The only good XB1 exclusives are Forza, Gears Remastered, Gears 4, Halo MCC, Halo 5, Killer Instinct, and Sunset Overdrive. Six of those are playable on PC. 

You don't know me but I usually read threads where you happen to post in and I almost always disagree with your opinions. This post however, freaking nails it.

If you're enjoying the game, great. I myself enjoy games/movies/comics that are mindless fun but have a lack of depth or a good storyline from time to time. However the idea that a critic can't enjoy "turn-your-brain-off" games is baffling to me in a world where so many multiplayer shooters are not only very popular but have good scores from reviewers as well. Those are the very definition of "turn-your-brain-off" games in my view.

I don't think it has much to do with being a "throwback".  Most of the reviews I read thought that it was too repetitious, unvaried, and even boring.  Those aren't properties inherent in older games, just older games that weren't well designed.  One review said that everything kind of turns into "white noise," with nothing to break it up.

Now, if you love that particular kind of white noise then you'll probably like the game.  If you don't love it, then you probably won't like the game very much, because there seems to be almost nothing else, no other degree of depth or substance other than that white noise.  It's a one trick pony and you'd have to really, really enjoy that one trick to buy that pony.  That's why I don't see any problem with the negative reviews or review scores.  Writers aren't just writing these reviews for people who already like the Crackdown formula, they're writing them for everyone, from a general perspective.  

Which is why people should read the damn reviews instead of worrying about that little number at the end.  

Thanks. Nice that you agree Though disagreements are fine, too.

Yes just the good reviews are honest.....

I've been having enjoying the game so far. Single player is exactly what I was wanting out of a Crackdown game. What's funny is, for how many people criticized the graphics, I think it's one of the best parts about it. I love the colors and visuals of the world. I haven't ran into any performance issues or glitches. Gameplay is solid. Weapons are varied and each have a uniqueness to them. It's a very well polished single player.

Multiplayer on the other hand, I don't care for at all. Destruction is okay. There is zero progress or rewarding aspect of it besides winning. They should have just scrapped it, and went with a battle royal mode in the main city instead.

Haven’t even tried the MP outside of the technical test and I agree with what you said. Sucks that reviewers expected something else but I’m more than happy for Crackdown 1.5 and graphically the game nails the Crackdown style.

Ive been surprised at how good the platforming is.

I think the graphics are fine for this game. You don't need 4K nonsense for a game to be good and fun. But at the same time I agree that it looks like a 360 game. 

Just going to post an excerpt from Jeff Gerstman's review. He's basically saying that the missions are all lifeless clones of one another. That and the game is only 6 hours long. 

It's probably the layout of the city. The island you're on does have some high buildings, but the orbs feel carelessly strewn about in some zones of the city, placed onto low rooftops that don't even pose a meaningful challenge. In other sections, the orbs seem weirdly scarce. But in the case of all this, the orbs just don't always feel like they've been placed in interesting spots. WIthout that--and, honestly, after all these years, it's hard to imagine simple orb collection as a standout feature at all--the rest of the game manages to feel very generic.

Sure, you jump higher as you level up, but other games have done the "open-world game but with powers" stuff really well in the years since Crackdown 2. This one really feels like it's going through the motions at every turn, with an utterly lifeless story and generic missions that feel like they were clone-stamped into the world for you to do over and over again. Every monorail station takeover mission feels identical. There are roughly two types of industrial/chemical missions. Two types of enforcer missions. And so on. It feels like you're just hopping around the world, never quite as quickly or as nimbly as you feel like you should be, performing the same six tasks over and over again. Eventually you unlock boss fights, but these aren't especially creative and don't stand out much. Most of them felt like they were missing a phase, like something else should have happened but then... nope. You win. Completing the campaign with almost all of the non-race missions completed took me somewhere around six or seven hours. You can go back in, you can take your leveled agent into a reset city, and you can play on multiple difficulties, but I'm not sure why anyone would want to do this stuff a second time. It's not bad, but nothing about it stands out (actually, having the game crash to desktop the first time I beat the final boss and having to replay that entire fight all over again stands out, but you know what I mean).

While that's true, I think you can figure out how that's a completely different situation that doesnt apply here. Indies can take a long time since they are small teams with small funding and sometimes the developers have other full time jobs.

The above doesnt describe Crackdown 3 and it's not a high-quality AAA release so a 4-5 dev cycle is way too long. As a mediocre/average AA release it should have a 2-3 year cycle.

Crackdown is also a lot more polished than the average AA game and has a unique PvP. However, I'm sure if I look up development time of many games 4-5 years isnt gonna be that unusual. If anything, maybe Crackdown 3 was just announced too soon for hype reasons, 1st parties tend to do that.

I like Crackdown 3 in its current state, not a broken mess, so the delays were likely a good thing.

I'm noticing the people on this forum that have actually played are generally pretty positive about it. Nobody is arguing its a ground breaking experience, just fun.