clue about what was going on.

The AI made me really lose my temper. They do not work in any kind of tactical way whatsoever. They just come out of their spawn point and start shooting. Every battle is the same. You fight through about 10 enemies, then you move onward, and repeat. The AI is punishingly difficult. I'm not a sissy, I can run through COD4 on veteran easy, but this was horrible. The creepers give you 3 seconds before they pop out of the ground, and then after you kill them, they give you 5 seconds before they are back again. So when you are trying to solve a very delicate puzzle that takes terrain-deforming accuracy, the creepers come and screw you up and usually make you kill yourself by accident. The devs also decided it would be cool to throw 20 enemies at you at one time, 7 of which have deadly rocket launchers, and take about 10 headshots to kill. The enemies are dead accurate and hit you with every shot, even if you are behind cover, and they use grenades CONSTANTLY. You can not stay behind cover worth your life because of all the grenades. At one point, during the drive section which was about 5 minutes before my mental meltdown, there was so much crap going on that the game bugged out on me! My health wouldn't regenerate anymore because the game freaked out. So when I came up on one of the easiest sections, I died instantly because I had no health! Another game bug is that it loads at the worst spots ever. I was in the middle of an intense battle where I had low health and was trying to pull out of it alive when the game decided to start loading. When it came back, I was in a total different spot of the map and I had half a bar of health lower and then within 2 seconds (literally) I died.

This game is broken in my opinion, and I don't see why the devs released this in the first place. I can't put it back in my PS3. There is just no reason or point to beating the last two levels and dealing with the bugs and horrible/punishing gameplay. What motivation do I have? The story is not good at all, so I really don't care what the hell happens to "Jet Brody" or the east coast. I would pay that Sheraton asshole to blow the east coast up and take my copy of Fracture with him!

I give on this game. I have a 20 game backlog of other gamers I have been waiting to get to, and this game is not worth my time. And as far as the glitches and bugs go, it was not my PS3's blu-ray drive or hard drive because Far Cry 2 has been working for about 2 hours now, and I haven't seen a single load screen or bug.

I'm wondering though, has anybody else had this horrible of an experience?