Crackdown (video game series)
Crackdown is a series of action-adventure video games created by David Jones and published by Xbox Game Studios. The series takes place in a futuristic dystopian city controlled and enforced by a law enforcement organization called the Agency. The games center on the Agency's supersoldiers, known as 'Agents', as they fight threats ranging from various criminal syndicates, a terrorist group known as 'Cell', and zombie-like monsters called 'Freaks'.
| Crackdown | |
|---|---|
| Genre(s) | Third-person shooter, action-adventure |
| Developer(s) | Realtime Worlds Ruffian Games Sumo Digital |
| Publisher(s) | Xbox Game Studios |
| Creator(s) | David Jones |
| Platform(s) | Xbox 360, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows |
| First release | Crackdown 20 February 2007 |
| Latest release | Crackdown 3 15 February 2019 |
Games of the series have been developed by various game developers, with the first game, Crackdown, completed by Realtime Worlds on February 20, 2007, and a sequel titled Crackdown 2 developed by Ruffian Games on July 6, 2010. Both games were released for the Xbox 360. A third installment, Crackdown 3 developed by Sumo Digital, was released on February 15, 2019, for the Xbox One and Microsoft Windows. The game has been met with positive critical reception and won several video game awards. Critics praised the sandbox-style third-person shooter for allowing the ability to cause massive destruction in a non-linear gameplay, while also criticizing the series for lacking an actual story. The series has garnered mostly positive reception and commercial success.