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It's time to take back the streets! With Pacific City under the iron grip of three ruthless gangs: Los Muertos, the Volk, and the Shai-Gen Corporation; the last hope rests on The Agency, a highly skilled group of law enforcers. But the situation is dire, and desperate times call for desperate measures. Using technology from one of Shai-Gen's scientists, The Agency is creating superhuman Agents to combat the crime and take back the city. With constantly evolving skills which increase as you use them, you've certainly got the upper hand... but these gangs won't give back Pacific City without a fight!Crackdown is an action game from the creator of Grand Theft Auto; and presents the player with the fully explorable world of Pacific City. Your main goal is to defeat the gangs that have taken over various parts of the city. You're quite welcome to tackle each gang's head honcho straight off; however, it's to your advantage to take down the lower rungs in the gang ladder before you head for the top. Doing so will cripple various parts of the gang, such as vehicles, cash flow, and new recruits.
Your Agent can upgrade particular types of skills: Agility - your running speed and jump height; Driving - your control of different types of vehicles; Explosives - your skill and damage radius of explosives; Strength - your physical strength, which allows you to punch, as well as lift and throw heavier objects; and Weapons - your skill and accuracy with assorted types of weaponry. Each type of skill is increased by performing the associated action. Drive around and your Driving skill will increase, punch people in the face or throw garbage skips at them to increase your strength, and keep up the shooting to improve your weapon skills. Agility is measured differently - scattered throughout Pacific City are green Agility Orbs. Nab these, and your Agility will increase. The higher up the orb is, the more it's worth. You can also increase your Driving and Agility skills even further via special races which can be found around the city.
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Alternate Titles
- "Riot Act" -- Japanese title
Part of the Following Groups
- BPjS / BPjM indexed games
- Console Generation Exclusives: Xbox 360
- Crackdown series
- Games made into comics
- Games with dynamic advertisements
- Genre: Open world / Free-roaming / Sandbox action and driving
- Japanese Xbox 360 games with full English support
- Middleware: Kynapse
- Middleware: RenderWare
- Middleware: SpeedTree
- Physics Engine: Havok
- Theme: Law enforcement
- Xbox 360 Classics releases
- Xbox 360 Platinum Hits releases
User Reviews
A supercop game that delivers | Xbox 360 | Joshua J. Slone (4664) |
Parkour the Safe Way | Xbox 360 | Marko Poutiainen (1160) |
1/4 Spider-man, 1/4 GTA, 1/4 Mercenaries, and 1/4 True Crime = Crackdown. Crackdown = Awesome. | Xbox 360 | Classic Nigel (150) |
Even a Halo3 beta invite can't raise this game out of mediocrity | Xbox 360 | phlux (4333) |
For the few of us who didn't like GTA III, possibly | Xbox 360 | Greg Mitchell (74) |
Crackdown, Smackdown, Beatdown...... | Xbox 360 | Lucky 13 (40) |
Critic Reviews
Eurogamer.net (UK) | Xbox 360 | Feb 12, 2007 | 9 out of 10 | 90 |
GamePro (US) | Xbox 360 | May 14, 2007 | 4.5 out of 5 | 90 |
GotNext | Xbox 360 | Mar 09, 2007 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
90 |
Extreme Gamer | Xbox 360 | Feb 13, 2007 | 8.5 out of 10 | 85 |
FiringSquad | Xbox 360 | Mar 05, 2007 | 83 out of 100 | 83 |
GameSpy | Xbox 360 | Feb 20, 2007 | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
80 |
Defunct Games | Xbox 360 | Mar 27, 2007 | 80 out of 100 | 80 |
JagoGame.com | Xbox 360 | Apr 20, 2007 | 7.7 out of 10 | 77 |
Deaf Gamers | Xbox 360 | 2007 | 7.7 out of 10 | 77 |
GNT - Generation Nouvelles Technologies | Xbox 360 | Mar 13, 2007 | 7 out of 10 | 70 |
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Trivia
1001 Video Games
Crackdown appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.Extras
The game comes with an invitation for the multiplayer beta of Halo 3.Awards
- GameSpy
- 2007 – #10 Xbox 360 Game of the Year
- 2007 – Robocop of the Year
Related Web Sites
- Wikipedia: Crackdown (Article in the open encyclopedia about the game.)
- X360A achievement guide (X360A's achievement guide for Crackdown.)
Xbox 360 Credits (176 people)
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Gary Penn (Denki), Jonathan Hughes
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