Crackdown 3 Reviews
With it`s weak story, a soulless presentation and repetetive gameplay, Crackdown 3 is a total disappointment after all. The game feels like a Remaster of the first title and continues the series of mediocre exclusives with only few, but outstanding honorable mentions for the Xbox One. Fans of the series should grab the title via Game Pass, everyone else should find plenty of other and better options.
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Despite the setbacks and delays, Crackdown 3 has put the franchise firmly back on solid ground and that is mostly because of the exceptional work and dedication of developers Sumo Digital. They have not only addressed all of the shortcomings of Crackdown 2 but they have improved upon the core gameplay and the experience itself. Crackdown’s future is so bright the cigar chomping, slave driving, blow hard, sour puss of an Agency Director would be cracking a smile if he could. Good things come to those who wait and Crackdown fans have certainly had to do that.
A mediocre story and dated mechanics bring this Terry Crews simulator down.
This game is just what any Xbox user could expect from it, a crazy and modest sandbox that does not try to sell any revolution in its mechanics, but it manages to make them work well. Regarding the use of the cloud, in the end the feeling that you have after playing it is that Microsoft aimed too high and they stayed halfway, luckily the Demolition Zone has a lot of room for improvement and I see great potential in it.
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Crackdown 3 manages to escape its troubled development in style, offering up a somewhat safe return to the superhero cop action of its predecessors in a bright and unpretentious campaign. It feels like the perfect antidote to some of the more bloated open world experiences of recent years. You can also briefly revel in the Wrecking Zone's glorious destruction, even if all that fancy cloud tech simply leaves you hungry for what the game could have been.
Despite its many stated technical shortcomings that will scare more than one player off, Crackdown 3 is not to be thrown in the trash. If technique and graphics aren't everything for you and fun coupled with total freedom tempts you, the game is for you. We can only hope that Sumo Digital will seek to correct some shortcomings after launch and that the multiplayer mode will be sufficiently followed to captivate players over time.
Review in French | Read full review
The long gestation and continuous changes at the helm did not contribute to the make Crackdown 3 the product expected in the Microsoft home.
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Crackdown 3 gives the impression of a game that slept in the previous generation of consoles and thanks to the weave of accidents, appeared in 2019. It's not too bad, but it's not very good. With paid GamePass you can check.
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Crackdown 3 is a decent sandbox experience that falls short of modern standards, but as an Xbox Game Pass title, it offers some good mindless fun.
Crackdown 3 is a solid entry in the franchise, I was generally whelmed by it.
Crackdown 3 is a playpen of combat and destruction that sets itself up as a liberating journey into a barbarous fantasy of wanton mayhem. But its central proposition — the freedom to do as I please — is undermined by frustrating design compromises.
The mission structure is repetitive, the story's utter wallop, and the baddies are there for shooting practice. But, damn it, it's fun being an over-powered superhero scaling a building in Crackdown 3.
It mantains everything that created a really enjoyable franchise: non-stop action and an enormously satisfying progression system. It's not a game changer and you won't be surprised by its graphics, but it will offer you some toooooasty action.
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All things considered, Crackdown 3 being this enjoyable represents a minor miracle, and I’d love to see what these teams are capable of with the franchise without being dicked around by corporate for half a decade.
Competent, with enough fun weapons and silly spectacle to make it inoffensive entertainment. While a half-decade of development hell could've ended with worse results, it's tough to muster much excitement for what's here.
If you've played a Crackdown game before, then you'll know exactly what to expect from Crackdown 3.
Long-suffering Crackdown fans finally have a worthy sequel. The campaign was every bit as campy and fun as expected, with Terry Crews a perfect addition to the cast, and the multiplayer proving to be surprisingly entertaining.
A tragic end to Crackdown 3's long and painful journey, with an unremarkable campaign mode and a multiplayer that is a disaster in terms of tech and design.
Crackdown 3 maintains some of the series's inconsistencies, but it does more right than it does wrong, and it's a blast to play when everything comes together.
The term 'more of the same' is bandied about a lot in this industry, but when it comes to Crackdown 3, it is absolutely more of the same. With a few tweaks here and there, and a new city, there's no doubting that the gameplay still absolutely holds up. The structure and busywork tasks issues still persist from previous iterations though, which is perhaps the most disappointing aspect. Fun but repetitive best sums up Crackdown 3.