A nice new spin on the old GTA formula.
What makes this game stand out amongst its fellow GTAstyle games is that your the good guy, but more than just a normal good guy, your a SUPER good guy. Yep thats right you can jump from building to building, take hundreads of rounds and pick up large objects and crush those pathetic gangsters in a fury of distruction, and all while the world thanks you.
Now the dark side of Crackdown is that you can burn through its content extreamly fast, and thats realy what hurts this game the most. The gameplay is great and it has all the action a GTA fan could want with the perks of jumping off a building and leaving a nice cracked ground effect kinda like in the Matrix, but at the end of the day you may have been better off renting it (luckly thats what I did). Its a great game and if your a true fan, than buying it can be justified, but with only a good days worth of gameplay (from 24hours not sun up to sun down) your going to finnish this one in a week if you play it slow.
Over all the graphics, controls, sound, and all the general "core" aspects of the game are extreamly solid, and the comic book feel is well warented. With the engine created, hopefuly Crackdown 2 and Realtime Worlds have plenty of time to create an extreamly massive experiance. I look forward to seeing a Crackdown 2 with double or even triple the content, as the game is very much worth a sequel.
As title says its a highly addictive game, but man it'll drop you hard when you finnish it way to quickly.