Crackdown
by Microsoft
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Video Game Reviews of Crackdown
Customer Review: Good game
Summary: 4 Stars
I heard there won't be a sequel to this game, which is a shame. Great gameplay, lots of fun. If you like running around and causing senseless destruction this is the game for you.Customer Review: Crackdown is a fun, cheap way to have fun
Summary: 4 Stars
Do you want a cheap game to divert your time? Then Crackdown is the way to go. Since there are AT LEAST 8 of this used at every game store INCLUDING amazon because of people selling them after the Halo 3 Beta ended you can get it for $10. It is awesome for diverting your time and having fun but if you like to get into your games this one isn't good for that. No story, no characters, no cut scenes. Just straight arcade like "here is your objective kill everything that moves (and doesn't have flashing lights/blue uniforms on) to complete it". Add Xbox 360 graphics to that and you have Crackdown. This game was good enough for me to buy it twice since my first copy got stepped on. Customer Review: Gets old fast
Summary: 1 Stars
Gets real old real fast. Is fun for about 2 days. Rent it, don't buy it.Customer Review: One Of The Best 360 Games Ever!
Summary: 5 Stars
Crackdown when it first came out was merely just a footstool for the Halo 3 Beta Code.I remember that X-Play first announced this and mocked Crackdown saying along the lines of the game being overlooked by players just so they can play the Halo 3 Beta.They were wrong in my case.I never played the Beta and bought the game because it looked crazy and fun and you know what I was absolutely right too.This very well might be one of the most fun games I've ever played on any platform.You are genetically enhanced super cop who through through time advances his abilities and weapons to rid Pacific City of five major crime syndicates who rule the city.The Agency is your employer and they help you a great deal.The Agent that talks to you gives you helpful advice and warns you when you are crossing the line into lawlessness.You climb and jump from buildings and rooftops with greatest of ease and collect colored orbs to raise your chances on improving your vertical leap.Everything you do from shooting and melee and vehicular combat gives you orbs and within no time you'll be evolving more and more in to a perfect killing machine.Get enemy weapons and take them to safe points where they will be available anytime you need them.
The Syndicates are ruthless criminal Organizations and you can use any strategy you'd like in taking them down.there are four under bosses and each one you kill will significantly weaken the Organization's overall power so you can piece by piece take the small fries out and then go after the main boss.The envirements can can be exploited to your desire,so have fun finding a cleaver way to overwhelm the enemy in a place unexpected by them.The city itself is huge and you'll be surprised really how large and dense it is.Aiming is simplistic and easy to use and you gain more experience by killing an enemy while shooting them in mid air.Throwing grenades and selecting others is very simple and allows you for some fun result.The Rocket Launchers on this game is really a game in and of itself.I can't begin to tell you how much fun I had juggling people and objects in the air.The driving is fun as well especially when you get the Agency Truck with Hydrolics on it.
There are just a couple of minor thing that don't in anyway impede the game whatsoever,but could be improved apon in a sequal.The Story could have had some animation instead of the Comic Book-type Art cut scenes.Vehicles could handle a little bit more smoother.And the Music Stations should be like GTA with Radio Staion type feel instead of sounding like a setlist.Also,although there's Onlive Gameplay no one ever plays.
I cannot praise this game higher in terms of everything it brought me-Imagination,suspense,excitement,enginuity and especially fun.What an unbelievably great game this is I wish I could erase my memory so that I could play Crackdown again and relive it all over again from a fresh perspective.I truely believe that Crackdown along with Elder Scrolls 4 Oblivion as one of the best Games on the XBOX 360 bar none.And really I don't see how anyone else can argue is point.I can't wait until they announce the sequal,because if it is half as good as the original there will be no doubt that Crackdown and all its future releases will be in the annals of Video Game History with the other Legendary games of all time.
Customer Review: addictive, colorful, humorous
Summary: 5 Stars
i'm a mature gamer who bought a dozen or so games along with a new xbox just to see how the technology had evolved. (all the digital animation in recent films had piqued my interest.) having just opened grand theft auto 4 and assassin's creed, my first impression of this game was not favorable. but i've come to appreciate its unique and considerable charms. it is basically the urban sandbox, multi island, gansta life conceit of gta4, plus the rooftop play, "assassination mission plus side missions" concept of assassin's creed, but with a distinctively "comix" style of graphical design that is stylized to be less realistic, less textured, less graphically gory than either gta 4 or ac but more colorful, lively, and "artistic" than either. your avatar is not a thug but a maniacal police agent fighting evil and cleaning the streets, so you're not put in the position of looking at everything through gangster eyes, which is nice. however the most enjoyable innovation is a gruff voiceover guide who occasionally comments on your play ("are you crazy?" "i sure love the smell of agent in the morning!" "you sure like to push your luck!") along with gameplay and strategy tips; more than once his comments on my play made me laugh out loud. the avatar has physical and tactical skills that improve with use, notably the ability to leap and climb tall buildings if enough "agility" points are collected (these resemble the flags scattered around in assassin's creed) and the strength to lift and throw almost any detached object, from dead bodies to cement mixers, as weapons. but otherwise you have three options of play: roam the city to collect markers or perform racing stunts to improve agility; take on random firefights with street thugs to improve strength and skill, or kill off the senior members of three different crime gangs. these "missions" can be done in any order; each requires penetrating the gangster's lair after killing his almost endlessly spawning guards (though most do have a back entrance or rooftop way around defenders). this involves quite a lot of wearing down of the opposition, but each time you're killed and "regenerate", the enemy forces remain weakened, so you don't have to start the same exact mission, over and over, as happens in most games. the game physics are compelling, especially the explosions and flying objects, and the avatar has plenty of agility without cumbersome button combinations or programming limits. overall: a great game to look at, lots of fun to play, a very nice blend of humor and excitement, and no glitches in the xbox version that i could find.