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Nice Job Agent

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a fun little title that lets you do more or less whatever you want. Do missions or not. Improve your skills or don't. It really gives you a high degree of freedom. Fun to play for 30 minutes or 6 hours.

My only two criticisms are that the bosses never felt as challenging as they should have and that the driving skill is quite difficult to advance in comparison to the rather organic advancement the other skills achieve.

Open maps and a good story

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have been playing this game for many days now. I must say it is addicting!! Trying to collect all the agility orbs or hiddin orbs. maxing out your stats which are; Agility,Fire Arms,Strength,Driving,and Explosives.Once you have maxed out your skills you'll be doing some crazy things!!! Explosive skills maxed out makes your blast radius bigger,making your exlosions HUGE!! Maxing out your agility allowing you to jump from roof top to roof top!!! HUGE jumps.. picture yourself as Neo from the Matrix.Its pretty much just like that,and its pretty much just as freaking awesome!! Maxing out your driving skills will allow your Agency vehicles to Transform into Crazy Modded Vehicular Beasts right before your eyes in real time. This has to be the coolest thing i have seen yet in the next gen console games!!! Maxing out your strength will allow you to pick up cars/semis!! and hurl them at the baddies wanting to put an end to your law enforcing career.Also picking up dead gang members and throwing them off buildings is also a fun thing to do! in all crackdown is worth the pick up! plus you get the invite to the Halo 3 beta so what do you have to loose???

It's like GTA with the Hulk.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

CrackDown is a fun game. You play as a super cop only known as the agent. This game is like GTA but you are not allowed to harm innocent people. I think it's better playing as a villian (like in Saints Row or GTA) than a hero. You can do what ever you want when you play GTA or Saints Row unlike this game. The game is very addictive for the first few weeks but after awhile it's pretty boring. The graphics in this game could have been alot better but instead they chose to make CrackDown look like a 3D cartoon. CrackDown is a fun game but if you are going to buy it wait untill the price goes down.

Game requires little in the way of thought

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: October 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a simple but addictive game. I found myself wasting more than one afternoon playing the game, yet wondering why I wasn't playing something else. The premise is simple, track down and shoot the bad guys. The challenge is getting to them and surviving long enough to do the job. If you want something to appeal to your trigger finger and not your head, give it a go. If you want something a little flashier requiring a little more work try halo 3. If you want something on the tactical side, try rainbow 6, Las Vegas. My point, there are better games out there, that have better graphics and more appeal.

Great twist on the Sandbox genre

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: February 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Being a somewhat older game for the Xbox 360 the popularity of this game has greatly diminished, despite that is a really an interesting twist on the sandbox genre. This GTA derivative puts you on the right side of the law. You are a genetically engineered supercop fighting the gangs within the city and your job is to rid the city of these gangs and their kingpins.

As you go through the game getting kills your character levels up so to speak. You are able to level up your strength, agility, weapons skill, driving ability and explosives. Each one has its own distinctive advantage. With strength you are able to eventually pick up cars and even larger trucks. Agility allows you to scale buildings and jump very far. Weapons skill makes you more accurate and produces more damage. Driving ability gives you better control of the cars and even allows controlling of the car in midair. Explosives give you more powerful explosions.

This is a pretty fun game as are most sandbox games, because they give you ultimate freedom and the ability to just roam the city looking for things. There are three main ways to play the game. You can go around playing the missions and fighting the gangs. You can roam the streets looking for agility orbs on the tops of buildings and the hidden orbs which level up all the abilities. The third way to play the game is just kill anyone and everyone you want, gang members and citizens alike. The problem with this is the peacekeepers (fellow cops) will start hunting you down if you go this route. More importantly you will lose the skills you have gained.

My favorite parts of the game include: the superhuman abilities, which is quite a twist, the graphics while being cell shaded are pretty remarkable, and the fact that you can get to any part of the city whenever you want, no waiting until you've gotten to a certain mission. The best part of the game is unlike some of the newer hyped up big production games, this game is inherently fun. There is also a great depth to the city.

Unfortunately, the like many of the other GTA clones this one also lacks a few key components that will always keep GTA on top in terms of depth. First of all, there are only cars (or trucks) that can be driven in the game. There aren't even any motorcycles or boats, which made me just want to run around instead of even bothering with a car and hitting pedestrians. Secondly, the game as I said before doesn't have a whole lot of side quests. Aside from hunting down gang members, you can look for agility orbs, hidden orbs or do the races. Other than that the game can be a little repetitive.

After you level up all your skills, there isn't a whole lot to do at all. This is the curse of the sandbox genre. It is kind of like an illegal drug. It is immensely fun and exciting for a while, but then once the high is over, you feel unfulfilled. As was the case with this game I didn't want to have anything to do with it after playing through once. This game in particular lacked customization. There is no money involved at all. There is no garage to keep cars you own/stole. When it comes down to it, you own nothing in the game and you can't change your appearance or clothing. However, the game is just downright fun if you let loose, not caring about running over people or accidental friendly fire. Like very few new games these days it has the fun factor. I'd say I probably got a good 40 hours of playtime without getting every orb. In fact I spent over an hour just driving around at 150 mph in the agency supercar. Overall a good game worth buying--7/10.

The game that GTA IV should have been

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game when it came out, and I literally couldn't stop playing it. I ended up selling my XBOX 360 becasuse I was convinced I had a real problem. Then 6 months later I bought a replacement XBOX 360. A week later I bought Crackdown again, but kept it under control.

Great game. Giant open-world platformer, kind of like everything good about Spiderman 2 and GTA III rolled into one. The powerups and achievements are doled out in such perfect operant conditioning that (for me at least) you can't turn it off.

Crackdown

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: October 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

While I did enjoy playing this game the first time around, I found to my sheer and utter disappointment that I cannot start over and play it again. This is a MAJOR design flaw in the game. If you do not have Xbox Live, you cannot download the update to reset the city's crimes. I have done substantial research online to find a way to reset the game so I can play it again, but every single post, including posts from the game designers at Microsoft, state that you need Xbox Live (Gold membership) to get the update. They even boast that the update brings more features to the game, BUT once again, you need to purchase the wireless network adaptor for ONLY $100, not to mention a GOLD member subscription. I am EXTREMELY dissatisfied with this answer. I do not have Xbox Live nor do I see a need for it, especially at the price they want you to pay for it. I will never buy another Microsoft made video game again. Sorry Halo 3 - but I don't trust your juvenile group of game designers anymore.

Crackdown Could Have Been Made Better!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

First, here is the positive part to Crackdown. I think Crackdown is a fun game to play. It is very entertaining and the game will keep you occupied for hours. In the game, you not only fight street gangs and gang leaders, but you also participate in different street races and try to find different colored orbs to build up your strength and skills. You become faster at running, you can jump higher, and you can shoot weapons better.

Okay, here is the negative part to Crackdown. First off, it feels like the game developers rush through to try to finish this game. The game feels like it is half finished.

For example, the city you play in is divided up on different islands. The city is called Pacific City. So you are surrounded by water. Well here is the weird part. There are no boats anywhere out on the water. You are surrounded by water but there are no boats. You have beaches on the islands but there are no people sitting on the beaches or swimming out in the water. There are factories in the game but there are no railroad tracks so there are no trains. I have never seen a factory area without railroad tracks and trains. There are no airports so there are no planes or helicopters up in the sky. Where are the motorcycles in the game?

You have a Amusement Park in the game called "Fun Land" that located on a beach. I noticed when I went to Fun Land that are no people at the Amusement Park. Well how come there are no people at Fun Land? Every time I go there to Fun Land, I can't find one person there. It doesn't matter if it is day or night. And how come there is only one ride there? You have a big Ferris Wheel and that's it. The Ferris Wheel doesn't even work. And how come none of the Snack Bars at Fun Land are ever opened for business?

Most buildings in the game you can never go inside. They are just there for looks and that's it. I don't know why people even bother comparing this game to the "Grand Theft Auto" series because it's not. The Grand Theft Auto series games all had planes, boats, trains, motocycles, etc. You could go inside most buildings in the Grand Theft Auto Series.

I listen to all the songs in the game. There are 105 songs you can listen to while you are driving around in a vehicle. I notice right away none of the songs are popular songs. All the songs are sort of rap songs I've never even heard of. Why didn't they put in some country music, new age, rock and roll, contemporary, etc. that people recognized? In Grand Theft Auto Vice City one of the reasons the game was so popular was because of the music in the game. They played all 1980's hit songs which really added to the game. This music is pretty much forgettable in Crackdown.

I like Crackdown, but it really frustrating when I could see Crackdown being a much better made game to play.

Crackdown a let down?!?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Crackdown is fun - at first. But after spending a couple of hours running around or jumping around the game becomes stale. If you liked GTA and the storylines that were woven into the free roaming world then you will be disappointed by the utter lack of plot in Crackdown. The only missions you have are to assassinate 21 gang bosses and take driving and rooftop races. For me the game devolves to the point that the only reason to play was to get achievements. I don't play games for achievements, I get achievements while playing games. Unfortunately this game doesn't give you any reason to put the disc in the drive - at least until the Halo 3 beta is released.

Great Game...but Nothing To Do.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: August 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

this game graphic wise is beautiful...and the city is huge and the weapons are alright. but once you realize ALL youll be doing is Killing people thruout the whole game...it gets kind of stupid. thats where this game fails. your a cop...you drive around killing people...and when its all done...you respawn everyone and do it again :| thats it..nothing else...nothing more...just shoot shoot shoot shoot shoot kill kill kill kill kill kill...i got tired of killing people after i killed the 100th person...

definate rent...but wouldnt advise buying unless your going to go ONLINE with it..

iLL .

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