OXCGN reviewer Gav Ross gets all excited aboutthe latest iteration of the Crackdown franchise.

Seems the wait has been worth it, and from what I can see, fans should love it.

The games just been released from publishers embargo moments ago, so head over there now, take a read, it's a nice informative review, and well worth the read, and there's some nice pics of course.

Although it’s been just three years between release dates of the original and this sequel, a decade has passed in Pacific City and if you thought that everything turned out all peachy after The Agency cleaned up the previous gang wars at the conclusion of 2007′s Crackdown then you’re in for a shock.

Times are grim. Everything is a shell of its former self. The entire original Pacific City is intact in Crackdown 2 and ready to be revisited, but it’s a decaying, run-down mess of a city – like a nightmare alternate reality of the first game.

Think of when Marty McFly arrives into the alternate 1985 in Back To The Future II, only to find chalk body outlines on the roads and his main street overrun by bikies and misfits – that’s pretty much the feel the new Pacific City gives off.

But there’s a comforting familiarity with being able to revisit your favourite locations from the first game, even if they are in disarray. Remember ‘Funland’ – the fairground area by the beach with the huge ferris wheel? Go there in Crackdown 2 and it’s a desolate, dilapidated ghost fair with maniacal ‘Cell’ members (city residents who’ve turned on The Agency) camping out in the ferris wheel compartments that haven’t fallen apart yet.

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