Crackdown

From Xboxic

Developer: Real Time Worlds Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios Available on: Release date: October 27, 2006 Achievements: 43 Achievement Points: 900

Summary

Crackdown pushes the action-driving hybrid genre into the next generation with the introduction of the first-ever truly 3-dimensional persistent playground, highly innovative co-op gameplay and an extensive prop interaction system all while taking place in a massive and highly-stylized urban center. Players are called to unleash explosive judicial oppression on the most powerful, organized crime syndicates in existence. Restitution is the only goal. Players must crackdown on crime, decipher the organization of the gangs, and eliminate the kingpins. All strategies and tactics are acceptable provided players clean up the streets.

Features

Players roam a virtual city built to encourage and allow the full width, depth and height of the space to be explored and exploited. Free form gameplay, over-the-top action and for the first time ever in this genre, players can join up with a friend to take on crime in online cooperative play.

• Brilliant Experience from a Legendary Game Designer: From Dave Jones, the creative mastermind behind "Grand Theft Auto" and "Lemmings" comes "Crackdown," an explosive masterpiece set to define open-world, free form gaming in the next-generation.
• True Next-Generation Visuals: Harnessing the power of Xbox 360, Crackdown players enforce justice against the backdrop of a crime ridden metropolis, massive in scale, monstrous in scope and meticulous in detail. The unique presentation style employs a highly stylized rendering technique that turns the game into a living graphical novel.
• Cooperative Gameplay – Double the Mayhem: From its initial concept, to final design, Real Time Worlds focused on delivering dynamic, engaging cooperative gameplay for double the carnage, action and intensity.
• 3-Dimensional Free Form Gameplay: For the first time ever, an urban playground has been created to encourage players to explore and exploit the full width, depth and height of a city. Players wage war on the syndicates by taking part in high-octane chases on foot and on wheels while using any appropriate route along, around, across, over, under or through the environment. Freedom abounds as it's up to the player to determine how best to complete the non-linear objectives in a myriad of wild and creative ways.
• Over-the-Top Action: All strategies and tactics are acceptable provided players reclaim the streets by unleashing the awesome abilities inside each Agent. As players develop and hone their gameplay skills, their Agent's genetic tendencies will increase allowing players to realize their Agent's full potential. Players will be able to run at dazzling speeds, take death-defying leaps, handle the most incredible weapons, perform impossible vehicular maneuvers, move massive objects and deliver bone-crushing blows.
• Music as Environment: Over 100 licensed tracks, spanning a wide range of styles and genres, give audio identities to characters and locations in Crackdown. Coupled with a next-generation use of 5.1 surround sound, gamers will know just from the music and sound effects they hear which crime syndicate is headed their way.
• The Environment is Your Weapon: Low on ammo? No problem. Thanks to an amazing amount of props and a deep physics system players can use whatever they can get their hands on as weapons – from trashcans, vehicles, even people – to clean the streets of crime. In Crackdown the actions you take last longer than when the player runs a block away too. If the player wants to stack up vehicles and then run away to corral vehicles toward an obstruction, the players 'masterpiece' will be there when they return as the game reacts to how the player plays. In Crackdown, players use the world as one huge chemistry set where the possibilities are endless and the outcomes are wild.

Achievements

1. Agency Explosives Expert - 20 points Bomb your way to a 4-star Explosives rating.

2. Agency Athlete - 20 points Run & jump your way to a 4-star Agility rating.

3. Agency Wheelman - 20 points Accelerate and slide your way to a 4-star Driving rating.

4. Agency Brawler - 20 points Punch, jab, kick, and throw your way to a 4-star Strength rating.

5. Agency Marksman - 20 points Hit your target every time to achieve a 4-star Firearms rating.

6. Master Agent - 40 points Earn 4-star ratings in all five skill areas and then max out your Skills Status meters.

7. Roadkill King - 15 points Mow down and massacre 175 gang members while driving.

8. High Flyer - 10 points Make your way to the top of the Agency Tower.

9. Firing Squad - 15 points Fire away - shoot and kill 500 gang members using firearms.

10. Bare-Knuckle Brawler - 15 points Kill 150 gang members with your bare hands (or thrown objects).

11. Mad Bomber - 15 points Show your explosive personality - kill 500 gang members using explosives.

12. Untouchable Agent - 15 points Kill 200 gang members without dying yourself.

13. Body Juggler - 20 points Use explosives to keep a body up in the air for 10 seconds.

14. Car Juggler - 20 points Use explosives to keep a car up in the air for seven seconds.

15. Hazardous Hangtime - 10 points Execute a 6-second jump in a vehicle.

16. Driving High - 10 points Achieve a height of 115 feet or more in a vehicle.

17. Front Flipper - 20 points Execute two forward flips in a single jump in a moving vehicle.

18. Timed Stunt Driver - 20 points Execute six car stunts in 60 seconds.

19. Base Jumper - 10 points Jump from the top of the Agency Tower and land in the water below.

20. Stunt Driver - 20 points Successfully execute five car stunts - front & back flips, barrel rolls, a long jump.

21. Orb Hunter - 50 points Collect 300 Hidden Orbs.

22. Free Runner - 50 points Collect 500 Agility Orbs.

23. Repo Man - 10 points Commandeer 100 gang-controlled vehicles.

24. Los Muertos Intel Master - 10 points Locate all Los Muertos dossier targets.

25. Volk Intel Master - 10 points Locate all Volk dossier targets.

26. Shai-Gen Intel Master - 10 points Locate all Shai-Gen dossier targets.

27. First Blood - 10 points Eliminate the first of 21 gang bosses.

28. Los Muertos Cleanser - 20 points Murder Los Muertos - Kill all Los Muertos gang members.

29. Volk Cleanser - 40 points Eviscerate the Volk - Take out all Volk gang members.

30. Shai-Gen Cleanser - 50 points Assassinate Shai-Gen - Kill all Shai-Gen gang members.

31. The Trifecta - 50 points Wipe the city clean by taking out all members of all three gangs.

32. Rampage - 20 points Wreak havoc in 60-second increments.

33. Take Me To Your Supply Point - 10 points Unlock your first Supply Point.

34. It's Good To Be Connected - 30 points Unlock all Supply Points.

35. Airtime Assassin - 10 points Shoot and kill 5 gang members in a single jump (while airborne).

36. Shot-putter - 10 points Throw any object (other than a grenade) 205 feet or more.

37. Global Impact - 15 points Kill 15 gang members using the Observatory Globe.

38. Ring Leader - 20 points Drive through all of the unique Stunt Markers.

39. Chain Banger - 10 points Blow up 100 explosive objects in 60 seconds.

40. Double Trouble - 10 points Double your fun - complete your first mission in Co-op mode.

41. Tag Teamer - 40 points Partner up and complete every mission in Co-op mode.

42. Road Warrior - 30 points Successfully complete all 14 Road Races.

43. Over Our Heads - 30 points Successfully complete all 12 Rooftop Races.