Game Informer says Crackdown 3 was underrated. Do you agree?

Not really. I definitely enjoyed the game, but it broke zero barriers.

Game Informer being contrarian again.

Why does a game have to break barriers?

Could you name some games this gen that broke barriers and how by breaking barriers it was so much better.

It was fun, but people made it out to be an insult to them or something. It's not enough that we don't think a game looks as good as we think it should, no no no...we have to act like it raped our dog or something.

The amount of negative press it got before release was ridiculous. We gamers can be jerks sometimes. And by "we" I mean all of you....not me.

I wouldn't say 'underrated' is the right word for it...maybe excessively hated.

I think it is somewhat underrated. The game is mainly a sandbox platformer yet most reviewers judge it as a typical open world shooter. It's something that unfortunately happens often in gaming media where everyone follows the same narrative. As a 3d platformer it controls exceptionally well and the sandbox keeps giving you stuff to do at a good pace with satisfying progression. It's not an amazing game but it was some of the most fun I had this year.

Now, if you're looking for 3rd person open world with emotional storytelling better go elsewhere, but don't judge the game in those terms. The only reason I somewhat agree with the scores is because the online is beyond mediocre.

I've said during release that this was a game that with time people would look at it more positively and I still maintain this. Just ignore all the drama that followed the development and don't try to make it be something it clearly isn't aiming to.

Not relevant for the conversation but I think Crackdown 3 would be great on the Switch. There's a 5/10 minute long game loop with a decent variety of challenges that would work great on a portable.

Kinda late to play defense force for this game dontcha think? Yeah, it was a bad game. Garishly designed, a last gen throwback in the worst sense, horrible gameplay loop... yuck. But the reason why it caught a lot of heat is because it was built on a lie. There's downgrades, and then there's complete fallacies. Overselling the multiplayer mode for this game killed it. And the fact this was continued when more promising games were cancelled remains a head scratcher.

Let this game take the L and die. There are other Xbox games that these publications should be pointing to instead. No one should be talking about Crackdown 3 anymore in a year where Gears 5 came out.

No, it's not underrated. It's a bad game. It does absolutely nothing the first Crackdown didn't already do 12 years ago, and it's mechanics are terribly dated. Lock on gun targeting, button basher melee, mediocre driving, glitch jumping up skyscrapers and copy pasted mission design isn't acceptable in a 2019 game. Not to mention they fucking lied about the destruction you could do.

It's only possible to play and enjoy it in the same way it's possible to watch an enjoy a bad film.

That made me laugh. The 45 mins I played had me glitching up walls and getting stuck under ledges. Worse than Ass Creed 1 (2007) in terms of it's traversal system.

@locopatho: I've 100% the game and never had a single issue. Can only speak for myself.

@phbz: Fair enough, glad you enjoyed it :)

@locopatho: It was also my first Crackdown, so it didn't feel like just more of the same.

And you got all that from 45mins of playing it. Lets be honest here you had a pre-conceived idea about the game before even playing it.

Yet you praise a game where all you do is walk from one destination to another while pressing buttons to walk upright lol.

I think it is a fun game and much better than people give it credit for.

No, I got all that from 5 minutes of playing it actually. But I wanted to see if there was enough Terry Crews in it to justify suffering through the shit gameplay. There wasn't.

I had a pre-conceived idea that a 2019 game would be superior to it's 2007 predecessor, yes. It wasn't.

I didn't even have to pay for it, got it free on game pass, still wasn't worth suffering through. Garbage.

Oh 5mins, and yet you played it for another 40mins to see more Terry Crews lol, most people play games to have fun, maybe you should try it, now I understand why you like DS, its because its not fun, you were probably playing it to see more Norman Reedus.

I thought C3 was a solid game made by a different team that created the first, and i'm not sure why it needs to be better than the first game, all it needed to do was be as fun, and while it wasn't as fun as the first doesn't mean it was a failure.

For me there were no game breaking bugs and ran well and I had fun with it. That's all that should matter.

It was fun for a few hours here and there, but if you've played the other Crackdowns it gets boring pretty quick. It you are new to the series it would probably have more entertainment value and be quite enjoyable.

Crackdown 3 was a solid game but could've been more if MS put more efforts into it. Campaign is great! Multiplayer however, not so much. Crackdown 3 had one of the most convoluted developments of the gen and the final game doesn't even resemble the first demo they showed gamers at E3 2014 and you know the rest.

Haven’t played it myself but it wouldn’t really surprise me if it was underrated somewhat.

The game sucked and failed to live up to the promises.

Microsoft has a history of making low budget games with the worst talent in the industry. Seems like they hire any loser straight out of high school who took a week class of C++ and thinks they can make games.

I didn’t like it, but admittedly I played it for about 45 mins only.

Crackdown 3 was somehow overrated. How that game showed well internally I will never understand. Every penny spent on that game was wasted.

I forgot this game existed

It's not a bad game... it's just more Crackdown. For better and worse.

**** no. It just is. People only played it because of Gamepass. And the fact we had to wait so long for a product so mediocre, is ridiculous.

Cloud destruction, my pooper. The multiplayer looks like an early early access games.

Crackdown 3 is complete effing garbage because MS does not care about games or gamers.

The reviews were right.

Spoken like a hardcore cow.

Sony cares so much about you and its gamers that its first official game announcement for the PS5 is also on PC lol, Sony only cares about your money like every other company.

So how long did you play Crackdown 3 for???

you cant defence crackdown 3. it is boderline broken trash. and everyone knows.

so all xbox games are also on PC so what?

Explain how its it is borderline broken, I mean you know this because you have played it right? i'm not saying the game is great, masterpiece or whatever other than its fun, and I had FUN playing it, now show me that you've played it.

Did you miss the part where I said "every company only cares about money" is in response to a cow who thinks Sony cares for her, when in fact they don't. **** its like i'm explaining something to a 5yr old.

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@ghosts4ever said:

@i_p_daily said:

@subspecies said:

Crackdown 3 is complete effing garbage because MS does not care about games or gamers.

The reviews were right.

Spoken like a hardcore cow.

Sony cares so much about you and its gamers that its first official game announcement for the PS5 is also on PC lol, Sony only cares about your money like every other company.

So how long did you play Crackdown 3 for???

you cant defence crackdown 3. it is boderline broken trash. and everyone knows.

so all xbox games are also on PC so what?

Explain how its it is borderline broken, I mean you know this because you have played it right? i'm not saying the game is great, masterpiece or whatever other than its fun, and I had FUN playing it, now show me that you've played it.

Did you miss the part where I said "every company only cares about money" is in response to a cow who thinks Sony cares for her, when in fact they don't. **** its like i'm explaining something to a 5yr old.

Gameplay mechanics. its just suck.

its just another crappy open world game with broken gameplay you happened to like. same goes to just cause 3 and 4.

@ghosts4ever: Just from a technical stand point there's absolutely no possible comparison between C3 and Just Cause. Maybe was the version of C3 you got on pirate bay that had issues.

Aye

@SolidGame_basic: I forgot all about it after 7 hours! Lol

It’s a fun wacky ride for some play time but nothing better than a 6/10 at best.

True story. :P

No it was average at best but I enjoyed my play through. It was definitely very dated and you could see why it had the development problems it had.

Maybe GameStop is just trying to give customers a reason to come pick up a copy (like they have too many and need to get rid of them), after all it is their magazine I wouldn't put it past them after that whole Metroid Trilogy debacle that they'd stoop to such a low.

Wouldn't touch it even if it was free it looks like crap to me

@ghosts4ever said:

@i_p_daily said:

@ghosts4ever said:

@i_p_daily said:

@subspecies said:

Crackdown 3 is complete effing garbage because MS does not care about games or gamers.

The reviews were right.

Spoken like a hardcore cow.

Sony cares so much about you and its gamers that its first official game announcement for the PS5 is also on PC lol, Sony only cares about your money like every other company.

So how long did you play Crackdown 3 for???

you cant defence crackdown 3. it is boderline broken trash. and everyone knows.

so all xbox games are also on PC so what?

Explain how its it is borderline broken, I mean you know this because you have played it right? i'm not saying the game is great, masterpiece or whatever other than its fun, and I had FUN playing it, now show me that you've played it.

Did you miss the part where I said "every company only cares about money" is in response to a cow who thinks Sony cares for her, when in fact they don't. **** its like i'm explaining something to a 5yr old.

Gameplay mechanics. its just suck.

its just another crappy open world game with broken gameplay you happened to like. same goes to just cause 3 and 4.

Geez you're a moron, and you got that from watching YouTube videos right? There was nothing broken with the mechanics, your brain on the other hand, well that's a different story...

I was looking forward to the game as I was s fan of the original, but did that thing I do where I sold my game system before it came along.

The game did get nothing but criticism and I wasn't sure why. It sounds like that's because the game plays like the first Crackdown. I fail to see how that is a bad thing, personally. Maybe one day I'll get to play it. The ability to play the game as Terry Crews is a great bonus.

I the game looked ugly for this gen, especially when there is Spider-Man game out for the PS4 that looks soooooo gooood

yes.

Having never played a Crackdown game, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I think the initial reveal killed the impression of the final product.

I think it was accurately rated as extremely average for a game that might come out 10 years ago.

Its good to see that some people get it. Yes it does play like the first, but it adds a few new things the first didn't, but people seem to be stuck complaining about teh "graphics" and the fact that the MP destruction is not what it was first shown 5 YEARS AGO.

The game went through development hell switching devs etc, and sure MS could of communicated the changes a LOT better, but a LOT of people seem to be hating on the game because of MS's silence on the MP component until late in development.

No response huh. I guess I didn't break any barriers with that question :(

Kind of how I felt about it, too.