Crackdown (360)

First impressions after running around the demo a couple of times. It all feels a bit cheap and rough, graphically, but the gameplay seems reasonably intact. Feels a bit like Crackdown fan fiction, but it’s still very enjoyable stuff. I just don’t know whether it offers much more than just playing through the original game

First! Ever! Co-op! Played with a friend of mine and it was great fun when it wasn’t disconnecting (when I was winning a checkpoint race) or crashing (when I won rocket tag). I also got my first achievement for a while – the one for killing a boss in co-op.

Now my stats can’t go down I decided to kill lots of civilians and cops today. It was fun for a while, but the cops are never any real challenge so it wasn’t as much fun as it is in other sandbox games.

500 AGILITY ORBS GET!!!! I found them all by myself. The final was on top of the big geodesic dome that I’d tried scaling a few times before, but which I thought was impossible to get up. In desperation I tried a final time just before I was going to turn the 360 off and

More searching for agility orbs. More failure. I did find a fair few secret orbs, but the others are proving most elusive.