Halo 3 Gives Crackdown a Boost

[Zeus]

The main developer behind Crackdown on the Xbox 360 has admitted that Crackdown needed as much help as possible to boost it onto the market. He revealed that it's a 'gamer player's game' and as such will not sell in in instant. Therfore the bundled Halo 3 beta invite was a real blessing.


So bring on "Halo 3" for the save. Three months ago, Jones was told that the mother of all Xbox video games would have a limited-access multiplayer beta test this spring months before its late 2007 release and that "Crackdown" would be bundled with free invitations for gamers to join that test. Was that a slap, a sign that his own publisher didn't think people would buy "Crackdown" on its own merits? "We kind of knew 'Crackdown' would need as much help as it could get to get into players' hands," Jones said. "Like we've always said: It's a game player's game. It's not something that's going to sell in screenshot. So that was good."


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[Adopted]

Its defintely a bonus, but I was gonna buy it anyways, I'm a co-op whore.

[kneehighspy]

after playing the demo, i can honestly say that including the halo beta was a good idea, cause the game is horrible, almost as bad as just cause.

[Turbojugend]

Yeah, Crackdown is pretty fucking awful. I don't know what all the hype was about.

[technosexual]

Yeah, Crackdown is pretty fucking awful. I don't know what all the hype was about.


it had the halo3 beta invite.

kind of like the movies that had the star wars ep 1-3/4-6se trailers before them. star wars tards bought tickets to those movies just to see the trailer, then walked out, boosting sales for those movies.

[RottenFox]

crackdown is mediocre at best...dave jones is a ginger headed loser,no way was this game ever gonna be any good,the halo3beta was needed,as crackdown is shite..
he should maybe just stick to driving round his home town,in his penis replacement car,and shopping on ebay!

[siotus]

My friend (my review source) got it and said the same thing.

I first heard the hype of, "It's from the creator of Grand Theft Auto!!" and thought, "Does anybody realize that when GTA1 came out it was by an independent studio, and the game itself was a crappy, top-down perspective, no music in the first game, and no music in GTA2 either except a fixed one track to the five cars that had music at all, little or no story line, as open ended as a city block, bad game about stealing cars..... and nothing else. I think I remember some shooting, and that you got points for running over people.

It wasn't until rockstar bought out the studio, and put lazlow jones in charge of writting the radio script, and most of the in game humor. And then taking a huge risk on downgrading the graphics to an extreme degree in order to make a huge city wide 3d playground where you could do pretty much anything you want, and bought music rights left and right - that GTA kicked ass.

[Rinny]

the original GTA games were incredibly awesome, and still are.

But Tetris is damn fun and still is. Doesnt mean the guy that invented it will keep making good games. Games have changed a lot and having one good game idea doesnt mean you will have another.

[InsaneNutter]

If i buy this it will most likley be for the Halo 3 beta invite :rolleyes: