New Xbox 360 game lacks visual polish — and a good storyline“Crackdown,” the new Xbox 360 game from Real Time Worlds, has ambition.
The cops-and-thugs adventure contains a promising mix of successful genres and features. You can engage in gun battles with criminal scum as you climb and leap from skyscrapers. You can recruit a buddy for online co-op play. You can sculpt your character to your heart’s content. Throw in the “Halo 3” beta, which ships with the game, and you’ve got a winner. Right?
Wrong. Everything that “Crackdown” has under its hood has been done before — and has been done better. Despite being a next-gen game, “Crackdown” feels hollow, lacking visual polish and that sense of your virtual habitat being a living, breathing world. That, and a story......
The cops-and-thugs adventure contains a promising mix of successful genres and features. You can engage in gun battles with criminal scum as you climb and leap from skyscrapers. You can recruit a buddy for online co-op play. You can sculpt your character to your heart’s content. Throw in the “Halo 3” beta, which ships with the game, and you’ve got a winner. Right?
Wrong. Everything that “Crackdown” has under its hood has been done before — and has been done better. Despite being a next-gen game, “Crackdown” feels hollow, lacking visual polish and that sense of your virtual habitat being a living, breathing world. That, and a story......
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I wouldn't let MSNBC piss on me if I was on fire! And to think, Americans rely on them to give us good quality "news" everyday. What a horrible review!
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