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Summary: GTA from the Other Side
Comment: Crackdown is sort of like GTA in that you run around a large city fighting gangsters, stealing cars, generally causing mayhem, and dying with minimal consequences. Except instead of being an up-and-coming criminal, you're a genetically modified and cybernetically enhanced super-cop tasked with cleaning up the city. Your skills improve as you locate hidden power-ups, kill enemies, jump vehicles, and complete races. Plot is kept to a bare minimum of "go there, kill that guy".

Despite this simplicity, the game is quite fun: Jumping from roof to roof, leaping up the side of buildings, taking on gang hit-squads like a one-man army, and blowing up basically everything. Personally, I thought the driving mechanics were lame, but I'm not a big fan of racing games in general so your experience may vary, plus that part of the game can largely be ignored. Jumping from roof to roof is much more fun than driving down the road, anyways.

Don't know about the multiplayer elements because I didn't try them.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Good game
Comment: I heard there won't be a sequel to this game, which is a shame. Great gameplay, lots of fun. If you like running around and causing senseless destruction this is the game for you.

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Summary: Crackdown is a fun, cheap way to have fun
Comment: Do you want a cheap game to divert your time? Then Crackdown is the way to go. Since there are AT LEAST 8 of this used at every game store INCLUDING amazon because of people selling them after the Halo 3 Beta ended you can get it for $10. It is awesome for diverting your time and having fun but if you like to get into your games this one isn't good for that. No story, no characters, no cut scenes. Just straight arcade like "here is your objective kill everything that moves (and doesn't have flashing lights/blue uniforms on) to complete it". Add Xbox 360 graphics to that and you have Crackdown. This game was good enough for me to buy it twice since my first copy got stepped on.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Gets old fast
Comment: Gets real old real fast. Is fun for about 2 days. Rent it, don't buy it.

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Summary: One Of The Best 360 Games Ever!
Comment: 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.

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