Crackdown 3 "still looks abysmal" - Forbes

It seems a game that would have been ok releasing in a dry period. There's so many games coming up that nobody will give it a look. MS are using gamepass to disguise the quality at the moment.

@djoffer: are you suggesting that crackdown 3 isn't an anticipated game for Xbox fans? That's just silly... Microsoft themselves have hoisted the game into the psyche of the masses by promoting it at E3 and declaring new technology behind its creation.

Why wouldn't you be excited as an Xbox fan?

If you live, eat and breath Only SW I guess but that's not the real world...

For instance, this person's take on the online MP sounds pretty great but I wouldn.t suspect this would make a good ( really meaning bad ) SW thread since it says something positive about the game..

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/crackdown-3-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-/1100-6464735/

Cows really need to stop fixating on all things MS/Xbox and perhaps fire up that dusty PS Bore and replay/watch a movie-game or two. lol :P

Some fans are trying to act cool like they aren't anticipating the game, after years of hype of not only MS magic cloud but also the game it self.

Geesh the hate train for this game is becoming cliche and the group think is so blatant. Its funny that people are still pretending to be objective. The reality is the game was never a big name game or high budget. No one was expecting this game to rock the industry in anyway. This is Crackdown, the game that relied on a Halo demo for sales but yet people are pretending it was a strong IP to begin with.

Some people for sure, however others just thought you can't polish a turd, and throwing new tech at a turd is just akin to rolling it in glitter. Since that E3, all that's changed is its now been shorn of its glitter.

@poptart: I'm not saying it's gonna resonate for everyone... I own a ps4 and Spiderman looks as exciting as a fart in church so I haven't picked it up yet. My point though is when a company makes it known that something big and exciting is coming from them, they have made the game a thing to be excited about, or to hype...

I watched cows do this 10 years ago with infamous 2... The first game got a 9 and was a Ps exclusive and everyone was jacked for it... The second game comes out, gets a 7.5 or whatever and Sony fans act like no one was hyping it... Ummm yeah they were, Sony themselves were hyping it.

Microsoft is hyping their big games... Their fans are excited, it's not 100 percent but it's just like every other big release.

But but but... they have Terry Crews as a voice actor ?

It looks like horse shit and has this bro culture aura around it i don't like.

@ivangrozny: @ivangrozny:

If its like Crackdown 1, then it will have great gameplay.

Collecting orbs, Leveling up, scaling buildings, killing enemies with many weapons and explosives is what crackdown is about.

add multiplayer to this one and who gives a **** about graphics for a comic book style game.

ill be playing it day one!

This from the link I posted above....

"The same goes for the reality of playing as a budding supercop: The powers you remember from the past, or those you can experience in multiplayer, will only be yours if you once again go through the process of searching a wide and tall city for orbs to build up experience/skill meters. Coupled with a generic objective system in the open world, which itself also feels like something pulled from 2007's open-world playbook, my time with the campaign was more underwhelming than I could have expected. To be fair, that gameplay formula is part and parcel of the Crackdown experience, the game a lot of us championed as the model Microsoft should follow for a sequel. In my case at least, it's clear I didn't realize what I was asking for.

One of my favorite questions to ask game developers is whether they, as creators, know better than fans what's best for their games. The most common answer I get is that they know best because the audience asks for everything without understanding the constraints of development. Crackdown 3 creative director Joseph Staten didn't hesitate to give fans the nod, because a launched game "becomes whatever people make of it." Considering the two halves of Crackdown 3, I then asked him whether his role as a creator is to innovate in tech or creative game design. "Microsoft is a big technology company," he replied, acknowledging the reality of his particular position. "Games are entertainment, but Microsoft has this capability that other companies don't."

In those two answers Staten pretty much summarized my understanding of Crackdown 3. Fans asked for something, and by all evidence, Microsoft is aiming to give them what they want: the experience of reliving the original Crackdown with a fresh coat of paint. It will be interesting to see how others revel or revile when confronted with the seemingly matter-of-fact approach to the campaign. I expect impassioned positions on both sides. Multiplayer, though, will be the real test of whether Crackdown 3 is a success, purely for how it validates Microsoft's almost-unique position in the industry."

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Pretty much saying, this is what the fans asked for... I'm all set for some Orb hunting, love the emphasis of the open world horizontal and more importantly, verticality of this game. :)

So, It's everything Knack 2 was without the improved combat and good graphics?

That's fine, I also read another report from Gamesradar, they seemed amazed by the game overall.....who am I to believe, nobody really, I'll find out at launch myself where I stand.

I'm not really a crackdown fan but over the holidays I played the first game via backwards compatibility, and I found it surprisingly fun.

I like the visual style of CD3 and I'm curious about this game after all the development delays, I just want a fun game to turn off your brain, and I'm curious about the cloud based destructions too. I dont have high expectations for the game I just hope it is fun and gives me a good time overall with smooth gameplay, if not that's fine I have a ton of games to play. Looking forward to trying it soon

@SecretPolice: "Crackdown 3, is always the talk of the town hehe. :P"

Train wrecks usually are.