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    Crackdown 2

    Game » consists of 4 releases. Released Jul 06, 2010

    Crackdown 2 is the sequel to the popular open-world supercop game. Players return to Pacific City, where rampaging mutants and resistance groups vie for control of the streets. The sequel adds four-player co-op along with competitive multiplayer.

    Gamespot Review. 7.0

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    #1  Edited By Yummylee
    Well dayum. Really is quite a fall from the original, or rather it's actually the exact same... Still better than what I was expecting. And Chris is one of my favourite GS reviewers - AKA one of the only reviewers I can tolerate over there. So I'll find it understandable over his opinion that despite its many flaws it has the potential for some casual fun.
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    #2  Edited By chaser324  Moderator

    It looks like the 1UP, Kotaku, and IGN reviews are similarly torn about this game. It's very similar to the original, and it still has many of the same shortcomings. In spite of that though, it sounds like there is the potential for some co-op fun to be had.

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    #3  Edited By jimi

    This is bound to happen, they are remaking a game that was groundbreaking in a time where the genre has evolved drastically.

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    #4  Edited By dbz1995

    Your avatar works great with 'well, dayum' there, Abyssfull.
      Other than that, it seems to be a good 'lazy game', where you just do stuff for the hell of it. There's no story you'll have to think about, it's just 'holy shit, you see that thing fly?'

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    #5  Edited By thebeast

    No idea how respected Eurogamer are around here, but they gave it an unusually high (for them) 8.0. 

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    #6  Edited By Yummylee
    @TheBeast said:
    " No idea how respected Eurogamer are around here, but they gave it an unusually high (for them) 8.0.  "
    ...That's the same score as they gave Red Dead Redemption too. O.o I know it's there opinion and all that and can't really argue against but...but good god do their opinions suck.
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    #7  Edited By xyzygy

    I played the demo and it's amazing. I loved the first game and it seems that if you were a fan, this one is right up your alley as well. It's definitely gonna be a purchase for me

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    #8  Edited By rachelepithet

    Its weird that if these games werent really hyped, and were just something like you'd rent over a weekend based on the cover art and thinking "sandbox game" I think in that case your expectations would be beat. But when packaged with the Halo beta, and since GTA4 had yet come out, Microsoft basically made Crackdown seem like the next Brute Force before we found out what Brute Force really was, and both turned out the same way too. 
     
    Crackdown can be mindless fun. The antigravity building climbing/hopping element was kind of original then, not now in the age of Infamous/Prototype/Assassin'sCreed of course, and the Mario 64 item collection element was saved by the fact you become way better having collected those orbs. The vehicles were fun to drive. And the explosive third person combat seemed to work better than the clunky way GTA games had handled before. 
     
    But you rarely ever needed vehicles. You never tackled a significant boss battle mostly bigger waves of pawns. Looking for orbs took more time than the time spent using your newfound strength/speed/featherweight against foes. And the story might have been less complex than Super Mario Bros'  
     
    It just didn't feel like $60 worth of game.
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    #9  Edited By Gabriel

    I wonder who's gonna review it on GB if it's Jeff or Ryan I see 2-3 stars, Brad or Vinny 3-4

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    #10  Edited By Mrskidders

    Gamewhat?

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    #11  Edited By Jeffsekai

    Sounds about right.

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    #12  Edited By Clinkz
    @Jimi said:
    " This is bound to happen, they are remaking a game that was groundbreaking in a time where the genre has evolved drastically. "
    Lol we are talking about Crackdown right?
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    #13  Edited By teh_pwnzorer
    @TheBeast said:

    " No idea how respected Eurogamer are around here, but they gave it an unusually high (for them) 8.0.  "

    Eurogamer has 0 credibility.  Read their Arma 2 expansion pack review.  It's worthless as a review.
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    #14  Edited By TwoOneFive
    @teh_pwnzorer said:
    " @TheBeast said:

    " No idea how respected Eurogamer are around here, but they gave it an unusually high (for them) 8.0.  "

    Eurogamer has 0 credibility.  Read their Arma 2 expansion pack review.  It's worthless as a review. "
    first off this whole credibility thing is fucking stupid. i hate whenever people say shit like that. you take reviews WAY too serious bro.  
     

    okay... for now on, lets not say anything to detract from inFamous' greatness. don't say prototype and dont mention crackdown 1, and dont say crackdown 2 will be better. 
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    #15  Edited By toowalrus

    Saw some new trailers for the game this weekend, looked totally awful. I don't have any interest in this game for awhile. If one of the reviewers I trust these things too says some great things about it, maybe I'll come around.

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    #16  Edited By teh_pwnzorer
    @TwoOneFive said:

    " @teh_pwnzorer said:

    " @TheBeast said:

    " No idea how respected Eurogamer are around here, but they gave it an unusually high (for them) 8.0.  "

    Eurogamer has 0 credibility.  Read their Arma 2 expansion pack review.  It's worthless as a review. "
    first off this whole credibility thing is fucking stupid. i hate whenever people say shit like that. you take reviews WAY too serious bro.   okay... for now on, lets not say anything to detract from inFamous' greatness. don't say prototype and dont mention crackdown 1, and dont say crackdown 2 will be better.  "
    I doubt  I "take reviews WAY too serious."  I just posted a single line of text there and I rarely post about review scores.  If I top-post a wall of text filled with expletives about a review score I didn't like, THEN remind to ignore reviews.
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    #17  Edited By septim
    @teh_pwnzorer said:
    " @TheBeast said:

    " No idea how respected Eurogamer are around here, but they gave it an unusually high (for them) 8.0.  "

    Eurogamer has 0 credibility.  Read their Arma 2 expansion pack review.  It's worthless as a review. "
    Isn't Eurogamer the place that always rates UK developed games really high? If so that would explain the score.
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    #18  Edited By Yummylee
    @septim said:
    " @teh_pwnzorer said:
    " @TheBeast said:

    " No idea how respected Eurogamer are around here, but they gave it an unusually high (for them) 8.0.  "

    Eurogamer has 0 credibility.  Read their Arma 2 expansion pack review.  It's worthless as a review. "
    Isn't Eurogamer the place that always rates UK developed games really high? If so that would explain the score. "
    After reading the review, I'm inclined to agree. Does seem rather biased. He makes it out to be one of the greatest open world games of the decade and completely shrugs at the fact, that he also admits, to it being identical to its predecessor.
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