IGN employee says crackdown is fun but ugly

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Mr Puggsly said:

S.T.A.G.E. said:

https://youtu.be/g0DmqgAI2fg

 

Hopefully they fix this if they are supposedly supposed to be showing off the power of the XOX with this. He didn't mince words at all. This is the one at least moderately anticipated game the Xbox has for the year.

 

Crackdown has always been ugly/bland. Its going for a comic book presentation. The series is more technically impressive than visually. Open world game with lots of action and heavy physics. Just Cause does that with better graphics but not as fun in my opinion.

I've seen gameplay of Crackdown 3 and it looks fine. It will also use X1X's power for native 4K and other visual polish.

Pretty much this.  I have played all of the Crackdown games and they have never been graphical pretty games.  I was hoping for Crackdown 3 to change this but with the Trailer and a gameplay one out there on YouTube, my hopes were dashed.  Crackdown 3 will definitely not be a graphical showcase game for MS but then again it never was.