Crackdown 2

That's not actually tied to driving skill.

Yeah, it's agility. The helicopter really is the ultimate agility tool, and that to be honest is because we don't want to break the game too early for people. We really want to be controlled about it. The helicopter, you know, takes you anywhere, and it's great fun. Especially jumping out and skydiving.

That's a careful thing we have to do. We do want to give people loads of fun toys, but we also want to make sure they have fun in the game without it being too fun too early.

Yeah, we are doing something to help the player with that. I'm not sure how much detail I can go into, but definitely. We're not giving them away, but the more you get the easier it will be to find some, and the other thing I'd say about the orbs is when you've got the helicopter it's going to be really easy to get anywhere you want, so I genuinely don't think people will have that problem.

I think one of the biggest problems we had on the first game is you had to find another orb in order to know how many you had left. That was a bit of an oversight, which made a difficult challenge even more difficult. We won't be doing that again [laugh].

That's a good question, there's a lot there. One of the funniest things I've seen is playing on the fact we've got this seamless join-in-progress thing. At the moment when we're working on the dev builds anyone can join in anyone else's game, and you don't actually know when a player's joining a game, so it's quite funny watching Billy doing some work - placements for multiplayer or something - and Gareth just silently joined his game, walked over to Billy and twatted him one round the face.

I think it's just me. I've just got a bad habit of joining games and running people over.

He speaks truth. I tried to play [Zelda] Four Swords with him once.

That's what co-op's for though isn't it? I thought it was an extension of PvP.

What else have we got, Gareth? What's good at the moment?

I'm trying to think of things we can reveal. To be honest with you, I've just spent a lot of time racing. It sounds really dull, but just messing around with the new cars has been great. Also the chopper.

Yeah, chopper with weapon attachments is good fun.

I wasn't going to say that.

I didn't say which weapons.

Put it this way, you've just got to sing the Air Wolf theme in your head.