While details on Ruffian's freshly revealed Crackdown sequel remain few and far between, new information shows that the super-powered crime-fighting open-world followup will expand on the multiplayer offerings of Realtime Worlds' original.

Alongside single-player, Crackdown 2 will sport online cooperative play for up to four players and a separate online multiplayer mode for up to 16 folk, according to an official Xbox.com listing noticed by VG247. The first Crackdown, which hit Xbox 360 in 2007, only supported two-player online co-op in addition to its single-player mode.

An Xbox 360 exclusive, Crackdown 2 is slated to arrive at some point in 2010.

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This is great. Nothing like 4 player sandbox coop...

This sounds fun.

Great news.

Cool, but I'd like to see at least two-player splitscreen. It's probably impossible in a sandbox game like this, though.

eheh, last game I played split screen was Earth Defence Force 2017!!

It was kind of like a sandbox game... but on a much smaller scale

Wow, this is great news! You have no idea how awkward it is when you get stuck in a game with 1 12-year-old who won't cooperate with you.

I wonder if this means the difficulty will be ramped up?

4 player coop in a new crackdown game will work just fine. the orig crackdown although not to my liking has a good fanbase and im sure they will welcome more crackdown.

Depends what engine they use. Crackdown 1 endine is one if the best I've seen as there was no popup or slowdown. So it may even be possible...