This week's edition of Gamasutra's regular Critical Reception column examines online reaction to Microsoft's Crackdown, a free-roaming action title with strengths in character advancement and in online multiplayer modes.
Crackdown faced controversy in the weeks prior to its release, when it was announced that all retail copies would come bundled with an invitation to the Halo 3 beta test. Some criticized the move as being unfair to consumers, noting that the allure of an early opportunity to play one of the Xbox 360's most anticipated upcoming releases would inflate sales of what could potentially be a mediocre product.
As a result, Crackdown met with close scrutiny from critics, none of whom had the opportunity to be swayed by the as-of-yet unavailable Halo 3 beta test. Even without the advantage of a Halo tie-in, however, Crackdown still manages to rank in at an impressive 84% average review score ratio at Gamerankings.com.
Darren writes: "Despite much moaning and groaning, Xbox has had some smashing console exclusive games during its four generation lifespan. Crackdown was one such game, released in the early years of the Xbox 360"
Still one of my all time favorite games. It hurt to see what happened to Crackdown 3 😔
Gamerheadquarters; "With the jump in power from the Xbox Series X all Xbox 360 and Original Xbox titles that are backwards compatible should be enhanced as soon as they’re available."
They’ve been working the past few years and have become proficient in that department so I definitely think they are capable of such a feat. Their BC through emulation that can natively upscale blows my mind and gives them an advantage over competitors using multiple hardware settings which requires higher clock speeds and produces more heat.
I caught Chaos Theory on sale and was actually blown away by how it scaled on the One X.
I imagine that they'll carry over the functionality of the X regarding playing previous gen games to the series X.
They better have good support for backwards compatibly.... Since they have no 1st pay games LMAO 😂
“compatibly”, “1st pat games”: Are those supposed to be “compatibility” and “first party games”? Doesn’t really come across as an adult. No disrespect, legit question: is English not your first language?
And xbox one games, there are many underperformed 3rd party games that needs frames boost.
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It is not a crap game that needed the beta for it to sell. It is a good, solid game in its own right and we would not be having this debate about the games quality if there was no beta.
And, yes, I own the retail copy - bought it yesterday, played it last night, and it is a blast - literally!
I can tell you right now that if it wasnt for the Halo 3 beta I would not have pre-ordered this game, in fact I gave it a solid thought and only pre-ordered it today!
I played Crackdown and its got no story nothing, its mindless do what you want shooter.
However those that bought the game for Crackdown itself will probably end up trading it in, meaning those that want the Halo 3 beta be on the look out for traded in Crackdown games!
This is one of those games where you don't need to worry about reviews because who can determine the fun factor of a game that's so open ended for every individual? This game's fun factor is awesome, it's mindless fun, and has so many goofy things you can do and in the end videogames are about having fun, and so crackdown wins in my book.
didnt think I would, but the game makes you feel like a lethal super hero (i.e Venom) I'm lovin it!
I got this game to and its not bad, kinda fun a few glitches like the game relolading everytime a budy comes in but thats it. The rest is just fun fun fun.