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Crackdown 3 Review Thread
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Disappointing, but when 2 months of Game Pass is only $2 right now, you bet I'm gonna try it anyway.
Pettiest thing I ever have read on this forum, grow up.
Ouch. As a big fan of the original, this is disappointing. It always felt like it was a hailmary by Phil to appease fans upset with XB1 launch and lack of interesting exclusives. Looks like it turned out to be a failmary.
As a massive fan of the old games in the 360 era, very shocked to see what MS allows as their level of Quality in 2019.
Hope they dont let Obsidian and Ninja Theory make the same kind of garbage after all the fanfare of acquiring new studios, this leaves me a bit worried for their future Quality in their first party lineup. Hope Game Pass had nothing to do with the low quality of Crackdown 3.
Hope they dont let Obsidian and Ninja Theory make the same kind of garbage after all the fanfare of acquiring new studios, this leaves me a bit worried for their future Quality in their first party lineup. Hope Game Pass had nothing to do with the low quality of Crackdown 3.
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nice to see you can antagonize your least favorite members at least once for free before a ban
OT: I agree with some of the sentiment here that this is the last project of Mattricks era, and am looking forward to a hopefully increase in quality for MSs 1P slate.
OT: I agree with some of the sentiment here that this is the last project of Mattricks era, and am looking forward to a hopefully increase in quality for MSs 1P slate.
Sad but expected. Looks like a bit of sandbox fun but that is it. But lets be honest we all saw it coming from the troubling development cycle, the delays and the gameplay they released. I wish Sumo Digital well, this news must be hard on them.
Actually Forza Horizon is a first party game now because they bought Playground Games
And wow at writing my name wrong, you are so smart
Era never change
EDIT: Ignore this - saw the mod response just now
I see the IGN score is missing one the MC page. Did they review the PC version?
You're right. Back on topic.
I read stories of people saying it happened to them, a bug im sure, but i guess im still paranoid
They're really not though. Just watch the digital foundry analysis.
Yeah they are REALLY good. Racing games just don't do the same thing for me as a really excellent single player story focused adventure. But Forza is just about as good as a racing game can possibly get.
Honestly I think that's the big problem for me with Xbox especially this gen. There is so much focus on multiplayer and GAAS type games. Many of which are really great, but just don't emotionally do much for me.
Mattrick has been gone for almost 6 years, no? Seems like a reach to pin this on his "era" somehow. Most of this games development, for better or worse, happened under Spencer. If Sumo hit it out of the park and this game was phenomenal, would anyone be bringing up Mattrick right now?
Yeah they should go back to it ( Mech Assualt also) but like Sony with the Colony Wars IP , they think it won't appeal to todays audience ( gotta love the suits that cut the checks)
I want him to have this win so bad actually. Dude deserves it.
It's weird that reviews are super down on the game for being a sequel to Crackdown, not some totally different game.
That's the confusing part for me - the biggest complaint is that it's more Crackdown?
I loved it for exactly that reason - it's more Crackdown. It's not trying to be a cinematic action-adventure game that'll bring you to tears with its story, it's the 'Michael Bay movie' of video games and it does that really well.
Watching and playing is a bit different and might change your opinion once you get to play it yourself
I stand by my words - been playing it and its not even close to a low 60. But everybody has their own opinions
Well, the metacritic is within my expectations. I had a blast with sonic forces so I expect to have lots of fun with this game, even with the meh consensus .
Damn, why can't my people admit that this is an L and move on?
This perfectly sums up almost everything.
I feel like Xbox, with the help of Phil Spencer, has been slowly climbing out out the hardware/software wreckage that was piled upon them by Mattrick and his hubris-fueled experiment that was the original Xbox One vision.
Unfortunately, while doing this with limited funding and control as a subsidiary of the Windows division until 2017, they had to end a lot of stuff instead of improving it. Kinect was amazing technology, but it cost too much with the old budget. Same with developing the Crackdown cloud tech.
Now, Xbox and Phil have had the control and funding they need for over a year. They have purchased new studios. They seem to be giving current studios room to support and improve games over time, as evidenced by Sea of Thieves. I'm personally giving them 3 years (2021) to really start knocking it out of the park.
By "Knocking it out of the park" I mean:
* 1st Party exclusives that match or exceed what Sony puts out in quantity and Metacritic score.
* Hardware that is not only more powerful (eg. X1X) than the competition, by more innovative. That means things like VR,AR, Kinect are made available on the Xbox and are 100% supported, not abandoned.
Not every reviewer is going to feel the same way. Crackdown was a long ass time ago. Peoples tastes change, peoples expectations change, hell reviewers change. Who knows what the people reviewing CD3 thought of the first game. Some of them may not have even been reviewing games at that time.
I truly believe that this game was launched after so many delays and alegated development problems only because Microsoft could not deal with another game being canceled and all bad press that would come with it.
I guess that's true. I haven't played it for myself yet, however the digital foundry analysis was pretty thorough and it paints a picture of clean image quality, incredible HDR, and techniques that aren't often found in open world titles.
It's true that it'll probably not be making any top 5 lists this year for most impressive visuals, but I think it's a lot better than people were expecting.
Thanks for that Tom, it sounds like it's a lot fun, just like the original, which is exactly what I wanted, also added Terry Crews is a bonus! I'm also surprised it's getting so many lower scores. The first one took a bit of time to level up and really get into it as well, maybe after people have had a bit more time to get into it they might appreciate it a bit more?
This is a weird post.
Phil Spencer never seems to be held accountable even though he was in charge of first party for MS for years.
On their website it says it's reviewed for pc and xbox one. They only gave it a 5/10 so it will pull down the average when it's added.
The first 30 minutes have been enjoyable. It must be really bad at the end to justify these review scores. We'll see.
Well it's pretty much as expected, actually slightly lower than I thought it would score (I thought maybe 65-69) so that's more of a bummer.
Thankfully Game Pass is a thing so I can play it super cheap without paying full price, which clearly it isn't worth, also on PC for 60fps, providing they fix the stuttering issue Digital Foundry talked about.
Thankfully Game Pass is a thing so I can play it super cheap without paying full price, which clearly it isn't worth, also on PC for 60fps, providing they fix the stuttering issue Digital Foundry talked about.
i really wonder what happened with this game? seems to have had a very prolonged development cycle for it to come out as a bit of a relic, design-wise.
Game was in dev hell and took too long to come out. And when it does finally its slightly above average compared to Crackdown 2.
Yep sounds like game pass material to me.
Yep sounds like game pass material to me.
Indeed. Watching is almost always worse than playing when you're looking at the graphics. Youtube compression generally destroys videos, but GF knows how to encode their videos so they are clean on YouTube. It looks amazing in their video. I'm excited to play it tonight.
From what I've read seems it's just really repetitive more than bad.
I'm sure the people who reviewed it played through the campaign, but I guess they were looking for something else. I just enjoy darting around in the air and blowing a lot of stuff up with rockets. Crackdown 3 clearly isn't a prestige game, but I hope it gets enough of a following for Microsoft to stick with the franchise.
Brave calls when most of the first page is 70+ with plenty being 75-85.
Seem to be the right calls, though. Poor Crackdown 3 :/
