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Crackdown 2 review

When we got an early hands-on with Crackdown 2 back in May, I was enamoured with the game.  You see, I was a huge fan of the original, and everything seemed in place to make Crackdown 2 bigger and better.  In a lot of ways, Ruffian Games did build upon the original, but in their quest for pure gameplay, I couldn’t help but feel something was lacking.

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Crackdown 2 Demo available now

The public demo for Ruffian Games’ Crackdown 2 launched today, with a few interesting twists.  Besides providing both single player and 4 player co-op modes, if you’re also a Facebook user, they’ve got a tie in game called Chuck’s Ducks 2, a carnival style game that allows players to earn and activate special sticky bombs, for use in the retail game.  You can check out our hands on impression with the game last month, as well as our interview Ruffian Games creative director Billy Thomson.  In brief, Crackdown 2 is…

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Crackdown 2 hands-on and interview

When the original Crackdown came out, it came with a code to access the early beta of Halo 3. At the time, some considered Crackdown to be the bonus game you get when your buy your early access pass to the beta.  Some complained that this was just a crass marketing ploy to move more copies, which it undoubtedly did.  If you look past those meta arguments though, Crackdown was also a bright, vibrant, open world superhero sandbox which in many ways still holds its own against the newer entrants…

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