Crackdown 2

Malabar Front · **Posted:** Wed Jul 14, 2010 12:00 pm

Craster wrote:

Yep, highly annoying. Also, on the minimap/radar thing, I wish there was a way to turn off the icons for races and the like. I'm always going the wrong way because there are so many "There's a race over here!" icons on the map that I can't actually see the 'North' arrow.

Yes, the North arrow can be a bit of a pain to see. Icons really should be clipped by the bounds of the map, or it can quite quickly get unwieldy.

I just wish I could tell the Agency guy to stop fucking telling me the same thing over and over, or to stop accusing me of killing civilians when all I've done is extracted my clone in order to respawn somewhere else. I really only need to be told how to do things once, not repeatedly for ten hours of play.

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Wed Jul 14, 2010 12:05 pm

Malabar Front wrote:

Craster wrote:

Yep, highly annoying. Also, on the minimap/radar thing, I wish there was a way to turn off the icons for races and the like. I'm always going the wrong way because there are so many "There's a race over here!" icons on the map that I can't actually see the 'North' arrow.

Yes, the North arrow can be a bit of a pain to see. Icons really should be clipped by the bounds of the map, or it can quite quickly get unwieldy.

I just wish I could tell the Agency guy to stop fucking telling me the same thing over and over, or to stop accusing me of killing civilians when all I've done is extracted my clone in order to respawn somewhere else. I really only need to be told how to do things once, not repeatedly for ten hours of play.

Have you started flying the helicopter yet?

Zardoz · **Posted:** Wed Jul 14, 2010 12:07 pm

I'm waiting until it's £5 now.

Malabar Front · **Posted:** Wed Jul 14, 2010 12:10 pm

Mr Dave wrote:

Have you started flying the helicopter yet?

Yep. I've been killed by it more times than I can count, too.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Wed Jul 14, 2010 12:12 pm

£2.50

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Wed Jul 14, 2010 12:21 pm

Malabar Front wrote:

Mr Dave wrote:

Have you started flying the helicopter yet?

Yep. I've been killed by it more times than I can count, too.

"Are you sure you know how to fly that thing?"

Well, obviously not it your case

Malabar Front · **Posted:** Wed Jul 14, 2010 12:27 pm

Mr Dave wrote:

"Are you sure you know how to fly that thing?"

Well, obviously not it your case

Heh!

It took me a while to notice it takes a few seconds for the landing gear/legs to come down when you're near the floor. The number of times I landed, only to have the thing gently rock itself onto its side was frustrating. As was the time I landed it properly, only for a peacekeeper to ram it at full speed with his car. I parked it off the road for a reason, you dick!

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5469

markg wrote:

I'm not sure it was ever a trick they could pull off twice, really. The best thing about Crackdown was seeing your powers slowly build until you were leaping insanely huge distances and stuff like that first climb up the agency tower. When you know where it's going then you'll always just feel a bit weak rather than ever more powerful.

I'd like to retract this.

I'm having every bit as much fun as I did the first time around. More probably.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Jul 16, 2010 3:07 pm

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 17051

Finished. I'm confused:

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!

It looked like it was heading for a "Thorne was a goodie all along and the Agency had an antidote ZOMG" ending but then just petered out like they forgot to write some parts. Why was she warning the Agent that he was being lied to and to not activate the beacons at the end? It felt rather ill thought out.

Blatant Crackdown 3 agent-versus-agency setup too.

Edit -- oh, I needed a lot more audio logs:

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!

It is revealed through audio logs that Catalina tried to warn the agency about the freaks and started Cell as a pressure group. The agency then pins the freak infections on her even though we know that the agents in Crackdown 1 unintentionally released them. She is then notified by the whistleblower that the agency has a cure for the infestation but refuses to distribute it. As the agency releases news about project sunburst Catalina is informed by the Whistleblower that before the freak outbreak sunburst was the code name for a population mind control project. Catalina and cell set out to stop sunburst by stealing the beacons and sabotaging the absorption units. Her plans are then stopped by the new agents whom she pleads with over their communicators to stop. It is then revealed in the ending that Catalina is using her medical experience in order to create her own "renegade" agents in order to combat the agency and sunburst.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sun Jul 18, 2010 1:13 am

I'm on Crackie's side. I'm his bottom bitch. Crackdown 3 plz.

Blucey · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1290

Finished the 'story' mode.

My god, this game is more full of nothing than Just Cause 2.

Three mission types (tactical locations, beacons and freak breaches) that all play exactly the same way and then a bunch of collect-o-shit to pad it out. The trashed cities all blend into one, to the point where if I've not kept track then I genuinely don't know which one I'm in.

Crackdown was better in my opinion.

That said, four player larks do redeem things a bit.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Wed Jul 28, 2010 11:09 pm

I loved it. Me/Dave/Perks need a 4th wheel for the 4-flyer ackachackacacvjcjlk.. sorry, fishbone in my throat... achievement.

Blucey · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1290

Aye I can be your fourth. I'll be doing it with some Peowwsters also so this'll be available to more BeeXers if they need the achv.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Jul 29, 2010 9:29 am

Dimrill wrote:

I loved it.

More than the first one?

Dimrill · **Posted:** Thu Jul 29, 2010 4:02 pm

Grim... wrote:

Dimrill wrote:

I loved it.

More than the first one?

You mean the awesome game that will never be released on a fucking PC? I think I did, actually. The climbs are a lot more satisfying.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5469

I thought it was a better game, I probably enjoyed the first one more due to it all being new but it's a good sequel.

Malabar Front · **Posted:** Thu Jul 29, 2010 4:19 pm

I agree with Bluce. I enjoyed 2, but it lost something in the process.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Thu Jul 29, 2010 4:20 pm

I bet you watch Peep Show for fun.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 17051

2 was a good game, but a rubbish sequel. It didn't fix any of the first one's problems or add anything significant to the mix. I enjoyed my time with it, but would advise anyone looking to spend £40 on it that it comes across like a total conversion, not a new game.

Plissken · **Posted:** Fri Jul 30, 2010 6:34 am

I got my moneys worth out of it which is all you can ask really. Have given up on the story mode (7/10 beacons, but the one I'm trying to do keeps throwing mahoosive freaks at me that can't be killed by anything) and am just collecting orbs, races etc.

I think that it is odd that all the criticisms are generally valid, but I'd still say it is a necessary addition to your Funsquare collection. Easy game to point out the flaws in, but you have to get someone to play it to appreciate its qualities.

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Fri Jul 30, 2010 6:38 am

Plissken wrote:

I got my moneys worth out of it which is all you can ask really. Have given up on the story mode (7/10 beacons, but the one I'm trying to do keeps throwing mahoosive freaks at me that can't be killed by anything) and am just collecting orbs, races etc.

Have you tried any of:
-Homing Rocket Launcher/flocket launcher.
-Taking a helicopter with dual rocket launchers in. (Req: Lvl 5 agility)
-Having higher skills in explosives
-Lowering difficulty
-Getting an chum in to help.
?

Plissken · **Posted:** Fri Jul 30, 2010 6:48 am

The Homing Rocket Launcher is the only thing that does damage and I'm level 5 in everything.

Lowering difficulty, tried that.

Helicopter or assistance, no, not yet.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5469

The flocket launcher is effective against them so equip that and homing missiles. Also if it's the one where the massive ones run around the edges throwing rocks at the beacon you do need to kill those but you also need to keep firing missiles at all the freaks around the beacon as they are also doing a lot of damage to it even though they aren't highlighted on your radar. UV grenades also take a fair chunk of damage off them.

Plissken · **Posted:** Fri Jul 30, 2010 11:26 am

There is also the absolutely ginormous one that comes in and just pounds the shit out of the beacon. So you end up trying to homing rocket him from (fairly) close range, which means blowing yourself up.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Fri Jul 30, 2010 11:30 am

I had no trouble defeating all the freak lairs on my own.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Jul 30, 2010 11:31 am

You're the Grindmeister though.

Wogan'sTrouserBulge · **Posted:** Fri Jul 30, 2010 11:31 am

Me too and I played on the second difficulty setting because I'm HARDCORE.

Craster · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 20492

Plissken wrote:

There is also the absolutely ginormous one that comes in and just pounds the shit out of the beacon. So you end up trying to homing rocket him from (fairly) close range, which means blowing yourself up.

What are you doing on the ground? Get a vantage point over the beacon.

Plissken · **Posted:** Fri Jul 30, 2010 12:04 pm

I am doing! There is this fucking Goliath thing that just arrives and pounds the shit out of it.

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