![]() Experience further enhancements on PS5™, including improved framerate, loading times and uncapped dynamic resolution MADE FOR PLAYSTATION®VR & PLAYSTATION®MOVEįracked pulls the action-adventure genre to revolutionary new heights through intuitive 1:1 VR gameplay, motion control and free movement. Fracked is in-your-face action with a cutting commentary on corporate greed and the climate change emergency. Take on an interdimensional army that combines hive mind mentality with gun-wielding supremacy. Physically lean on your skis to master slopes at high speed and reach out and hold on for your life as you climb and zipline far above the ground. Seamlessly transition between a host of free movement methods. Move freely around the battlefield to outflank, outsmart, and outgun your foes using deadly, fully interactive weapons. Uncompromised, audacious and stylish, Fracked grabs PS VR by the Moves and delivers an ass kicking VR game that’s also enhanced for PS5™.Įxperience innovative VR gunplay that blends improvised run and gun combat with 1:1 grabbable cover. Take aim and run head-first into the action as you shoot, ski, and climb your way across an extreme adventure. Stranded in a remote mountain facility, you play as a reluctant hero forced into a final stand between the planet and a legion of interdimensional enemies. Box office: 01243 781312.From the creators of Phantom: Covert Ops, Fracked is the trailblazing new VR action adventure that seamlessly collides relentless gunfights with free skiing, running and climbing. At Minerva theatre, Chichester, until 6 August.It makes its points not through dialectic but through dark comedy, and endorses direct action while admitting that: “We support the right to protest as long as it doesn’t change anything.” Yet in the case of fracking, you feel it just might. The play is a buoyant addition to the swelling ranks of environmental dramas. Michael Simkins as the fraught energy boss and Freddie Meredith as a green-haired protester also fill out less well-developed roles. James Bolam is equally good as her disgruntled husband who punctures the myth of the rural idyll by moaning “another aromatherapist is setting up in the village”. Anne Reid plays Elizabeth excellently as a middle-class woman who instinctively shuns the limelight and who is drawn reluctantly into the belief that direct action is the only answer when democracy fails. Beaton also avoids the trap of turning the anti-fracking community into self-righteous do-gooders. The unholy Joe is played, in Richard Wilson’s fast-moving production, by Oliver Chris with exactly the right blend of public suavity and private contempt for his client and for his campaigning opponents. While he embodies everything Beaton detests about contemporary capitalism, the character gives the play its own rampant energy. He forbids his client to use the word “fracking” because of its ugly sound and sexual connotations, shows how an ad campaign based on reassurance turns to one playing on public fear and buys off a wavering local councillor through naked bribery. But no one says satire has to be fair and the play’s big strength lies in its portrait of the diabolically smart, amoral PR man. As it is, even the energy company boss, although a decent man, sanctions the disposal of toxic waste into a large river. I suspect the play would be even stronger if it gave some weight to the advocates of fracking. What starts as an Ayckbournish comedy, with a public meeting bedevilled by a faulty amplification system, turns into a full-on endorsement of unpeaceful protest. The other involves a PR guru, Joe, who specialises in reputation management and puts a gloss on the activities of a company that aims to start drilling in the fictional village of Fernstock. One deals with a retired medieval historian, Elizabeth, who is driven from writing letters to the newspapers into direct action by her horror at the environmental consequences of fracking. Beaton’s play is set in the near future – where Boris Johnson has just resigned as foreign secretary, having become an international pariah – and interweaves two plot strands.
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