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Crackdown (Xbox 360)

Crackdown (Xbox 360)
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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #1200 in Computer & Video Games
  • Brand: Microsoft
  • Released on: 2007-02-20
  • Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
  • ESRB Rating: Mature
  • Platform: Xbox 360

Editorial Reviews

Manufacturer's Description
Crackdown pushes the action-driving hybrid genre into the next generation with the first ever truly 3-D playground. Gamers will enforce justice by any means necessary in Pacific City, a crime-ridden urban center built to encourage the exploration of the full width, depth and height of the city. Coupled with highly innovative co-op gameplay--a genre first--and an interactive world where nearly anything can be used as a weapon, gamers will be able to create a volatile cocktail of judicial oppression as they clean up the streets.

Features:

  • Brilliant experience from a legendary game designer. From Dave Jones, the creative mastermind behind Grand Theft Auto and Lemmings, comes Crackdown an explosive masterpiece set to define open-world, free-form next-generation gaming.
  • True next-generation visuals. Harnessing the power of Xbox 360, Crackdown players enforce justice against the backdrop of a crime-ridden metropolis that is massive in scale, monstrous in scope and meticulous in detail. The unique presentation style employs a highly stylized rendering technique that turns the game into a living graphical novel.
  • Cooperative gameplay for double the mayhem. From the game's initial concept to final design, Real Time Worlds focused on delivering dynamic, engaging cooperative gameplay for double the carnage, action and intensity.
  • 3-D free-form gameplay. For the first time ever, an urban playground has been created to encourage players to explore and exploit the full width, depth and height of a city. Players wage war on the crime syndicates by taking part in high-octane chases on foot and on wheels while using any appropriate route along, around, across, over, under or through the environment. Freedom abounds because it is up to the player to determine how best to complete the nonlinear objectives in a myriad of wild and creative ways.
  • Over-the-top action. All strategies and tactics are acceptable, provided players reclaim the streets by unleashing the awesome abilities inside each agent. As players develop and hone their gameplay skills, their agent's genetic tendencies will increase, allowing players to realize their agent's full potential. Players will be able to run at dazzling speeds, take death-defying leaps, handle the most incredible weapons, perform impossible vehicular maneuvers, move massive objects and deliver bone-crushing blows.
  • Music as environment. More than 100 licensed tracks, spanning a wide range of styles and genres, give audio identities to characters and locations in Crackdown. The music coupled with a next-generation use of 5.1 surround sound will let gamers know just from the music and sound effects they hear which crime syndicate is headed their way.
  • The environment as a weapon. Is a character low on ammo? No problem. Thanks to an amazing amount of props and a deep physics system, players can use whatever they can get their hands on as weapons trash cans, vehicles, even people to clean the streets of crime. In Crackdown the effects of the players' actions stay in place much longer than in other open-environment titles, giving gamers a far greater range of options when setting the scene for mass destruction. If players gather vehicles to create a barricade, they will be there when the they return with more. Gamers can create an arrangement of explosives and come back later to set the explosion. Crackdown remembers, and reacts, to the players' actions within the game world.

    • Customer Reviews

    Ideal post pub-game4
    As a one liner intro to this review: this is a good game that I would recommend to any recreational gamer (if you are the type who plays a game 24/7 for 3 weeks and then says 'there is nothing to this game' then it's not for you).

    Yes, it lacks a 'real' story line to follow through in the manner the likes of Gears of war/Lost Planet do, but then this is in a different genre. What it does give you is the ability to 'mess around' that a lot of the other X360 games just don't. I must admit I spent hours just driving/running around doing tricks and stuff completely ignoring the plot just to see what the game can do - and it certainly does not disappoint.

    For me this is the greatest thing about this game, you can turn it on for 5 minutes or for 5 hours and you can get something out of it without worrying about 'getting stuck' and walking away - it all depends on what you are looking for. Similarly it's 'mess around' factor makes it a good social game if you have a few mates back post pub, in the same way GTA did on the PS2.

    Just to quickly address some other reviews - I have had this game for about 2 months, and whilst I don't play on it continuously, it is still something I go back to and enjoy. I leant it to my brother for a week and he has now gone out and bought it. Similarly I found the targeting and controls absolutely fine.

    Buy if:

    - You like to mess around and not follow a restrictive story line
    - You like GTA series but want a superman/batman angle on it (or can't be bothered to wait for new release)
    - Aren't too bothered about ultra-realism, the graphics are supposed to be kind of cartoony/marvel I guess

    Don't buy if:

    - You are going to spend 8 hours a day playing (you'll prob get bored due to the next point)
    - You want a major story to get involved in
    - You expect this to be a 'proper' shooter, this is NOTHING like Gears of war etc.
    - You have a girlfriend who says things like 'this is a bit silly, its not very realistic'

    If you aren't sure then rent/borrow first.You'll know within a few hours whether you like the format or not.

    Very good game, next gen4
    Crackdown is a very clever, original game and one of a few recent releases showing the gamer what next gen really means.
    The basic concept involves playing a tough cop keeping a city undercontrol. The difference is that you're equipped with superpowers to help you with the job. This was the game Superman Returns should have been, it's also gritty and utterly entertaining. The graphics are beautiful and the game is entirely captivating, worth playing for anyone with a 360.

    Drunken Fun3
    First and foremost, the game has plenty of fun. I got it, and played it, and like all good games, the time passed very very quickly.

    So why only the 3 stars?

    Well, it is all the same. What you do is jump around buildings, and kill the baddies. It has road races and foot races, coupled with some stunt things that you can try out, but other than that, the game fails to have anything concrete. Yes you can pick up anything and use it as a weapon, whether it be a dead body, or an enemies car... which does make for an amusing and fun filled game, but if you want a game with a bit more substance, then there are better titles out there. this is a game which is purely meant to be played on with little to no thinking. I have never had a problem with dying int he game as some people have, and i started on the medium diff setting.. so they were obviously doing something wrong... taking out the bosses after 30 mins play time was advised against at the start of the game!!

    The graphics are amazing, and i would probably rate them next to GOW, although they have a different feel to them... i think it is more like the comic 2000AD's 'rogue'

    There are a couple of things which really annoy me about the game.. not being able to enter buildingd is a real pain in the rear end, as some of the enemies come out of the buildings, so you try to clear the building, and low and behold, you can not enter them. If is was to compare this to any other game, i would say it was like spiderman on the xbox. Plenty of fun to be had, but ultimately the same thing happening over and over again, with little skill needed. The skills upgrading is a nice feature, but feels a little underdeveloped. More than 5 stars would have been much better, and having to choose what skills you could use would have been better for a more immersive game- more like Deus Ex (the first one though... as the second one was horrendous!) After al if you are going to have a RPG aspect to the game, you need to make it more indepth, otherwise you are left with a 'what's the point?' feeling.

    It is fun, and it is a game which has plenty of longevity to it, although GTA provides a more immersive expierience, and ultimately more fulfilling game, this is more a one where you stick it on when you cant be bothered to do anything else, except to have some mindless fun!!!