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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Crackdown Xbox 360 Each gang has bosses to be taken down. Setting them on fire is optional.

Crackdown Xbox 360 The agency supercar levels with you. Max level gets mounted guns!

Crackdown Xbox 360 Defeated enemies drop XP orbs based on how you killed them.

Crackdown Xbox 360 Takin' it to the streets.

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Alternate Titles

"Riot Act" -- Japanese title

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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)

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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