Crackdown

super_furry

I love it. Just cleared the first island, got my agility up to 4 and the sheer kinetics of the whole thing is just amazing. Jumping from roof to roof like a superhero before jumping down into the midst of a gang of unsuspecting enemies, blowing them miles into the sky with the grenade launcher before picking up the van load of reinforcements and throwing them off a bridge is just amazing. Every single licensed beat-em-up super-hero game should look at this and be embarassed.

hannable80

what about online is it anygud whats the game play like online.......is it a free for all

super_furry

hannable80 wrote:

what about online is it anygud whats the game play like online.......is it a free for all

There is no online, just co-op.

Karmafaerie

Tusky wrote:

The island on Just Cause was absolutely mind numbingly boring. This is mentioned in every single review of the game and echoed by everyone that I have played it with!

So that's why IGN UK gave it an 8.8 out of 10 and referred to soaring over the island in a helicopter as one of the high points of the game then?!

If you find it boring, fair play, but don't say that all of the reviews agreed with you, cause quite frankly they didn't.

0ubliette

Retr0gamer wrote:

One huge complaint is the lack of offline co-op. I feel I'm missing out on a huge part of the game.

Other than that I'm rather enjoying it. A real 'make your own fun' game.

You dont have a live account? You really are missing out, im afraid to say. Co-op live really does double the fun, as cliche as that sounds. Running around with a friend, climbing the ageny tower together, setting up stupid stunts and explosions together, its such a laugh. Even sign up for a motnhly fee, pay 6 euro, and play it online for a bit, then cancel your sub. Its well worth it, trust me.

Retr0gamer

It's like 80 euro for that wireless card and hooking it up to the router via lan is out of the question since the router is upstairs. I'm not big into online gaming. Prefer to have the people in the room with me so I can hurl abuse at them.

RobertFoster

Retr0gamer wrote:

Prefer to have the people in the room with me so I can hurl abuse at them.

That's what the headset is for apparently

I think there's cheaper alternatives on eBay with regards to the wireless.

40coats

I never got on with any of the GTA games or its clones; having a great time with this though. Would agree it's much more like a platformer although strangely I'd lost interest in them over the last few years too. Really like the lock-on implementation, it's very satisfying shooting the tyres out on a car hurtling towards you.

Julez

Yeah, got this a few days ago, just slapped it in today to give it a blast and I have to say I'm enjoying it alot, just leveling up and hoping around the place like a mad yoke, lol!

Makaveli

Thought I'd made it to the top of the agency building on 3 stars (and with about 10 done on the way to the fourth) but no, made it to the top of one of towers which isn't the highest one so it didn't count. 4 star agility must make a serious difference.

AceCard Jones

Didn't the Halo 3 Beta invitation come with this?Has anyone tried it yet?
When I seen this thread, that's all I thought would have been spoken about.

Moojuice

I made it to the top of the agency tower with 3 stars. Wasn't that hard. Good game though.

robinph

AceCard Jones wrote:

Didn't the Halo 3 Beta invitation come with this?Has anyone tried it yet?
When I seen this thread, that's all I thought would have been spoken about.

Nope, just the option to download the beta, whenever it comes out, from within the Crackdown game menus. The beta will only then be allowed to be played if you have the Crackdown disc in the drive.

AceCard Jones

Oh I didn't know that, thanks for that robinph.

Makaveli

Moojuice wrote:

I made it to the top of the agency tower with 3 stars. Wasn't that hard. Good game though.

Yeah, I've done it now too. Never thought to try jumping from the smallest tower to the second smallest one.

Makaveli

Bumpity bump.

Where can you ramp off that will give you 115 feet in a vehicle and how do you keep a car in the air for 7 seconds using explosives? Do you have to bring one up to the top of a building and throw it off and then keep shooting it?

Finished the missions a while ago now just trying to work through the achievements.

hurleyd

Makaveli wrote:

Bumpity bump.

Where can you ramp off that will give you 115 feet in a vehicle

Go to the building Central Point (where Colonel Cowell is) and take a car up in the lift.

Makaveli wrote:

and how do you keep a car in the air for 7 seconds using explosives? Do you have to bring one up to the top of a building and throw it off and then keep shooting it?

I did this by having the firefly rocket launcher. First I threw a grenade under it, locked on and when the grenade threw it into the area just kept shooting rockets at it until it said I'd got the achievement.

streetryder

this game is supposed to be real fun and worth the buy, what do you guys think of crackdown

Julez

I think this game is real fun and worth the buy!

The tax man

I'm having great craic with it. Finished it too quickly though.

RAIN

I got bored of it last week .Started to get repetative after i got my stamina and strenght up full . i had done all i wanted to do .Great game traded it in for Fight Night .

jayteecork

Just started playing this last night and I think it's awesome!
Great toon-shaded graphics - really has a comic book feel, and it certainly pissed all over the PS2 GTA games. The combat is a huge improvement on the GTA games, IMO.
Handling of the cars isn't as easy as GTA, but I feel it packs a decent challenge. I'm on the Russian island and I'm getting challenges - the street thugs just keep comin' and comin'!

All in all a great fun title.