Andy Gardiner writes: "When Crackdown was originally released it saw great success that many attributed to the exclusive Halo 3 beta included on the disk. Despite that, the game gained a huge following with many gamers wanting a return to Pacific City. After three years, these gamers finally get their wish, and while Pacific City is instantly familiar things have also changed
Crackdown 2 is a solid effort that anyone who missed out on the first game will enjoy due to the amount of crazy shenanigans you can do with your Agent, for fans however, there is not as much to it as would have been expected from a sequel. Some may love the fact that they can scour for all the orbs again, while to those that found them all last time it may just be a little too familiar. With lacklustre missions letting the title down it is a shame as this could have been an excellent sequels and instead is more of a lazy update that does exactly what the first title does and no more."
Pure Xbox writes: "Microsoft has appointed Alan Hartman as the new Head of Xbox Game Studios. If you're not familiar with Hartman, he's been part of Forza Motorsport team at Turn 10 Studios since 2005.
Over the past couple of years he's led as Corporate Vice President of Forza and Fable, and before this was the Forza Studio Head at Turn 10."
Seems like a solid choice considering Forza and FH have been the only high quality studio, consistently for Microsoft.
*Forza and FH are the most consistent high quality and this guy ran Turn 10. Playground did FH but still high quality. Let's see if he can get some quality production out of the rest
He´s been doing an excellent job ahead of both Forza franchises integrating those studios to work together by sharing knowledge, technology and manpower.
The new ForzaTech is amazing and I can´t wait to see what it can do for the new Fable.
Phil Spencer has been promoting a huge shake up at Xbox with new leadership hopefully full of fresh ideas!
I hope Alan Hartman as head of XGS to keep the focus on single player games and RPGs. Fable looks absolutely stunning, so we can expect Forza Horizon´s level of excellence for Playground´s first RPG.
I can´t wait!
What a nice reward for the latest Forza, which is probably the most mediocre of the lot so far.
@redgrave not an excuse an explanation for why this game has less features. Not my problem you don't understand how game development works or development in general. When you move to a knew platform some things need to be rebuilt from the ground up.
I am currently migrating one of our services we provide to our customers to the cloud version and having to rebuild a lot of the add-ons we had built for them over the years.
But go ahead and keep criticizing devs when no one here has any clue what it actually takes.
Still think Rod Fergusson would have been a good shout. He's got a track record of fixing stuff and I assume he's still at Blizzard.
Not heard of this guy but I feel like anyone is better than Matt Booty
I thought Dan Greenawalt was head of Turn10 though (although I noticed he didn't do the on stage stuff at e3 this year). Is he not there anymore?
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! This is the best news I've heard since the last piece of xbox news!
Go team xbox! Xbox will rule the world!
He's over overlooked The Forza games which have been consistently good through our the years. Hopefully he has the same eye for quality for the rest if the studios going forward.
How can anyone deny that Forza has been a quality franchise for almost two decades?
“How can anyone deny that Forza has been a quality franchise for almost two decades?“
Forza Motorsport declined after FM4. And this release was one of the worst in the series.
From Bussiness Wire: Rockstar Games is proud to announce that it has acquired Ruffian Games. Based in Dundee, Scotland, the studio will operate under the new name of Rockstar Dundee.
“We are thrilled to have Ruffian join the Rockstar Games family,” said Sam Houser, Founder of Rockstar Games. “The Ruffian team are a talented addition to Rockstar’s global studios, and we look forward to working together on future projects.”
Ruffian Games is now Rockstar Dundee.
Definitely looking forward to what they will make especially for the next gen consoles.
Yeah their history points towards being tasked with producing online content.
On an unrelated note, after RDR2 I had my fill with Rockstar's formula (GTA/RDR). I need something new from them. Something fresh especially gameplay -wise.
I would love if R* main did Fantasy or even something space related.
After loving every GTA game up till the most recent one I can honestly say I'm over it. I don't care about GTA Online even the slightest and the humor and content in the single player just doesn't appeal to me the way it once did.
At one time just the fact that GTA was a huge open world was a selling point now that's not a big deal anymore, and whats left isn't as good for me as what I can find in so many other open world games.
Well that's a nice unexpected surprise. Hopefully this helps their plans to release more games faster they mention a while ago.
More like increasing staff for their GTA V online. I haven't play any Rockstar games since Read dead 2.
Even more employees to work on GTA5 so the game can see out next gen, the gen after that and potentially at a squeeze, the gen after that
I'll take it in VR, otherwise don't bother, just get on with GTA6 or a Bully sequel!
VR sounds a little too hopeful, but when you think they implemented first person mode for this gen and they got LA Noire onto PSVR, one can hope. Especially with the extra power afforded by PS5.
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PSVR 2.0 might be the solution to that problem. We might even see GTA 6 in VR at some point.
Not only did we go a whole gen without a new GTA, they have the audacity to release a full priced Reremaster on PS5/XSX.
The online on free on ps5. Same as cod warzonen is free . But normal game is costing
check this out PS2 generation got 3 GTA games (GTA 3, GTA Vice City, GTA San Andreas, more if you count the PSP ports).
GTA V got 3 console generations (PS3, PS4, and now PS5).
It goes to show how screwed up game releases are now. We barely get as many "new games" or IPs than we did back in the PS1 - PS3 era. Now, it's all Remasters and like 1/4 of brand new titles and on top of that nothing risk taking like Parasite Eve (just the first example to come to mind).
Playing Crackdown 2 now I just wish it had better driving physics and more varied missions