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Crackdown 3: Less Than it Was Meant to Be, but Still Stupid Fun - Variety

Crackdown 3 is the ‘Sharknado’ of video games.

That’s how creative director Joseph Staten describes the game that has been plagued by three delays over five years since its E3 2014 announcement. After playing three hours of multiplayer and campaign, “Crackdown 3” is fun, but it might not live up to the switch-your-brain-off enjoyment of the “Sharknado” six-movie series.

ArchangelMike1940d ago

"Less than it was supposed to be" is being disingenuous. It's a real shame that the gaming community has been fueled over the years by bullshots and hyperbole; the constant pixel counting for bragging rights has conditined the community to become hyper critical of games that come out. Gone are the days when it was simply the fun factor that mattered, more than the resolution or how many frames per second the game runs at.

Howerver I do think that developers need to stop showing pre-rendered trailers and "tech demo's" to sell a game. They should simply show raw gameplay footgate, and if the gameplay is not ready to be show - then franky don't show the game until it's ready. We wait 5 years and get nothing that was originally promised - it always ends in dissapointment.

JesusBuiltmyHotrod1940d ago

It's MS..now look at sony whose games look as good as they reveal them with lots of in game gameplay (Often even better). Somehow Sony rarely gets credit for this. MS are pretty awful.

slate911940d ago

Lets not forget the white knight sony and their Killzone 2 trailer. Really can only say Nintendont do this.

yomfweeee1940d ago

While Killzone 2 was downgraded... it was still one of the best looking games of that generation.

This game is terrible looking.

spicelicka1940d ago (Edited 1940d ago )

I don't remember Halo 5 being downgraded, or Halo Wars 2, or Forza 7, or Forza Horizon. In fact I don't recall any other MS games that look worse than reveals. You're trying really hard to impose credit on Sony, really everyone here is already quite happy with Sony and its exclusives, don't see the need to turn that up to a cringey level.

TacoTaco1940d ago

Halo 5 even had split screen in the beta. That is the king of feature downgrades, taken away because they wanted 60fps at all costs. Then there are the Halo 3 vs 5 Explosion comparison gifs which speak enough by themselves.

Lexreborn21940d ago

@Slate91 Did you forget about the Zelda tech demo? Metroid Prime 4 early announce? Xenoblade Chronicles X? The Pokemon Stadium Wii differences? Nintendo are as guilty

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starchild1940d ago

Well, to be fair I never saw most people acting like Crackdown 3 would have cutting edge visuals. In fact, the overall mood I noticed among most Xbox gamers was one of a bit of skepticism and tempered expectations. I'm not saying that I saw nobody looking forward to the game, but I don't remember seeing many, if any, people hyping it up as a killer app with cutting edge visuals.

rainslacker1939d ago

The downgrade in CD3 was the cloud destruction. Although, they did show better graphics in the original tech demo used to promote cloud destruction. It is true that Xbox gamers weren't hyping it up to be an amazing looking game, but MS did talk up the cloud destruction, and showed cloud destruction, which was better than what they ended up showing in recent game play reveals.

Not all downgrades have to be graphical, because graphics actually have improved since other game play demos. But, when the biggest selling feature of the game is downgraded, and the media doesn't call them out on it, and MS fan boys act like it isn't there, or act like they never hyped up the cloud destruction, or linked that early tech demo as proof of the cloud power, it does make people question if people are more interested in holding companies accountable, or if they're just interested in the console war.

Ceaser98573611939d ago

So Xbox fanboys are comparing last gen game downgrade with this gen game downgrade, though CD 3 was delayed for like 5 years now ... Anyways Pat yourselves guys...

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tontontam01940d ago (Edited 1940d ago )

XBOX FANBOYS: it's on gamepass so it is okay.

microsoft should just make mediocre games from now on, they don't have to waste tons of money to make aaa games as long as it is one gamepass xbox gamers are happy.

King_Noctis1940d ago

Its not ok even if its on Gamepass. But most of us (the real fan that is) haven’t set our expectations high for this game either. The only people who make this game to be bigger than anything else is the fan from the other side, like yourself.

IRetrouk1940d ago (Edited 1940d ago )

Sorry noctis but Ms fans really did use the cloud and this game to hype both up, plenty of articles on this, the game and the cloud was what was going to turn the tides at one point, all you have to do is look over the old articles to see this, fast forward to today and suddenly it was never a big deal?? Why? Because the original promise is gone? Because the reveloutionary mp mode is not as promised?? Both were made a big deal of and as usual nothing like what was promised, nothing wrong with people calling it out.

Rude-ro1940d ago

@King_Noctis
Who made this a big deal?
Microsoft. With trying to hint that it could bring 4K gaming to the Xbox one.. a console that can not even display 4K.
The 12x Xbox One etc trying to give hope to potential buyers.
You are confusing people who called out Microsoft for this bs vs the false hype Microsoft used.

Baza1940d ago

I think they are already starting to do this

Thundercat771940d ago

Gamepass has become a garbage bin.

tontontam01940d ago

"But most of us (the real fan that is) haven’t set our expectations high for this game either."

That is really sad, you should switch to sony whenever an exclusive is announced we set our expectations really high.

Sirk7x1940d ago

I think it's cool that it's coming to Game Pass. New games add value to the service. Am I incredibly excited for it? No, not really. I've definitely had my issues with MS the last couple years, but I am looking forward to where they're going to be in a couple more.

rainslacker1939d ago (Edited 1939d ago )

@Noctis

So, if I go through all the Xbox fan boys comment history on this site, I won't find them saying how cloud destruction is the future, or them linking that cloud destruction demo from way back when, or saying how cloud is the future, or talking about Drivatars, or talking about how cloud is amazing because of the AI on titanfall which couldn't be done without the cloud?

I have a feeling I probably could....particularly from a few individuals who are prone to such things.

I don't know how you felt about the game prior, but MS, and it's fans, have used this game as hype. Maybe the regular Xbox fans, who aren't fan boys fall into your narrative, but they weren't vocal in saying that this game wasn't going to amount to much, so that leaves the fan boys as the voice of the XBox community.

"The only people who make this game to be bigger than anything else is the fan from the other side"

Ah yes, blame the other side. Because Sony fans have spent years hyping up CD3 as something amazing. Not spending these years saying how the game wasn't going to live up to expectations.

I was with you in your comment, assuming maybe it was from a regular fans perspective. But this....really? CD3 and cloud destruction has been a hot topic on here for years. Do you really think it's just an out of the way topic that most didn't pay attention to? This makes the Xbox fan base sound desperate to not look foolish, and it makes just adds to the voice of erratic and increasingly delusional Xbox fan boy discourse that seems to grow with every passing of the moon in the sky.

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slate911940d ago

I agree with everything ArchangelMike. MS pretty much brought these reviews on themselves with their attempts at marketing a "revolution" in cloud gameplay. Since we aren't getting the initial promise from years ago, the reviews will reflect that. And it is deserved.

Ratchet751940d ago

Well said.
I will wait for it to come on Xboxpass to give it a go.

darthv721940d ago

I'm old school so FUN is the main reason for me to play a game. And this looks to just be fun in the simplest sense of the word. I enjoyed the first game and even some of the second but this one is said to be a return to form with even more destruction. It's right up my alley so I will view it objectively.

UnholyLight1940d ago

@yomfrweeee A little hard to compare Killzone 2 and Crackdown 3. Crackdown has always been about avant garde style cell shading and was never about graphics. Killzone 2 and Killzone in general was always supposed to be a "Halo killer" and supply Sony with the best looking game possible. How can you possibly compare the two?

Pro tip....you can't!

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yomfweeee1940d ago

Wait... they really compared it to Sharknado? Dear lord.

ArchangelMike1940d ago (Edited 1940d ago )

I guess they're trying to manage expectations 😆

chris2351940d ago

last time i checked that was what every othergeneric multiplayer shooter does. i wish them the best of luck with this mee–too product in a saturated market ;–)

Razzer1940d ago

What is being shown now is nowhere even close to that pre-alpha in-game footage in the article.

https://youtu.be/d_nZ1xYyj6...

mark_parch1940d ago

character movement looks much better now. The transforming car looks amazing in the alpha footage though now it just changes instantly like a shit magic trick. This game really has been through development hell , still looks fun though

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Neil Druckmann clarifies true intent of new Naughty Dog game comments

Following a recent interview with Sony, Naughty Dog head Neil Druckmann claims the original intent was “unfortunately lost” in the process.

just_looken3d ago

He can take dog shit put it in a oven with seasoning then call it waistland cookies the sony fans will pay $40 a cookie give them a medal of cooking.

No mater what trash this sobs puts out/talks about it will sell.

The true fact in the 8 years sense uncharted 4 his first time in the main seat to a point all this "amazing" team did was get 2 dudes to fuck in a van then destroy a franchise they never created.

But being a port studio they are decent at they should keep in there lane at being just that a glorified port studio.

fr0sty2d ago

Salty Bots... gotta love it.

just_looken2d ago

@frosty

Over what? naught dog under his command is a glorified port team tlou2 was mostly tlou 1 asset's with the same game play loop but forced a trans down your throat.

I would gladly help pay for this blight and his team to get removed from gaming in general.

fr0sty2d ago

Seeing a LGBT person exist in a work of fiction isn't "forcing them down your throat". Nobody is forcing you to play it. Nobody is forcing you to agree with it. If you think that just seeing a LGBT person exist is "force", it sounds like they make you very uncomfortable, and maybe you need to be doing some serious reflecting on exactly why... looks to me like you're suppressing something with all that fear.

just_looken2d ago

@fro

When i think of the last of us i think of a group of survivors crossing the apocalypse wasteland with a growing bond between 2 people that end up with Joel making ellie his new daughter.

Then you fire up the 2nd one bang joel is dead oh that comic series? bang dead

Oh you want to continue all that we grew in the first one? na f that toss it in the trash

Now here is a trans woman so strong superboy would blush go out there kill all what made tlou1 then halfway get a forced sex scene that you can not skip between 2 dudes.

The gameplay? just like the first game the combat/backpack system crafting sytem? 0 changes/improvements.

I could go on but lets face it they copy pasted that tlou 1 assets bin a shit ton of times.

There is nothing on the box or the ads or anything before the game that said you would going to spend most of the game controlling a new trans character that has no ties to anything of the first game the only existence was to kill what the first game made.

Oh but hey there is a mp mode coming out before 2022 wait what is that? oh we made it its own game then cancelled it now go but the game again as we port it a few times.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

mkis0072d ago (Edited 2d ago )

What has Straley or Henig released since they left ND? Not a thing! stop scapegoating! Which of them is credited with co-writing a majorly successful show?

just_looken2d ago

@mkis007

You bring up Bruce Straley really? someone that gave us 4 generations of amazing games and was there in the creation of 4 legendary franchises but was tossed in the trash for the pos niel druckmann not 7? years ago

So yeah in those 7? years you right all he has done is get 2 awards one is a game award for a puzzle game he made oh boy right like for fuck sake's all niel has done is one game that was a overhyped fan boy orgasm underneath all that ps jizz was just a typical 5/10 game.

Then you drag Amy Hennig that poor woman was also kicked out then became this century's Brendan Fraser with her sexual misconduct information coming out.

We all know how horrible people are treated behind the scenes she might have been sexual attacked groped or something.

So yeah all she did after was battlefield hardline forspoken now that new marvel 1945 game but hey Brendan Fraser was a great actor till he also said he was sexually attacked just now he is allowed back in no doubt she also had to take a leave of absence out and or was forced out on ice.

Man there are way to many out there that look at niel at the new gaming jesus when all he had done is some work on uncharted 4 then tlou2

Oh also the tvhshow? for real all they did was use stuff from the 2013 game its like saying GOT was a 10/10 but never watching past season 3

-Foxtrot2d ago

@mkis007

That's highly unfair to them both

Amy Hennig got messed around working on projects that got cancelled by the publishers (EA) and then ended up on a awful game (Forspoken) where you had 4 other writers working on it which is just a recipe for disaster. She is now working on Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra. Not her fault she was pushed out of NaughtyDog, something both Nolan North and Richard McGonagle have both said in interviews.

Bruce Straley left after burn out, the rest of the story we don't know and will never know just like what happened with Amy Hennig. He decided to take a break and wasn't sure if he wanted to come back to gaming however he had an idea he wanted to make so he founded Wildflower Interactive, a smaller studio where they are currently working on a new game.

Tacoboto2d ago

@the obvious stain of a commenter

The trans character wasn't Abby. Try playing Part 2 instead of gatekeeping what you think Part 1 was about and meant.

Maybe try watching the show while you're at it, because you're terribly off with your opinion on that too

MajorLazer2d ago

Naughty Dog is better than all the MS studios put together.

derek2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

@just he has been behind 2 of the greatest games ever made. Tlou2 was easily the best non-vr game made last gen. Losers just can't get over Joel's death, mixed with the usual console war nonsense. The fact that you so casually call him a sob shows how deranged some gamers have become about Drunkmann.

derek2d ago

@frosty, for people like Just, including anyone that can be categorized as being a minority in any kind of media is "forcing it down his throat " lol. I to don't care for poor "checking box" inclusion for inclusion sake but that was not the case with tlou2.

fr0sty2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

The pathetic part about it is, you can tell just_looken never even played TLOU, because that was the game where Ellie's sexuality was first brought to light... No "that was forced down our throats" to be said about that.

Only terrified folks in the closet that use their hatred as cover from outing themselves fear LGBT people that much. They exist. They will exist in all aspects of life, including popular media. Get over it.

just_looken2d ago

@all

Once again you drag out something like its a big win

Here is my old channel a clip of me playing TLOU on ps3
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Search my channel for more clips

Proof its my channel? look at this profiles banner that is 7yrs old then look at other vids on that channel like my bf3 clips to see my psn id. But knowing this group that is way to much work.

Also elle being a lesbian is another trump card? one dlc is all we got of that a dlc that took over a year to be tossed out.

Rainbowcookie2d ago

Hey at least we have cookies to eat 😄

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Rangerman12083d ago

Glad he clarified it but i'm still somewhat skeptical. Plus, his comments about how Ai will revolutionize storytelling were still pretty iffy.

anast3d ago

No need to bow down, Stan your ground. The AI comments were gross though.

S2Killinit3d ago

Pretty excited as I read these. I just cant wait to see what ND is up to.

Export3d ago

put a chick in it and make her gay !

shadowknight2033d ago

Next they need a diverse couple, and perhaps some climate activists

StormSnooper2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

I would love that if only to piss off all the lunatics. Lol

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Naughty Dog Boss Neil Druckmann Says AI Will 'Revolutionize' Development

Druckmann claims the tech could 'push the boundaries of storytelling in games.'

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Jin_Sakai4d ago

I’m more interested in what else he said.

“Neil Druckmann says new Naughty Dog title could ‘redefine mainstream perceptions of gaming’

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H94d ago

It will be something like "we erased gameplay all together it's just a movie now"

purple1014d ago

every time naughty dog make a game, you play it and get the feeling "this is not possible'

from the boulder running towards you in crash, on ps1,
to the massive open world of jak and daxter, on ps2,
to the QuickTime events sequences of uncharted on ps3/4

and now we will see what they do with ps5,

H94d ago

Press X for doubt at "PS5"

-Foxtrot4d ago (Edited 4d ago )

Arrogant asshole who sniffs his own farts bigs up next game…sounds like typical PR to me

You know what I find interesting? Almost every site reporting this as the main title where the REAL interesting bit of the interview is Neil praising AI and saying it will be used to help push story, characters, dialogue and more.

It’s super shitty to big up AI especially when it comes to story telling and other creative elements.

senorfartcushion4d ago

Just because someone says this type of stuff, it doesn't mean that it's guaranteed to be good news.

You can say this about microtransactions. MXTs revolutionised the gaming industry.

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Levii_924d ago

Geez how full of themselves are these guys.

Einhander19724d ago

He also said it has "ethical issues we need to address" but of course that doesn't get the clicks.

CrimsonWing694d ago

I’m all for it. Cuts the time to make a game. Look, Hellblade 2 took 5 years to make, if AI can do that in half the time, as a consumer, I support it.

Chard4d ago

Things will get far sloppier brother

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The Witcher 3 REDkit Q&A - CDPR & Yigsoft Confirm Steam Workshop Support; Further Changes Planned

CD Projekt RED and Yigsoft have launched The Witcher 3 REDkit on PC. We interviewed both studios to discuss the release of these mod tools.

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