Crackdown As You've Never Seen It Before Comments by Richard Leadbetter

Excellent Article.

First.

Awesomeness. Still in my top 5 games of this gen.

"But we can't help for something more... "

Missing word in the last sentence I think

Great Article and hopefully related to a soon to be announce sequel???

I lent this to a friend and I think its high timed I got it back and played some more!

Love the 2nd vid BTW

Really good article, although the HD link of the second video doesn't seem to be working for me. Since nobody else said anything so far it's probably my browser.

Ooooh, it uses the RenderWare engine? I haven't heard that in a while!

Yeah second vid was ingenius! Loved every second of it. What grenades did yo uuse as I don't remember being /that/ potent?!

Interesting article and a great game.

Razz, I preferred the proximity mines the most :)

Excellent article.I've got to play this again after watching the second video.

Article makes me want to play GTA IV funnily enough, I thought the skyline views looked great on that

Is there a reason this has randomly gone up so close to E3?

Great article, loved those videos.

Crackdown is a stunning game, the explosions are far more impressive than any other game I've played including GTA4, I completed the entire campaign on co-op and it was the most fun I've had since left4dead. In many ways it surpasses GTA4, infamous and protype due to the ability to complete the campaign with a friend and for messing around it's a bench mark for sandbox games.

Just wish more DLC would come out.

Much better than that terrible FFXIII article.

everytime i try to get to the eurogamer site this 360gamer site is here instead

'For example, there's none of the heavy, ultra-blatant depth of field or blur effects used in inFamous on far-away scenery - Crackdown adopts an atmospheric haze simulation that produces an arguably more pleasing effect.'

@patchbox360

Wow, so retards like you still exists out there ?

@patchbox360

oh Patchbox360. Shame on you...

/head shakes

An excellent article. I went back to the game a few weeks ago whilst showing a friend what games I had, and I was surprised just how well the engine and graphics have held their own, and the sheer amount of carnage that the game was capable of showing at once. Sad that the engine may need to be completely rebuilt for them to make another one, what with EA reigning in the middleware.

@patchbox360
Silly troll. Some rendering techniques just offer a more aesthetically pleasing outcome than others. I'm sure that had the author of the article meant to offend silly little fanboys they certainly wouldn't have pointed out that the critically lauded Killzone 2 uses the same system to great effect.

So is the next version going to multi platform as this is first time I have actually seen the game running and it looks like a lot of fun?

Loved Crackdown. For the simple fact you could just run around jumping and collecting, then shoot things. Hours of fun.

I got GTAIV after tiring of crackdown and played it for around two hours, not being able to scale buildings and collect stuff put me off :/

More like Crackdown please.

I must get around to finding the last of the hidden orbs, just a few to go now.

I've spent a lot of time playing this with the sole purpose of stacking up cars for massive explosions. Works particularly well in co-op as you can leave one player with the cars so the game engine doesn`t decide they are out of view an cull them. I`m sure at times I've pushed the frame rate down to single figures, but its worth it.

Ah yes remember juggeling cars with the homing missiles, and you gotta use the cluster grenades to really get the best explosions

Can't wait for the sequel, it's gonna happen man

Started playing this again from the start a few days ago. Great stuff.

Love this game and it's nice to see it getting some love. Good Article, just goes to show that this game was much more than a house for your precious Halo 3 demo.

@patchbox360:
Seriously, is that all you could come up with?

Crackdown is lots of fun. I have been wanting more of the same for a while now.

Best article on this site I've seen since I joined. Was pleasantly surprised to see so many comments recognising that fact.

More articles like this please!

Fond enough memories of Crackdown.

Crackdown is an alright sort of game. It's quite fun fun and looks...alright.

Is it my computer or is the EG video player PAGE plays videos really slowly?

I'm running on a flippin Dual Core processor with 2GB ram and it still stutters like a babes!

Ya it's still quite juddery on my E6600/8800GTX PC for some odd reason. I download the video, pop it onto a USB flashdrive and watch it on the PS3. Nice and smooth there. -_-

I would say this is easily the best new IP on the 360, and possibly even the best game on the system.

It is also the best sandbox game in existence, so far. If infamous or prototype can still be talked about with this kind of admiration in a year, then we will see.

Crackdown is a slow-burner type game that gets better with age. Although I do hope it gets bettered some day, be it by its sequel or one of the other type of games mentioned above.

Nothing beats climbing the Agency tower.

I'd buy Crackdown again and give it another go but it isn't exactly cheap for an oldish game. Thought it'd be about 8 quid by now!

It's cheap here (Australia).

That said, Im talking as someone who no longer has a 360, but Crackdown is my most fondly remembered game on the system (along with PacMan CE). I think it retails for about $20 here, which is something like 7 or 8 pounds I think.That's like a decent lunch at a restaurant ffs. Cheap and worth buying.

"Crackdown" I wish I could take some kind of pill and forget that I had ever played it.
Then I could go back in and play it all over again. An exceptionally good game. Easily one of the five best ever.

The sound of a nearby orb is one of the sounds that will probably stick in a lot of people's heads for many years to come.

The only real nextgen game imo. Look at that ridiculous draw distance. You can shove blur and depth of field up your ass.

Good article. Makes me want to play it again.

2 years on and still no sequel. Why MS? It sold well, was critically acclaimed and has a very loyal fan following but still nothing. :(

I loved this game. Have to admit the halo 3 beta was the deciding factor in buying it but I'm so glad I did. One of my all time favourite 360 games and possibly in the all time top 10. I saw a copy in GAME for £7 yesterday. Might get it again and play it if Prototype lets us down.

What happened to realtime worlds?

And Tialoc if you ever find that pill chuck me one.

'Fond memories'?

You're talking like it is 10 years old!
Relatively speaking, it only just came out!

I really like Crackdown, but srsly, 'top 5' and stuff? Nu-uh.

Yes Crackdown was very pretty visually, still is, but the gameplay pales alongside newer contenders like inFamous IMO. There's no variety in the missions, every boss encounter felt the same and they got stale too early on, and there's no narrative to drive you forward through the game and connect with the world so once you're powered up there's nothing at all to keep me coming back to the game beyond collecting the orbs. As a result it got very boring, very quickly for me. Another killer for me was that the game lacked atmosphere and never felt like a real world. The vehicle handling was also awful, so much so that I seldom felt the need to even use them. Besides they tended to cause god-awful screen tearing so I preferred to run around! Crackdown was a sandbox world in search of a decent game IMO.

Still Crackdown was a solid foundation from which a superior sequel could have been made so it's a shame that never happened.

crackdown graphics belong on an iphone (even for the time it was released), its horrendous lack of story is just down right insulting and its controls are hardly the tightest - it being considered some kind of special top 5 game this gen is absolutely ridiculous considering games like gta4, mgs4, gears of war, lbp, killzone 2...

Might get this once I finished inFamous. My 360 hasn't had much runtime lately.

Fantastic game. Micturates on other sandbox games. Nothing else has made me feel so tooled-up from the get-go; like a superhero with the city as your playground.

The sequel doesn't sound all that promising.

One point I think was missed - its a relatively small game world, this makes it easy to learn your way round, making it much much more enjoyable. . . open world games seem to want to get bigger and bigger I think smaller more memorable is better. Each area was distinct in Crackdown this really enhanced the immersion. You could easily tell which sector you where in and when you crossed into other sectors. BTW the climb to top of agency tower was brilliant achievement first achievement I enjoyed doing then jumped off and hit the water. Great article...... One of my top 3 xbox 360 games ever.... maybe the top played it for around 6weeks solid .... put it on again about a week ago and havent be able to put it down.....

The only thing I expect to cut down the time I spend playing Crackdown will be Prototype.

Those last two lines almost broke my heart, the very idea that the next Crackdown might be an online only game pisses me off so much considering I don't have xbox live

"crackdown graphics belong on an iphone (even for the time it was released)"

that sort of comment invalidates anything you say, utter crap..

troll. Ignored.

"Yes Crackdown was very pretty visually, still is, but the gameplay pales alongside newer contenders like inFamous IMO."

Horses for courses. Crackdown was some of the most fun i've had this gen due to the brilliant co-op. Not having that makes Infamous less fun for me.

@Patchbox360
considering every single one of those on the list YES. Crackdown is better than every single one of them. It was as much fun as any game I have ever played and lasted as long as I wanted it to.

Only ever played the demo if this, it was fun, but I wasn't sure there was much more to it. Think I'll pick it up and go through it once I have completed inFamous. Crackdown sounds from what you are all saying to have more longevity than GTA IV (still haven't completed nor the addon, it just gets dull).