Crackdown demo is up on the Marketplace
I have trouble waking up in time to go to class or minor things like that, but you bet your ass I was going to try to wake up as early as possible if it meant playing the Crackdown demo. So, at 5 AM or thereabouts, my groggy eyes opened and I sprinted to the 360.
The game takes a little getting used to at first, but it's verrrry nice. Put simply, this is GTA from the perspective of someone who is essentially a superhero, when it comes to physical abilities. And yes, that's every bit as as fun as it sounds. I've only played it for a couple of hours so far (the demo has a one-hour time limit), but just leaping and climbing around is fun enough to spend hours doing that alone. The driving isn't amazing, but it's decent enough, and there are so many fun things that I can't even imagine yet just waiting to be done with the physics.
The draw distance is as amazing as advertised, and the cel-shaded, "vaguely near future" style works. The main complaint I have is probably that the targeting system, while incredibly nice on the whole and something GTA IV should aim for, is kind of sluggish when it comes to switching targets when there are multiple enemies bunched together. This occasionally leaves you shooting at a dead guy for a bit too long, but then, you're a ****ing superhero; you can handle that.
I'll probably play through the demo a couple more times today, at minimum. It's taken the game from definite rental to definite purchase. Purchased
so hard.
From another forum:
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Originally Posted by Stoo
A member of the public just ran me over so i jumped on the truck following him and shot out his tires. I then ripped his car door off, dragged him out and carried him to the top of a nearby building. Carefully setting him down on the edge of the roof, i roundhouse-kicked him off into the middle of the road 50 feet below whereby his lifeless body was then promptly smeared by a passing bus.
This game is hilariously awesome.
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