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Crackdown Set For Fall 2006
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game: Crackdown
posted by: Shawn Rider
publisher: Microsoft Game Studios
developer: Real Time Worlds
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date posted: 11:13 AM Wed Oct 5th, 2005



Click to read.To put it in marketing language (from all companies, not just MS), we\'ve moved beyond the era of \"GTA Clones\" and into the era of the \"action-driving\" genre. However you want to classify it, Crackdown looks like it will bring something good to the Xbox 360. It helps that Microsoft has tapped Real Time Worlds, which is headed by David Jones, and whose key members created the original Grand Theft Auto as well as Lemmings. So something good could happen here.

The hook of Crackdown is that you are a supercop in a futuristic city taking out the biggest kingpins of future-crime. That much sounds pretty typical -- sort of Blade Runner meets True Crime LA. But what sets Crackdown apart by leaps and bounds is a robust and unique style of co-op multiplayer. Via Xbox Live, gamers can enter the city together and form crime fighting teams. Exploring giant skyscrapers from top to bottom, back alleys and crowded streets, all with the help of a friend, leads to some cool, free-form gameplay.

There\'s plenty of time to learn more about Crackdown, which is currently scheduled for a Fall 2006 release.

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