Great Idea, But it Came Up Short

User Rating: 7.5 | Riot Act X360
So basically it is like Grand Theft Auto but instead of killing/avoiding cops you are a cop. But there is another twist, you have super powers. Before I get into my actual review I would like to say that I would give this game a 7.8 if I could. So, like my title says, the idea really got me excited because I am looking for a game in which you can customize your super powers and have a lot more customization. In Crackdown you pick your character and you start out with five classes, Agility, Firearms, Explosives, Driving, and Strength/hitting the B button. The best part of the game is climbing up buildings and collecting agility orbs/hidden orbs.
The guns are standard guns that you would expect to see minus a couple of the explosive weapons. The explosives are pretty fun to use but they are better to use when you get farther along. Driving is fun, but only when you are driving the agency cars or when you max out your driving. Strength is interesting because as you level up your guy starts to look like a wild man on steroids and some of them randomly grow tat-oos or change their hair cut. The game is much more fun when you are playing with a friend because you can stay more focused and destroy a lot more people quicker. I believe that the game is much more fun in the first two parts of the city because when you get to the third part the people get a lot harder and the buildings are much more massive which makes them hard to climb.
The Game does a great job in making the area larger and it is unique because the size of the city is also vertical because of all the buildings you can scale. All in all, this game almost makes it to being considered a great game but the lack of customization and the sudden increase of difficulty in the last area keeps it from achieving a higher score.