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Crackdown 3 is a playpen of combat and destruction that is ruined by an unremarkable campaign and disastrous tech and design.

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5/10

Brandin Tyrrel (IGN)

Crackdown 3’s mediocre, collectible-heavy campaign and poor Wrecking Zone multiplayer are rarely satisfying busywork.

February 17, 2019 |

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Repetitive and middling, Crackdown 3 is a totally average open-world game that doesn’t give itself a way to stand out.

February 15, 2019 |

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60/100

Ian Bimbaum (PC Gamer)

6/10

Jeff Cork (Game Informer)

Crackdown 3’s campaign is like a thawed-out relic from more than a decade ago. Multiplayer’s environmental destruction is interesting in concept, but its bare-bones nature keeps it from being more than a curiosity.

February 15, 2019 |

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Brandin Tyrrel (IGN)

5/10 - (Read Review)

Crackdown 3’s mediocre, collectible-heavy campaign and poor Wrecking Zone multiplayer are rarely satisfying busywork.

Ian Bimbaum (PC Gamer)

60/100 - (Read Review)

Repetitive and middling, Crackdown 3 is a totally average open-world game that doesn’t give itself a way to stand out.

Jeff Cork (Game Informer)

6/10 - (Read Review)

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3DNews	Алексей Апанасевич	7 / 10	02-23-2019	Crackdown 3 is similar to the film “The Expendables”	Read review
AbsoluteXbox	Andy Langers	3.6 / 5 stars	02-19-2019	Overall there is a lot of fun to be had with Crackdown 3 but it is slightly mindless fun and won’t stimulate you a great deal, its just a shame that this has been in development for so long everyone expected more from it, including me, just switch off your brain and enjoy the mindless fun while it lasts because you probably won’t come back to it for a long time.	Read review
Ars Technica	Kyle Orland	Not Recommended	02-14-2019	There are better ways to get your superhero action fix, but there are worse ones, too. Crackdown 3 is at least worth a try.	Read review
Atomix	Rodrigo Martínez	65 / 100	02-14-2019	Crackdown 3 has more weaknesses than virtues. Its plot is very simple and even becomes predictable. Although it has a good idea in the aesthetic section, it is diminished by the little care that was put into the details. On the other hand, the gameplay of Crackdown 3 is more chaotic and frustrating than it is appreciated in the videos prior to the release of the game. His commands have a strange response and despite having a good sized map, going through it becomes a repetitive activity that takes away much of its brightness. In general, the experience of Crackdown 3 leaves much to be desired, taking into account that this is the first Xbox exclusive in 2019 and that the game was in development for a long time.	Read review
Attack of the Fanboy	William Schwartz	3 / 5 stars	02-14-2019	Short and not very good, Crackdown 3 has few things to point to as reasons to exist.	Read review
AusGamers	Kosta Andreadis	6 / 10	02-19-2019	Sadly, few locations in Crackdown 3 fit this profile.	Read review
BaziCenter	Bahram Bigharaz	4 / 10	02-18-2019	Crackdown 3 is a 6th or 7th generation title released in 2019, and is weak and shallow in every possible respect. The multiplayer section of the game is the most pointless experience in the video games industry in years and is suffering from a serious lack of content. Crackdown 3 might only be able to entertain fans of the series for maybe a few hours, and nothing more.	Read review
Cerealkillerz	Patrice Naderi	6.5 / 10	02-13-2019	With it`s weak story, a soulless presentation and repetetive gameplay, Crackdown 3 is a total disappointment after all. The game feels like a Remaster of the first title and continues the series of mediocre exclusives with only few, but outstanding honorable mentions for the Xbox One. Fans of the series should grab the title via Game Pass, everyone else should find plenty of other and better options.	Read review
CGMagazine	Jed Whitaker	4.5 / 10	02-14-2019	If you liked the original Crackdown and want basically more of that, then you've found your game. If you want a modern first party AAA game, look elsewhere	Read review
Cheat Code Central	Unknown	3.5 / 5 stars	02-15-2019	Crackdown 3 feels like a product of a prior generation. If it had been released in 2014 or 2015, alongside Saints Row IV or inFamous: Second Son, people might have lauded the way it has to smoke out your opponents and praised its many opportunities for destruction.	Read review
COGconnected	Garrett Drake	65 / 100	02-16-2019	Overall, Crackdown 3 feels like an Xbox 360 title running in 4K. In small doses, the action’s a lot of fun. I love jumping around the city and blowing stuff up, but I can’t imagine this is the follow-up fans deserve.	Read review
Critical Hit	Sam Spiller	7 / 10	02-14-2019	Cracking the formula it set out with 12 years ago, Crackdown 3 delivers the solid and structured, though limited, gameplay of gunning down your enemies while leaping across vast distance and heights. Even if nothing especially new has been added to that formula.	Read review
Cultured Vultures	Ashley Bates	6 / 10	02-18-2019	Though there are moments here that'll bring a smile to your face, Crackdown 3 is crammed with ideas and game design choices that were done better over a decade ago. Just play the original game and wash your hands of this version.	Read review
Daily Dot	AJ Moser	2.5 / 5 stars	02-18-2019	The most damning thing I can say is I felt like Crackdown 3 knew I didn’t care about what I was doing—and never went out its way to even try pulling me back in.	Read review
Daily Mirror	JC Suttun	3 / 5 stars	02-14-2019	This latest dose of open world superhuman crime fighting action feels like a missed opportunity	Read review
Daily Star	Rebecca Nicol	4 / 5 stars	02-14-2019	Crackdown 3 won’t blow you away with its graphics and the story isn’t heartbreaking and memorable	Read review
Destructoid	Brett Makedonski	6 / 10	02-14-2019	Crackdown 3 is a good Crackdown game, which, unfortunately, doesn't mean much anymore. Modern game design has surpassed the Crackdown model by leaps and bounds -- as high and far as an agent can jump. The most remarkable thing about Crackdown 3 is how unambitious it is. It's content to come off as dated, like a relic from a bygone era. That can be comforting in a way, but it's immeasurably more disappointing. Crackdown 3, just like its kin, is only a distraction and nothing more.	Read review
DualShockers	Logan Moore	5 / 10	02-14-2019	Crackdown 3 has finally arrived and instead of being a next-gen iteration of the franchise, it feels like a lost relic of the Xbox 360 era.	Read review
Easy Allies	Brandon Jones	2.75 / 5 stars	02-16-2019	After a lot of time in the oven, Crackdown 3 comes out half-baked. The world isn't much to look at, and unless you're really hungry for a co-op action game, have Games Pass, or miss the series terribly, there are much more impressive, recent entries in this genre.	Read review
EGM	Michael Goroff	7 / 10	02-14-2019	Crackdown 3 is just more Crackdown. For some players, that will be enough. But compared to what Crackdown 3 initially promised, what we ended up with seems lacking in depth and destruction. When it's good, like with its boss fights, there's nothing like it. Unfortunately, there's just too much filler, and with its most exciting feature demoted to a fairly minor multiplayer mode, Crackdown 3 just isn't the step forward that it could have been.	Read review
Eurogamer	Christian Donlan	Not Recommended	02-18-2019	One of the great open-world templates fails to come into focus in this well-meaning, if embattled, sequel.	Read review
Everyeye.it	Francesco Fossetti	5 / 10	02-14-2019	An unlucky product, born under a bad star, passed from hand to hand without anyone being able to fix it. A pity, but now that all the fears have been confirmed, we can at least look further.	Read review
Explosion Network	Dylan Blight	5.5 / 10	02-15-2019	Crackdown 3 is a mindless collectathon that may tickle the right spot for fans of the franchise or those seeking a game stripped of everything but side-missions; those seeking a Terry Crews simulator, like I was, will be left sorely disappointed.	Read review
Game Informer	Jeff Cork	6 / 10	02-15-2019	Crackdown 3's campaign is like a thawed-out relic from more than a decade ago. Multiplayer's environmental destruction is interesting in concept, but its bare-bones nature keeps it from being more than a curiosity	Read review
Game Revolution	Bradley Russell	3 / 5 stars	02-14-2019	Crackdown 3 has had years of build-up and, well, it’s just Crackdown with a tiny bit of new-gen polish. That’s not a bad thing, not by any stretch, but in a February dotted with potentially fantastic releases, it’s going to be an ultimate forgettable one.	Read review
Gameblog	Jonathan Bushle	7 / 10	02-14-2019	Despite an average and sometimes problematic gameplay, despite a poor multiplayer mode, Crackdown 3 is a nice open wold game with various activities and a mafia to take down boss after boss.	Read review
GameCrate	Nate Hohl	5.8 / 10	02-19-2019	Crackdown 3 does its best to ride on an action-packed wave of nostalgia, but in the end all it succeeds in doing is face-planting straight into a morass of tedium and frustration. Even the most stalwart Crackdown fans will likely wonder if the long wait was worth the final result.	Read review
Gamefa	Mohammad Aria Moghaddam	6.5 / 10	02-22-2019	Crackdown 3 is a fun game, but it is also too repetitive to keep you entertained for many hours and its lack of high quality content is obvious. I must say, Due to it's awesome gunplay, destruction system and level design, Crackdown 3 is worth to try for few hours, but it is so far away than what we expected from it.	Read review
GameMAG	Blaze	7 / 10	02-14-2019	Crackdown 3 is not trying to hook you with incredible graphics, interesting story, original quests or unique multiplayer. This project is primarily created for fans of the previous two games, and it's just fun. Exciting progressing system and fun acrobatics with the ability to jump over entire areas in the city are still fascinating, just like in 2007.	Read review
GamePitt	Josh Shoup	6.5 / 10	02-18-2019	I don’t hate Crackdown 3. There are certain design flaws in the game and it is clear that perhaps the end product is still not exactly what people were wanting to see. Graphically it is heavily underwhelming, but the gameplay itself is very fluid and the game offers a lot of stuff for you to do, almost too much.	Read review
Gameplanet	Brandon Yeager	8 / 10	03-05-2019	Crackdown 3 is a refined improvement over the previous two instalments. The single and co-op campaign modes are super fun, and the jumping and combat systems give our character a real feeling of power and invincibility which transfers well to the player. Visually appealing, fast-paced and tons of missions to complete, I would recommend this game to anyone, not just fans of third-person action games. While not revolutionary, it is still a great example of its genre.	Read review
GamePro	Tobias Veltin	65 / 100	02-14-2019	Mechanically solid, but also outdated open-world action game without real highlights.	Read review
Gamerheadquarters	Jason Stettner	7 / 10	02-14-2019	Crackdown 3 is a solid entry in the franchise, I was generally whelmed by it.	Read review
Gamersky	Catcher_L	8.1 / 10	02-14-2019	Despite some flaws in terms of story and UI, Crackdown 3 is a decent sequel of the series.	Read review
GameSpew	Richard Seagrave	9 / 10	02-14-2019	Forget Crackdown 2 ever happened, Crackdown 3 is the sequel we deserve. It takes everything that made the original game so great and expands upon it, leveraging the power of the Xbox One to make the experience bigger and better.	Read review
GameSpot	Chris Pereira	5 / 10	02-15-2019	Crackdown 3's campaign is short on new ideas and relies too heavily on its core loop of collecting orbs and throwing heavy objects around.	Read review
GamesRadar+	Jordan Oloman	3 / 5 stars	02-14-2019	Crackdown 3 is bonkers chaotic fun but also a case of wasted potential. The series deserved an iterative revival but instead, we have the tried-and-tested Crackdown backbone with remastered visuals and a touch more chaos, sadly squandering the promise of its few interesting additions in the process	Read review
GamingBolt	Will Borger	7 / 10	02-14-2019	Crackdown 3 maintains some of the series's inconsistencies, but it does more right than it does wrong, and it's a blast to play when everything comes together.	Read review
GamingTrend	Travis Northup	85 / 100	02-14-2019	Crackdown 3 makes no sense on paper. Its story is nonsense, you spend way too much time searching for hidden orbs and leveling up, and the presentation isn't anything spectacular. And yet, the over-the-top madness and hilarious, memorable moments it brought me made it impossible to put down. While the PvP multiplayer mode falls short of what it's trying to achieve, there's a lot to love about Crackdown's long overdue return.	Read review
GearNuke	Khurram Imtiaz	6.5 / 10	02-28-2019	Crackdown 3 sticks to its roots and doesn't innovate much from it. The single-player story mode is fun and engaging despite some dated design but the multiplayer is perhaps the most disappointing aspect of Crackdown 3 that fails to deliver on the expectations set by earlier gameplay demonstrations.	Read review
Geek Culture	Jake Su	5 / 10	02-27-2019	A game of checklists that promise little excitement, Crackdown 3 is more of the same, but just not good enough.	Read review
Generación Xbox	Jose Angel Martínez	7 / 10	02-14-2019	This game is just what any Xbox user could expect from it, a crazy and modest sandbox that does not try to sell any revolution in its mechanics, but it manages to make them work well. Regarding the use of the cloud, in the end the feeling that you have after playing it is that Microsoft aimed too high and they stayed halfway, luckily the Demolition Zone has a lot of room for improvement and I see great potential in it.	Read review
Giant Bomb	Jeff Gerstmann	2 / 5 stars	02-14-2019	Just go play Crackdown 1 again.	Read review
God is a Geek	Mick Fraser	7.5 / 10	02-14-2019	Loud, brash and gleefully addictive at times, Crackdown 3 is unashamedly fun, even if it does feel more like a remake than a sequel.	Read review
GotGame	Daniel Ladiano	5.5 / 10	02-19-2019	Considering how short-lived both the campaign and multiplayer modes are, it’s astonishing this sequel took this long to come out. If you are a fan of the franchise, you’d find things to love here. Even then, it feels too little too late.	Read review
Guardian	Keza MacDonald	3 / 5 stars	02-14-2019	This simple action caper where players liberate a neon-clad city from a sinister megacorp makes 15 hours disappear easily	Read review
Hardcore Gamer	Kevin Dunsmore	3 / 5 stars	02-14-2019	Sumo Digital have finally delivered Crackdown 3 after five years, but it feels like a product of a bygone era.	Read review
Heavy	Elton Jones	6.8 / 10	02-14-2019	Crackdown 3 as a whole is certainly rough around the edges and more of a mid-tier 1st-party exclusive. There’s some fun to be had, of course. But its overall staying power is a step below other open-world games of its ilk.	Read review
Hobby Consolas	Daniel Quesada	84 / 100	02-14-2019	It mantains everything that created a really enjoyable franchise: non-stop action and an enormously satisfying progression system. It's not a game changer and you won't be surprised by its graphics, but it will offer you some toooooasty action.	Read review
IGN	Brandin Tyrrel	5 / 10	02-20-2019	Crackdown 3's mediocre, collectible-heavy campaign and poor Wrecking Zone multiplayer are rarely satisfying busywork.	Read review
IGN Italy	Lorenzo Fantoni	6.8 / 10	02-14-2019	Crackdown 3 is an old school game that doesn't do anything to sound fresh and new. Sometimes it's fun, but in the long run it's just out of this timeline.	Read review
IGN Middle East	Mufaddal Fakhruddin	6 / 10	02-16-2019	Crackdown 3 is stuck in an earlier era and offers nothing new to the Open World Games, or even to its own chain.	Read review
IGN Spain	Juan García	7 / 10	02-14-2019	Crackdown 3 is a fun game that copies and improves what previous iterations of the franchise did well... But not much else, giving us an uninteresting story and a subpar variety on its campaign. And for the multiplayer part of the game: you just can forget it by now. Simply forgettable.	Read review
Impulsegamer	John Werner	4.5 / 5 stars	02-17-2019	‘Crackdown 3' is everything you'd expect in a sequel. New location, new guns, new abilities, and a few hidden surprises along the way to keep you on your toes.	Read review
INDIANTVCZ	Petr Duppal	4 / 10	04-23-2019	Crackdown 3 could have been another proof that Microsoft can do its exclusive titles properly. But what has been released to us is a below average title that has absolutely nothing to offer. Content is boring and multiplayer can be one of the most corrupted part of the game.	Read review
JVL	Malcolm89	7 / 10	02-14-2019	Despite its many stated technical shortcomings that will scare more than one player off, Crackdown 3 is not to be thrown in the trash. If technique and graphics aren't everything for you and fun coupled with total freedom tempts you, the game is for you. We can only hope that Sumo Digital will seek to correct some shortcomings after launch and that the multiplayer mode will be sufficiently followed to captivate players over time.	Read review
LevelUp	Luis Sánchez	7 / 10	02-21-2019	Despite all the promises and the delays, Crackdown 3 is an unexpected miracle. It's genuinely a fun game to pick up and play for a couple of days, but not for longer, as its dated design will turn this experience into a boring and monotonous adventure. Might not be worth the full price, but for members of Xbox Game Pass it's an obligatory stop.	Read review
Metro GameCentral	GameCentral	4 / 10	02-14-2019	A tragic end to Crackdown 3's long and painful journey, with an unremarkable campaign mode and a multiplayer that is a disaster in terms of tech and design.	Read review
MonsterVine	Diego Escala	3 / 5 stars	03-08-2019	Against all expectations, Crackdown 3 managed to survive where others from that same E3 2014 show like Scalebound and Phantom Dust failed to see the light of day, but what we got was just a shinier version of a 2007 game.	Read review
MSPoweruser	Liam Waddington	5 / 10	02-19-2019	It feels as satisfying as ever to drive and general improvements to the original’s underwhelming quantity of content make for a very solid experience to delve into.	Read review
Nerd Much?	Bobby Bernstein	5.9 / 10	02-16-2019	"It falls flat on just about every aspect, making us wonder why Microsoft even delayed it for this long, anyway"	Read review
New Game Network	Alex Varankou	60 / 100	02-18-2019	Crackdown 3 offers occasional glimpses of fun, but it's far too bogged down by outdated mechanics, bugs, and disappointing multiplayer to be worth anywhere near the full asking price.	Read review
Nexus	Lynley James	4 / 10	03-10-2019	Crackdown 3 is boring, lifeless, and generic. How this game survived and Scalebound didn't is a mystery to me.	Read review
NoobFeed	Adam Siddiqui	40 / 100	02-17-2019	Unlike the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4, the Xbox One doesn't have an acclaimed title that would entice someone the purchase Microsoft's console. When Crackdown 3 was announced many hoped it would become the system seller the Xbox One needed, even those unfamiliar with the franchise were excited for this. After numerous delays Crackdown 3 is finally here and it was not worth the wait. A mediocre campaign stuffed with busy work and a tacked on multiplayer makes Crackdown 3 only worth playing if you own Xbox Game Pass.	Read review
Pardis Game	Matin Nasiri	3 / 10	02-27-2019	Crackdown 3 had a troubled development process with numerious delays and almost got cancelled. Passing years and downgraded showcases lowered our expectations but even with that consideration, Crackdown 3 is not an enjoyable experience. It's not fun and it doesn't worth investing time. Therefore, we do not recommend this game at all, expect if you are a die hard Crackdown fan!	Read review
PC Gamer	Ian Birnbaum	60 / 100	02-15-2019	Repetitive and middling, Crackdown 3 is a totally average open-world game that doesn't give itself a way to stand out.	Read review
PCGamesN	Dustin Bailey	6 / 10	02-14-2019	Competent, with enough fun weapons and silly spectacle to make it inoffensive entertainment. While a half-decade of development hell could've ended with worse results, it's tough to muster much excitement for what's here.	Read review
Player2.net.au	Christopher Button	Not Recommended	02-15-2019	Crackdown 3 feels like a dated open-world game with little depth beyond its zippy traversal mechanics. It’s slick visuals and fun platforming moments mask repetitive combat and a severe lack of Terry Crews beyond the opening cinematic.	Read review
Polygon	Colin Campbell	Not Recommended	02-14-2019	Crackdown 3 is a playpen of combat and destruction that sets itself up as a liberating journey into a barbarous fantasy of wanton mayhem. But its central proposition — the freedom to do as I please — is undermined by frustrating design compromises.	Read review
Post Arcade (National Post)	Chad Sapieha	5 / 10	02-14-2019	Lazy mission design and squandered use of star Terry Crews keeps Crackdown 3 from doing much more than satisfying our urge to smash stuff	Read review
PowerUp!	Leo Stevenson	5.7 / 10	02-14-2019	Unfortunately, gamers have moved on. Crackdown 3 hasn't.	Read review
Press Start	James Berich	7 / 10	02-14-2019	Crackdown 3 is without a doubt the best Crackdown yet. It successfully builds upon the previous two games to offer an open world experience that, while formulaic, is still incredibly enticing. This is in part due to the very flexible combat system, which offers heaps of different ways to be as destructive as possible. It's structure has been seen before, sure, and as such Crackdown 3 doesn't break ground in many ways, but it's still such an enjoyable experience that I'm not sure it entirely matters.	Read review
Rectify Gaming	Dave Rodriguez	8.6 / 10	02-21-2019	Kills for skills makes a grand return, and Crackdown 3 is the sequel fans have been waiting patiently for since the original launched.	Read review
Rock, Paper, Shotgun	John Walker	Not Recommended	02-14-2019	It reeks of development hell, as demoralising to play as I imagine it was to make. Yes, clearing a map of its icons can be readily distracting, and it fulfils this role at least.	Read review
Saudi Gamer	محمد الدوسري	7 / 10	02-16-2019	Although the game took allot of time to develop unfortunately the final product has not been worthy in the end... I can't hide that I enjoyed the time I spent in the open world of the game, especially climbing buildings and confronting the leaders at the end of each stage, but it is very repetitive in addition to the weird way of driving the vehicle plus the environment of the open world in general is rather boring, it is hard to see an announcement for a new sequel in the upcoming years unfortunately	Read review
Screen Rant	Mansoor Mithaiwala	2.5 / 5 stars	02-14-2019	Sumo Digital's Crackdown 3 releases on Xbox One and PC on February 15.	Read review
SECTOR.sk	Matúš Štrba	6.5 / 10	02-15-2019	Crackdown 3 is still a miracle. Not technical. It is a miracle that even after so many problems and such a long development has finally been able to bring a relatively fun action game that fan units can enjoy. I would even say that the game is better than it ever deserve to be.	Read review
Shacknews	Sam Chandler	7 / 10	02-14-2019	There’s a time and place for games like Crackdown 3. It’s not bad by any means, it’s even quantifiably good and enjoyable. However, while games can be lauded for not following trends, there’s a difference between carving your own path and simply not innovating.	Read review
SomHráč.sk	Róbert Herda	50 / 100	02-24-2019	No matter how you look at Crackdown 3, you'll only see a generic title that doesn't even have the slightest chance of succeeding. In the era of the great open world titles like Grand Theft Auto V or Saints Row, it really won't stand a chance.	Read review
SpazioGames	Paolo Sirio	6.5 / 10	02-14-2019	Quotation Forthcoming	Read review
Stevivor	Luke Lawrie	4 / 10	02-15-2019	Crackdown 3 feels too similar to the game that came before it; it's like Sumo has made Crackdown 2 again	Read review
TechRaptor	Alex Santa Maria	5.5 / 10	02-18-2019	Crackdown 3 is forgettable, broken in places, extremely short and set in its ways. Still, I'd be lying if I told you I didn't have a hell of a lot of fun playing it.	Read review
Telegraph	Olivia White	3 / 5 stars	02-14-2019	If you've played a Crackdown game before, then you'll know exactly what to expect from Crackdown 3.	Read review
The Escapist	Unknown	3 / 5 stars	02-14-2019	I did enjoy the mess that is Crackdown 3. In chunks, it can be exciting, but the story, multiplayer, and milquetoast character progression inhibit the Crackdown 3.The promised mayhem is here. But it isn’t more.	Read review
The Games Machine	Daniele Dolce	7.2 / 10	02-14-2019	Crackdown 3 comes directly from the past, from an era in which the open-world action games focused mainly on the amount of things to do, to the detriment of the overall quality and variety of situations. This does not mean that the formula proposed by Sumo Digital doesn't work, far from it, but it's linked to a now anachronistic concept of a genre that has evolved in the last couple of years into something that goes beyond the simple repetition of the same tasks throughout the duration of the campaign.	Read review
TheSixthAxis	Dominic Leighton	7 / 10	02-14-2019	Crackdown 3 manages to escape its troubled development in style, offering up a somewhat safe return to the superhero cop action of its predecessors in a bright and unpretentious campaign. It feels like the perfect antidote to some of the more bloated open world experiences of recent years. You can also briefly revel in the Wrecking Zone's glorious destruction, even if all that fancy cloud tech simply leaves you hungry for what the game could have been.	Read review
TrueAchievements	Mark Delaney	3 / 5 stars	02-14-2019	It survived the purge where Fable Legends and Scalebound did not, but even in its best moments, Crackdown 3's campaign feels like it was born too late.	Read review
Twinfinite	Ed McGlone	3.5 / 5 stars	02-14-2019	Ultimately, none of the flaws in Crackdown 3 are deal-breakers but they hold it back from being truly great. If you can look past them, and just enjoy Crackdown 3 for what it is: a game that gives you a wacky toolset to blast enemies away for 10-20 hours or more, then you'll definitely find value and fun here.	Read review
Unboxholics	Θέμης Μπολτσής	Not Recommended	02-19-2019	Crackdown 3 is a flawed experience but dispite that, it can still offer several moments of fun.	Read review
USgamer	Tom Orry	3.5 / 5 stars	02-15-2019	Crackdown 3 isn't an instant hit, but after a slow start it rapidly builds into an action-packed shooter with brilliant character control and movement. While orb collecting is the key for prolonged play, the campaign in Crackdown 3 is always entertaining and visually there's a lot to appreciate if you look at the bigger picture. Crackdown is back. Shame about the multiplayer Wrecking Zone, though.	Read review
VG247	Nic Reuben	Not Recommended	02-14-2019	All things considered, Crackdown 3 being this enjoyable represents a minor miracle, and I’d love to see what these teams are capable of with the franchise without being dicked around by corporate for half a decade.	Read review
VGChartz	Evan Norris	5 / 10	03-09-2019	Considering the long time Crackdown 3 spent in development purgatory, it's not as bad as it could have been.	Read review
VGN	Giovanni Marrelli	6.5 / 10	02-14-2019	The long gestation and continuous changes at the helm did not contribute to the make Crackdown 3 the product expected in the Microsoft home.	Read review
Video Chums	A.J. Maciejewski	7 / 10	02-19-2019	Crackdown 3 is far from a bad game but it also isn't necessary in this day and age.	Read review
VideoGamer	Colm Ahern	6 / 10	02-14-2019	The mission structure is repetitive, the story's utter wallop, and the baddies are there for shooting practice. But, damn it, it's fun being an over-powered superhero scaling a building in Crackdown 3.	Read review
Wccftech	Dave Aubrey	8 / 10	02-16-2019	Crackdown 3 is a weird one to review, because it feels distinctly out of date. The delays and changes in direction have resulted in a modern game with design sensibilities that feel over a decade old, but they hold up incredibly well. While not a long campaign, the time I spent with Crackdown 3 was a lot of fun, and recommended to fans of the original. Just make sure to play as Terry Crews to improve the experience.	Read review

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Stop crime as a super-powered Agent of justice in Crackdown 3’s hyper-powered sandbox of mayhem and destruction. Explore the heights of a futuristic city, race through the streets in a transforming vehicle, and use your powerful abilities to stop a ruthless criminal empire. Developed by original creator Dave Jones, Crackdown 3 delivers cooperative mayhem and an all-new multiplayer mode where destruction is your ultimate weapon.

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