Monday, April 9, 2007

Fracture Movie Site

Stumbled on this site today and it really makes good use of video to tell the story. Although too much I think, they make you sit through full clips with no skip before you can get to the EPK content like synopsis. Still a new way of using the sliding nav made famous by Flash gurus about 2 years ago.

It has a cool feature that allows you to collect evidence and displays how much evidence you have collected on a percentage scale. The only problem is that I tried about 3 times and the first time it went to 119% and the other two times it wouldn't go past 87% and 92%. Also there is some confusion as it seems there are 2 percentage counters. Either way it's frustrating to users when the readout says 150% and the the text says you need 100% of the evidence to open something up. The treasure/scavenger hunt with rewards is a fairly common with entertainment sites and usually fun engaging experience. A while back the site for Night at the Museum did one as well where you had to collect artifacts and that one never worked either, they had the opposite problem, seemed the cache would remember what you had collected and display it but in actuality the variables had not been set, so you really had not collected the items after all.

Here's the link to the Fracture movie site
http://www.fracturemovie.com/

Rating: 7.0

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