Despite much moaning and groaning, Xbox has had some smashing console exclusive games during its four generation lifespan. Crackdown was one such game, released in the early years of the Xbox 360 and feeling like a futuristic take on Grand Theft Auto.
This is most likely because the creator of that famous but controversial game, David Jones, was at the helm of this project too. You played as an Agent who was dispatched to Pacific City to take down several crime bosses which inhabited certain districts within the futuristic metropolis.
The regular law enforcement authorities were overwhelmed by the sharp rise of Los Muertos, The Volk and the Shai-Gen Corporation who afterwards had carved the city up between them. You needed to deal with all sorts of criminal menaces from each faction, as well as full on riots. It’s a good job, then, that you weren’t playing…
