E3: Crackdown video

BlimBlim
Friday, May 12, 2006 | 12:39 AM
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Xbox 360

Snoopers managed to get into a private presentation of Crackdown, a game he found much more interesting that what we all tought until now. He was allowed to film all of it and we'll certainly put the full video online sooner or later, but in the meantime here a flyby of the city.

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E3: City Flyby

Archaos

Commented on 2006-05-12 00:56:10

O.O

Thats impressive. I'm really looking forward to seeing more of this. Thats something I wouldn't of said 5 minutes ago...

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xiler8er360

Commented on 2006-05-12 00:56:46

this game actually looks pretty impressive and the visual style is quite appealing and unique. its not phot-realistic but its not cell shaded ala jet set radio

looks good so im keeping a close eye on it

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miketuck3r

Commented on 2006-05-12 01:04:40

looks like a living comic book complete with super human characters cant wait for the full vid are we talking soon or tomorrow?

ive heard some great things about the coop as well

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Jasper

Commented on 2006-05-12 01:06:56

Crackdown looking...good? Never thought I would say that.

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QuezcatoL

Commented on 2006-05-12 01:08:21 In reply to Jasper

Posted by Jasper

Crackdown looking...good? Never thought I would say that.

I agree... damn!

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BlimBlim

Commented on 2006-05-12 01:13:48

Snoopers was appaled at how bad MS communicated about this game. After seeing the presentation he's quite convinced this could be a very good game, it just needs some polishing.

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MujahedenWarrior

Commented on 2006-05-12 01:18:20

Wtf? That actually looks pretty Good. IS Ms trying to hit people from the blind spot with some of their games by keeping them in the shadow?

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tonto

Commented on 2006-05-12 01:22:44

I still dont like the art style but it seems to be getting a lot of good hype from the E3 show floor about the fun gameplay. Also its nice to see it has Co-Op over live :)

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Joergen

Commented on 2006-05-12 01:31:31

Ah yes, rendering some decent lightmaps does wonders to any static geometry.

(earlier I ranted about flat shaded geometry and apparent lazy ass map designers).

Lightmaps = shadows and highlights rendered in a 3d application or a middleware development tool, stored in extra texture files and re-applied onto the geometry and their textures ingame making a flat building cast and receive shadows and highlights.

Depending on the quality of the shadows and the complexity of the geometry, rendering them can take hours or even weeks. So usually they are rendered once the geometry itself is finalized and will not be moved later (leaving a shadow where there is no house).

Some developers are now abusing the power of the 360 by rendering ALL shadows realtime with pixelshaders (look at BF2MC or GRAW for example) where the geometry itself is static or indestructible requiring no dynamically updated shadows.

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Zaknafein

Commented on 2006-05-12 01:36:06

I hope they'll fix their cloud textures... they're awful.

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QuezcatoL

Commented on 2006-05-12 01:39:35 In reply to BlimBlim

Posted by BlimBlim

Snoopers was appaled at how bad MS communicated about this game. After seeing the presentation he's quite convinced this could be a very good game, it just needs some polishing.

Well feels wrong to claim its the GTA4 killer or competetion as it was probably supposed to be a gta clone,seeing how they now gonna have GTA 4 also on 360...

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rjcc

Commented on 2006-05-12 01:47:58

It's not a GTA clone. I've been TRYING to tell yall how good the game is, finally people are coming around to my way of thinking.

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Joergen

Commented on 2006-05-12 01:48:45

They could work on their LOD models though.. yuck. Though again thats something you do after, or automate (glue and tape solution) or not at all (lazy).

LOD = level of detail. The reducing of polygonal detail based on distance. Hand made LOD models can be made to look exactly like the hipoly version, automated or on-the-fly lodding looks "alive" and wiggly, flashes in various mismatching shades (lack of lightmap vs bare textures) and drops large details in sight.

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Trup1aya4rea1

Commented on 2006-05-12 02:44:31

the graphics look really nice and the draw distance is great. i kinda like the artstyle, its different, but still manages to keep the action looking cool. i can't wait to see some more gameplay footage.

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QuezcatoL

Commented on 2006-05-12 03:09:46 In reply to rjcc

Posted by rjcc

It's not a GTA clone. I've been TRYING to tell yall how good the game is, finally people are coming around to my way of thinking.

Well,im not getting it,thats for sure,but the city looks great,but the other thing we seen looks medicore.

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LEBATO

Commented on 2006-05-12 03:19:02

Impressive graphics, too much pop in though. Are we ever going to get rid of pop in in free roaming games this generation?

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omegaheat

Commented on 2006-05-12 04:36:15

Pop in is has more to do with the developers than the hardware. There were games from the last generation that didn't have pop in at all. I guess its not important right now considering that the game is still in development. With its simplistic polygon models and texturing, the game should move at a silky framerate. I'm looking foward to this one.

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Raptor

Commented on 2006-05-12 04:38:45

This message is in "Boulet Time" (TM), If you still *really* want to see it, click here

GTA Clone this game was made by the creator of the GTA.

alejandrito79

Commented on 2006-05-12 05:04:10

good looking game

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roxwell

Commented on 2006-05-12 11:45:29

I do like the look of it, just something missing for me.

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johnjohnson

Commented on 2006-05-12 12:42:41

Blim, have you changed anything in the way you encode the videos lately? I can't play any of them using the Quicktime player on my Mac. They used to work fine a couple of days ago.

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Slabs

Commented on 2006-05-12 15:35:05 In reply to Raptor

Yeah this isn't really a GTA clone when the guy making it is one of the co-creators of the whole GTA franchise.

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SimonM7

Commented on 2006-05-12 16:01:11

Why was Raptor boulet timed? Apart from bad use (complete lack) of punctuation, he's quite right. And, uh, yeah, Slabs already said it with punctuation included. :)

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Slabs

Commented on 2006-05-12 16:06:53 In reply to SimonM7

Watching it again I noticed the HUGE number of pedestrians on the street at the start of the video, watch the bottom left of the screen.

Posted by SimonM7

Why was Raptor boulet timed? Apart from bad use (complete lack) of punctuation, he's quite right. And, uh, yeah, Slabs already said it with punctuation included. :)

Yeah I wondered that but I figured I'd try and make the same point in done proper Englishes hyuk

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VibratingDonkey

Commented on 2006-05-12 17:18:16

http://img385.imageshack.us/img385/9531/crackdown0...
I'm guessing somewhere in the hundreds.

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