June is a long ways away...wonder when they'll release it?
My backlog of games I want to buy just keeps getting bigger and bigger.
My backlog of games I want to buy just keeps getting bigger and bigger.
I will gladly accept these missions.
Bought.I'm still betting it'll be a Scorpio launch title
http://gamingbolt.com/crackdown-3-delay-its-the-campaign-we-are-doubling-down-on-now
Crackdown 3 Delay: “It’s The Campaign We Are Doubling Down On Now”
Crackdown 3 will not be launching this year, instead having been delayed into 2017. Last week, Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg pointed out that this was partially the result of Microsoft having enough games in its portfolio now that they felt comfortable spacing out their releases- and today, Microsoft Studios general manager Shannon Loftis told Game Informer that another reason contributing to the delay was the studio doubling down to get the campaign done, so that it could launch in the same general timeframe as the much vaunted multiplayer mode.
“Development has been going incredibly well,” Loftis said. “To be honest, because we obviously have this Crackdown online mode and then we also have the traditional Crackdown campaign, which has multiplayer online. But we want to launch our online beta so that it’s not too far in advance of the complete campaign. It’s actually the campaign that we’re doubling down on now.
“We’ve got internal play sessions every week for Crackdown online. We’re starting now to get the campaign in,” she added. “Building these open world games is both challenging and a blast, because you have to build all of the systems that interact together. Before you get to the point where you can actually experience what the game feels like and can start building your missions and telling your stories.”
Loftis promised that the campaign will be worth the wait, and that it will be “most fully featured campaign we’ve ever done”- though of course, something on that scale comes with its own set of development and debugging challenges.
“Depending on what you choose to destroy in the environment, there will be massive, big reactions all over the city,” she said. “Gangs will get together against you. This is the first time we’ve ever had something like that.”
All said and done, I am okay with the delay if that means that we get a better game in the end- and it is good to see Microsoft coming around to this way of thinking, too. Will Crackdown 3 be worth the hype? Who can tell, until the game has released? What we can definitively say is that Microsoft will have made every attempt possible to ensure the developers have all the resources they need for making the game.
Crackdown 3 is due out on Xbox One and Windows 10 PCs next year.
Bought.
Were Crackdown games big sellers? Sounds like a lot of moolah is being thrown into this game...
I'm still fully expecting this to be a Scorpio launch title
It would still benefit greatly from Scorpio though, as the machine still does a lot locally. The cloud handles the bulk of the physics.The original sold 400K month 1 in the US and topped a global million within a month, this was early 2007 when there were about 12-13 million 360's so it did well enough for a new IP on a relatively small userbase. It hit 2 million after a few months (5 or 6) which is serviceable. RealTimeWorlds got too involved with MMO APB and perished and did not want to abandon it when MS asked them to do a CD2, CD2 then got passed to Ruffian in early 2009 who did a pretty decent seqeal (IMO, im in a minority on that on) in late 2010, it didn't sell as well, but who knows where it ended up.
CD3 is more a passion project for Phil Spencer because he likes them so much.
Not sure of the point, even with a Zen CPU, there's not enough local power in scorpio to match the levels the cloud provides in CD3....but absoloutely, MS should market CD3's physics demos for scorpio because the general masses would just assume it's because the machine is oh so powerfuble.
Haha. Not so much - not yet. It's getting there though. One more delay and I'd be inclined to agree.This is turning out to be our version of The Last Guardian.
Haha. Not so much - not yet. It's getting there though. One more console gen and I'd be inclined to agree.
This is turning out to be our version of The Last Guardian.
This is turning out to be our version of The Last Guardian.