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Wednesday 5 March, 2008
SUMMARY
Crackdown is an open-world third person shooter/driving game, similar to Grand Theft Auto 3. However, it also has strong platforming elements, because the protagonist has the ability to jump great heights.
GAMEPLAY
Crackdown has almost no plot. The player is a super-agent in a city overrun by criminals. The goal is to kill all the leaders of the various gangs terrorizing the city. That's it. Almost the only person who speaks in the entire game is a disembodied narrator. At first this bothered me, but after a while I got used to it. Playing Crackdown is like playing Space Invaders or Pac-Man; the lack of a story just means there is nothing to get in the way of gameplay.
The jumping mechanic is really fun in Crackdown. You jump around the city to travel quickly, you jump in fights to hit enemies behind cover or to quickly get behind some cover yourself. Jumping really is a core mechanic of Crackdown, and it is the main thing that distinguishes Crackdown from other third-person shooters. An odd consequence of this is that I found myself almost never using cars, because they're just plain slower than jumping around the city.
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