@draign: personally, I'm not talking about the cartoony style at all. I'm also much more turned off by the dated gameplay than the dated visuals.

But let me take a step back here. You're super stoked by what you see? More power to you. Not every game is for everyone and it's not my place to tear your preferences down

@draign: "I dont know why anyone would say Crackdown 3 is outdated when Persona 5 is another toon styled game recently released."

The two games are completely different for starters. How are you comparing one with the other?

For open world third person games Crackdown 3 looks WAAYYYYY outdated. In looks it actually looks comparable to last gen Infamous, maybe just a bit better and the animation of movement of the character actually looks even older, the Infamous animations are way better. The Crackdown character animations look stiff like hell, it looks like a original Xbox game in that respect.

It's clearly taking advantage of newer effects - smoke, lighting, etc. And of course there's a resolution bump and draw distance boost. But It doesn't look modern at all! Good lord, that first scene where he's crossing the street and tosses the dumpster ~2:10... a bunch of low-poly cars bumping around mindlessly, the dumpster floats through the air, and whiffs soundlessly with a little janky physics as it hits the far wall... this looks straight out of GTAIV+Infamous in terms of both visuals and the gameplay. It's extremely dated. BTW, he doesn't damage the ground when he lands - it's a temporary visual effect like footprints in the snow.

@draign: let me try: the movement looks janky and like it's from GTAIV at best. The destruction and env detail are remind me of Red Faction 2, but plopped outside in a world that looks like Infamous 1. You brought up R&C, which oozes style and has fantastic character animation, and you then brought up SSOD, which also smokes what we are seeing here

@draign: You're not making sense. You were the one comparing Crackdown and R&C's style. Are you mixing up style and gameplay?

It has nothing to do with personal preference.

Notice how one character feels alive and has weight, while the other doesn't.

That's because Ratchet and Clank's style is a lot better defined and has great animation.

Crackdown looks like a student project both style-wise and in terms of animation.

mmhmm. The first game is actually fairly fun if shallower than it should be. The framework is great, the story is basically this simple as you are a super cop, go clean up the city, and come see at the ending. So automatically the game shutting the **** up is a bonus point to Champ. And you are free to go whereever, when ever so long as you can deal. Want to go to the island with the tallest buildings and most decked out dudes? Go for it. Or do what is a clear sense of progression.

And in that space between your speed n jump height, to all the weapons you have access too, to the different environment props, and how the main gang headquarters are handled you have multiple points of attack n options at your disposal. The problem is that the game could rarely keep you honest, as death penalties were borderline non-existent, and while the attack points had multiple points, they were, rarely all that unique from each other n terms of options with your tactics. Sans like 2 or 3.

As it stands all the stuff people are creaming their jeans about with things MGSV or Breath of the Wild, or what people love about the original Crysis, Crackdown was essentially doing some of that stuff that year in 07. It was just shallow, but the potential for it to mop the floor with the other sandbox games was always there. The sequels have just tried to "improve" n really stupid n pointless way it seems. Although they were on to something with the destruction idea, but they didn't need to go full every particle ever with the destruction or some shit. Something like what Red Faction Guerilla had would be dope in Crackdown.