Publisher : Microsoft Game studios
Developed by: Real Time Studios
Genre: Action
Number of Players: 1-2
Release Date: February 20th
US: see above
Europe: TBD
Rated: RP (rating pending)
ESRB Content Descriptors: N/A
Includes: 16:9 Support, 720p Support, HDTV 1080i Support, Dolby Digital 5.1, Xbox Live, Memory Unit, Custom Soundtrack, and Downloadable Content
Crackdown, due for release early in the new year, has had many a gamer excited with it’s limitless storyline and free roaming cities. Developed exclusively for Microsoft Game studios and the Xbox 360.
You play as cyber cop, and aim to get rid of the crime syndicates dotted around the city, by any means necessary. You can use billboards, signs, cars, even people to bring down the evil doers. The game is from the imagination of Dave Jones, you may not recognize his name but you’ve almost definitely played one of his games, The Grand Theft Auto series and Lemmings titles among his repertoire.
Crackdown boasts a new kind of gameplay, unlike, in the maker’s description, any seen before. Your main objective to beat the game is to get rid of the crime syndicates, and you have multiple methods of doing this. Take out the weapons supplier and you will notice the mobs have rubbish pistols and knives. Eradicate the recruiter and numbers start to fall, the possibilities are endless.
Features
Brilliant Experience from a Legendary Game Designer: From Dave Jones, the creative mastermind behind “Grand Theft Auto” and “Lemmings” comes “Crackdown™,” an explosive masterpiece set to define open-world, free form gaming in the next-generation.
True Next-Generation Visuals: Harnessing the power of Xbox 360, Crackdown players enforce justice against the backdrop of a crime ridden metropolis, massive in scale, monstrous in scope and meticulous in detail. The unique presentation style employs a highly stylized rendering technique that turns the game into a living graphical novel.
Cooperative Gameplay – Double the Mayhem: From its initial concept, to final design, Real Time Worlds focused on delivering dynamic, engaging cooperative gameplay for double the carnage, action and intensity.
3-Dimensional Free Form Gameplay: For the first time ever, an urban playground has been created to encourage players to explore and exploit the full width, depth and height of a city. Players wage war on the syndicates by taking part in high-octane chases on foot and on wheels while using any appropriate route along, around, across, over, under or through the environment. Freedom abounds as it’s up to the player to determine how best to complete the non-linear objectives in a myriad of wild and creative ways.
Over-the-Top Action: All strategies and tactics are acceptable provided players reclaim the streets by unleashing the awesome abilities inside each Agent. As players develop and hone their gameplay skills, their Agent’s genetic tendencies will increase allowing players to realize their Agent’s full potential. Players will be able to run at dazzling speeds, take death-defying leaps, handle the most incredible weapons, perform impossible vehicular maneuvers, move massive objects and deliver bone-crushing blows.
Music as Environment: Over 100 licensed tracks, spanning a wide range of styles and genres, give audio identities to characters and locations in Crackdown. Coupled with a next-generation use of 5.1 surround sound, gamers will know just from the music and sound effects they hear which crime syndicate is headed their way.
The Environment is Your Weapon: Low on ammo? No problem. Thanks to an amazing amount of props and a deep physics system players can use whatever they can get their hands on as weapons – from trashcans, vehicles, even people – to clean the streets of crime. In Crackdown the actions you take last longer than when the player runs a block away too. If the player wants to stack up vehicles and then run away to corral vehicles toward an obstruction, the players ‘masterpiece’ will be there when they return as the game reacts to how the player plays. In Crackdown, players use the world as one huge chemistry set where the possibilities are endless and the outcomes are wild.
Co-Operative play
One of Crackdowns most appealing features is the ability to team up with someone on your friends list and co-op play. Stuck and need a good driver? Then just get your friend in and get past it easily. This is certainly an exciting prospect for me and look forward to it.
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