![]() Even though they’re not, the maps look like they’ve been procedurally-generated, with random geometric shapes dotted around to no obvious pattern. There are only two modes – minor variants of Kill Confirmed and Conquest – and battles take place in weird-looking arenas that appear to be floating in space. If you’re unlucky you can get trapped in a bit of falling debris but the chances that your opponent actually intended that to happen are remote. Not only are the destruction effects in Wrecking Zone grossly simplified from back in 2015 but they make very little difference to the gameplay. We should point out that because of the servers only just being switched on we’ve only been able to experience a small amount of multiplayer, but what we’ve played so far is flat out embarrassing. Giant skyscrapers could be brought crashing to the ground, knocking into other buildings as they went, and it looked amazing – a real technological breakthrough. ![]() Back then the idea was that the multiplayer would use cloud-computing to simulate much more complex destruction physics than would be possible using a single console. The multiplayer is called Wrecking Zone and doesn’t resemble the tech demo we were shown in 2015 in any shape or form. The multiplayer though is… well, we almost don’t know where to start. Despite the mammoth development time it feels scrappy and slapped together, no doubt the victim of multiple direction changes over the years, and curiously low budget but apart from the voiceovers it’s largely inoffensive. If you’ve fond memories of the original (even fans don’t seem to have liked the first sequel) or just have a thing for open world games in general then Crackdown 3’s story campaign is a moderately entertaining diversion. It’s fun but, as always, it’d be more fun in a better game. Although, like today’s Far Cry: New Dawn, the game does have a two-player co-op mode that’s clearly meant to save the day. It does move at a very fluid frame rate but especially given the repetitive and overfamiliar structure your interest starts to wander long before the end. An unhelpful colour palette often makes things even worse, to the point where you’re left wondering whether you’ve got where you are via a glitch or through what you were actually supposed to be doing.įrom a visual standpoint Crackdown 3 is simplistic and dull, with bland art design and such timid use of cel-shading you keep forgetting there’s any at all. The ad hoc stuff when you’re chasing after agility orbs is great but there’s a number of missions with some peculiarly complex platforming where it’s not at all obvious what can be jumped on and what can’t. Which in turn means that before you can fight the exec in charge you have to reduce their influence by taking out facilities around the map, from environmentally-unfriendly mining operations to corporate garages.īut while the combat is overly easy the platforming is often anything but, although again not for any interesting reason. As a result, rather than taking down individual criminal gangs, as in the original, you’re fighting different divisions of the company. ![]() The structure of the game is very straightforward: you’re trying to liberate a non-descript island city from the control of an evil corporation. The premise and dialogue is straight out of a bad kid’s cartoon, except when it’s suddenly not and you can sense the voiceover actors wincing in embarrassment as they’re forced to pepper the script with wholly inappropriate f-bombs. But then the game’s storytelling tone is odd throughout. This is despite the game’s premise being almost instantly understandable to anyone who’s ever played an open world game before, particularly one using the Ubisoft formula. We only wish the two in-game announcers had been as quiet, but unfortunately, particularly in the opening hours, they just will not shut up. ![]()
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