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Gets old fast

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 26, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Gets real old real fast. Is fun for about 2 days. Rent it, don't buy it.

One Of The Best 360 Games Ever!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Crackdown when it first came out was merely just a footstool for the Halo 3 Beta Code.I remember that X-Play first announced this and mocked Crackdown saying along the lines of the game being overlooked by players just so they can play the Halo 3 Beta.They were wrong in my case.I never played the Beta and bought the game because it looked crazy and fun and you know what I was absolutely right too.This very well might be one of the most fun games I've ever played on any platform.You are genetically enhanced super cop who through through time advances his abilities and weapons to rid Pacific City of five major crime syndicates who rule the city.The Agency is your employer and they help you a great deal.The Agent that talks to you gives you helpful advice and warns you when you are crossing the line into lawlessness.You climb and jump from buildings and rooftops with greatest of ease and collect colored orbs to raise your chances on improving your vertical leap.Everything you do from shooting and melee and vehicular combat gives you orbs and within no time you'll be evolving more and more in to a perfect killing machine.Get enemy weapons and take them to safe points where they will be available anytime you need them.

The Syndicates are ruthless criminal Organizations and you can use any strategy you'd like in taking them down.there are four under bosses and each one you kill will significantly weaken the Organization's overall power so you can piece by piece take the small fries out and then go after the main boss.The envirements can can be exploited to your desire,so have fun finding a cleaver way to overwhelm the enemy in a place unexpected by them.The city itself is huge and you'll be surprised really how large and dense it is.Aiming is simplistic and easy to use and you gain more experience by killing an enemy while shooting them in mid air.Throwing grenades and selecting others is very simple and allows you for some fun result.The Rocket Launchers on this game is really a game in and of itself.I can't begin to tell you how much fun I had juggling people and objects in the air.The driving is fun as well especially when you get the Agency Truck with Hydrolics on it.

There are just a couple of minor thing that don't in anyway impede the game whatsoever,but could be improved apon in a sequal.The Story could have had some animation instead of the Comic Book-type Art cut scenes.Vehicles could handle a little bit more smoother.And the Music Stations should be like GTA with Radio Staion type feel instead of sounding like a setlist.Also,although there's Onlive Gameplay no one ever plays.

I cannot praise this game higher in terms of everything it brought me-Imagination,suspense,excitement,enginuity and especially fun.What an unbelievably great game this is I wish I could erase my memory so that I could play Crackdown again and relive it all over again from a fresh perspective.I truely believe that Crackdown along with Elder Scrolls 4 Oblivion as one of the best Games on the XBOX 360 bar none.And really I don't see how anyone else can argue is point.I can't wait until they announce the sequal,because if it is half as good as the original there will be no doubt that Crackdown and all its future releases will be in the annals of Video Game History with the other Legendary games of all time.

addictive, colorful, humorous

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

i'm a mature gamer who bought a dozen or so games along with a new xbox just to see how the technology had evolved. (all the digital animation in recent films had piqued my interest.) having just opened grand theft auto 4 and assassin's creed, my first impression of this game was not favorable. but i've come to appreciate its unique and considerable charms. it is basically the urban sandbox, multi island, gansta life conceit of gta4, plus the rooftop play, "assassination mission plus side missions" concept of assassin's creed, but with a distinctively "comix" style of graphical design that is stylized to be less realistic, less textured, less graphically gory than either gta 4 or ac but more colorful, lively, and "artistic" than either. your avatar is not a thug but a maniacal police agent fighting evil and cleaning the streets, so you're not put in the position of looking at everything through gangster eyes, which is nice. however the most enjoyable innovation is a gruff voiceover guide who occasionally comments on your play ("are you crazy?" "i sure love the smell of agent in the morning!" "you sure like to push your luck!") along with gameplay and strategy tips; more than once his comments on my play made me laugh out loud. the avatar has physical and tactical skills that improve with use, notably the ability to leap and climb tall buildings if enough "agility" points are collected (these resemble the flags scattered around in assassin's creed) and the strength to lift and throw almost any detached object, from dead bodies to cement mixers, as weapons. but otherwise you have three options of play: roam the city to collect markers or perform racing stunts to improve agility; take on random firefights with street thugs to improve strength and skill, or kill off the senior members of three different crime gangs. these "missions" can be done in any order; each requires penetrating the gangster's lair after killing his almost endlessly spawning guards (though most do have a back entrance or rooftop way around defenders). this involves quite a lot of wearing down of the opposition, but each time you're killed and "regenerate", the enemy forces remain weakened, so you don't have to start the same exact mission, over and over, as happens in most games. the game physics are compelling, especially the explosions and flying objects, and the avatar has plenty of agility without cumbersome button combinations or programming limits. overall: a great game to look at, lots of fun to play, a very nice blend of humor and excitement, and no glitches in the xbox version that i could find.

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

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Overall, a very good game. Even though I got it because of the Halo 3 Beta (long expired), I very much enjoyed playing Crackdown; although it did take me a while to beat.

Crackdown

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Great game, I love the online Co-Op personaly. Its a basic shoot um up, clear the city of gang members with a sci-fi twist that your a super cop. You can run fast, jump high, and your one force to be reckoned with. Fun game its kind of short if you play it alot. I got into it and even after you finish it you can go online and have fun with others geting achievments and dukeing it out!

It's just fine,.... but so much missed potential...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Crackdown IS a fun open-world sandbox game that is truely open. Unlike GTA or all it's clones,.. there are NO missions or cinema to unfold a linear story full of frustrating missions. You are a supercop unleashed on a HUGE city to take down and destroy a huge crime syndicate of gangs however you want to. Guns,.. throwing objects (even cars) acting like a superhero,.. you can do it all. You can level up your abilities and vehicles,.. and have fun just running/jumping all through the city getting orbs(that upgrade abilities) kind of like the hidden packages in GTA or even the coins in a Mario game.

It has recieved plenty of deserved praise. I agree with most of it.

BUT there is a downside. And the downside is that it has so much missing gameplay that could've made it a "GTA-killer" as opposed to just a nice distraction untill the next big game comes out.

First of all, the police officer aspect is very under developed. ALL you do is shoot and blow up gang members that shoot at you. There is no other crime except for gangs shooting at YOU and YOU alone. You're not protecting the citizens from anything. It would've been great if it had more police duty. Muggings,.. armed robbery,...giving tickets to speeders,.. stings and busts. Actually arresting people sometimes. Hunting criminals with outstanding warrants. Responding to dispatch calls.. All optional of course,.... something else to do besides the constant nonstop shooting of gangsters.

Now the other gripe I have with Crackdown: Lock-on aiming. This makes the MAIN aspect of the gameplay boring. Just lock on and hold down the fire key and that's it. Without the cheap lock on ,... the bullet accuracy is worthless. We don't need lock on aiming anymore. Just play Saints Row, Mercenaries, or GTA San Andreas to see how open-world 3rd person games can have the same superior aiming controls as opposed to lock on.
Also,.. the hand to hand combat is nothing more that a single kick. While you can pick up everything and throw it,.. it's useless and inneffective. You can't even do melee attacks with anything you pick up like in HULK: Ultimate Destruction. Even running over the gang members with vehicles is inneffective since they dodge your car 98% of the time. After trying all this,.. you'll end up just shooting everybody with the lock on aiming all the time and get bored.
After you defeat the gangboss in each island of the city,.. that island becomes devoid of any gang members,.. and since there is NO OTHER crime it just turns into a big boring city.

So for the first week you'll love it,.. but once you notice all the limits of gameplay you'll become bored. (it depends though,.. you may not care and just like it for what it is. It just depends on how much you crave a true living--open world with lots of gameplay variety.)

If only the developers had looked at the best features of other open world games like "Mercenaries", "Hulk: Ultimate Destruction", and even "True Crime LA" (for the police duty) and put them all together would Crackdown be all that it could be.

I would say that Saints Row and Mercenaries are both superior to Crackdown.

very crazy

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

It is an extremely high paced game and when u first play it its going to seem like ur always shooting at somebody. But you get used to it and eventually it gets disguistingly fun.

Was worth it at $60

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game was alot of fun when it was $60 and now it is $30. It is a free roaming, go any where, destruct-o match. It was one of the more fun I had completing a game. Unfortunately, online play is miserably slow and once you have leveled all the way up, the game quickly dulls.

For $30, this game is a must buy for any XBox 360 owner.

Its a fun cheap game for blowing stuff up

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

this game does not have an amazing story its about jumping around on buildings and blowing things and people up. A fun little playground romp

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