How microsoft plan to stealthily bring back Always Online

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phaedruss said:

kitler53 said:

a lot of games feature destructible environements (even last gen games).   i'll wait to see some gameplay before i judge wether or not crackdown's destruction is only possible via cloud processing.   as of now i'm not buying it.   and really, it has to affect more than the cosmetics if you want gamers not to complain,.. it has to change the gameplay to be considered a clear and obvious benefit.

Just look at the Build demo they did that was a prototype for Crackdown. The kind of "non-canned" destruction and physics calculations aren't possible on just the local machine.

They do have you spoon fed don't they