

Your character, who is probably Terry Crews because you can select him as a character in this game and why would you choose anyone else, travels through the city like a whirlwind hoovering up map icons and acquiring better and better weaponry, occasionally beaning someone in the face with a dumpster. The gameplay loop is simplistic, but there’s something seductive about it: if you’re not jumping, your sole interaction with the game is violence, but pretty much everything you do makes you better at what you’re doing.

You’re turned loose after only minimum hand-holding into Crackdown 3’s neon-hazed open world with a huge gun and very little supervision.
#When will crackdown 3 be released for free#
However, after getting curious and downloading the game for free using an Xbox GamePass subscription, and I’m here to report that Crackdown 3 is the best bad game I’ve played in a long time. Jade King effectively summed the game up in our review, saying “Crackdown 3 can be great fun, but the open-world genre has come on leaps and bounds in the past decade, and this feels firmly stuck in the past.” I don’t want to single anything out, but a lot of games that I was excited for didn’t get under my skin, and I ended up getting my gaming kicks from elsewhere.Ĭrackdown 3’s mediocrity wasn’t surprising at all, being about as you might expect from a game with this many delays and behind the scenes problems, as it was originally planned for a 2016 release. February was pretty surprising for video games across the board.
