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Crackdown 3's campaign is just more of the same, but that's okay.

Back when Crackdown 3 was first announced, it was teased as a game-changing technical showstopper thanks to an astonishing new physics system. The game that’s shipping this month doesn’t have any of that, but it’s pretty fun anyway.

Thatguy-3101921d ago (Edited 1921d ago )

"Back when Crackdown 3 was first announced, it was teased as a game-changing technical showstopper thanks to an astonishing new physics system. The game that’s shipping this month doesn’t have any of that, but it’s pretty fun anyway."

The last sentence LMAO
Joke aside this should be the last basic game that MS will release. If they still struggle after this release then all the buying of studios/devs was a waste and will show how out of touch the company is with making games.

UltraNova1920d ago

Shameless. What a perfectly fitting word for this author...

masterfox1920d ago

So who is defending this ?, say yay or nay :D

ArchangelMike1920d ago (Edited 1920d ago )

So basically the article is saying that we should just give Microsoft a free pass. The author has the audacity to compare Marvels Spiderman and Crackdown 3. You have got to be kidding me! I have never really considered that articles may be written by Microsoft shills, but dear God someone will have to really convince me that this guys was not paid to write this article.

smdh

Daz1920d ago (Edited 1920d ago )

Must be a fan your in mostly every crackdown thread for a game you dont like. Think your a stalker or something i bet your on youtube videos about this game posting comments too.

ArchangelMike1920d ago (Edited 1920d ago )

Not really. I just hate two faced hypocrisy, and I can't help but call it out when I come across it.

p.s. How am I sure you're not the one stalking me?

rainslacker1918d ago (Edited 1918d ago )

Why not compare them? The similarities are more than obvious aren't they? They're both games where you have to press the buttons to make something happen.

FallenAngel19841920d ago

All these years & delays in development and nothing but “more of the same” is not acceptable

Zeref1920d ago

It only took so long because the development team screwed them over, Epic bought Cloudgine and basically took all their toys with them. It's a miracle that the game will still release.
Any other game would have gotten cancelled.

rainslacker1918d ago

So....you're saying Epic brought cloudgine, then recinded the license, making themselves vulnerable for MS to sue them for breach of contract?

YOu think this, despite Epic and MS saying that the acquisition wouldn't affect the game, and that it was still in use in development?

I'd like to see a direct quote that says that cloudgine was pulled for use with the game

letsa_go1920d ago

It is like Duke Nukem Forever!

StormSailor1920d ago

Why is it okay? Because nobody cares about this crap?

Man, these articles will kill me laughing.

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Tencent to buy Crackdown and Sackboy developer Sumo in $1.3bn deal

Tencent is set to buy Sumo Group in a deal worth $1.27bn (£919m), the companies have announced.

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Darkborn1031d ago

Tencent is really buying up everything. I'm surprised everyone is selling to them like this.

Rebel_Scum1031d ago

They want/need capital I guess.

darthv721031d ago

No way they are worth that much. They are a support studio. I guess tencent decided to throw them an insane price that Sumo would be crazy to turn down.

Its like the godfather. "Im going to make you an offer you cant refuse"

UltraNova1031d ago

Always the case.

Who owns the rights to Crackdown and Sackboy IPs though?

boing11031d ago

I've heard some time ago, that they created a special unit that has a mission to search for acquirable devs all around the globe.

-Foxtrot1031d ago

Going off their business practices they seem like a cancer in this industry

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blacktiger1031d ago

chinese currency, no limit in printing, but they are selling in USD

PrinceAli1031d ago

Maybe because they're a publisher of games with a history of success loool..?

barom1031d ago

Even Microsoft can’t compete with that kind of money.

Zeref1031d ago (Edited 1031d ago )

Uhm yes they can.. What do you mean?

Zeref1031d ago

Money talks, Besides, those developers don't need to worry about income anymore.

enkiduxiv1031d ago

I doubt anyone that matters to the actual production of the games is getting a raise. The only thing that has changed is that now they can't buy any Winnie the Poo products for their kids.

senorfartcushion1031d ago

Well they’re allowed. America and China are leading the world in toxic capitalism.

n1kki61031d ago

As publicly traded companies it's either they sell and potentially get more, or tencent initiates a hostile takeover and buys at least 51% of the shares. These companies might not even be amicable to the buy out but opt to take it because hostile takeovers are terrible.

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frostypants1031d ago (Edited 1031d ago )

Yep. A company that built itself by ripping off IP of small, innovative developers and out-marketing them. Tencent is everything wrong not just with gaming but corporate ethics in general, and the assymetric regulatory playing field we for some reason permit from the Chinese government. Egregiously corrupt companies like Tencent should be banned from the US market.

senorfartcushion1031d ago

The US market would take Tencent to dinner and have it naked on the bed by midnight if it could. America and China are as bad as each other

Lightning771031d ago

They can take Sumo those devs really aren't that great. Sack boys big adventure scored good however but Crackdown 3 wasn't great. They're 50/50 Sony will find a suitable replacement for Sack boy. MS desperately needs a suitable replacement for crackdown, if it's not already too late in terms of fanfare at this point.

Sumo to me isn't that big of a deal there are better devs out there.

senorfartcushion1031d ago

Crackdown 3 was cancelled and remade a few times. Hardly their fault.

darthv721031d ago

This is the same Sumo who made Outrun 2, 2006 Coast to Coast, Sonic Racing Transformed as well as Forza Horizon 2 on the 360. I think they are better than you give them credit for.

Wulfer1030d ago

You might want to walk this statement back. Why else do you think this game goes for over $200 now?

https://www.ebay.com/p/5144...

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ScootaKuH1031d ago

I'm surprised Sumo are valued so high

solideagle1031d ago

yeah, thats what I thought. $1.3 billion is very high, Insomniac sounds like a bargain deal for Sony!

chadwarden1031d ago

And they likely bought Housmarque and Bluepoint for even less than Insomniac.

phoenixwing1031d ago

at the two above me,
it's easy to sell for less when you know you're in good hands business and culture wise. I mean sure you could scratch out some extra money elsewhere but are all the people you know going to be taken care of when you get bought out? Sony takes care of them. Basically you can tell who's a scheming money scumbag by what ceo's/execs choose to be bought by. In the end money talks but there's extras to consider sometimes.

roadkillers1031d ago

I am as well. They do not own any IPs from my understanding...

DOMination-1031d ago

Me too! After looking them up, it seems like they were the parent of other game studios: Lab42, Red Kite, Sumo India, The Chinese Room and PixelAnt Games and also have some cryptocurrency technology.

They may also still hold the IP for back when they were Gremlin Interactive.. back in the Amiga days they were really a dev of some repute.

ScootaKuH1031d ago

Gremlin. Now there's a name that takes me back. Ocean as well.

Teflon021031d ago

They're not, it's likely them just throwing money around to make sure they have no opposition. Sumo is a valuable developer as they've assisted in alot of great games. They did LBP3, Sackboy, Sonic Transformed, I believe Assisted in both ModNation Racers and LBPK, Team Sonic racing, just to name the few off the top of my head that I own.

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IRetrouk1031d ago

I honestly thought ms or Sony would have nabbed them, seeing as they have worked for both on their respective ips, colour me surprised.

Bennibop1031d ago

It's a lot of money for a group with no ips, what would they have worked on to keep so many studios and staff employed. For now at least they continue working on ips for the likes of Sony and Microsoft.

IRetrouk1031d ago

Sony and ms have more than enough ips to keep em busy, the price would have been an issue though, that I agree with, just surprised is all🤷‍♂️

frostypants1031d ago (Edited 1031d ago )

Tencent doesn't exactly pride themselves on original IP anyway. They just steal someone else's. They only need developer drones.

Sephiroushin1031d ago

They have enough to make them busy but there is no point in buying the studio that high, they could just make the developers some offers and thats it... heck every single developer could just quit the studio and with what is tensen left? no point in buying a studio with no IP you dont own the developers

IRetrouk1031d ago

I already agreed that the price was high, still don't take away that they could have been used, and be useful to either ms or sony

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Xbox Cloud Gaming PC Preview/Hands on Impressions (BETA) - CG

Microsoft recently released their Xbox Cloud Gaming PC Beta which allows users the opportunity to stream Xbox games to their Windows 10 PCs or laptops. This follows on from being able to use the cloud gaming on mobile devices which works very well but is limited to the size of your screen. Having the option to play Xbox games with a larger display has its obvious benefits.

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Crackdown 3 8K 60 FPS - Possible at Low-Medium Settings with an RTX 3090

CG writes: Nvidia’s claims that the RTX 3090 can render games in 8K at 60 FPS, ring true for us in this video. We put the game Crackdown 3 through its paces with some interesting results.

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bunt-custardly1308d ago

If you've ever super-sampled anything you would know why it can make things look better.

bouzebbal1308d ago

Let's talk about powahhhh of da clawwdd for a second 🤣did they give up with this thing?

bunt-custardly1308d ago

Oh right, I didn't get the joke sorry, it just clicked. Hmm, is Crackdown 3 really that bad/universally hated especially as it's on gamepass?

SullysCigar1308d ago

My attempt at humour could have been clearer, in hindsight..!

Yeah, sadly Crackdown 3 had been hyped so hard and so long by Microsoft, that when it launched as a mediocre game, it got panned. It was mainly the broken promises about the power of the cloud I think that did it. This was the 'cloud power' poster child for years and it all amounted to nothing, which is a real shame, because if they'd realised their initial vision it could have been special.

bunt-custardly1308d ago

I do remember the original vision where entire buildings could be demolished but wasn't that feature relegated to the multiplayer mode? For me, Crackdown 3 comes across quite generic. I suppose if it had the full destruction in the story mode that would have been bad-ass. If Red Faction Guerrilla can do it why not CD?

FanboySpotter1307d ago

Crackdown 3 was made for crackdown fans. Hated by non crackdown fans. Enjoyed by crackdown fans.

MadLad1307d ago

I played it on PC for a little while via gamepass. It's not nearly as terrible as people would try to make it out to be, but it's the definition of a "meh" game.
There's fun to be had if you're bored.

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andy851308d ago

It's good it's possible but who would pick this over 4K60 on ultra? It would look far better

IanTH1308d ago

100%. This is obviously just showing what can be done with the current highest end hardware, rather than what should be. And if you're splashing out for an RTX 3090 over a 3080 for gaming (small performance delta if not using that huge buffer for productivity), then I guess you'll also consider splashing out for an 8k screen. And, I mean, you'll want to be able to do *something* with it lol.

outsider16241308d ago

Let's be honest here, even with extra high settings at 8k 120fps... it'll still look like crap. Sorry.

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