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halo 3 beta and crackdown AWSOME

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: February 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Sure lots of people just want this game for the beta . i just wanted the beta at first. So when i knew the beta would not launch until spring i was a little disapointed but when i played crackdown it was so cool and i knew it would last me till the beta starts .this game has it all a good storyline cars a big map online skills you could increase and savilians you could kill for fun . This game is worth every penny

Just Plain Fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: February 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'm not usually a huge fan of sandbox games (I played GTA III, VC, and SA but never got into them) and eventhough this game has its flaws (lack of depth, shallow story, etc,), it is insanely fun. FUN FUN FUN. Last night, I spent 8 hours playing co-op with a friend (had 1 hr of sleep before work) and we have not had so much fun with a game in a long time. Most of the time we ran around hunting for agility orbs and causing mass chaos. But the funnest part of the night was when we found a couple of mobile ramps and tried to execute impossible jumps, mid-air collisons, and movie-style explosion scenes. My friend was the camera man and I was the driver, which coincidently allowed me to earn the "stunt driver" achievement. I'm sure we will eventually get tired of the car stunts, but as we continue ranking up, I am ceratin that we will find new "activities" to entertain us. Oh, yeah, eventually we might finish the campaign as well =)

It's called CRACKdown for a reason!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: March 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This games is called CRACKdown for a reason - you will quickly become obsessed with finding agility orbs all over Pacific City! This game will consume you. One minute you're on your way to wipe out a mob boss. . . but wait. . . what's that up there on that rooftop? An agility orb? Up up and away! Before you know it, you're scaling a building. . . bounding to a precipitous ledge to get the glowing green agility orb (the crack in crackdown!). But wait! What do your wondering eyes behold? ANOTHER AGILITY ORB three rooftops away. . . and then another. . .and another! The rooftops become fields of beckoning orbs. Soon you forget about the citizens crawling along on the ground below you as you leap from building to building. But you're not free from the bad guys. Not by a long shot! A well placed rocket can knock you off your rooftop quest and send you falling, flaming to the asphalt below! And so it is in the game of crackdown.

I bought this game solely for the Halo 3 beta invite. I didn't really expect this game to be nearly as fun as it is. I thought I might enjoy it, but now I can highly recommend the game solely on it's own merits. There are a lot of achievements in this game that you can get through normal gameplay, however, there are some that require you devote time solely to them. The rooftop races are an example. Throughout each gang area of Pacific City, there are things known as rooftop races that require you to race from one location to the next. This is almost like slalom racing in skiing. You will have a starting point and there may be 30 or so green gateways that your agent must pass through in a set time period. A lot of these races will show you locations of orbs you haven't yet discovered and locations of crime bosses you've not yet brought to justice.

Crackdown is a much better game than I'd ever expected or hoped for. It's well worth the $60.00 and I don't say that lightly! The language in the game is NOT appropriate for children. There are several of the major, spicy cuss words peppered throughout this game (read that as the "S" word and the "F" word). Usually these cuss words are uttered by many of the henchmen as you are infiltrating their stronghold. The violence isn't anything beyond what you'd see in a rated T for Teen game like COD2 or Halo 2. The coarse language is what prevented me from buying a copy of the game for my son.

Perhaps the only weakspot I found in the game (aside from coarse language) is the lack of a multiplayer option. If two people want to play the game at the same time, they need to have two Xbox 360s. In other words, you can only put the smackdown on crime with your best buddy if you have two 360's system linked or if you hook up via XBL. That's kinda silly. Although I'm a fan of splitscreen gaming, but it does need to at least be an option.

In short, don't think of this as purchasing a Halo 3 beta invite with a free version of crackdown. Think of this as a great game worthy of purchasing all by itself! You won't be sorry!

Outrageous

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: December 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I don't intend for this to be one of the reviews that you base your purchase off of. I just want to let everyone know how this has helped me out and how ridiculously exhilarating it is to play. First of all, I never thought anything of this game. But when my son Ian got diagnosed with cancer (Leukemia), I was trying to find something that would distract him from the facts. Well it just so happened that I had just recently bought a 360 for myself and Ian, when we realized this horrible thing. So, I bought another 360, and two copies of Crackdown so I could talk to him, and play with him online when he was in the hospital. He absolutely loved it, and it gave me and my wife chills hearing his laughs through the mic every time we played. The game definitely did its job, and Ian was entertained for hours on end. Unfortunately, Ian passed away on December 2nd. However, I am just happy that he could do so doing something he loved, with the people he loved most. What I'm trying to say is that this game will entertain any kid, and even adults no matter what the situation. Best regards to everyone. Love you forever Ian.

Its Cool That Finally the Mobsters(Gangsters) are the Ones Getting Blown Away

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: February 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is really fun, some official reviews have been too harsh on this game. One reason its got a bad wrap is just that with a little more, time and features this game could have been really FANTASTIC. Like adding versus multiplayer matches. We are never satisfied these days.

I marvel at the detail here, the mechanics of the jumping are great. There is so much beautiful work here.

What I am really enjoying in this game is not being on the side of the criminals, not having the streets filled with prostitutes with all the wonderful things they say. I couldnt believe the things they would say in the Demo of Saints Row.

There is also no good reason to kill civilians and you feel you are trying to protect them.

Finally a game where we get to take down the gangs, one that does not venerate the gangs and the gang culture. Saints Row was also beautifully made but it was glorifying that gang lifestyle which is a problem for so many of our communities and the bad language of Saints Row was awful.

This game is totally worth the money and you get into the Halo 3 beta test which should be fun too.

Recommended.

Phenomenal game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: February 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is GTA, without all the overhead of plot and missions. Just tons of fun running around the city, blowing everything up, and upgrading your character.

Crackdown- 20+ hours of the same thing.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

First of all, a note to the parents: This game is rated M for blood, intense violence, language, drug content, sexual content and I'm sure they've come up with others. I'd like to take this time to say, this rating is stupid! I had my mother watch me play this game for about 20 mins and she found nothing wrong with it (or at least nothing as severe as they make it sound). Blood is there, and violence is there, but drugs and sex? Not really... Anyway, to the review!

"Shortened" Review is at the bottom titled "OVERALL SUMMARY"

Crackdown is a typical "sandbox" game. (A "sandbox" game typically involves a player controlling 1 character with 1 major objective and they can complete it in any way they want while roaming the entire map)
The big story is that there is a city which is composed of 3 islands- each island controlled by a different major gang. The "Agency" (the police) have created clones, capable of growing into large, powerful and talented agents to fight these numerous gangs. (The player plays as the clone. They choose 1 of about 6 different body types)

Gameplay: The bosses breakdown into a pyramid style. The kingpin (leader) is at the top, 4 followers in the middle of the pyramid and 2 minor gang bosses at the bottom. This is where some freedom for the player is brought in. They can choose to attack the kingpin right away, but will probably be killed for the first couple of tries. Or, they could kill the "underlings" first. Each boss is incharge of something. Gang member fitness, weapons, vehicles, explosives, gang numbers, etc. Taking out a leader, let's say the weapon's leader, would have a major impact on the other gang members. Now that the weapon's dealer is gone, instead of snipers and rocket launchers, gang members only have pistols and shotguns. There are 5 basic skils: Agility, Strength, Driving, Explosives, and Weapons. Using these skills to kill other gang members incrases them. For example, a level 1 in explosives, might have a grenade explode with a radius of about 4 feet, whereas a level 4 in explosives (max) has an explosion radius of about 20 feet. You may also grab cars of your choice (even if someone is already driving them!), throw almost anything you see on the screen and, if you choose, kill innocents (however, the agency will send an endless supply of agents to hunt you down- making this path undesireable).

Graphics- Not much to say here. 50% of the players will love them, 50% will hate them. The sky is realistic enough, along with the buildings, but the characters arn't realaistic, but more comic book-like. Explosions are fun to watch as the physics engine is very good. (ex. When an explosive goes off a trash can flys 100 feet, a car only goes about 5.)

OVERALL SUMMARY:
This game is a police verison of Grand Theft Auto with numerous weapons, races, cars and areas to explore. The graphics and physics engine demonstrate their true power brilliantly. The achievements range from incredibly easy (finding 1 supply point) to incredibly difficult (find all 300 hidden orbs). It's fun, addicting, and a way to kill some time until some of the stronger sellers come out later in the year. My only complant is that the game is very repetitive. Reborn --> Kill gangs --> get some skills up --> do something stupid & die --> Repeat. Overall, if you have $60 buring a hole in your pocket, this probably the best game to spend it on.

Fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: February 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is pretty fun. Its hook is the ability to build your characters strentgh, agility, driving and firearm abilities. The cities are pretty life-like with people, cars and realistic highways. The downfall here is the game is too short and too easy. An advanced gamer can easily beat this game in 1 day if determined. The collecting of orbs and gaining achievements will probably give the replay value a week or two longer.. But after that its doubtful anyone will play it again. There is no multiplayer "Versus" support.. there is a co-op mode, but that becomes pointless after completing the game/achievements. The creators will do well to make the sequel longer and more multiplayer involving. Grand Theft Auto with a superhero touch.

Digital crack

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: April 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Another title that impeded me from turning the power off. Crackdown is a solid game that deserves high marks in the sandbox genre.

Storyline: You play as an agent in a crime ridden city. There are 3 districts, each controlled by a gang that is progressively better armed/organized and more aggressive as you go along. Your character has progressive abilities granted by genetic manipulation. This is brought together decently well considering if you are playing this game, the story is just an excuse to do what your doing, so the story does it's job.

Acheivements: Some of the achievements are gimme's, but not as much so as in other games. The acheivment system rewards players for doing what any sandbox player would do anyway granted these abilities. Ig, there is an acheivment for climbing to the highest point in the city, and then another for jumping off and landing safely in the water below. Half of these acheivements will be acheived simply by playing through the game, the other half will remind you of the acheivements on Dead Rising, sans the morbid humor.

Gameplay: It's not hard to get started, the narrator tells you what you need to do, and then you get off to a start. You will find yourself slaying gang members in no time. But there is more to the game than that. You do races on foot (more difficult than it sounds), and in vehicles. There are things to find, and you are encouraged (in the form of acheivement points) to make massive explosions happens and wreak havoc on vehicles and such. Also, the narrator does not push you to move on with the missions, he lets you do whatever without badgering you to press on with the story, and even lets you know when there are races nearby you. While I spent the first hour killing bad guys, I spent the next four just seeing what I could do, and because I was earning points towards my abilities, it wasn't a waste of time.

Graphics: These graphics aren't designed to truly shine on a HDTV, but they still look good. What catches your eye is when your on top of a tall building and you notice the draw distance. You can see cars driving from a far distance away, and there is no 'fog' in the distance. It will draw the whole city, and it looks even better at sunrise and sunset. But that is a fleeting moment. Rest of the game still looks good, and is testament to the power of the 360. The most gratifying explosions make you just itching to use the rocket launcher on anything.

Sound: The sound works, thats all I can say. The deep base of the explosions and the distinctive sounds from different weapons and even cars works well with a surround system. If you and the cops are having a block-wide gun battle with a gang, the surround will make you think your playing Call of Duty 3.

Didn't Like: The soundtrack. It's weak but who cares? Anyone who gets this will play the game for two minutes before he plays his own gang-busting soundtrack. So, actually, it's good the designers didn't waste too much disc space with the tracks. Also, I'm a cop, and I can't arrest anyone? In True Crime: Streets of L.A., you can at least search people and interact a little more with the civilians. Speaking of civilians, they have no desire to save themselves. When you are having a gun battle and the gang members are just piling in, you eventually have to shoot off a rocket or toss a grenade into the crowd of enemies to save yourself - at the expense of a few hapless civilians who don't seem to care that bullets are flying anywhere. This isn't so bad, except the cops that are helping you suddenly get pissed and try to shoot you. Driving is kind of a pain sometimes. The engine for vehicle handling makes almost everything handle like a warthog in Halo 2 with a drunk team-killing partner behind the wheel. You WILL run over people in everyrace if you intend to win, and even if you don't, none of these vehicles brakes respond very well so good luck not hitting a car on the road even when you are trying to drive normal. Fortunatly, the cops don't stay mad for long and will forget your transgressions, and the skill penalization is far outweighed by the gain (unless you are JUST killing civilians, then you don't gain any skills). There is one graphics error that appears every once in a while. Sometimes the game forgets to draw a car, and you will see a person sitting on air doing 40 - kind of humorous.

I can't say if any of these has or has not been fixed by any of the 3 patches since it's release, as I can't get on xbox live in Afghanistan due to poor connection speed, but except for the soundtrack, all those I'm sure could easily be fixed.

Crackdown... the ultimate way to relax

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: February 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I absolutely love this game and have been playing nothing else since I purchased it. It's basically Grand Theft Auto meets the Matrix. I say that because it has the entire open world feeling that GTA has mixed with the sensational feeling of jumping from one rooftop to another. This is one of those games where you can actually feel how high up you are, especially when you realize that you're not gonna make it to that rooftop that you thought you could reach. As your character levels up and you start jumping higher, throwing farther and shooting more accurately, the game just becomes ridiculously entertaining.

The graphics are awesome. I love cel shaded graphics myself and while this slightly cartoony look may put off some of you, I think it's a big part of what makes this game work. It's amazing how you can stand on the highest point in the game and look down at the entire world before you and still see tiny cars in the distance and people milling about. The physics are really nice also, employing ragdoll physics and real world physics so people collapse realistically after being filled with lead and cars flip over in a believable manner after being blown to smithereens. And speaking of explosions, let's just say there are many, they are usually huge and they're really loud.

The in game sound is really nice and if you remember what the gunfire in the film "Heat" sounded like during the heist scene, it sounds just like that. Another reason to get yourself a surround setup if you don't alrteady have one.

Online co-op is great and has a kind of Gears of War thing going for it in that you can jump in someone else's game and help them complete missions if you choose. Playing in this type of game with another player is a very satisfying experience. The controls are nice and tight and even though there might be a slight issue with locking on targets you may not necessarily be targeting, it's still more than adequate for the games purposes.

This game boils down to eliminating the bad guys and collecting stuff scattered across the map. Rarely has it ever been this much fun. While there isn't as much to do as in GTA: San Andreas (let's face it though, I don't really think delivering pizzas would make sense in this game), there's still a lot of searching, collecting and wiping out of scumbags to make this game a hell of a good time.

Highly recommended.

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