Crackdown 3

WCCFtechDave Aubrey

8/10

The gaming landscape has entirely changed since the original Crackdown released in 2007. The rise of Call of Duty, the historic peak and slow decline of World of Warcraft, the FGC (fighting game community) resurgence, the advent of MOBA and Battle Royale games. The world Crackdown 3 launches into is so far removed from the games it was built to compete and innovate with it's like jumping into a time machine. And yet, this is a game which is faithful to a fault to the design of the original game. This is a direct sequel, no doubt about it, and that's either incredibly brave or incredibly stupid...

Video ChumsA.J. Maciejewski

7/10

It has been years in the making and it may not be all that it was cracked up to be but Crackdown 3 is still a solid sandbox game.

Capsule ComputersTravis Bruno

7/10

Crackdown 3 offers an amazing feeling of power with a great selection of weaponry to make use of during chaotic firefights as well a decent looking but anemic world to explore but fails to grow beyond the original dated formula.

WayTooManyGamesJordan Hawes

6.5/10

Five years in development and this is the game we got? In 2014 we got a tease for Crackdown 3 that promised a lot in the form of a new technology. A technology that would harness a combined power of up to twelve Xbox One’s. We witnessed some of the most impressive destruction physics ever and the wow factor was the fact that an online server was calculating it and not your local hardware. Anyway, five years later, multiple delays, development hell that saw multiple developers giving input,...

COGConnectedGarrett Drake

65/100

We’ve done our waiting, five years of it! Five years that unfortunately have me questioning if it was all worth it. Admittedly, this is the first Crackdown game I’ve sunk more than a few hours into, so I can’t attest to whether or not it’s the proper follow-up to the original from 2007. The good news is I’ve genuinely had some mindless fun with Crackdown 3 as I’ve leapt across the rooftops of skyscrapers, blasted thousands of goons, and massacred the infrastructure of a vile corporation. However, the colorful world, level of freedom, and even Terry Crews can’t remedy the game’s sense of monoto...

VideogamerTom Bardwell

6/10

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TechRaptorAlex Santa Maria

5.5/10

Crackdown 3 is forgettable, broken in places, extremely short and set in its ways. Still, I'd be lying if I told you I didn't have a hell of a lot of fun playing it.

VGChartzEvan Norris

5/10

To development hell and back.First announced in 2014, Crackdown 3 suffered several stops, starts, and delays before it landed on Xbox One [...]

Worth PlayingAdam Pavlacka

5/10

Crackdown 3 is the explosive return of the open-world franchise set in a comic book-inspired playground of mayhem and destruction.

IGNBrandin Tyrrel

5/10

All these years later, Crackdown 3 delivers on what made the original an enjoyable game, but never much more. Though the compulsive hunt for collectibles can be satisfying for a time, its overall campaign doesn't evolve beyond a mostly bland auto-lock shooting gallery. Its tacked-on Wrecking Zone multiplayer highlights some neat cloud-powered destruction that's never used to great effect in this tiny and woefully barebones mode.

MonsterVineDiego Escala

The promise of cloud powered physics just fails to deliver on practically all fronts, worst of all being that it just adds nothing to the gameplay. The buildings all fall apart with just the slightest tap and there’s no real weight to what you’re doing; that’s not to mention that not all of the arena is destructible, just parts of it and the debris disappears as quickly as it came apart. Add on top of this the world’s sort of Tron-esque aesthetic. It’s a lot less fun smashing buildings apart when they just look like polygons or in some cases have this odd transparent effect on them. Smashing t...

Analog Stick GamingJeff Young

Unscored

If more of the same Crackdown experience is what you’re after, then this latest and long-awaited sequel will whet the appetite of those who have grounded their expectations into not expecting any real innovation from the series. For those who expected at least some growth to the series, well…