Crackdown

Crackdown is an open world, third-person shooter video game for the Xbox 360. Set in the fictional Pacific City, the player controls a biologically enhanced Agent, tasked with defeating three crime lords and…

85 20 February 2007

Adventure Fighting Role-playing (RPG) Shooter Action Open world Sandbox Science fiction

Crackdown is an adventure developed by Realtime Worlds, released 20 February 2007 on Xbox 360. The main story takes about 14 hrs to finish.

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What Crackdown is

Crackdown is an adventure game developed by Realtime Worlds and released in 2007. It was published by Microsoft Game Studios. It is available on Xbox 360 only. It runs on Havok Physics.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Crackdown takes place in the fictional metropolis of Pacific City, whose several districts and areas are divided among four islands. The city is controlled by three crime organizations: Los Muertos (which means "the dead" in Spanish), of Central American origin; an Eastern European gang, the Volk (Russian for Wolf) ; and the formerly above-board Shai-Gen Corporation, from East Asia. Normally, a police-like organization called the Peacekeepers kept the city under control; their forces, however, were overwhelmed by the sudden rise in crime. The city, therefore, sought additional help from "the Agency", an organization that, in addition to outfitting and supporting Peacekeepers, has used…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, open world, sandbox and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative and Single player.

How it was received

Crackdown holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 82% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 21 points above the year average. Players rate it 78, 7 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 14 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 30 hrs, roughly 2.1 times the length of the critical path.

What it launched against

Crackdown launched on 20 February 2007, within three weeks of God of War II, Professor Layton and the Curious Village, Peggle and Jade Empire: Special Edition. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: God of War II, Professor Layton and the Curious Village, Peggle, Jade Empire: Special Edition.

Cheats and codes

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