Abstract: A little over three years ago, Realtime Worlds, the former developers of the Grand Theft Auto and Lemmings series, brought gamers Crackdown on the Xbox 360. At the time, the game was not widely anticipated on its own merits. Despite this, it was bought...
Abstract: Open-world action games have become a genre of their own, splitting off of the classic, heavily scripted shooters and making their own path. No one has had as much influence in this genre as Rockstar Games has, but there are a few developers out the...
Abstract: Coming away from the ending of Crackdown 2, I've got to say I'm pretty disappointed in it. It still has a lot of that Crackdown charm, namely running around collecting a bunch of orbs and stuff, but I found myself quickly burned out with the various ac...
Abstract: Follow AskMen on Twitter.What if we told you there was a game that you could play with up to four friends that lets you control ultra-powerful special agents, launch yourself off of cloud-touching skyscrapers, wreak explosive havoc in crowded city stre...
Abstract: Orbs. Glowing green and blue orbs. Hundreds of them, literally, spread up to the highest reaches and down to the lowest depths all around Pacific City, the setting for Crackdown, which was a surprising 2007 hit game from Microsoft on the Xbo...
I had a hard time figuring out Crackdown 2. In a time when all the top shooter adventure games have stories, characters and an element of complexity to the weapons and powers, Crackdown 2 forgoes all those elements. Therefore, it’s best to compare it t...
Abstract: Gamers have been begging for a sequel to Crackdown for years. The original game, developed by Realtime Worlds, became a cult hit due to its surprising and empowering gameplay, not to mention the fact that it came packed with a beta code for Halo 3. W...
Abstract: Back in 2007, Microsoft and Real Time Worlds offered up an interesting take on the sandbox genre with the original Crackdown. The game put you in the shoes of a cop in a futuristic city as he performed a variety of missions and hunted down criminals, a...
