What you think of Crackdown's Cloud Computing?

[Zappykins]

I thought the destructible environments looked great. Might want to be able to just play in my own little world though - hope we can do that.

That's an amazing amount of computer power. But computer power also drops in cost every year, it's not that much in the long run. You would need Xbox Live or a shared Live to play it, and that's part of what the annual fees cover.

Since the 360 is confirmed for another 5 years, I wouldn't worry about CrackDown 3 getting turned off till at least a few more after that.
No Internet? There are many things I can't do without internet - make phone calls, emails, etc. Maybe they will have a stand alone offline local game, but who knows at this point. But even if I play alone, I would want to be blowing buildings up which uses those massive servers.