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Crackdown 2 360 takes Agents back to a ruined Pacific City, but while super-powered crime fighting is as irresponsibly fun as ever, this sequel fails to advance either the series or its story.

Narration gets a bad rep these days. The voiceover on Blade Runner was stripped out for the Director's Cut, and the bombastic narration on old show's like Dragnet now comes across as a little quaint. For most visual media, an omnipresent voice leading through the story is too much 'tell' and not nearly enough show.
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Crackdown 2's wonderfully distracting world offers a rich place to play and hunt. Although, in the absence of split-screen multiplayer, we were restricted to turn-taking the playground spirit kept us going long into the night.

The original Crackdown was initially memorable because of the beta access it gave to Halo 3. However, it went on to be very well received with its most absorbing part being the collection of the 500 agility orbs scattered around Pacific City. Obsessive gamers spent hours and hours searching for and then trying to reach the little green globes, with many tucked away hidden from sight.
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Crackdown 2 is a clone. The open-world playground feels asphyxiated. Running on the remaining fumes of the original's happy accident, Crackdown 2 lacks variety. But most importantly it's missing the joyous fun we all flocked to the first time round.

The secret to the original Crackdown's success was surprise. With the Halo 3 beta packaged along with it the game played second string to Microsoft's standard bearer. Discovering the madcap madness of its open-world, proto-superhero tale was an explosive collision of bugs, glitches, explosions and barrage of phrases ending in 'Agent!'.
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Crackdown 2, to eyes seasoned by classic sequels, was a huge letdown. It should have expanded on the first defining game, but in the end it was just 500 more orbs of the same - addictive, but familiar.

Before gaming lost its grip on me, the idea of a sequel was exciting. It had the potential to be anything and everything. It could be a continuation, an evolution, an addition, an exploration, even a redefinition. Zelda to Zelda II, Mario 2 to Mario 3, Bubble Bobble to Rainbow Islands.
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Crackdown 2 360 is an amplification of the first game. While offering more of what made the first game so much fun, it also ticks some important technical boxes. Less buggy, more dynamic and with an impressive four-player co-op there has obviously been considerable investment here.

Heading back to Pacific City never felt so good with new orbs to collect, new enemies to defeat and new powers to exploit. With a terrible virus sweeping through the city giving rise to the zombie-like Freaks, there's never been a more desperate need for you. Agent!
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Crackdown 2 360 continues the compulsive game play with just a few new twists. Leaping tall buildings, throwing cars and a ludicrous arsenal make it great to don the agent's uniform again.

When the announcement of a new game is greeted by standing and cheering, it's always going to be hard to meet that expectation. The moment Crackdown 2 arrived, I worried it wouldn't live up to what I'd been imagining for the past year.
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