Poll: Crackdown deserves a sequel?

[chinese_democracy]

Crackdown was a game that seemed to me like it had a lot of critical acclaim and a decent following from gamers. I felt it was strongly undeserved. I had rented the game a few months ago and was very disappointed. Crackdown looked and felt like a crappy DLC game and after 20 minutes of playing I abandoned it sent it back. I had a lot of problems with it but the point of my post is to see if all the attention it got was fabricated to boost sales or if gamers genuinely appreciated this pile.

 

[Kuchinawa212]

deserves? No
Should have one because people liked the first one and want to play it more? Sure why not? Sounds good to me

 

[wrecker77]

In a world where blowing shit up and jumping over buildings while carrying a car over yor head is good, crackdown is king. People who like to blow shit up will undoubtly buy this because mercenarys2 was not a great game.

 

[sln333]

Wasn't interested in the first, am interested in the second.

 

[Cuniculus]

A few months ago? Well then sadly, you might have caught it at the wrong time. It was one of the first 360 games (or at least close to the release date of it), and was pretty damned good at the time. Now, you just happen to be comparing it to everything ever to have come out for the Xbox, which is unfair. I feel a sequel would take a fun, free roaming game and put huge depth into it.

 

[Paragon Fury]

Crackdown is arguably one of the best free-roam games out there. Crackdown 2 only looks to further this title.

I keep saying that since Yathzee liked Saint's Row 2 so much, he should review Crackdown. Sure, you don't get to spray feces on houses in Crackdown.....but you get to use cars as bowling balls. And leap from building to building like a 'rioded up Batman.

 

[AboveUp]

I enjoyed it. It was like GTA but with more explosions and you get to play as a super powered cop. I probably won't buy it full price, but I will get round to it.
Does it deserve a sequel? What do you have to do to deserve a sequel?

Have people actually enjoying the game?
If so, Crackdown more than deserves a sequel.
To me it was one of the very few games this generation that actually managed to make a gigantic free roaming map fun. Too many games tried and failed at doing that way after Crackdown went and did it.

 

[chinese_democracy]

A few months ago? Well then sadly, you might have caught it at the wrong time. It was one of the first 360 games (or at least close to the release date of it), and was pretty damned good at the time. Now, you just happen to be comparing it to everything ever to have come out for the Xbox, which is unfair. I feel a sequel would take a fun, free roaming game and put huge depth into it.

I think it is very fair. I just bought the DLC release of FF7 on the PsP and that game is over ten years old and still find it to be one of the best in my game library. The first time I played ff7 was about in 2001 and it was considered pretty old even then. Crackdown was only released two years ago. Maybe the graphics have gotten a little better in those two years but game innovation, immersion, story, and mechanics were not invented after Crackdown came out. This game was terrible and the critics should be ashamed of putting this game on a pedestal. This is one of the only reviews http://www.gamecritics.com/crackdown/review I saw that pointed out Crackdowns huge gaping flaws.

 

[IamQ]

It doesn't deserve it if you ask me. People only bought it because it had the Halo 3 beta.

 

[SomethingUnrelated]

I never played Crackdown, and I won't be playing number 2, but if they are improving it, then why not?

 

[happysock]

I think it's pretty under rated as a game to be honest, I don't know anyone thats played it but I really enjoyed playing it

 

[Chipperz]

I enjoyed Crackdown. It was one of the first games I've ever played that kept me playing to completion, what with my ADHD levels of starting new games and doing not much of anything on any of them.

I won't be getting the sequel until I've rented it, 'cos it looks like they've screwed with my aesthetics too much

 

[GodsAndFishes]

I bought it mainly for the halo 3 beta, but I was then horrified to learn that I had been tricked into getting one of the best games for the current gen consoles, and still sits in my top 3 best games of all time.

Although I admit that I am aprehensive (god knows if thats spelt right) about the sequel mainly due to the day/night differences, but I have been wrong before.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

A few months ago? Well then sadly, you might have caught it at the wrong time. It was one of the first 360 games (or at least close to the release date of it), and was pretty damned good at the time. Now, you just happen to be comparing it to everything ever to have come out for the Xbox, which is unfair. I feel a sequel would take a fun, free roaming game and put huge depth into it.

I think it is very fair. I just bought the DLC release of FF7 on the PsP and that game is over ten years old and still find it to be one of the best in my game library. The first time I played ff7 was about in 2001 and it was considered pretty old even then. Crackdown was only released two years ago. Maybe the graphics have gotten a little better in those two years but game innovation, immersion, story, and mechanics were not invented after Crackdown came out. This game was terrible and the critics should be ashamed of putting this game on a pedestal. This is one of the only reviews http://www.gamecritics.com/crackdown/review I saw that pointed out Crackdowns huge gaping flaws.

there is a mistake, in which you are unfair there, your comparing ff7, (one of my favorite games in the whole world, no matter which final fantasy 7 it is) it is an instant classic, which means that its a game that will never be downgraded for its age or anything because its perfect for what it was trying to accomplish, ff7 still ranks till this day in the top 100 games in among tons of polls and reviews, so if your going to try that pick a game that isn't an "instant classic" such as overlord or a game that is good at the time, but not quite the amazement.

and personally i did like crackdown, as people stated it was a fun free roaming map, in which there were tons of possibilities as being a super cop but if you were in the freakin asian sector then you were probably going to get shot down by the heat seeking missiles, so it wasnt all as easy as it may have seemed on hard mode

 

[chinese_democracy]

A few months ago? Well then sadly, you might have caught it at the wrong time. It was one of the first 360 games (or at least close to the release date of it), and was pretty damned good at the time. Now, you just happen to be comparing it to everything ever to have come out for the Xbox, which is unfair. I feel a sequel would take a fun, free roaming game and put huge depth into it.

I think it is very fair. I just bought the DLC release of FF7 on the PsP and that game is over ten years old and still find it to be one of the best in my game library. The first time I played ff7 was about in 2001 and it was considered pretty old even then. Crackdown was only released two years ago. Maybe the graphics have gotten a little better in those two years but game innovation, immersion, story, and mechanics were not invented after Crackdown came out. This game was terrible and the critics should be ashamed of putting this game on a pedestal. This is one of the only reviews http://www.gamecritics.com/crackdown/review I saw that pointed out Crackdowns huge gaping flaws.

there is a mistake, in which you are unfair there, your comparing ff7, (one of my favorite games in the whole world, no matter which final fantasy 7 it is) it is an instant classic, which means that its a game that will never be downgraded for its age or anything because its perfect for what it was trying to accomplish, ff7 still ranks till this day in the top 100 games in among tons of polls and reviews, so if your going to try that pick a game that isn't an "instant classic" such as overlord or a game that is good at the time, but not quite the amazement.

and personally i did like crackdown, as people stated it was a fun free roaming map, in which there were tons of possibilities as being a super cop but if you were in the freakin asian sector then you were probably going to get shot down by the heat seeking missiles, so it wasnt all as easy as it may have seemed on hard mode

I don't understand your logic. Because FF7 was so good I shouldn't compare it to anything? How do we say if a game is good or bad if there is no relativity? Anyways, I also recently bought Jeanne d'Arc. It was released the same year as Crackdown and is much much better.

 

[AfterAscon]

I thought Crackdown was a great game and was actually playing it earlier. However, I'm not looking forward to the sequal; I don't like the fact its set in the same city, I want some originality. It all looks a bit samey.

I believe Crackdown should get get a sequal, just not the one going to be released.

 

[suhlEap]

i liked it, was a fun game though i never finished it. crackdown 2 isn't on my must buy list to be honest, but i'll pick it up eventually.

 

[Arrers]

I only got the demo for the first Crackdown (which is actually one of the best XBM demos) and really enjoyed it. I might check out the sequel it looks like it could be good.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

A few months ago? Well then sadly, you might have caught it at the wrong time. It was one of the first 360 games (or at least close to the release date of it), and was pretty damned good at the time. Now, you just happen to be comparing it to everything ever to have come out for the Xbox, which is unfair. I feel a sequel would take a fun, free roaming game and put huge depth into it.

I think it is very fair. I just bought the DLC release of FF7 on the PsP and that game is over ten years old and still find it to be one of the best in my game library. The first time I played ff7 was about in 2001 and it was considered pretty old even then. Crackdown was only released two years ago. Maybe the graphics have gotten a little better in those two years but game innovation, immersion, story, and mechanics were not invented after Crackdown came out. This game was terrible and the critics should be ashamed of putting this game on a pedestal. This is one of the only reviews http://www.gamecritics.com/crackdown/review I saw that pointed out Crackdowns huge gaping flaws.

there is a mistake, in which you are unfair there, your comparing ff7, (one of my favorite games in the whole world, no matter which final fantasy 7 it is) it is an instant classic, which means that its a game that will never be downgraded for its age or anything because its perfect for what it was trying to accomplish, ff7 still ranks till this day in the top 100 games in among tons of polls and reviews, so if your going to try that pick a game that isn't an "instant classic" such as overlord or a game that is good at the time, but not quite the amazement.

and personally i did like crackdown, as people stated it was a fun free roaming map, in which there were tons of possibilities as being a super cop but if you were in the freakin asian sector then you were probably going to get shot down by the heat seeking missiles, so it wasnt all as easy as it may have seemed on hard mode

I don't understand your logic. Because FF7 was so good I shouldn't compare it to anything? How do we say if a game is good or bad if there is no relativity? Anyways, I also recently bought Jeanne d'Arc. It was released the same year as Crackdown and is much much better.

what my logic is that your trying to compare crackdown (a fairly good game) to an all time game, if you compared every game today to zelda or ff or WoW for a matter than mostly every game will fail to its expectations, thats why im saying your comparison isn't fair, i would say crackdown is a fairly good game which i enjoyed, and i do think it deserves the sequel but there is no way im saying i would buy it before ffxii or such

crackdown does succeed at being a good free roam sandbox game, but trying to compare that to a ff7 rpg game doesn't make too much sense

 

[NickCaligo42]

Crackdown was a pretty good game, but I don't really see myself getting a sequel for it. It seems like it'd just be more of the same.