First Impression: Crackdown 2

It's always extremely disappointing to hear when a company destroys a sequel to a beloved game for no reason at all.

David, you unlock new vehicles when you level up your driving skill, and eventually do get a supercar.

It's not as cool as the agency cars transforming to bigger and better, but they still give you those vehicles.

This is kinda of nitpicking but if you begin to drive a car you can not change the radio station while in the car which angers me the most when i want to listen to something other than the head guy of the agency and i cant even have a choice of music

i dont know it just seems ruffian games made the wrong choices to make it feel like a sequel

"I don’t know how it happened but somehow they messed it up. They managed to take a great formula and instead of adding the polish and gloss it needed, they mutated it and distorted it, almost to the point where it’s unrecognizable."

That's exactly the feeling I got just from the demo.

I also noticed while playing the demo that, the game just feels clunkier than the original. Little, tiny things like the inability to jump in any direction other than up while running on stairs, and how the way they handled auto-aim makes me constantly zoom in on a barrel instead of a person, are just small changes that make the experiance feel worse.

i did watch you play cd2 and im sorry but it bored the crap out of me there is no reason that i can see why i would buy this copy of the original with less in it.

yea this game looks pretty shity i mean all you do is collect orbs

I like the freaks concept as now I have a lot of a#s to kick when cheaply armed thugs aren't doing it to me...if only the draw distance from where they spawned wasn't o bad, it could've been done very nicely like left 4 dead zombies..only more mutated and f*cked up.

The Jumping was very disappoint as it was in the first one. I'm not gonna bag on the first one because that jumping was just pioneer: it deserved to be bad so the devs an learn how to make it more fluid and better, but they failed and left it as is...lazy development I say

This time around they should have made it so you can customize your Agent...another form of lazy development is that instead of making it a customizable thing, the give you some characters and different color pallets.

Ruffian Games....I am Disappoint....2k Marine and Ruffian Games are not fit for sequels

I always thought it looked.... not as good
i dont know why i never read anything about the game, just saw trailers and a little game play and it doesnt look like it does anything to change or make the game better

wacthing u an brad playing made me wonder why there arent any bosses but cant wait to listen to the discussion

It's a real shame that this game didn't improve. The developers had such a great timing period in which to release this game. With all the emphasis on story driven games, it would have been nice to see a good ol'e fashin, sand box, beat em up that was actualy good.

I'm so glad I didn't preorder Crackdown 2. While I enjoyed the original, I got it a year or so after its release for around 20 bucks. From what I've read, it's little more than a 60$ expansion pack that took 3 years to come out.

I thought about getting the game. But seeing you play it gave me the opinion not to get it. Just because of the game play hasn't' changed that much, plus I honestly didn't care for the original.
-Alex

Aww! It's a shame they removed all the cool aspect of the first.

thats what happens when different devolepers make sequels

There really wasn't any improvement made to this one compared to the first and the missions are very simple. But I will say I am still having fun blowing stuff up with my friends.

Also I might be wrong, but doesn't the staff of Ruffian largely consist of people from Real Time Worlds?

sounds to me like a bioshock 2 effect, while the new game improved on a lot of parts, it wasn't anything substantial, and was a sequel we didn't really need.

Unrecognizable?!?!?! Its the EXACT same game as the first, which is rediculous in and of itself, if you mean someone could be playing this game and mistake it for the first than yes, it is INDISTINGUISHABLE, but not unrecognizable.

The worst part was all the damn platforming and how you couldn't reach the shit you needed to unless you spent a few hours orb hunting.

But hey, I just noticed that when you do the Radar thing (UP on the D-pad) any orbs in the vicinity are permanently marked on your orbs map in the pause menu. That's pretty neat.

The game centainly didn't do a lot to distinguish itself as a full blown sequel in a graphical and control type aspect (they even took away the agencies car transformations) but ruffian games did add quite a few new aspects to the game, although some of them do feel like they weren't fully realized(probably from such a short development period). A few examples of a few added features would include the renegade orbs, glide suit, charge ability, line grenades(ones that stick stuff together), UV shotgun, Helicopter, and of course the 4 player co-op and 16 player multiplayer.

*The story of the game is rather uninspired and gets very repetative with its 9 missions or have you do the same thing over and over.
*The renegade orbs would have been better if the camera and control was improved.
*And I do feel that there should be a system to track how many orbs are left in a certain area( having 499 of 500 agility orbs and painfully trying tho find that last one)
*kind of an ugly game(graphically it feels dated)
^things I hated
*4 Co-op is a blast.
*16 player multiplayer is fun but can be a clusterf*** at times.
*orbs are still addicting to obtain.
*glide suit and helicopter are great additions in my opinion.
^things I liked

David I suggest that you stick with it, definitly play it co-op style, and even though most of the problems from the first game are still there, so are alot of what made the first fun... lol, over all its really just more of the same with multiplayer and a few added gadgets.