Crackdown (Xbox One)

[Guts]

The new instalment in the Xbox exclusive, open-world series was shown at E3 2014. Named at the moment just "Crackdown" so it is unclear if it's a remake of the original, a reboot of the series or a sequel to the first two games. The CGI trailer promises destruction on a big scale with collapsing buildings etc.



Edit: The game is developed by Cloudgine, a Scottish studio formed by Dave Jones, who also founded Realtime Worlds, the makers of the original Crackdown.

[Brad]

Not a remake cos pretty sure that guy (Vincente) wasn't in the original. Looks like mega fun! Would buy an XBone for this I reckon if I had to.

[Neon Ignition]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-08-04-crackdown-3-will-offer-100-percent-destructible-environments

Multiplayer will feature full destructable environments. 2016 release seems to be hinted at

[MartyG]

I'm surprised that Microsoft is still banging on about its cloud servers "harnessing twenty times the power of your Xbox One." - I've yet to see anything substantiating such a claim - maybe it's going to be offloading some of the destruction physics. I will allow Microsoft to prove SimCity wrong

[eastyy]

Yeah i really do not get that at all not sure how all that power can fit down a average broadband connection

[EvilBoris]

I'm surprised that Microsoft is still banging on about its cloud servers "harnessing twenty times the power of your Xbox One." - I've yet to see anything substantiating such a claim - maybe it's going to be offloading some of the destruction physics. I will allow Microsoft to prove SimCity wrong

That's exactly what a dedicated server multiplayer does, it frees up a little cpu
For crackdown they are allegedly planning something more sophisticated

https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/AndrewParsons/Cloud-Assist-Demo-from-Build-2014

Cloudgine is a company set up by Crackdown / GTA creator Dave Jones to provide cloud gaming technologies

Quoted from the E3 thread earlier in the year, this was a tech demo for the cloudgine stuff that was shown last year and then confirmed to be part of Crackdown.

I think other points to remember are that the company developing this is not a Microsoft 1st party studio, they have been setup to create a cloud computing game engine, presumably to sell to everyone as middleware at a later date, so I expect it is very much a real thing.

"20X the CPU power of an Xbox One" , which against isn't probably that unfeasible for the Azure network, especially as it seems to be verging on being an MMO, so the servers aren't even needed per player.

The fact that it is verging on an MMO does make me nervous.

[MartyG]

The trouble with relying on such a system though, is either your game is not going to work when the servers are playing up, or the end player gets a second rate experience. A tech demo doesn't prove it's going to work in the real world, so making your game depend on the tech to make it work makes me nervous.

No way I'll be making a day one purchase for this game if that's the case.

See SimCity.

[Brad]

Crackdown from the people who made the original makes me wish I had an xbone.

[Family Fry]

[charlesr]

/me raids piggybank.

[Family Fry]

On stage demo and explanation of the cloud use.

[rubans]

The trouble with relying on such a system though, is either your game is not going to work when the servers are playing up, or the end player gets a second rate experience. A tech demo doesn't prove it's going to work in the real world, so making your game depend on the tech to make it work makes me nervous.

No way I'll be making a day one purchase for this game if that's the case.

See SimCity.

I thought the 100% destruction is only for multiplayers so if the servers are down then presumably no multiplayer at all anyway so not sure if it's such a big issue. Azure powers all sorts of real world apps so in terms of cloud, it's about as reliable as you get.

[Brad]

Amazing!!!!!

[MartyG]

The demo is impressive for sure, but we know historically that there's a *lot* of faking done in these things. Was that demo using servers on a Gigabit LAN with no load? Was it actually using Azure live? Who knows?

*cough* Milo *cough*

I well past giving developers and publishers the benefit of the doubt.

[dvdx2]

Nice, but hadly as ground breaking as hes letting on; wasnt the type of destruction seen in red faction guerrilla? Remember having a ton of fun with that