Crackdown 3 is the highly-anticipated next installment in a series defined by open-world urban combat. In it, players take on the role of super agents tasked with clearing a metropolitan area of crime lords, and they’re free to go about it any way they wish.
HIGH Gorgeous, remastered character visuals and audio.
LOW Motion controls are clever, but gimmicky.
WTF Evil Ryu and Violent Ken.
HIGH And now, a murder mystery dinner!
LOW Getting stuck for twenty minutes because I couldn’t find a file in plain view.
WTF If I lean forward I can look through walls. This. Changes. Everything.
HIGH The beautiful art style and story…
LOW …which is slow to develop and feels like a setup for the sequel.
WTF The girls who want to be sex slaves. And it’s a running gag.
HIGH Fixing the laptop results in a wonderful surprise.
LOW Certain sequences drag on for way, way too long.
WTF I’ll go to bed when I bloody well feel like it, Morgana.
HIGH The first time a level pulls back and reveals its full form.
LOW Oh hey, you reversed the controls. How clever, how droll.
WTF I’m being chased by an eel?
HIGH Getting to know Javi and David.
LOW A narrative structure that starts every episode with an unnecessary flashback.
WTF The season is essentially a side story to Clementine’s journey.
HIGH Swinging as high as I could with Calvin.
LOW Hunting those poor rabbits.
WTF Flopping through a forest as a shark out of water.
Welcome to This Is Not A Review. In these articles we discuss general impressions, ideas and thoughts on any given game, but as the title implies, it’s not a review. Instead, it’s an exercise in offering a quick recommendation (or dismissal) after spending enough time to grasp the ideas and gameplay of a thing without necessarily playing it from A to Z.
The subject of this installment: Plague Road, developed and published by Arcade Distillery.
HIGH Working out the bar’s safe code by carefully examining the environment.
LOW Trying to figure which of the six digits I’m not supposed to use on a five digit lock.
WTF The villain’s fish-head mask.
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