In general I think the HLTB is fairly accurate when it comes to completing campaigns, but the numbers for completing everything is much more random especially in an open world game.

Again, watch the video. If you can spend a bunch of time talking about Crackdown 3 then maybe you can find the time for that video. I'm thinking your concern is it doesn't fit your narrative.

Straw man, I didn't claim it was the best implementation of UE4. You're making assumptions because of the 60 score without actually knowing much.

The 1-10 review scale is broken in my opinion because 1-5 is varying levels of crap. While 6 is often the score for bad game with redeeming qualities. So 60/100 seems odd for a game that's actually fun, polished and works well. This is why fans are ignoring the reviews for this game.

Nope, you are just making things as you go. I put the links to prove that Phil Spencer have been promising better 1st party for several years while you claim he never did so.

The reviews for Crackdown 3 are very bad, the kind of score that should be given to a very bad game. Having played Crackdown 3 it's actually a good game and enjoyable game. The reason it's getting such bad score is that the game failed to live up to our high expectation. 

You keep talking like Microsoft isn't doing anything about the lackluster offerings and performance. They've double the numbers of first party studios. While we wait for these new games, Microsoft countered by giving us a much superior online services when compare to Sony, EA Access, Xbox Gamepass and the enhanced Backwards compatibility Xbox & Xbox 360 is amazing to long term Xbox fans and give so much option to new Xbox owners. 

It's not like the Xbox doesn't have any exclusive games, there is always going to be the Microsoft Holy trinity of Halo - Gears - Forza. You can also play all of the Xbox exclusives for very cheap with gamepass.
Ashen, Below, Halo MCC, Halo Wars 2, Recore, Sunset Overdrive, State of Decay 2, Crackdown 3, Rare Replay, D4: DDDD, all of the Gears game, Forza 4, Halo 5, Quantum Break, Ryse, Sea of Thieves, Shadow Complex Remastered, Super Lucky's tail, Zoo Tycoon, Ori. Not including all the multi platform games that are made available to you with gamepass. 

Beside there no rush to play any of the PS4 Exclusive and pay full retail price. The Sony exclusives are all single player experience that can be enjoy long after their release.  I don't think anyone should be stupid enough to only play on one platform. There rumors that Sony might stats including their first party exclusives in their Playstation Plus service their version of gamepass, that would be amazing. 

Xbox fan tortures himself:
https://youtu.be/RMzK5XQw72w

The Digital Foundry video I'm suggesting you watch isn't a review though.

On Metacritic, plenty of games have scored in the 50s or lower. Crackdown 3 is probably the best game ever to score 60 on Metacritic.

There’s plenty of games better than crackdown 3 with a 60 or lower score. Like Green Lantern, some samurai warriors games, 1-2 Switch, etc. 

The only link you provided where he discusses improving first party studios was an interview from 2018 and they bought multiple studios in 2018. Clearly you’re confused.

This is where you guys are wrong. Metacritic's criteria says that 50-75 is considered mixed or average but you guys are acting like 60 means bad or terrible.

Most of the reviews basically say the game is a fun  throwback for fans of the series but is short, repetitive and lacks ambition. Do you guys disagree with that general description?

Really, what do you personally think of a scores of 50. 19 out of 73 reviewers gave the game a 50 or below score .... that's bad & terrible.

I would disagree - 
Unless your speed running the game it will take over 12-15 hours for the main story. 20-25 hours for completionist. 

The game have you collecting orb, jumping around, constantly shooting stuff, have two kind of race challenges (car & parkour), Car Ring challenges, unlocking car outpost, freeing prisoners, unlocking communication and propaganda tower that give you story element and 10 boss fights. On top of being able to play Co-op. They also introduce new enemy type has you progress in the game, new guns and new abilities. The environment of the city always seem to be changing, port towns, inner city, mine pits, metro, urban & Sky scrapper area. I personally did not find it repetitive. 

I agree with the Ambition comment the game fail to deliver on it's initial ambition and the Multiplayer is a total let down. The team seem to have wasted so much time on cloud technology rather then working on the campaign. They could of done so much more with this game. The game had the potential of being a real AAA for Microsoft but clearly something went wrong in development and they did a decent job salvaging what work was done. I really hope that this will turn out to be the ground work for a AAA Crackdown 4 that lives up to our expectation.  

There also the Terry Crews implementation what little we did get it still his my favorite part of the game. Sadly, it was done has an after though rather then being the center piece for the entire game.  If anything it shows great potential for a sequel. 

It is a valid opinion that it is the best game to reach 60 or below, I would really have to look all other games that got lower and would take a good time. And since it seems that only a fraction of CD3 thinks it I don't think there is much point on this. The critics aren't collectively lying or being obtusely harsh. The game may just not reach consensus of good even if on fanbase it is considered quite good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWQ84OLlQeI

Watched this from DF and not impressive, the guys analyzing aren't impressed as well, putting it below Red Guerilla.

Textures are very plain, objects seems like type of polygon from PS1-PS2 on how simplistic and pointy they are.