This Crackdown 3 announcement has been on my mind since E3 2014.
Why? Because its Game Engine (UE4) is being tweaked by the Experts at Cloudgine based in Edinburgh. This engine is being designed to implement server based physic which I believe will change the way we play games in the future. The trailer claims that by connecting to the Microsoft Cloud you can play with 20 time the computational power of an Xbox one.
In the new Trailer that was released at Gamescom 2015 we can see that Crackdown 3 harnesses the power of the Cloud and offers the players a 100% destructible environment. This is only possible as it uses the cloud as the main processor for the game. Meaning that it may not support offline game-play.
In the trailer we also see that the game can connect to 8 players. Whether that is a maximum player count is yet to be told but playing in an environment where 8 player can simultaneously destroy everything ! Come on !!! need I say more ?
Crackdown 3? I also picked up on that. I think the designers at Re-Agent Games must be wanting to to continue the story even though we anticipated a new re-launch of the Crackdown title. Crackdown 2 finished with your agent going Kamikaze on Catalina Thorn… While she was in a Chopper. This resulted in the agents body part being impaled within the chopper and a later cut scene shows Catalina Thorn analysing your agents severed hand within a lab.
Let us know what you think of the new Crackdown 3 and also what titles would you like to see be implement with the server based physics.
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