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By: name

name — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 06:49:42 +0000

lmao
saying crackdown is better than xmen origins wolverine or bionic commando isent much of a compliment.
no its actualy a insult, those games were wriddled with bugs and bionic commando has to be the shortes game ive ever played.

By: Nathan Hardisty

Nathan Hardisty — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:16:44 +0000

To all those dudes who are pointing out “really didn’t leave a mark upon free-roaming game”, is entirely untrue. Comparing Crackdown to Prototype and Infamous.

Let me say, thanks for letting me come to my senses, but not all my senses. It was a fun little romp but it only influenced a few of the modern day romps we have today.

For instance, Prototype, is by the same devs who did Hulk: Ultimate Destruction. It’s almost identical to Hulk, except you have an emo kid and a thousand different powers.

Infamous, Sucker Punch just wanted to create a free roam experience. I’ll admit it’s obvious they stole some of the clambering, but I think that’s down to Assassin’s Creed.

Thanks for replying by the way guys, all criticism appreciated!

By: Trekster_gamer

Trekster_gamer — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:03:03 +0000

Well I had never owned this game, picked it up for under 10.00 for my son. He had just played the new Wolverine & Bionic Commando. He enjoyed this supposed old flawed game enjoyed it every bit as much as the other formentioned games. The game can be had cheap and if you enjoy tons of action and free roaming gameplay and like taking down the trash instead of being the trash ALA GTA series then you will really enjoy this game.

By: name

name — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:15:37 +0000

cant wait for #2.
but why did they have to make me wait till next year.
waiting will be such torcher

By: Tuffy McFukleby

Tuffy McFukleby — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:14:31 +0000

I played Crackdown til my thumbs were sore. The statement that it “really didn’t leave a mark upon free-roaming games” is way off base, as we’re now starting to see games that were directly influenced by it: to some extent Prototype, to a straight ripoff of the jumping/climbing and three island/three gang structure in InFAMOUS. (Which I enjoyed, but it should have had an “Inspired by..” credit at the end.) Since Crackdown is a 2-year old game and it takes years to develop a game at this point, I think we’ll see more and more games borrowing from it.

I just hope they don’t blow it on the sequel with stupid monsters.

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 05:26:58 +0000

Although i haven’t played crackdown recently, i believe that it is the best co-op game this gen. I have yet to waste so much time doing so little and having such a blast doing so in any other co-op game.
From sea burials in dumpsters when my comrade died in battle,
to sabotaging explosive pyramids when he was still to close,
or throwing the all mighty over powered brick at each other.

Hopefully Crackdown 2 can surpass the original in every way. BRING IT ON!

By: Gemini Ace

Gemini Ace — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:55:52 +0000

I played it yesterday.

And you say it didn’t leave a mark on the open world genre? How do you explain Prototype and InFamous?

By: Alex Shaw

Alex Shaw — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:16:41 +0000

Great retrospective review. I don’t think anyone who bought this just for the Halo beta expected such a good game.

By: Mike Hudec

Mike Hudec — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:44:05 +0000

Actually, I just bought a copy of this off of Ebay the day before yesterday. Someone’s playing it–or at least they will be. Lol.