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Crackdown 3 Release Date Delayed

The anticipated Xbox One and PC game needs more time.

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Crackdown 3 will no longer launch on November 7 alongside the Xbox One X. Microsoft confirmed today that the Xbox One and PC action game is now coming in Spring 2018.

In a statement to Polygon, Microsoft Studios GM Shannon Loftis said delaying the game will give studios Reagent Games, Sumo Digital, and Cloudgine the time they need to deliver the "hugely ambitious" game to their quality standards.

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Now Playing: GS News Update: Crackdown 3 Delayed To Spring 2018

"We’re very excited about Crackdown 3, and so are many fans, and so it's a difficult call to move the release date," Loftis told the site. "However, we want to make sure to deliver the right game, with the right quality, and at the right time. Crackdown 3 is a hugely ambitious game and we want to ensure we deliver the right experiences all the way through every part of the game, whether that's campaign, co-op multiplayer or our competitive multiplayer mode, Wrecking Zone. Getting the balance right between the three modes is important, and we are going to take the extra development time to ensure that. Gamers can expect Crackdown 3 in Spring of 2018."

More specifically, Loftis said the extra time will give the development teams the time they need to "focus on the visual polish" in an effort to make a game that "completely" immerses players in a "living world."

"We want them to really feel the larger-than life enemies as they're exploring the expansive open world, combatting crime, and collecting orbs," she said.

This is just the latest delay for Crackdown 3. The game, or at least a part of it, was originally scheduled to arrive in 2016. When it was delayed to 2017, creative director Dave Jones said the game's multiplayer experience "will redefine what it feels like to play games." Loftis confirmed on Twitter that the entire Crackdown 3 is delayed to Spring 2018, not just one part of the full package that includes campaign, co-op, and a Wrecking Zone mode.

Microsoft is expected to release new footage of Crackdown 3 during Gamescom 2017 later this month. Keep checking back with GameSpot for the latest.

At San Diego Comic-Con last month, Microsoft released a new trailer that showed off actor Terry Crews' character, Commander Jaxon--check out the video embedded above.

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Bring back Fable Legends or we riot

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@freeryu: They need to re-invent Fable in the same sense Zelda did. Give us an ACTUAL open world to explore.

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@ef56sd: open world and good combat.

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@pcps4xb: Right?! Its crazy that they havent pushed the series to be their PREMIER RPG. It one of the few MS owned IPs that has potential to be a system seller.....if done right.

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@ef56sd: I'd buy it for sure!

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@freeryu: I played it quite a bit... it was NOWHERE close to a game that people would want to spend a lot of time (let alone money) on.

Gorgeous art, LOTS of in-your-face F2P MT, but very little actual gameplay. All of its best (few) gameplay elements are found in the far superior Fortnite.

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@Pyrosa: I played it too, the intro was incredible for what it was but not enough content to keep people interested

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@freeryu: Yes, there are DOZENS of you out there. DOZENS!!

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@freeryu: I don't think the mob made up of people willing to riot over "Fable Legends" is really large enough to scare Microsoft.

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@zmanbarzel: If we all dress up as Master Chief they will listen.

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I don't mind delays if there not too long.. if it benefits the game then great do it. I still can't wait to see what the 100% destructible maps are like.?✌️

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@gamerbum: Delays are not for the "Quality of the game" in 95% of the cases out there. It's because they can't get it passed cert / compile and are throwing shit to the wind to even get it on the shelves. I've seen the cert process - my Dog could get a game passed cert while eating a keyboard and pawing at a monitor. Just think what this tub of crap will turn out to be like. Oh the last great game that was delayed "To bring you the best experience possible" was Mass Effect Andromeda.

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@gamerbum: the game been delayed for a year now since its initial release date november 2016......

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So now xbox has only 2 first party titles coming out this year which is halo wars 2 and forza 7.....

WTF phil?!

Edit: super lucky tale tooo... Whatever the f that is

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@sakaixx: is state of decay this yr?

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@pcps4xb: next year

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@sakaixx: wow Xbox needs to get sh!t together. 2016-17 is just terrible.

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@sakaixx: dont forget Minecraft 4k. i think microsoft own the developers

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Minecraft is not a game that needs 4k. Its simplicity is what everyone went crazy over...waste of resources.

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@s7eventhheaven: its an update. Not a new game

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They're just hoping people will forget all the promises of cloud-power city destruction. The comments about how you can rush through it in three hours. The nonsense with releasing the game in chunks. Don't get me wrong, Sumo have made some really great games but this still feels like it's on a hiding to nothing and the constant delays mean they know it too. It could even still do a Scalebound yet. I never honestly thought MS would fall back behind even Nintendo when it comes to giving players a fairly constant stream of first party stuff to play.

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@Carpetfluff: If you blame MS for the lack of cloud power destruction you are way off base. Its all the gamers bitching about mandatory online that ruined the entire thought of cloud based processing for now. it can be done but if all of the customer base isnt online always they would be spending developing effort on a feature for only a part of their base. It was touted as a feature, heck it might have actually been the thing that kind of saved a mediocre game. without that feature maybe they were left with an EH game. seems obvious

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@Carpetfluff: it could end up doing a Dead Island 2. ive still got my original POS posters that the developers sent us a few year ago for the version that now no longer excists

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@s7eventhheaven: I'm glad that version of Dead Island is gone, they were focusing more on Co-op then anything and that sucks. Hopefully they aren't taking that route again because I prefer slaying zombies by myself.

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@killercondoms: Co-Op is what Dead Island & Dying Light were designed for! I pity those who played withoit friends, listening to the laughable, buggy drivel without their friends online to laugh WITH.

Played all 3 games to 100% -- with friends the whole time.

A solo Dead Island is very dead indeed...

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@Pyrosa: Nothing wrong with that, but when you have no friends or prefer to do things solo then I want that single player experience without any co-op shenanigans getting in the way. Hard to 100% games when their is co-op trophies.

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@Carpetfluff: they never once said the destruction thing is gonna be on single player. The mode is only available in multiplayer.... Which they never demo again after like 2014 or 15 demo.

Oh well did anyone see the recent gameplay demo? Damn it was abysmal

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@sakaixx: Neither did I.

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So Forza 7, cuphead and PU Battlegrounds are the only things worth playing on the console this holiday season, barring third party which isn't all that interesting either.

When is the next Tomb Raider game out?

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@graffitiheart: wolfenstein, destiny 2, lord of the rings and assassins creed seems cool. Got more stuff on the other consoles but on the xb for sure PUBG gonna be a good game for a while.

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How am I supposed to take advantage of Cloud gaming now?! Terry Crews save us! #MostPowerFulConsoleEver #DonMattrickisGod

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Crackdown 3 Delayed To Spring 2018 And Here's Why

Answer: Because they need more time to work on it.

Isn't that literally always the case when a game is delayed?

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@Byshop: If a game is crap and they need to fix it. Just a thought...

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@Byshop: sometimes it's to avoid other big releases

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@SirNormanislost: A lot more big releases in Spring than Holiday at this point

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@Pyrosa: yeah but if you're releasing a shooter and the new CoD is announced for the week before and a new BF the week after moving it a week or 2 in either direction is a good idea (see Titanfall 2)

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@Byshop: You're right - it's just another way of saying the same thing. i mean if they said "we need more time to work on it" then it's pretty obvious it's going to be delayed.

It doesn't make sense. The fact that they need more time to work on it isn't a reason for the delay - it's another of saying "it's delayed". A reason might have been the lead designed died or the code was hacked and they need to re-code the whole thing.

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@mpl911: according to a source the game WAS complete. however after getting leaked on the internet the developers and microsoft had a PANIC ATTACK and are now shoe-horning the paid for DLC that they planned to release into the main game to flesh out its single player story to 6 hours. at least we no longer have to buy the expansion pack it will already be part of the main story.

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Needs at least another 5 years of development to look half way decent. Gameplay shown at E3 was a disaster....

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@moonco: You really need to adjust your frames of reference. You think an early showing of a new game could ever be a "disaster"? Wow! The only way it could have been a "disaster" would be if it was so poor people were climbing over and injuring each other to get out of the theatre where it was being shown.

What you mean is that the graphics, or the gameplay, or both, of the showing weren't quite up to the subjective levels you had randomly stuck in your mind.

Get some perspective please.

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@mpl911: That kind of Denial could be from Egypt, that E3 as trash, when crackdown 3 was shown I thought it was a Cartoon Network ad....GARBAGE!

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@moonco: Given our current circumstances, that future could lead to a world of people six or seven console generations ahead. A complete redesign would be in order to account for projected technology, giving way to a game that's indistinguishable from the one that now exists effectively nullifying most, if not all, efforts done so far in its development.

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Welcome to the perpetually, continuing generation of delays.

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So agents of mayhem was poor, crackdown will have been the same so they've delayed to rework it

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I have little faith in Microsoft in terms of games anymore.

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Still hyped ? :D

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Bugger!

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I welcome delays, I have enough to play, and I want quality games. If more time means a better game, I'm all for it. On the other hand, Microsoft needs to get their sh*t together and start cranking out more quality first party games. I've had a PS4 since day one, and an Xbox One since day one (now PS4 Pro and XBox One S), and I've played my PS4 95% of the time.

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I was a massive fan of the xbox 360, it had a huge diverse library of games, I've still got two of them set up, but I haven't seen a single reason to buy the xbox one, and this year its just getting worse, cancelled Scalebound and now Delayed Crackdown. They need some system sellers or they might as well cancel the xbox one x and try again next gen.

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Classic.

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