The three division heads and CEO are permanently accessible in the center of the map and can be challenged at any time, but in order to spawn the lieutenants, you have to take down objectives like mining installations, monorail stations and security precincts. Plus, the non-linearity only applies to certain aspects of the game. In Crackdown 3, it’s hard to escape the feeling that you’re being funnelled towards the “correct path”, which ruins any potential replayability the game might have had. It’s the same formula used in the original game, where taking out a gang’s weapons supplier would mean the gang leader wouldn’t be as well equipped, but the non-linearity in that game felt more organic.Įach of the game’s three gangs had its own island, with its own objectives that you could take on in any order, so you felt much more in control of how you went about dismantling the gang’s criminal network. The idea is that taking down the lieutenants makes the division heads easier as certain hazards won’t be active along the way, and defeating those makes the CEO fight easier too. In Crackdown 3, the map feels like it’s been designed to lead you in a clockwise fashion around the outskirts of the map, taking down objectives and lieutenants along the way before tackling the division heads and final boss that are waiting in the centre of the map. That said, the game feels deceptive in its implementation of its non-linearity. You can make a beeline straight for her skyscraper if you like, as the game is “non-linear” after all, but you’ll probably get eviscerated before you make it even halfway up the building. TerraNova is divided into three divisions, Security, Logistics and Industry, and you’re encouraged to take down each division before you tackle the CEO Elizabeth Niemand. You’re not playing the game for a hard hitting narrative about the perils of corporate greed and how absolute power corrupts absolutely, you’re here to play as a superpowered badass and cause some mayhem, and Crackdown 3 definitely delivers in that department, but how the game serves that mayhem up to you feels weak. Let’s be honest, though: stories in Crackdown are like farts in a tornado - inconsequential. After a quick resurrection, it’s on you to single-handedly take down some evil megalomaniacs through any means necessary. Also, it’s the HQ for the corporation responsible for those attacks, TerraNova, so The Agency has arrived to kick ass but get blown out of the sky within the first five minutes. The problem is, in a lot of the game’s key design choices, it feels like Crackdown 3 goes further back than the 12 years since the original game.Ĭrackdown 3 starts out with your agent travelling to the city of New Providence, the one city that hasn’t been decimated by Blackout attacks.
It turns out that rumours about Crackdown 3 feeling dated weren’t greatly exaggerated, as Crackdown 3 closely resembles the first game in a lot of aspects.
All of your key skills have been sufficiently levelled up and you’re able to scale tall buildings with relative ease, your weapons finally do decent damage and you have the strength and health to make running around decking people a legitimate strategy.įor those familiar with the series, you might recognise it as the same moment from the first two games. There’s a moment around 2 or 3 hours into Crackdown 3 where its appeal makes sense.
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