Welcome to the last next gen. A raucous free-form action game, Crackdown was equal parts shooter, platformer, and open-world adventure. And it felt like nothing anyone had ever played before.

And that game was … Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction. Oh, and Crackdown. And today we’re going to talk about Crackdown. But what makes Crackdown so refreshing and unique when played in 2019?

The open world superhero sub-genre, which has filtered onto PC a little with the likes of Saints Row 4 and the mostly bad Prototype games, probably peaked on Xbox with 2007's original Crackdown ...

He co-hosts The Besties, is a board member of the Frida Cinema, and created NYU’s first games journalism course. Crackdown 3 is nothing like the game Microsoft promised fans in 2014. Back then, ...

When Dave Jones, one of the chief creators of Lemmings, Grand Theft Auto and the first Crackdown game, took to the stage during Microsoft's 2015 Gamescom media briefing to present pre-alpha in ...

It’s been a while since we’ve had a Crackdown game, the last numbered entry being all the way back in 2010 for the Xbox 360. A lot has changed since then, but some things stay the same.

Crackdown 3 flips the idea of shields on its head by offering you a shield boost for causing more death and destruction, forcing you to wade in where other games would see you run and hide.