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Crackdown 3 isn’t broken down into levels. The same basic freedom of the original game is present. It certainly appears that Sumo Digital is working on addressing the rough edges of the previous games holistically. For that to be even 50 percent better - an arbitrary number I just picked out of thin air - would make Crackdown 3 a better game. I don’t think I’m alone when I say that missing a jump and having to start a long climb upward was one of the biggest annoyances in C rackdown and a huge roadblock for basic exploration and discovery. Agents now also have the ability to sink their fingers into the sides of structures as they fall downward, which slows their descent and allows them to gain enough purchase to make a recovery jump upward instead of losing all that progress.
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The addition of a double jump allows for longer, taller leaps, but it also allows for just a tiny bit of adjustment and recovery from imperfect trajectories. There are also very smart quality of life improvements that make the game feel less punishing and less frustrating. It’s not just about basic mechanical refinement that comes from a decade of game development evolution at play here. I loved bounding from building to building, hurling myself up the sides of structures and outrunning traffic on the freeway, and all of this is present and even improved in Crackdown 3. My favorite thing in Crackdown was the traversal. In the demo, that progression is sped up by orders of magnitude, and my obvious goal was to max out my agility as quickly as possible. Like the original Crackdown - and we’re just not going to talk about Crackdown 2 - your agent has a host of abilities that become more powerful as you use them.
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Monday morning I had the opportunity to play through a 10-minute demo in a portion of Crackdown 3’s city that emphasized the game’s “skills for kills” ethos. And it’s hard not to look at what Crackdown 3 is right now and think of what might have been. But it’s hard not to think about how the vehement reaction to Microsoft’s initial Xbox One always-online plans affected the decisions made regarding Crackdown 3 in the ensuing years. That’s a nicer sounding reason than the one I think is probably the bigger obstacle - that Microsoft, Reagent and Sumo Digital weren’t prepared to deal with the potential blowback of a game that required an always-online connection for single-player.Ĭonveniently for them, the developers have a more palatable version of this explanation, that they just want players to be able to enjoy Crackdown 3 offline. As representatives from Reagent Games and Sumo Digital keep telling me, in Crackdown 3’s campaign, you’re the good guys, and good guys don’t blow up buildings. Sure, there’s a fictional rationale for Crackdown 3’s campaign not having the carnage previously shown off in demos for the game years ago. “You” are why we can’t have nice things like a fully destructible Crackdown 3 campaign. In this case, we’re not allowed to have nice things because of a nebulous, non-specific you. The developers won’t say it, but I will: Crackdown 3’s campaign doesn’t have full-blown destructible environments because we’re not allowed to have nice things.