New ideas often seem few and far between in shooters, but Facture goes out of its way to be different. Amongst all the usual guns, rocket launchers, and bombs your most basic weapon is the Entrencher, which is able to instantly create two foot deep craters in the ground or raise up the earth by the same amount.

Naturally this comes in handy for getting around the game world--helping you reach inaccessible areas or tunnel under fences--and as a means to create cover for yourself or to take it away from your enemies. You even can throw special grenades that can cause the same effects at a distance.

Key Features

• World at your command: Raise or lower the ground to shield yourself from enemies, dislodge barrels and boulders, or uncover underground secrets.
• Explosive power: Special grenades can replicate the effects of the Entrencher tool, creating an instant vertical shaft of rock, or summon a mini tornado to sweep up the enemy.
• Tech war: Climb aboard a range of different vehicles and gun emplacements, and fight back against your enemies and their own unique biological weapons.
• Land shark: Special weapons include the torpedo launcher, which tunnels under the ground ,or the ice gun which turns enemiesinto ice cubes.
• Online deconstruction: Pit your skills against human opponents in massive 12-player online matches, where everyone can morph the map to suit their needs.

About the Developer: Day 1 Studios
Founded in 2001, American developer Day 1 Studios’ first game was MechAssault--an early adopter of of Xbox Live online play. As well as working on the sequel, Day 1 also created the console versions of F.E.A.R. and all-new game Fracture for LucasArts.

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 cut the country in half. These two halves are left to fend for themselves in the 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 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.

• Reshape the battlefield with terrain shattering weapons: Experience a dynamic battlefield that is unique every time you play. Use never-before-seen weapons to fracture, crater, freeze or elevate the earth.
• Experience a story of betrayal and revenge: Follow the journey of a patriotic Atlantic Alliance soldier when an act of treason launches him into the lethal battlefield of the 22nd century.
• Multiplayer play allows the terrain deforming battles to rage on: Choose the side of the genetically enhanced Pacificans or the cybernetically powerful Atlantic Alliance.
• Fight for the control of familiar locations and landmarks: The last Word Wars were fought in Europe, but the next great global war will be fought on American soil. Battle in famous locations across the United States.