Crackdown Is An Impressive game But Is It That Good?
The Bad: Story could be more flexed out, story is short and doesn’t really make sense, driving is only good when you’ve reached four star, gets boring once you have completed it, car stalls, gameplay isn’t that impressive, commentators voice gets extremely annoying at times, not worth the price it is sold at the online isn’t at all addictive.
The Ugly: Graphic textures and car collisions could be improved Crackdown is a third-person action adventure shooter, which takes place in Pacific City. Doesn’t sound interesting I know and so is the story. The main plot of the game is that you are a newcomer agent that has been recruited to an agency to wipe out the gangs controlling Pacific City, and it is up to you to eliminate every gang. That’s it.
The gameplay in Crackdown could be adjusted quite a bit, especially the driving in the game. The reason why is that when you hop in a car most of the times it stalls which is extremely annoying, so you are forced to stop the vehicle and drive off (this occurs practically every single time). But not all of it is rubbish, the good facts about the gameplay is that once you have maxed out you agility you can jump roughly around 75 feet which is pretty high, and when your driving has reached the maximum level, when you step in an agency vehicle is morphs into a new model of that car like: the agency supercar has machine guns attached to it and you can mow down lots of gang members with the bullets you spray at them. The bosses can get quite challenging at times as they have a lot of gang members guarding them and shoot at any agent in site. There are roughly 7 bosses and once they have been killed you have to kill the rioting gang members, nothing special really. The city however is quite large and has tons of buildings to climb or jump on which is fun, including the agency building! Another thing is that there is loads of orbs you have to collect which involves you jumping everywhere and you are rewarded with an achievement for all the hard work you put into it.
Now lets talk about the online play. Again isn’t that interesting. All you do is just join a game and cooperatively do story missions and races and help get achievements, which can be helpful, but you might as well waste your time playing on something else than online on crackdown. Another thing is that it seems to lag a lot, as I have a strong Internet connection and whenever I do online with someone else with a strong Internet connection it still seems to lag. Overall I wouldn’t really recommend Crackdown as a must get game but would be recommended for achievements or the Halo3 Beta and is not worth the price it is today.