Comments on: Ruffian project: “Crackdown 1.5? That’s generous. It’s more like 1.25″

By: fearmonkey

fearmonkey — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 02:51:15 +0000

loved crackdown, but give us a true sequel.

By: contender

contender — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:25:55 +0000

A UK publishing source that is so reliable it is nameless??

This isn’t anything new is it, it’s idle speculation. Slow news week guys?

By: ecu

ecu — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:35:39 +0000

Bah, this is sounding worse by the minute, given that Crackdown 1 was only half a game to begin with. It had lovely gameplay mechanics, but they forgot to actually make the rest of the game. That’s what I was hoping this would be, but it doesn’t seem to be the case.

By: Retroid

Retroid — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:21:40 +0000

Single-player is pretty-much a requirement for me.

By: Whizzo

Whizzo — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:12:35 +0000

Crackdown was a decent title in single player, a fabulous one in co-op, if they put 4 player in there I’d be very happy but that doesn’t appear to be on the cards.

By: No_PUDding

No_PUDding — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:00:23 +0000

Believe me, I wouldn’t have thought of it but I would had been pleased SOMEONE had.

And I probabaly would devise some way to repay the favour.

By: Captain Fruitloop

Captain Fruitloop — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:50:59 +0000

@Blerk

Agreed. I’d like to think a UK player would have seen that one coming a long way away, and planned to do exactly the same thing to me.

Alas, our trusting and slightly over-earnest Scandanavian cousins aren’t nearly so devious/fun to play with.

By: No_PUDding

No_PUDding — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:44:55 +0000

Agreed… Sounds thematically superb.

But I think ’1.25′ is all part of overdelivering. Very clever. Unless it’s DLC in which case… It’s DLC.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:40:11 +0000

Unsporting? I’d have been disappointed if that hadn’t happened!

By: Captain Fruitloop

Captain Fruitloop — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:27:07 +0000

Well, I’d much more fun playing it single-player than in co-op. Where some Swedish git reported me for unsporting behaviour after I suggested to him we climb up one of the highest buildings in the game, and then booted him off it when we got to the top.

By: OrphanageExplosion

OrphanageExplosion — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:57:34 +0000

An XLBA specific multi-player romp over and above the original’s somewhat limited Live support would be awesome, if rather disappointing since we’ve been waiting so long for a sequel.

By: Rhythm

Rhythm — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:56:28 +0000

Crackdown was great in single player but the co-op was *excellent*. If they revise the city a little and furnish the game with a ton of proper co-op missions I could definitely see the logic behind releasing an MP-only version.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:50:13 +0000

I suppose it could just be a re-release of the original with some extras and a beefed up multiplayer. Or it could just be a DLC pack for the original. Or an XBLA game. Or some mix of the three.

Would seem weird to do a full retail release of a multi-player only version of a game which is best-known for its single-player mode, though.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:48:09 +0000

Blerk’s right. The game “IS” the single player element. Why Ruffian thinks anyone cares about multiplayer is beyond me. Unless it’s going to be a console MMO, which could be kind of interesting, I guess.

By: Patrick Garratt

Patrick Garratt — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:45:02 +0000

I honestly don’t know.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:44:48 +0000

No single-player, no sale.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:43:33 +0000

Is this just gonna be an add-on to the original or a completely new, boxed title?