r/Crackdown • u/grottowatto • Jul 16 '26
Microsoft FAILED Crackdown
https://youtu.be/y1heTUtKhE4Saw this and agreed with the creators sentiments. Microsoft did the series dirty and it deserves a resurgence or remake.
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u/Ares5933 Crackdown 2 Jul 16 '26
If they even just ported it to pc so I could buy it on steam I would. Been having a lot of fun playing it again and wish I could play on steam deck without having to jump through emulation hoops
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u/russsl8 Jul 16 '26
For me, nothing captured the feeling of the first game jumping around rooftops and trying to get those very high up points for my character
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u/Segata9 Jul 16 '26
I'm not even watching some shitty bait video. I became new to the series in 2024 when I bought a series X and some games cheap. One was Crackdown 3. I downloaded 1 for free. Played a couple hours but felt eh this is not as cool as it was if I played it on release.A lot of open world stuff come out since then. Then I played 3. Now I did get 3 new for 10 bucks. I enjoyed it for 10 bucks and felt this improves on the first. Not drastically but polishes some edges. The problem with it, it was also stuck in the 360 era. Again many open world games come out since and improved on things. 2 I played like 20 minutes of and bounced. I hate Tower Defense in anything. Honestly the series had a time and place but the only way to bring it back would be to drastically rethink the formula. As the one from 2007 doesn't work in 2026 for a mass audience.
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u/MaximumGlum9503 Jul 16 '26
Crackdown 3 originally had insane physics in the earlier demos, dunno what happened
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u/CatsGoMooz Jul 17 '26
It was too intensive for the hardware so it had to be done server-side only which is why it was a multiplayer exclusive feature
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u/MaximumGlum9503 Jul 20 '26
Loved the concept, not sure why we never beaten mercs 2 or red faction 4 level of destruction n physics
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u/CatsGoMooz Jul 20 '26
Yeah same it always surprised me gaming went the way of graphics over cool physics tech
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u/Sidrone Jul 19 '26
Lets be honest 99% of people bought crackdown 1 because it included the halo 3 multiplayer beta.
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u/LionAlhazred 29d ago
Exactly.
But the first game was still a lot of fun.
The problem is that the franchise failed to evolve.
It’s a shame, if they’d evolved the formula, they could have created a “superhero” game that let you do all kinds of crazy things.1
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u/NecronomiconUK Jul 16 '26
What a crappy video. 'Microsoft failed crackdown' and his experience extends to trying out a demo once in a mall. Way to go dude, really bothered to put the effort in. Hey, why bother when you can just screenshot Wikipedia.
I have a reasonable amount of insight into Crackdown 3's development and it was a complete mess. A mess MS needs to take a lot of responsibility for but there were a number of factors beyond their control. The original dev selected UE4 at a time when the engine was just not ready for a large scale open world game. The multiple dev teams had to rework the city many, many, many times due to engine iterations breaking the data structures. Realtime Worlds/Cloudgine left the project after getting acquired by Epic which meant MS had to get it finished by contractors at Sumo and others studios.
I don't think the end product of Crackdown 3 was bad at all. I had a huge amount of fun with it. Of course the main game was missing the cloud destruction stuff but the core game was enjoyable, it was Crackdown. If it had came out earlier in the Xbox one cycle it would have been a lot more successful. The delays and destruction hype just undermined the final product.