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Crackdown
Crackdown is an open world, third-person shooter video game for the Xbox 360. Set in the fictional Pacific City, the player controls a biologically enhanced Agent, tasked with defeating three crime lords and their organized crime syndicates. The Agent's abilities improve by defeating both crime lords and their supporters, as well as by completing o...
Details
- Released
- February 20, 2007
- Also known as
- Riot Act
- Developer
- Realtime Worlds
- Genres
- Fighting · Shooter · Action · Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure · Open world
- Publisher
- Microsoft Game Studios
- Platforms
- Xbox 360
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Crackdown is a game that simply must be played if you are at all fond of free-roaming action games. The emphasis on super powers means that it's unlikely you'll have played anything like it before.
Crackdown pushes the action-driving hybrid genre into the next generation with the introduction of the first-ever truly 3-dimensional persistent playground, highly innovative co-op gameplay and an extensive prop interaction system all while taking place in a massive and highly-stylized urban center.
In all, the game does work well and is very fun to play, despite its minor flaws. After a short session of about 20-30 minutes, you'll have completed the game and can restart to do a better run, faster times or fewer deaths. If that's not enough, there's also ways to adjust the difficulty before starting up a game. And after that, you can also enjoy playing with 2 players, which can lead to hilarious situations. Also, the framerate drops considerably when playing together, making the game pace more friendly to complete. That is again another flaw that works well in the end.
Despite it's relative youth in the video games industry, Realtime Worlds already has quite a pedigree behind it, namely in founder and creator David Jones. While the name might not be familiar, Jones did have some success with the last development house he founded back in 1988, DMA Designs. You might know them better as Rockstar North, creators of the mack-daddy of urban sandbox games, Grand Theft Auto. While in the same vein of the Grand Theft Auto series, Crackdown is more than just a carbo...