Great game, but does have some issues/quirks
First of this game must be played on the hardest setting; otherwise you will beat the game in less then 5 hours. Playing on the hardest setting really just makes you pay more attention to incoming fire; on easy/medium difficulty you can take tons of damage and survive with ease. On Hard alot of the enemy have a good chance at taking you out in a few shots if you are not staying alert and moving.
The Graphics are great, it looks a little cartoony/comic book style, but you a cop that can just 20+ feet in the air and pick up cars, it's like a comic book action hero. The action is fun, and after many hours of play I just don't want it to end. Issues:
Music: I don't know how decided that 90% of the music in the game is Hispanic based but it ruins the music feature of the game. Most of it I can’t understand since I don't speak Spanish and the songs I do understand don't fit the game.
The announcer: you have a guy giving you tutorials/info every few minutes about bosses, abilities, etc... There are numerous problems with him. One, he tell you the same info over, and over. His comments about you taking damage, dying, etc... Are annoying. The other issues are he is sometime slow. Example: You die, after you are resurrected and getting back into the game, he suddenly warns you your about to die... Um a little late for the info... Turning the voice volume down remove the voice in your head. But he will still tell you about new bosses when you discover them.
Bugs: Within 5 minutes after playing to full version of the game my character fell thru the building I was standing on and ended up under water stuck. I couldn't see my character of move. I was able to shot/throw grenades and decided to commit suicide. After throwing a few grenades it knocked me free. It happened again a few hours later, was on tall building climbing my way to top and fell into the building. Was the suck up in mid air, again couldn't move, unfortunately my grenades kill me this time. Still getting stuck in the game is a problem but in 10+ hours of play has only happened twice. Besides killing the bosses in the game you have alot races you can do, car and on foot/roof top races. I only did one in the demo and figured I probably wouldn't do them in the real game. But after a few car and foot races they are fun to see how you can improve you time as you agility and driving skills go up. There are also other races in the game although I have only seen one. It a race to the top of a building and back down, touching points along the way. Was hard but very fun, tried is over and over. One thing that has also started being important to me is achievement points. I like getting them and like games that have achievable goals, from looking at the achievements crackdown has, 80-90% of them should be doable within normal game play, other are look to be more difficult or near impossible to pull off. Haven't tried the co-op side of this game, no friends so hard to play co-op. :)
Overall: Turn off music, announcer, turn on your own music and have fun killing gang members and finding 100's of hidden agility and orbs while exploring and jumping around a huge open city. Great game.