Well. It's good.
It took time to get used to the fact that you don't grow levels in your
skills as fast as you do in the demo, so you shouldn't expect to jump
into the game and be leaping tall buildings in a single bound and
throwing trucks at people five minutes in.
Still, it doesn't take THAT long to level - so before you've even taken
out the first kingpin, assuming you don't do it right away - you'll
likely have leveled plenty.
And thats a good thing too.
Though it's advisable to take out the kingpins lieutenants before you
go for him, you CAN go straight to em - provided you know where to find
em anyway.
It's a pretty open-ended game and hand holding is limited. Your pretty
much plopped into the game and aside from a couple message boxes
telling you to grab a vehicle and go for the first supply point, it's..
Yeah. Just real open.
The announcer guy will grate on you though.
And sometimes he'll say irrelevant things.
Like - thats quite an ascension there, agent! - And you only jumped a few feet off the ground.
Also, the music.. Ehhh... Well, it's not really my thing. Too technoish.
But that mightn't bother you, it just grates on me.
Custom soundtracks would've been nice.
Of course I could just play music over it through the 360's music
player, but it's not the same as just hopping in a car and hearing your
own music blaring instead of that hogwash.
The graphics. I like the graphics.
I'm sure there'll be plenty of people taking time of Gears of War or
something like that who'll think it's trash - it mightn't be realistic
but it's heavily stylized and it looks great in my opinion.
Like a comic book or some such.
The Co-op is perhaps this games saving grace.
Who wouldn't want a big open world to roam around in with a partner?
Another player makes it a whole lot better.
But still, if what I've heard from others is accurate it's one of - if
not the best thing about the game. I mean, how many other games of an
open ended nature allow you to play with a friend?
I know I would've liked to have torn up the city with another player in
Saints Row - or stuff around in GTA: San Andreas with someone else,
whether stuffing around means blowing stuff up or kickin' back in a bar
and playing some pool - it'd be nice to experience something like this
with a friend - or foe.
Anyway, Crackdown gets the thumbs up from me.
