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What is Crackdown 3?
- It was clear that Crackdown 3 was going to be very heavy with all those delays and the change in its development team, with Sumo Digital taking the reins of the project in 2018.
- It has enormous pressure of being a new installment almost ten years after beloved Xbox 360 exclusive sagas.
- But the truth is that it has not been the hecatomb that many predicted, despite the unfortunate claim of the power of the cloud.
- Because the base of Crackdown 3 is perfect and can play much better than the previous ones.
- Its problem is certain design decisions in the Campaign that end up exhausting the biggest fan.
Crackdown 2 to Crackdown 3
- It is still curious that the story in Crackdown 3 takes place a decade after what happened in Crackdown 2.
- Because it is practically the time that there is a separation between the two (the sequel came out in 2010).
- Although these new installments planned to go out in 2015, wow.
- The generational leap is evident, and I have loved its new look, leaving in diapers the sobriety of the original from 2007.
- The colors are more vivid, it has bet more if possible on the madness in the capacity of the destruction of the Agents.
- The depth of field of the new city (New Providence) is worthy of praise, despite finding the odd innocent pop-up.
Game Story
- On this “paradisiacal” island, we run into the evil Niemand, owner of the mega corporation Terra Nova.
- Where her entourage runs different parts of the metropolis based on her strengths: Logistics, Industry, and Security.
- What is striking, and where much of the blame for Crackdown 3 does not shine as it should.
- It is how the game has to make us progress in the Campaign as if it were a sandbox full of secondary’s.
- And with almost zero weight for the narrative except for what the narrator and some recording tell us.
- Suppose we want to defeat these psychopaths before facing Niemand.
Objectives
- In that case, it will be mandatory to destroy their main objectives, which always results in highly repetitive mechanics.
- Where key points will have to exploit or some terminal hacked.
- So over and over again we are testing our patience no trace of elaborate missions.
- Not even those of the bosses, love aaj kal movie who in most cases will reduce to climbing up to his lair and killing him there.
Crackdown 3 Maintains Orb Addiction
- In a standard game, the usual thing will be to collect a third of the agility orbs (there are 750).
- It will guarantee us to be very close to level 5 in this facet of the Agent.
- In contrast, the secret orbs (250) will be placed in zones again very elaborate where we would hardly pass freely.
- Obtaining 100% of both is a titanic task, not so for 100% of “missions” (we put quotation marks because they are not as such).
- It is surprising how little party has been taken from the actor and ex-athlete Terry Crews knowing.
- He is the image of this new installment and one of the Agents with whom we can play.
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- There will be quite a bit of variety between all of them (slight advantages in specific fields.
- Like power with explosives and the like), having to unlock most of them by finding their elusive DNA trail.
- In the first two hours of play, one is quite optimistic with Crackdown 3 because everything looks alive than ever.
- The search for orbs is still tremendously addictive, and there are many things to do from minute one.
- But everything fades at the beginning. See the seams because of the excess.