Pacific City is overridden; crime controls the streets. Three powerful gangs have taken the once-great metropolis hostage, and the police have proven powerless in their efforts to regain control. Only the Agency’s deploying genetically enhanced agents of justice can provide citizens with some sense of hope. With an open-ended “sandbox” environment, players are free to explore the city and decide on the best tactics for each breathtaking scenario. Brace yourself. Justice is coming to Pacific City. Next generation gaming has never been this open! Three crime syndicates vie for control of the city. View larger. Innumerable routes to objectives are available. View larger. Your collection of weaponry increases rapidly. View larger. Next-gen visuals pop off the screen! View larger. A next-gen visual and gameplay style 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. You play the role of an enforcer for the city’s “Agency,” a law enforcement entity looking to take back neighborhoods and lives from three large crime syndicates. You are part of the new generation of crime fighters- an entirely new breed of genetically superior super-cops, designed to use the enemies’ tactics against them. Multiplayer mayhem An impressive number of weapons and objects are also at your disposal. 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. A sandbox full of opportunities 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.
Crackdown pushes the action-driving hybrid genre into the next generation with the first ever truly 3-D playground. Gamers will level up their Agent’s strength, agility, firearms, explosives, and driving skills while scaling the fully vertical world. 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 such as Grand Theft Auto and Lemmings.
From the initial conception, Crackdown has been built to feature a dynamic and engaging co-op experience for double the action, carnage, and intensity. Never before has a game allowed two players to simultaneously explore and interact with an open-ended game environment. Will you work together to find new ways of detonating your impressive stash of explosives? Or will you race each other to the next batch of collectible ability orbs? The choice is always yours!
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. While previous “sandbox”-style titles have allowed you to merely walk or drive around the environment, Crackdown encourages players to find new routes to and from destinations. Often times, scaling a building or traveling beneath the surface will present new and unexpected challenges to the player- or provide an even more deadly option for the enemy.
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Great until they start begging you for money
This game is really fun, it’s a good time waster and is worth the money you paid for it…until it gets patched. Once the game is patched, they insert all sorts of extra things in to the game that you can’t actually play, they only take you to a screen where you can BUY the gameplay. It’s annoying, it breaks up the regular game, and there’s no way I’ve found to turn it off. I played the game for about 6 hours in 2 days, then on the third day I got the patch, played for 15 minutes, and haven’t gone back.
Right on time
I have no complaints. Item was delivered just as expected, packaged safely, and undamaged. No complaints.
Crackdown Review
Good game overall. Never actually bought it because of the hype over Halo 3 at the time, but know I’ve gone back and played it and it’s a good game. Worth the few bucks I paid for it.
Really fun for an old game.
I just (2009) got Crackdown and Saint’s Row, having already enjoyed all the current open-world/sandbox shooters. Though these two are about the same age, Crackdown has held up MUCH better and is MUCH more enjoyable.
I’ve read reviews saying Crackdown is too easy and others saying it is too hard. In terms of completing missions/quests, it does seem harder than BioShock (my all-time favorite shooter), Fallout 3 (my 2nd all-time favorite), and Mass Effect, but easier than Grand Theft Auto IV (with which it has virtually nothing in common). It is nowhere near as hard as non-sandbox shooters such as Halo 3 or even Eat Lead. Climbing buildings and jumping between them to get the “agility orbs” is a lot of fun and nowhere near as difficult as in the latest Prince of Persia.
I gave this 5 stars for fun and 3 stars overall because although it is plenty of fun to play, it does not compare to the previously mentioned more recent games when it comes to graphics (good but not great), variety, nor richness of environment and gameplay, but if you have already played the other games to death, Crackdown is a fun, cheap game to play while waiting for Bioshock 2 or Fallout 4 or GTA5 or whatever the next big sandbox game turns out to be.
Just plain fun…
Crackdown is a fun game that in my opinion feels a lot like a super-powered GTA, with missions to complete, vehicles to drive, and civilians to “protect”.