Crackdown (2007)

Crackdown is an open-world action-adventure video game developed by Realtime Worlds and published by Microsoft Game Studios. It was released in 2007 exclusively for the Xbox 360.

In Japan, it was released under the name Riot Act ( ライオットアクト ).

Good Qualities

 * 1) Rather than playing as a criminal, you play as part of the law enforcement agents, known as the PeaceKeepers, to take down criminals.
 * 2) You have a huge variety of Weapons and Vehicles to choose ranging from Pistols, SMGs, Shotguns, Rifles, Rocket Launchers and Grenades.
 * 3) Nice cel-shaded graphics that helps it stand out from other open-world games.
 * 4) There are 3 types of enemy gang members: Shai-Gen, The Volk and Los Muertos. All of which have their own distinct style and level layouts.
 * 5) There are various challenges scattered all over Pacific City like Rooftop Races, Vehicle Races and Orb Collecting.
 * 6) Speaking of the latter, there are orbs scattered around Pacific City called Agility Orbs (Green) and Hidden Orbs (Blue) that are absolutely addicting to hunt down!
 * 7) Your agent can level up as you progress through the game with 5 different types of skills:
 * 8) * Agility allows you to leap higher and further. This will be expanded by gathering Agility Orbs all over Pacific City. It can even be expanded by killing enemy gang members and completing Rooftop Challenges.
 * 9) * Driving allows your vehicle to accelerate faster and make sharper turns. This is expanded by performing stunts, passing through trick markers, finishing Vehicle Races or by running over enemy gang members.
 * 10) * Explosives allows you to kill a wide range of enemies or kill them from a far distance. This is increased by use grenades or rocket launchers on enemy gang members.
 * 11) * Strength allows you to deal heavier damage and pick up huge objects is expanded by killing enemy gang members with melee attacks them or throwing objects.
 * 12) * Firearms allows you to kill enemies from a variety of weapons like Pistols, Rifles or Shotguns. This is expanded by killing enemy gang members with any type of those Guns. Hidden Orbs also helps to increase each skill by 1 point at the same time.
 * 13) Addictive gunplay. Speaking of that, the game has a special targeting system that allows you to lock-on enemies body parts like shooting their leg to stop them from moving or shooting their arm to stop them from using their weapons. You can also do this to Vehicles on their wheels.
 * 14) Rather than telling the player what to do or where to go, the game allows the player to play strategically by making them find the location/target themselves, figuring out how to get through the buildings and thinking of how to take down the enemy gang members or who to take down first.
 * 15) You can play co-op with you online friends to take down enemies, collect orbs or do activities together. There are also activities that require Co-op play.
 * 16) Due to Microsoft celebrating the launch of Crackdown 3, both Crackdown and Crackdown 2's digital versions are free. So you don't have to worry about paying for the third game.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) There isn't really much of a story that will entice players as it's just "take down all the enemy gang members in Pacific City".
 * 2) The AI isn't really that good as civilians will stand in your way which is especially bad when doing races. (as you'll lose skill points from killing them) Enemy AI is also lackluster and they have no real tactic other than just standing there to shoot and throw grenades.
 * 3) * This also ruins the boss fights since it makes them very easy to beat and, as mentioned, just stand there to throw grenades and shoot.
 * 4) Whilst the gunplay is addicting, the lock-on stays on the enemies even when they're dead which could become annoying at times.
 * 5) Killing all the enemy gang members could get repetitive.
 * 6) The Driving feel very archaic and awkward at times. This makes the Racing activities a chore since running over pedestrians causes the Driving skill level to decrease.
 * 7) *Speaking of which, the activities themselves aren't really all that fun to play (with the exception of the Co-op activities).
 * 8) *The game also doesn't keep track of the activities you've completed causing you to replay them over and over unless you write it down on paper.
 * 9) Even though the game has a big Map, accessing it through the menu is annoying since you can't pinpoint a location you want to go to, forcing you to constantly pause the game to look for where you want to go.
 * 10) *The activities are never shown on the map whatsoever making you find it yourself!
 * 11) The soundtrack isn't really that memorable as it's mostly songs that people are unaware of.
 * 12) Whilst the Agency Director is quite entertaining to listen to, he can get real annoying real fast as he mostly says things that aren't helpful or funny like "I can see my house from here".
 * 13) Co-op requires both players to have a Hard-Drive, meaning that either you or your friend will have to go out and spend more just to play together.
 * 14) * However if you are playing it on a Xbox One, you can just play it online without a second hard-drive.