It was so fun that I started over on Psychotic just for the experience. Hell if I'm going to play it might as well have my first play through be as hard as possible.

Their aim is much better and they drop your shield and hp much faster. You gotta be really strategic with most things or your dead.

Well, supposedly you can change the difficulty at any time. Basically, when selecting your agent you change the difficulty, much like in Gears of War.

And from what people have been telling me at the Crackdown site, it's not possible to play it again with your agent leveled up which sucks to be honest. Supposedly, you can reload the gang, but there's no way to reload the bosses (essentially play the game again)........which again, sucks. Bosses are fun. And I don't know how to reload the gang, but people did mention that several times.

Why don't you just level up first then before killing the bosses?

Well, it is necessary to level up to kill the bosses, you don't have to tell me, lol.

somebody add me to their friends list for some coop action!

DrDecoy

just send me a message with the subject XBOXYDE or something ;p

Yeah, but believe me, I've played for about 6 hours and I'm nowhere near maxed out. Some of my abilities are still at 2 stars and none at 4 stars, much less "maxed out". What I'm trying to tell you is that people that have everything maxed out have played the game "too much".

Yeah, he's one of us human beings.

The limit in terms of stars is 4. But when you get to 4 stars you can also level up the rest of it and you get a "--" (dash dash) instead of stars, which means you have reached the max for that skill.

I don't have Los Muertos around anymore. They are muertos now.

lol, German.

Must collect orbs....only 90 left.....

wow, really? I have somewhere around 350+ left :D

Got the game (finally) and love the game.

Though it seems that the retail version is actually buggier than the demo version, I've also seen a lot more pop-up's (especially cars) than in the demo version, or maybe I'm just imagining this.

Just messing about, exploring, searching etc. is so much fun, this game can certainly keep me entertained for a while.
However, I still feel they could've done so much more with this game to make it appeal to a wider range of gamers.

I still miss some kind of mission structure, though I fully reckognize it isn't what this game's about, but it's always nice to have a choice: 'dick around or follow the main story.'

Too bad the reviews reflect this, with a decent mission structure and some more varried side-missions, this game could've gotten an average 9 - 9.5 I reckon.
It's also pretty disturbing seeing the reviewers completely overlooking things like the solid performance, which is a HUGE deal to me but apparantly not to the reviewers.
Also, most of them say it's amazingly fun and they had a great time with the game, but it's lacking. as if having FUN in a game these days is just a unsignificant "side-factor" or something.

Oh what the hell, I'm having fun with it and Crackdown 2 is on it's way...It's all good..! :)

Going to get it today! At my gf's house yesterday so couldnt go get the game >_>

I hate you all...

Just need to 4 star my driving and I'm there with you, it's such a pain in the ass to run over these criminals though!

how hard are the shai gen....keep getting my ass whuped .

[IGN premium content removed] here is a walkthrough it includes orb locations etc.