Crackdown 3 Review Thread - MC: 60 OC: 62

[mjk45]

Mr Puggsly said:

mjk45 said:

I think you have misread my reply, my answer was focused on the second part of her question about how a game with such a low score wasn't canceled since that seemed to be more answerable rather than playing  two different games with different circumstances off against each other, Instead I tried  to try to explain the circumstances surrounding Ms and the Xbox one and their  link to crackdown 3 at inception raising Crackdown 3's profile well above what it's history would suggest ,and how that made it harder for them to give up on it.

Here's a thought, did MS anticipate such low scores?

I mean this isn't like some Bethesda game launched in a broken state. Crackdown 3 is totally functional game, it feels polished, its the fun I expected from the series. Its almost like being something of throwback is both what makes this game fun but poison to the critics.

Maybe this is something like an Earth Defense Force game. The people who enjoy it don't care about the reviews, but it likely has wider appeal. Ultimately, it just might be a polarizing game.

 I agree play what you enjoy , I remember the first crackdown demo after playing it I recommended to a friend to try it out after a few tries I couldn't get anything out of him,then when the game came out he pestered me to play, you would have thought he was the one who pushed me toward it.

I feel if it had been left to the usual production schedule for a game of it's ilk it would have done fine and most likely posted mid 70's scores , but alas with all the publicity coupled with MS overplaying where the tech was at that time rather than waiting for it to mature, we got this situation of a game being  overblown through no fault of it's own.