Crackdown (video game series)

Crackdown
Genre(s)Third-person shooter, action-adventure
Developer(s)Realtime Worlds
Ruffian Games
Sumo Digital
Publisher(s)Xbox Game Studios
Creator(s)David Jones
Platform(s)Xbox 360, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows
First releaseCrackdown
20 February 2007
Latest releaseCrackdown 3
15 February 2019

Crackdown is a series of open world action-adventure video games created by David Jones and published by Xbox Game Studios. The series takes place in a futuristic dystopian city controlled and enforced by a law enforcement organization called the Agency. The games center on the Agency's supersoldiers, known as 'Agents', as they fight threats ranging from various criminal syndicates, a terrorist group known as 'Cell', and zombie-like monsters called 'Freaks'.[1][2]

Games of the series have been developed by various game developers, with the first game, Crackdown, completed by Realtime Worlds on February 20, 2007, and a sequel titled Crackdown 2 developed by Ruffian Games on July 6, 2010. Both games were released for the Xbox 360. A third installment, Crackdown 3 developed by Sumo Digital, was released on February 15, 2019, for the Xbox One and Microsoft Windows. The game has been met with positive critical reception and won several video game awards.[3] Critics praised the sandbox-style third-person shooter for allowing the ability to cause massive destruction in a non-linear gameplay, while also criticizing the series for lacking an actual story. The series has garnered mostly positive reception and commercial success.

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