Crackdown 2

[Sho Nuff]

Yes but that's the doing of Capgod

[AdmiralViscen]

I'd pay $30 for a 4-player co op patch of CD1, so I paid $56 for this.

[maxy]

I honestly couldn't have seen this game turning out well. When you hand off a sequel to another developer it's always a recipe for a clusterfuck. You don't have any of the tech from the original game to iterate on, so you're stuck on making something BETTER than the original from scratch. Ugh.

I'm not sure all of that is the case here. Especially since Microsoft owns the IP they may also have possession of the code base (Although I'm not exactly sure how that works in these cases). Not to mention a lot of the team that worked on this split from Real-Time Worlds to come work on this.

The more likely culprit probably in this case was simply a rushed dev schedule.

They said in one interview that MS gave them tech.They just tweaked it a little.

[maxy]

8/10 from Edge

http://www.next-gen.biz/features/review-crackdown-2

[Philip Cardgage]

Reads like a fucking Pitchfork review. YUCK

[Third]

This and FFXIII are probably my biggest disappointments this gen. And I actually paid for FFXIII. 

[Philip Cardgage]

Tried to read the GiantBomb review.

MY EYES!

WHY WHITE TEXT ON A BLACK BACKGROUND

[Bebpo]

Got mine in the mail today.  Gonna give it a spin later.  Anyone want to coop some missions tonight PST?

[Philip Cardgage]

I'll be home at abouts 10pm EST.

[Bebpo]

I'm at school until midnight EST :\

[bork]

Got mine today too.  If I decide to keep it (and knowing me, I will) I'll be on tonight, too.  Past midnight EST I am sure.

[Bebpo]

well I'll look for you guys when I load it up and join in if you got space.

do we not have any PST people here?  I think I'm the only one on the gaming side that lives in CA.

[bork]

I see that you're on now, Bebpuuuuuuuuu, but I have to stop for a bit.

[Eel O'Brian]

ha, forgot i had this in my gamefly q and now it's on the way

looks like i get to try the full game before i decide if i want to keep the amazon one 

[Bebpo]

Yeah I played a bit before I head to class.  Surprisingly the game is still quite fun.  Fresh or not, it's Crackdown and Crackdown was always an addicting game that beat the pants off all the other sandbox titles in pure fun and it still does.  Platform climbing buildings feels a little worse but I just need to up my agility levels to get around that. 

Is there any way to change targets when you are shooting?!?  Moving the right stick just changes body part targetted.  The auto-targetting loooooves to target an enemy 50 feet away when there is a guy 5 feet away shooting you in the face 

Also
[16:00] Bebpo: crackdown 2 is the worst xbro game ever
[16:01] Bebpo: every time you get an achievement the narrator talks to you
[16:01] Bebpo: and says CONGRATS XBRO YOU JUST EARNED THAT ACHIEVEMENT
[16:01] Bebpo:
Makes me embarrassed to enjoy achievements in games 

[pilonv1]

You have to re-lock the target to get it to change. Annoying but it has to be that way if you want the body targeting.

[Bebpo]

fun times lyte edge.  I need to dig out my headset for next time.  coop doesn't work very well without voice chat.  You keep finding these xbox live orbs but you have no way to tell the other play to come over to your position >_<

Game is fun, but oh man is it repetitive and a total retread.  Very deserving of all the scores its getting.

[bork]

Bebpo doesn't use a mic so you can't communicate with him in game.

He will, however, team kill you.   

 

You need to get the gun that fires light energy in those freak lairs, BTW.  It does a shitload more damage to them.  Didn't see it in the second one we were in though.

[Bebpo]

I thought you didn't have a mic either!  You weren't talking!  I would've found mine if I knew you had one too.

And I was trying to tell you to get out of the car by grenading your car 

[bork]

Dude, you killed me twice in two different areas.  Then I signaled for revival and you never came.

BEBPO TEAM KILLER CONFIRMED

You didn't hear me when I got on the mic and said "Bebpuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu?"

[Bebpo]

?  No I never heard a thing.  I was fighting in the horde lair and then all the sudden I saw you running around shooting guys and I was like wtf when did he join?!?

Dude.  You jumped to your death and signaled for me to revive you.  What was I supposed to do?  Jump down and die too?  lolol


When did I kill you besides grenading your car which resulted in your exploding into the sky.

[bork]

Oh, and TBH it was beginning to get old when you quit playing.  I mean, doing the oil rig AGAIN?  I'm sure 4P will be lots of fun; the jury's out on deathmatch too, but while I like this game, I had a lot more fun playing it the first time around.

[bork]

?  No I never heard a thing.  I was fighting in the horde lair and then all the sudden I saw you running around shooting guys and I was like wtf when did he join?!?

Dude.  You jumped to your death and signaled for me to revive you.  What was I supposed to do?  Jump down and die too?  lolol


When did I kill you besides grenading your car which resulted in your exploding into the sky.

I had no energy left and you punched me right when I made a jump.  That's what killed me, TEAM KILLER.   

[Smooth Groove]

I'm just surprised that Bebpo has XBL.  Are you getting it free or are you actually paying for it?  

[Bebpo]

Oh, and TBH it was beginning to get old when you quit playing.  I mean, doing the oil rig AGAIN?  I'm sure 4P will be lots of fun; the jury's out on deathmatch too, but while I like this game, I had a lot more fun playing it the first time around.

yeah, that's why I quit.  Was getting kind of repetitive already.  Go do the 3 beacons -> Lair -> repeat over and over.  Zombies are zzzzzzz to fight against.

?  No I never heard a thing.  I was fighting in the horde lair and then all the sudden I saw you running around shooting guys and I was like wtf when did he join?!?

Dude.  You jumped to your death and signaled for me to revive you.  What was I supposed to do?  Jump down and die too?  lolol


When did I kill you besides grenading your car which resulted in your exploding into the sky.

I had no energy left and you punched me right when I made a jump.  That's what killed me, TEAM KILLER.   

Weird.  When we were on top I punched you as a joke and it didn't seem to do anything.  Then you turned around and left and jumped down. 

[Bebpo]

I'm just surprised that Bebpo has XBL.  Are you getting it free or are you actually paying for it?  

What.  I've been paying $50 a year for XBL since the day I bought my Xbox.  These days I use it for...early access demos ;_;  Would use it for games, but I hardly ever game online for any system.

[Smooth Groove]

I heard someone mentioned before that you hardly ever play MP games.  That's why I didn't think you'd pay for XBL. 

$50 for just demo access seems a bit much, imo.  Are you getting Playstation Plus as well?

[Bebpo]

Well I originally got XBL to play Halo 2, Phantom Dust, Dead or Alive 2 Online.  Then to play Gears of War, Crackdown, Halo 3 and that was pretty much the last game I played online.  Then I kept XBL Gold because I kept forgetting to cancel it.  Will finally cancel it after like 6+ years at the end of this year and use 30 day cards to play Gears 3 and Halo Reach online.

No interest in Playstation Plus.

[Bebpo]

Lyte, if I see you playing tomorrow night I'll hook up my mic and join.

[pilonv1]

Someone should hook bebpo up with those 1 month codes we had earlier this year

[Bebpo]

Are they good forever?  Because if so I have like 10-20 of them from all the X360 games I've bought over the years.  My current sub doesn't run out until November so I'm still good for a while.

[pilonv1]

You can add them on to your current one I think.

[bork]

Are they good forever?  Because if so I have like 10-20 of them from all the X360 games I've bought over the years.  My current sub doesn't run out until November so I'm still good for a while.

Should be.  I got enough of them from that website glitch that everyone abused to last me a couple of years.

[Bebpo]

Whoops.  I was thinking of the 48 hour cards that came with games for a while, but I checked and they've all expired ^^;

[Philip Cardgage]

Played a few hours last night, great stuff

[AdmiralViscen]

Those codes we spammed had a very short shelf life - March or April.

Will have this game today.

[AdmiralViscen]

I'm loving it. No complaints at all. Demo just sucked, and so does the intro tutorial.

How do you figure out where the supply points are?

[Philip Cardgage]

I'm loving it. No complaints at all. Demo just sucked, and so does the intro tutorial.

How do you figure out where the supply points are?

Trying to figure that one out myself.

[AdmiralViscen]

They seem to be scripted. Once you do your first lightbomb a bunch of them appear on the map.

[FatalT]

I traded in inFamous for PS3 and Borderlands for 360 and got this for $20 at Gamestop.

[Eel O'Brian]

i'm stuck trying to reach an absorption unit at the top of the "brilliant rise" tower/hotel/whatever

i'm level 4 agility, you should be able to reach just about anything at level 4, yet there's nothing to grab on to up there and i can't jump high enough

i'm so fucking mad right now i can hardly see straight, i've run around that goddamned building a dozen times

[demi]

Helicopter

[Eel O'Brian]

finally made it, turned out to be a tiny ledge/lip on the building which kept bumping me away just enough where i couldn't grab

too bad when they were busy making the city brown and crumbled they didn't destroy all the bullshit ledges, now i remember how much i hated those in the first game

[Eel O'Brian]

"That peacekeeper had a wife and family.  Maybe you'd like to be the one who breaks the bad news to them?"

And I thought "Man, if only they'd had the balls to make that a minigame."

[Eel O'Brian]

okay, now i think i've run into a glitch

trying to bust up a cell tactical location, but no enemies are in sight (they're on the minimap, though), and the narrator keeps telling me to take them out

so, i figure they're on top of the buliding and start to climb it, but the yappy motherfucker keeps telling me to get back to the tactical location

so, can't kill enemies, can't climb building to get to them, just great

this game kinda starts to suck pretty bad toward the end

i think i'm just gonna sell my unopened amazon copy with the agent suit dlc code and send this back to gamefly when i'm done

[Eel O'Brian]

i just remembered i read a review where someone mentioned a mission being impossible to complete without a co-op partner, guess this must be the one because i can't leave the area around the marker to go kill the cell without aborting the mission

fuck this game

[Eel O'Brian]

Thanks for the help, FatalT.  I had to bail out, I have a terrible headache, hope you heard me say goodbye.  Turns out I was wasting time on that stronghold.  You'd think since the narrator guy won't shut his fucking mouth for two seconds that he'd occasionally impart some useful information, like, say, "You can't reach this Cell Stronghold until your agility is level 5."

[Lucretius]

Just finished the last mission with ferricide.
Meh.  Crackdown... more like LET DOWN.
Looking for another co op game to play.  We're thinking of Transformers.  I know it's not great, but co op could make it fun.  And we're both classic tformers fans.  It's got to be better than c down 2.

[demi]

Slime and I played Transformers WFC. There's a thread here if you're interested.

I think you guys would love 50 Cent. We did 

[Lucretius]

there's no way ferricide or I would ever play a 50 Cent game.  It could be the bestest game of the millennium and neither of us would care.  I'm going to try and find a copy of tformers to borrow or a cheap copy somewhere.  I'm hoping Dead Rising 2 isn't such a lame piece of poo.  I want some good co op.

[demi]

Why wouldnt you care? You gay snobs are the worst

[Lucretius]

I just don't care for the whole gangsta thug thang, myself.

[AdmiralViscen]

I'm pretty sure there is some way to beat that mission alone, but it is not clear.

[FatalT]

I don't see what you guys are talking about with needing level 5 agility to finish the Hope Tower mission. Eel I tried to show you how I got to the top of it but you missed the jump onto the building. I even only had level 4 agility when I was doing it too.

[AdmiralViscen]

I've done 1 beacon nuke thing and secured 7 locations and I'm already level 5 agility lol, it's really easy to do. I haven't even been to the third island.

[Bebpo]

I tried playing this again tonight and I went to the 3rd city and got infinite rocket spammed like I was playing NG2 wtf
Then I stole one of the heat seeking homing rocket launchers and tried to go back to the agency to put it in a safehouse or something and I couldn't find a way back in to wherever the safehouse is? 

I don't really know what I'm doing besides collecting orbs.  Are you supposed to stick to one island and do all the missions there before moving to the next?

[Eel O'Brian]

I don't see what you guys are talking about with needing level 5 agility to finish the Hope Tower mission. Eel I tried to show you how I got to the top of it but you missed the jump onto the building. I even only had level 4 agility when I was doing it too.

yeah, a guy on gaf explained it to me, after accidentally aborting 3 or 4 times when i moved out of range i had it stuck in my head that the only way up was to climb the red brick building to get to the white indents in hope tower and use those

i still think it was a bullshit trick for them to play, every other stronghold is either on ground level or on a level plane and they never bother to explain why that single stronghold is broken up like that

i think the headset jack on my controller was acting up again, i could only hear you once in a while so i didn't catch you saying you were still at level 4 or telling me how to get there, thought you were just clearing it out for me since i couldn't reach it

[muckhole]

Got to spend a little bit of quality time with the game last night. It's been a weird experience, as I'm certainly having fun playing it, but there's just a slight element of tedium to replaying the same city over again as other folks here have mentioned. At this point the game really does feel like it should have been an expansion. Mind you, not having the ability to play on Live right now has definitely crippled the game's value somewhat. I'm starting to worry I'll lose interest.

there's no way ferricide or I would ever play a 50 Cent game. 

I just don't care for the whole gangsta thug thang, myself.

You're missing out on one of the better, more competent coop games out there. It's so ridiculously over the top that it's pretty easy to laugh off the "gangsta thug thang".
I rented it with some hesitation, then did a run through on hard with demi and had an absolute blast. I don't want to oversell the game as it's nothing groundbreaking, and it borrows heavily from other titles, but the end result is a good, short coop game. I even did a second playthrough (something I rarely have the time or desire to do) with another friend who rented it, and I certainly never got bored.

Sorry for the derail.

[Lucretius]

If ferricide and I can find copies to borrow I may give it a shot.

[Bebpo]

How do you get jetpacks and helicopters and all the cool stuff?