Zero Punctuation: Crackdown 2

[Russian_Assassin]

Painful to watch because I am afraid that if I laugh I will get explosive coughing again D':

I also got the "someone is going to call me on my cellphone" sound.

 

[Choppaduel]

Anyone else get phone interference or is my phone trying to make me feel lonely by tricking me into thinking someone is trying to call me?

Hey I got that too. The high pitched ticking of sorts at one point in the video. I wonder how that got into the recording.

OT: Crackdown >> Crackdown 2

to me, Crackdown 2 was just a remake with almost all of the fun sucked out.

 

[Bifford]

Cops already have plenty of firepower as it is, but they hardly get to use those guns and spend most of their time sitting in cars, pushing pencils or wrestling with weird or uncooperative citizens. If you wanted to give them useful powers, give them cybernetic brains to speed up the paperwork, telepathy to directly extract information from suspects' minds and a wand of mass charm person to make the public love them.

 

[Supp]

There's something about how I laughed at the thought of someone being mauled by their daughter's dead body that makes me want to get a shrink.

You must be American

 

[ewhac]

RE: the weird sound:

It's not really cellphone interference... well not directly, anyway. It's actually Bluetooth interference. [ ... ]

I strongly doubt this is correct.

Cell phones have been generating that characteristic RFI buzz for years, long before Bluetooth achieved wide adoption. Further, Bluetooth operates over the 2.4GHz band, the same bands as 802.11[bgn] wireless networking. If transmissions over the 2.4GHz band were causing that buzzing, we would have noticed it the moment we put a Wireless Access Point in our homes.

I often hear this buzz right before I receive a call or a text. My personal guess is that there's a common transceiver component that everyone uses (because it's cheap and it "works") that spills a lot of noise into a band that amplifiers can pick up at close range. If the Federal Communications Commission were actually fulfilling its charter, this sort of thing would have been investigated and fixed by now.

 

[ziggy161]

Yeah what was with the phone interference thing o_o

But yeah this sandbox sounds like all the rest

 

[Darks63]

Other than the zombies the whole game looked like a retred of the first

 

[beema]

Anyone else get phone interference or is my phone trying to make me feel lonely by tricking me into thinking someone is trying to call me?

I got the phone noises too. From the look of it, so have others. I guess that sound is actually in the video! Weird...

 

[winter2]

RE: the weird sound:

It's not really cellphone interference... well not directly, anyway. It's actually Bluetooth interference. [ ... ]

I strongly doubt this is correct.

Cell phones have been generating that characteristic RFI buzz for years, long before Bluetooth achieved wide adoption. Further, Bluetooth operates over the 2.4GHz band, the same bands as 802.11[bgn] wireless networking. If transmissions over the 2.4GHz band were causing that buzzing, we would have noticed it the moment we put a Wireless Access Point in our homes.

I often hear this buzz right before I receive a call or a text. My personal guess is that there's a common transceiver component that everyone uses (because it's cheap and it "works") that spills a lot of noise into a band that amplifiers can pick up at close range. If the Federal Communications Commission were actually fulfilling its charter, this sort of thing would have been investigated and fixed by now.

What he said. I used to get that interference sound when I was in college back in.. erm... 94 or so. It always preceded a call or a text message.

 

[SYSTEM-J]

Particularly liked the jacuzzi metaphor.

 

[Le_Lisra]

He insulted the original UT.. get him!!!!!11!

Anyway, funny video about something I have never heard or care about, lols were had and mission accomplished.

 

[Yopaz]

Great review today. I laughed so hard when he did that joke about World of Warcraft subscribers in the sun. Made me want to test Crackdown (1) at least.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Crackdown 2 graphics and mechanics

+

Crackdown 1 missions and building interiors

=

Best game ever

Unfortunately, they left out some of the best stuff from the first. What were they thinking?

 

[AhumbleKnight]

What on earth was the static sort of noise near the end? Was that only me, or was there something annoyingly beeping in the background at one point?

I got it too. It sounds exactly like a mobile phone syncing next to a receiver. So next time Yahtzee might want to move his mobile away from his mic when recording these things.

 

[Captain Pancake]

Being a WoW subscriber... I found that joke very funny!

 

[Digikid]

Yathzee. There is NO control issues with Crackdown 1 at all. If you are having issues then get a new controller. Problem solved.

That said Crackdown 2 is a good game....however Crackdown 1 is BETTER.....

Now to the guy that was wrongfully punished for saying that it had worse graphics than CD1....he is indeed wrong. The graphics are the same.

 

[Spinwhiz]

Snip.

It's a badge isn't it?

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[Spinwhiz]

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[De Ronneman]

I think I might get Transformers: War For Cybertron instead of Crakdown 2 now. I'm happy with Crackdown 1, and if nothing's changed, I'm not paying £40 for it.

If you have to think about the choice between transforming robots in space and a cop, then you must think about your priorities dear sir
No, seriously Transformers:WfC is better in every single way, imho.

Eventhough CD2 is bad, it's not THAT bad. Sure the story is thin, and the city stayed the same(which could also be viewed as good), but it's still pretty fun to use supercharged punches to make the ground explode >=)

 

[gmacarthur81]

Crackdown 2 graphics and mechanics

+

Crackdown 1 missions and building interiors

=

Best game ever

Unfortunately, they left out some of the best stuff from the first. What were they thinking?

Different developer, different ideas.

Realtime Worlds > Ruffian Games