Why wasn't Crackdown a bigger franchise?

Saints Row 4 did it better.

It has the same issue as Batman and Saints Row IV. No point in fleshing out vehicles when jumping/flying around is a much more efficient way to move around the city.

Is CD1 on gamepass?

one and done

fuck you nigger, Crackdown was the best superhero/cop game out there

because it was primarily on Microsoft platforms

You now made me remember the whole POWER OF THE CLOUD thing. Did anything ever come out of that?

Which is crazy because of how fun the first one was. I remember fucking around with friends causing a supermutant outbreak by baiting the mutants into citizens at night and causing huge hordes to appear

>gta but the other way around and shittier

First one was fun as hell. Second one made me wonder what went wrong. Third one took about 20 years and had less than the first one.

it got downgraded into a side mode, thats its own executable and the destruction is worse than red faction

The first game is great but I never understood the whole "destroy the smaller gang hideout to soften their hq" mechanic.
If you never attempt to take down the HQ before you've done all the smaller hideout first than you'll never actually see your progress which I think they were hoping you would.

Crackdown was cool upon release, nearly 15 years ago.
Even something like Saints Row 4 ended up stealing and mogging the entire concept.

You can get Crackdown 2 for free.

marketplace.xbox.com/nb-NO/product/Crackdown-2/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d8024d5308bc

I'm still mad the sequel ditched the visual changes from the first game
>unique agents replaced with a single model
>upgrades just make you taller or more swole

I loved watching those twink-ass agents turn into harden veterans in the first one.

that was the second game.

Gta ran over every modern city open world franchise in those days

>Keys to the City
More games need this feature.

What, paid cheat codes?

The first entry was simply sublime, remember getting in large part due to the inclusion of some beta access (dont really remember but want to say Halo 3 for some reason) but just couldnt stop playing and it still holds up, the sequel was a shitshow in large part cause they changed the structure of having three different factions with several bosses needing to be removed in any order to progress and adding boring bulletspongezombies that wasnt even fun to take down to account for the lack of meaningful content. But when it comes to the third installment I have to disagree, it felt like it got back to form in a sense (it went the right way by removing the zombies and trying to go back to what made the first one great), yes the multiplayer was neat but playerbase dwindled fast and those resources would have been put to better use to improve the single player since it could have needed more of everything (especially bosses cause it was way too short, more and more satisfying weaponry like a nice and useful pistol like the first entry, higher difficuilty, just more of everything) but even so it was a fun time albeit a tad lackluster due to the short playtime even for 100%. There really isnt that much to talk about as its all empty when youre done while the first one at least gave you a somewhat new game+

Crackdown 3 is pure arcadey fun, especially with friends. I guess it makes sense why nu-Zig Forums hates it.

The demo for crackdown 1 was just the first island with a time limit, but you could do whatever you wanted in that time. Pretty good way to sell the game