Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #884 in Computer & Video Games
- Brand: Microsoft
- Released on: 2007-02-20
- Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
- ESRB Rating: Mature
- Platform: Xbox 360
- Number of items: 1
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
Better than GTA4.....while it lasts
Right lets get one thing straight, this game is a lot of fun! In fact the most fun i've had playing a game in ages. I picked this up fairly cheap not expecting much, a few cheap thrills perhaps and i was so surprised!!
The graphics are very nice, polished and very solid. The fact you can potentially go anywhere you want in the city literally if you can see it you can get there! The gameplay is phenomenal especially after a few hours and you start levelling up!! Who would want to jump over a tower block and throw cars into crowds of people..seriously the game isnt the longest (mission wise) but the pick up and play factor is huge!! I cant put it down.
I can honestly say i preferred this to GTA, until the missions ended..yes the main game is a bit short but heck it's a lot of fun!
Get it!
Hopefully a sequel will be in the works??
very very good!
This is a very good game. It will last for quite a while (About 15-20hrs) and is even better played on XBox LIVE. This isn't a "proper" shooter its more of a action shoot 'em up meets super hero game. You can upgrade your powers to be able to throw things further, jump higher( you can eventually jump to about 35 ft)run faster shoot more accurately and blow things up better.If your looking for something with a good story though this isn't it.
Overall this is a great game and will keep you entertained for some time. I give it 5 stars!
FUN fun fun fun fun !
This game is for nothing more than for a grate bit of fun try get this for cheep and you will not feel robed if you get bored of it
