Until davton finds the time to capture some Xbox One X gameplay and a new HDR video, here's some 4K action in the PC version of Crackdown 3. Despite it's many shortcomings, the game remains fun to play, but we find it hard to forgive its 2007 design - and its stuttering problems...
Update: As our videos had severe sound issues, we recorded some new 4K gameplay with extreme graphics settings.
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Still, many people are having a ton of fun with the game, for those lucky enough that the game works. The way I look at Crackdown 3 is the way I look at very fun to play retro games, even if the design is old, as long as it's fun, it's still much better than many modern games that just bore you to tears - looking at Valkyria Chronicles 4, damn that game is tedious.
interesting. they picked a good engine for generating physics. the issue remains poor content execution. and it is a bit underwhelming visually for UE4 standards.
just Cause/ReFactionGuerrila where the by the number shooting/mobility brings it all down.
They should be showing this instead of the whole shitty demoing/ pr videos of late.
Now I wish I had a decent PC/xbX to play this.
it even has a bit of those explosive death/stuns/ragdoll physics where you are blasted away and have to wait a bit.
Shambles.
The graphics do look bad and the game design is of the previous generation of consoles, however, like many people have said: the game is just pure fun. To put it more precisely, it's just dumb stupid fun, but it's a hell of a lot of dumb stupid fun. For whatever that's worth.
Best way to look at Crackdown 3 is how dated it feels to play Super Mario Bros. 1, 3, World or 64; The Legend of Zelda: A Link to The Past, Ocarina of Time or Majora's Mask; Final Fantasy 1-9, etc. Of course those are all great games and they were released decades ago, however the game design in them is very old, but they're still a lot of fun to play even today.
Crackdown 3 is like the original, perhaps slightly better, or slightly worse depending on the person. But you can pay $1 for 1 month of Game Pass, or $2 for 2 months. No need to invest $60 if you're unsure, basically, it's "free" in a way, and you get to play dozens upon dozens of other games as well. So for the price required to play it, it's a steal. No harm in at least checking it out and make your own conclusions.
Having said that I think the original crackdown back then was mediocre and this probably is no better either.
So while I agree with you that those things have been expanded and reiterated many times, they haven`t been perfected. Crackdown 3 isn`t perfect either, but I can`t think of a single game that does what it does better. Surprisingly, I prefer the Platforming in Crackdown 3 much more than the one in Super Mario 3D World, which I played with my nephew last weekend. But I believe that`s one of the worst Mario games when it comes to Platforming.
Having said that I think the original crackdown back then was mediocre and this probably is no better either.
The jumping is still satisfying. But the orb layouts are not, they’ve opted for quantity over quality, so unlike the first crackdown where agility orbs were a fun, well thought out incentive to explore, now they feel like feathers in an assassins creed game...just another game with another form of collectathon garbage to pick up. And the actual act of climbing has changed so little it’s still absolute crap!
It feels like a game that was developed in a vacuum, with no regard to any developments that have happened in the industry since 2007. It’s literally this years duke nukem forever. It feels like a relic.