Zombie James
Banned
It's addicting... very addicting. The orbs, the orbs!!
The gameplay's actually pretty solid, I like that you get rewarded for the way you take down enemies and not just for taking them down. Like, if you take someone down with a rifle from a high altitude you'll get points towards your shooting ability as well as your agility, which is pretty nice. Climbing buildings is especially fun, i found myself almost never getting into a car outside of maybe the first hour of gameplay. Collecting new weapons is pretty nice too, you basically get them from fallen enemies but then you have to take them back to a supply point to actually add them to your inventory. It's a nice step up from just having weapons appear or something like that. You only have access to two guns and one grenade type at a time, but since you can swap any weapon you have for any weapon you find from dead enemies it's alright.
So what didn't I like?
Some of the buildings where the crime bosses hung out were pretty lame and similar to one another, especially the Shai-Gen. It's just spiral staircase after spiral staircase, or mindless searching for an underground entrance.
All of the Agents are basically cookie-cutter. They all animate the exact same way, they have no personality what so ever. I don't see the point of offering as many Agents as they do when they're the same even in physical appearance (outside of facial features). It would have been nice if they did an RPG-ish thing where some Agents would start off better with certain abilities than others.
Not next-gen enough. A game like this is just begging for destructible environments, imho. I can blast a car 50 feet into the air but I can't make a dent in any building? Some objects I can destroy or move around (like the Observatory globe) but others are stuck to the ground? It feels like lost potential, especially with the Keys to the City mode.
The plot sucked and the "surprise" ending was lame. So basically
Ugh, so stupid.
Anyways, very fun game for the most part. Gets a solid 7.5/10 from me.
The gameplay's actually pretty solid, I like that you get rewarded for the way you take down enemies and not just for taking them down. Like, if you take someone down with a rifle from a high altitude you'll get points towards your shooting ability as well as your agility, which is pretty nice. Climbing buildings is especially fun, i found myself almost never getting into a car outside of maybe the first hour of gameplay. Collecting new weapons is pretty nice too, you basically get them from fallen enemies but then you have to take them back to a supply point to actually add them to your inventory. It's a nice step up from just having weapons appear or something like that. You only have access to two guns and one grenade type at a time, but since you can swap any weapon you have for any weapon you find from dead enemies it's alright.
So what didn't I like?
Some of the buildings where the crime bosses hung out were pretty lame and similar to one another, especially the Shai-Gen. It's just spiral staircase after spiral staircase, or mindless searching for an underground entrance.
All of the Agents are basically cookie-cutter. They all animate the exact same way, they have no personality what so ever. I don't see the point of offering as many Agents as they do when they're the same even in physical appearance (outside of facial features). It would have been nice if they did an RPG-ish thing where some Agents would start off better with certain abilities than others.
Not next-gen enough. A game like this is just begging for destructible environments, imho. I can blast a car 50 feet into the air but I can't make a dent in any building? Some objects I can destroy or move around (like the Observatory globe) but others are stuck to the ground? It feels like lost potential, especially with the Keys to the City mode.
The plot sucked and the "surprise" ending was lame. So basically
the guy who's been telling you get rid of the crime bosses was actually funding all of them and controlling everything. But apparently to get control of the people he had to make you get rid of all of the crime? If he was running everything behind the scenes as it was, didn't he already have control to begin with?
Anyways, very fun game for the most part. Gets a solid 7.5/10 from me.
..not an actual Crackdown party, so in any case..you're "early to the party".. 
