Rodney McKay
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Granted, we don't know what the destruction and stuff in the multiplayer will bring, but that's Microsoft's fault for not showing it, not people's reactions on what has been publicly shown (especially a game that's presumably less than 6 months from release). Of course it's beyond anything last gen, but it has this sparse look to the world which is in-line for a Crackdown game, but looks a little dated nowadays. The textures are nice and the world is pretty big, but it seems like they're able to do that because there's not that much going on apart from simple buildings, enemies, and some cars.There are a ton of things beyond visuals that this game is likely doing that goes well beyond what was capable on a 360 such as the Size of the City and the AI.
Not to mention we don't yet know the extent of the destructive mayhem in the multiplayer mode which from previous demos goes WELL BEYOND anything last gen. You guys really need to stop judging games by only how they look. There is so much more under the surface.
Comparing it to a similar cartoony style, over the top, open-world game like Sunset Overdrive which came out 2 years ago, it just feels like it's lacking an amount of detail and density of stuff that I'm used to. The game is definitely embracing that look so I personally don't mind it, but I'd never have said Crackdown 1 or 2 were particularly great looking games either. There artstyle is nice and the graphics allow them to do what they want with the scale of the games, but that's about it.
I certainly hope the multiplayer destruction is as amazing as the early tech demos, but frankly I was hoping that after how long this has been in development that the single player would see some of that technology, even if you did need to be online for the cloud to process it. You have all these massive explosions going off around these geometrically simple buildings and there's just no reaction. Red Faction Guerrilla was one of my favorite games last gen primarily because of the open world destruction and I was really hoping that Crackdown 3 would have been able to take up the challenge and improving upon it for this generation, but it doesn't look like it outside of the multiplayer (which hasn't been shown in ages).