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Crackdown's heritage stretches back to Grand Theft Auto, partly because of RealTime Worlds' head David Jones, but that doesn't make Crackdown a "wannabe" title. This was producer Phil Wilson's reply to Xbox Community Network when asked about the frequent comparisons between the two titles.Still, from the interview featured in XboxWay International:
I'm as guilty as anyone else of hearing about a city-based game and assuming that it's just going to be like GTA... But there is room for other types of games in the sandbox city genre, and we're already seeing that people are enjoying the difference that Crackdown provides.
Based on what downloading the demo did to Xbox Live (which is to say, jam it with more traffic than Pacific City), we'd agree.
Phil emphasized Crackdown's "true" free-form gameplay, in comparison to GTA, Saint's Row, and The Godfather. "In Crackdown, it's really up to you," he said. It seems he that there's no story-restricted linearity to progress in the game - if you want to take on the gang boss when you first go online, he said you can.
Asked to comment about Halo 3 Beta's inclusion in Crackdown, Phil was as full of praise as his boss David. "So while a lot of people will be looking at Crackdown because of the
Halo 3 Beta, there will be many more people looking at it on its own
merits." The way he looked at it, Crackdown was a great game to partner the beta with.Speaking of which, on a lighter and more off-topic note, we, er, found this picture from Xkatsu, a Flickr user, of a box of Crackdowns w/ Halo 3 Betas on some inventory shelf. It seems like whoever decided to tag the box this way had his own set of priorities: it's Halo 3 Beta feat. Crackdown, and not the other way around.
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OMG ITS THE HALO 3 MUTILPLAYER BETA!!!!! ...with crackdown sorry microsoft, but crackdown will forever be "that game that came with the halo 3 beta"
they shudda sold crackdown with another title.....crackdown IMO is a REALLY nice game....im playin it NOW
Im hyped about the Halo 3 beta in april but crackdown is a kick ass game it mixes all the best games into 1 GTA Saint's Row True Crime Streets of NY/LA The Godfather and then also some additive features you couldnt get in those games Crazy ass weapons Crazy ass powers Better physics Rag Dolls (something GTA never had) Smart AI and the best feature of all free roam around the city in multiplayer. so for anyone to say crackdown is a GTA "wannabe" . Look at it play it all of you rockstar junkies who thinks GTA is the best just bcuz it was the first crime based game. Look back and check out the comparison between Driver 1 and GTA 2 since they came out around the same time except one was 3D and one wasnt...GTA III stole the driving physics from driver 1 and implemented killing and diffrent missions
lol, I remember Zone of the Enders for the PS2 had the same problem. The game that came with the Metal Gear Solid 2 demo.
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