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Crackdown

21 Feb, 2007, 12:40 pm IST | by Avinash Bali | Console Console

Comparing Crackdown to GTA at first glance is inevitable; in fact when asked what this game was all about, by certain co-workers, I simply described it as a next gen GTA on crack (pun intended). Not only was Dave Jones, the man behind the genre defining Grand Theft Auto franchise behind this game as well, but early game videos led us to believe so. However, after playing this game continuously for the past few days, I can happily say Dave Jones and his team of merry men at Realtime Worlds have done a brilliant job crafting a game which is nothing like GTA (in a good way) and is still tons of fun to play... scratch that, it’s as addictive as the real thing.

If there’s any game you could compare Crackdown with, it would probably be Vivendi Universal’s The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction. Why? Let’s take a look:

Larger than life protagonist – Check
The ability to scale buildings in a single jump – Check
Kick people/cars/objects across a distance of nearly a 100 feet – Check
Pick up anything that even weighs a ton – Check

See a pattern emerging here? Crackdown is one game that doesn’t take itself seriously and that fact is pretty apparent in its plot as well, which goes something like this: Pacific City has been overrun by three gangs, the Los Muertos, the Volks, and the Asian Shai Gens and since the local law enforcement agency can’t handle the heat anymore, they’ve cloned a genetically modified super agent to handle the situation.

Tags: Crackdown , XBox360

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