Mingledon
03-05-2007, 07:29 PM
Alright, well, I was at San Fransisco on Saturday, saw an EB Games, ran in, and decided to buy Crackdown. Now I feel like I wasted 70 bucks. I mean, don't get me wrong, this game is great while you play it, but it makes a better rent. Right now, I'm hoping that EB Games will take it back since I am nearing the 1k.
Let me just give a short review to people who havn't played it yet.
The game is fun, it is fun to fuck around, be able to jump 10-30 feet, throw objects weighing 2 tons, or as heavy as trucks. The game lasts, however, no more then about 20 hours if you play it straight through and then get the achievements, with time to fuck around and time for failure. After that, you basically have an empty game. Co-Op is fun, but for people like me who don't have XBox Live (Yet *cross fingers*), it just feels finished after the 1k/Bosses. Once I get 1k, I'm going to try to sell it off.
The game is very repititive. What makes things like GTA fun, driving around and pointlessly rampaging, can't be done here. The driving, in my opinion, feels sloppy and I just don't want to stay in a vehicle. I have 4 starred everything but driving so far. The cars that pedestrians have can barely take a licking, and road kills are difficult at low driving levels, and still pretty difficult at higher ones (I'm finally getting it). The bosses are the high point in this game, or rather, are supposed to be, you have 21 of them, but after you kill them, it is over. There was chance there, but they didn't follow through. They all felt the same, and none of them took more then four-five minutes (except the first Volk boss, since the game doesn't tell you how to get to him). They are all the same, surrounded by a lot of people that keep respawning, and then you have to go and shoot down about five life bars. There isn't much of a story, the only story is the backstory of the gangs, but not much else.
I mentioned you can't rampage. Yeah, as a cop in Crackdown, if you kill pedestrians, you get marked as a rogue and hunted down. I would have been fine with this, but then, you also lose your hard earned skill points. While driving, pedestrians will often find their way under your tires. When you throw explosives, pedestrians will often run to the fucking grenade instead of running away from it, like us normal humans do. Pedestrians like running infront of bullets, too, it is their form of dodgeball or jumprope. "Hey! Look! A cop and some gangsters are having a gun fight, let's play jump-bullet!"
Back to fucking around. Jumping around and getting all the orbs is probably the most life in this game, and the most fun thing to do for me. After you have collected all 5-fucking-00 Agility Orbs and all 3-fucking-00 Hidden Orbs (800 Collectibles, 8 times more then GTA and Godfather!), you have 12 foot races, 30 (I think) Car Races (which are difficult since the cars suck ass, and the pedestrians are fucking stupid), and 30 some Stunt Markers. Once you are done with that, you have some lame to fun achievements to do.
Graphics. I like them. I like the Cell-Shaded look, it is unrealistic, but it looks nice. Sound? I didn't like the radio, but I did like the echoes of voices when you are in an Oil Rig or cave, and the languaged voice acting (being Russian, I laughed and cried to what the Volk said, a bunch of inside-Russian jokes from 30-year-old movies and even older jokes). The controls are fine, but the camera will leave you upset. It is sloppy and unchangable. GTA, for example, allowed you to alter your camera view, in car and out. Crackdown only gives you a stick you can move around, but you have to hold it in the position for the camera to stick, highly bothering.
The good points? It is fun while it lasts, kind of, and jumping around makes the meat of this game. Co-Op sounds fun, and there are leaderboards that are living and breathing inside the game. Killing stuff is fun, and then picking up rubber duckies and beating gangsters senseless with them entertains. Other then that, not much else is fun. A great thing about this game, however, is the updates are free, and that it is not an aggravating game (except when it comes to the time trials in the game, or needing one more orb to finish your 800, then it gets a little fucking annoying), the thing that aggravated me most, besides the time trials (which I naturally hate) is attempting to jump from rooftop to rooftop, only to be met by a heat-seeking rocket from a Shai-Gen Firefly, and plummeting to the ground only to be met with an assraping of grenades and more Firefly.
Crackdown is pretty dissapointing, all in all, and I regret shelling out 70 bucks for it. It is a good one-week rent, maybe two if you are into the Co-Op, but that's it. The game is only worth about 10 bucks for me. HOWEVER- if Crackdown comes out with more updates, it might be a buy. Guess that short review wasn't too short.
Now, does anyone know if EB Games takes back opened games for full price? =/
Let me just give a short review to people who havn't played it yet.
The game is fun, it is fun to fuck around, be able to jump 10-30 feet, throw objects weighing 2 tons, or as heavy as trucks. The game lasts, however, no more then about 20 hours if you play it straight through and then get the achievements, with time to fuck around and time for failure. After that, you basically have an empty game. Co-Op is fun, but for people like me who don't have XBox Live (Yet *cross fingers*), it just feels finished after the 1k/Bosses. Once I get 1k, I'm going to try to sell it off.
The game is very repititive. What makes things like GTA fun, driving around and pointlessly rampaging, can't be done here. The driving, in my opinion, feels sloppy and I just don't want to stay in a vehicle. I have 4 starred everything but driving so far. The cars that pedestrians have can barely take a licking, and road kills are difficult at low driving levels, and still pretty difficult at higher ones (I'm finally getting it). The bosses are the high point in this game, or rather, are supposed to be, you have 21 of them, but after you kill them, it is over. There was chance there, but they didn't follow through. They all felt the same, and none of them took more then four-five minutes (except the first Volk boss, since the game doesn't tell you how to get to him). They are all the same, surrounded by a lot of people that keep respawning, and then you have to go and shoot down about five life bars. There isn't much of a story, the only story is the backstory of the gangs, but not much else.
I mentioned you can't rampage. Yeah, as a cop in Crackdown, if you kill pedestrians, you get marked as a rogue and hunted down. I would have been fine with this, but then, you also lose your hard earned skill points. While driving, pedestrians will often find their way under your tires. When you throw explosives, pedestrians will often run to the fucking grenade instead of running away from it, like us normal humans do. Pedestrians like running infront of bullets, too, it is their form of dodgeball or jumprope. "Hey! Look! A cop and some gangsters are having a gun fight, let's play jump-bullet!"
Back to fucking around. Jumping around and getting all the orbs is probably the most life in this game, and the most fun thing to do for me. After you have collected all 5-fucking-00 Agility Orbs and all 3-fucking-00 Hidden Orbs (800 Collectibles, 8 times more then GTA and Godfather!), you have 12 foot races, 30 (I think) Car Races (which are difficult since the cars suck ass, and the pedestrians are fucking stupid), and 30 some Stunt Markers. Once you are done with that, you have some lame to fun achievements to do.
Graphics. I like them. I like the Cell-Shaded look, it is unrealistic, but it looks nice. Sound? I didn't like the radio, but I did like the echoes of voices when you are in an Oil Rig or cave, and the languaged voice acting (being Russian, I laughed and cried to what the Volk said, a bunch of inside-Russian jokes from 30-year-old movies and even older jokes). The controls are fine, but the camera will leave you upset. It is sloppy and unchangable. GTA, for example, allowed you to alter your camera view, in car and out. Crackdown only gives you a stick you can move around, but you have to hold it in the position for the camera to stick, highly bothering.
The good points? It is fun while it lasts, kind of, and jumping around makes the meat of this game. Co-Op sounds fun, and there are leaderboards that are living and breathing inside the game. Killing stuff is fun, and then picking up rubber duckies and beating gangsters senseless with them entertains. Other then that, not much else is fun. A great thing about this game, however, is the updates are free, and that it is not an aggravating game (except when it comes to the time trials in the game, or needing one more orb to finish your 800, then it gets a little fucking annoying), the thing that aggravated me most, besides the time trials (which I naturally hate) is attempting to jump from rooftop to rooftop, only to be met by a heat-seeking rocket from a Shai-Gen Firefly, and plummeting to the ground only to be met with an assraping of grenades and more Firefly.
Crackdown is pretty dissapointing, all in all, and I regret shelling out 70 bucks for it. It is a good one-week rent, maybe two if you are into the Co-Op, but that's it. The game is only worth about 10 bucks for me. HOWEVER- if Crackdown comes out with more updates, it might be a buy. Guess that short review wasn't too short.
Now, does anyone know if EB Games takes back opened games for full price? =/