Pads & Panels

Title: Crackdown 2

Platform: 360

ESRB: M

Publisher: Microsoft

Developer: Ruffian Games

Rating:

Review by: Bill Jones

It’s been more than three years since gamers first roamed the streets and leaped from building to building in Crackdown’s Pacific City. After being packaged with Halo 3’s beta code, the original achieved significant sales, but Microsoft took its sweet time getting around to a sequel. Now in the hands of Ruffian Games, rather than the series’ original creators at Realtime Worlds, Crackdown 2 doesn’t stray much from the formula of the original, for better and for worse. But mostly for the better. (more…)

 Print This Post

While Chris Park continues his journey around the Los Angeles Convention Center, and John and I prepare some commentary on the event and news thus far, the companies are inundating the inbox with their latest announcements and the press conferences go on. So in the interest of simplicity and being concise, we’ve compiled the news we’ve received directly from the sources, be it by email, press conferences or publisher websites, and tried to organize it in a digestible format for our readers in a series of posts. First up, Microsoft’s announcements, as well as some of the big games on the way announced through the company’s conference…

Microsoft’s press conference opened with a montage of Rock Band: Beatles, which is to include support for three harmonized vocalists, as well as its own instrument kit. It is set to release Sept. 9 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii. Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison made appearances. Abbey Road was announced as a downloadable ablum. “All You Need is Love” is to be an exlusive DLC song to 360, with proceeds going to Doctors Without Borders. (more…)

 Print This Post