Crackdown: Now Available
At this time, all stores should be either selling Crackdown, or be minutes away from opening and having it for sale. Unlike most games, Crackdown was given to retailers early so that everybody could get it as soon as possible. It’s one of those rare times that a game is actually available on what was supposed to be its ship date.
Crackdown pushes the action-driving hybrid genre into the next generation with the first ever truly 3-D playground. Enforce justice by any means necessary in Pacific City, a crime-ridden urban center primed to explode and ready for you to explore. Enter an interactive world where anything can be used as a weapon as you clean up the streets the only way you know how. Your way.
Developed by Scotland’s Real Time Worlds exclusively for Microsoft Game Studios and the Xbox 360™ console, Crackdown is the brainchild of Dave Jones, the creative genius behind many innovative game titles.
- True next-gen visuals: Harnessing the amazing power of Xbox 360, Crackdown players enforce justice against the backdrop of a crime-ridden metropolis that is massive in scale and meticulous in detail. The game’s unique presentation employs a highly stylized rendering technique that turns it into a living, breathing graphical novel.
- Double the mayhem: From the initial conception, Crackdown has been built to feature a dynamic and engaging co-op experience for double the action, carnage, and intensity.
- Free-form gameplay: For the first time ever, every inch of an urban playground has been designed for you to explore and exploit. Use any route necessary as you take down the crime syndicates, going under, around, or through the environment however you choose.
- Over-the-top action: Get the job done, no matter what it takes. Any strategy or tactic is acceptable, so long as you re-claim the streets. Unleash the awesome powers of your agent, developing his full genetic potential, becoming faster and stronger, learning bone-crushing moves, using outrageous weapons, and defying certain death at every turn.
- Environmental weaponry: Low on ammo? Never a problem. Thanks to an amazing amount of props and a deep physics system, you can use whatever you get your hands on as a weapon: Trash cans, vehicles, even people. Set the scene for mass destruction with a game that remembers your actions better than you do. Gather vehicles to assemble barricades, build epic piles of explosives, push it to the limit. Crackdown can take it.
February 21st, 2007 at 2:00 pm
What is everyone’s impressions of the game?
February 21st, 2007 at 2:00 pm
What is everyone’s impressions of the game?
February 21st, 2007 at 3:27 pm
I’m loving it.
February 21st, 2007 at 3:53 pm
I haven’t played the full version yet, but I thought the demo was pretty sweet. The reviews haven’t been too amazing, but I think this is one of those games where you shouldn’t go in expecting a big emphasis on story etc. I think the game has merit simply as a “sandbox” kind of thing where you just go kick cars around and blow a bunch of crap up. I will most likely rent it in the near future.
February 21st, 2007 at 4:34 pm
it’s really fun and and a great game. Co-op is really fun.
February 22nd, 2007 at 12:33 am
The demo, to me at least was a freaking blast. But all the reviews I have read say it is good but doesnt have the varity of GTA. They love the RPG aspects of leveling up your skills and all that, and being able to leap tall buildings in a single bound is fun. But after you take down the bad guys than that is pretty much all there is to do, so they say. That also with a slightly weak plot points to a game that is fun but not as deep as it could be. This is pretty much the summary of all the reviewers I have heard about Crackdown.
February 22nd, 2007 at 6:43 pm
Do the Co-op always lag? man me and my buddy played yesterday it was lagging like crazy.