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Crackdown 3
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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.
Game Info
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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Average Score
Total Reviews: 101
RELEASE DATES:
GENRES:
- Shooter, Adventure
DEVELOPER(S):
- Sumo Digitial
PUBLISHER(S):
- Xbox Game Studios
SERIES/FRANCHISE:
- Crackdown
GAME MODES:
- Multiplayer, Single player
GAME ENGINE:
- Unreal Engine 4
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RATING & REVIEWS
Ratings & Reviews
101
Critic Reviews
62
Average Critic Score
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CRITIC REVIEWS
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High Score
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Median Score
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Low Score
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Brandin Tyrrel (IGN)
February 17, 2019
5/10
Crackdown 3’s mediocre, collectible-heavy campaign and poor Wrecking Zone multiplayer are rarely satisfying busywork.
Ian Bimbaum (PC Gamer)
February 15, 2019
60/100
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)
February 15, 2019
6/10
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.
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Score Ranges
Read the Reviews (101 total)
| Outlet | Author | Score | Date | Quote | Read |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Crackdown 3 Credits
CREDITS
DIRECTOR(S):
n/a
PRODUCER(S):
Steven Zalud
DESIGNER(S):
Gareth Wilson
PROGRAMMER(S):
Stephen Robinson, Craig Wright, Antony Crowther, Philip Rankin
ARTIST(S):
Kelvin Tuite. Richard Jordan
WRITER(S):
Joseph Staten, Philip Lawrence, Gordon Rennie
COMPOSER(S):
Brian Trifon, Brian Lee White, Jay Wiltzen
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