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** Also applies to the gangs names (Los Muertos = The Dead, Volk = Wolf), but the Director helpfully supplies translations in briefing videos.
** Also applies to the gangs names (Los Muertos = The Dead, Volk = Wolf), but the Director helpfully supplies translations in briefing videos.
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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: The Director often refers to Los Muertos as "The Los Muertos." Translated, that makes them "The The Dead."
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* EarlyBirdCameo: While running through the Agency training course in the beginning of the second game, you pass through a garage, where you can see every single Agency vehicle you'll get to unlock.
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* LaughingMad: Los Muertos often cackle insanely in the middle of gunfights, quite likely as a result of their gang's propensity for hard drugs. It also emphasizes the lack of professionalism among their goons, as they aren't trained soldiers like the Volk or Shai-Gen's thugs.
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* TunnelOfForeshadowing: Literal example: If you stand in the three tunnels to each island, you can hear the bosses of those islands cursing you out.
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An open world, third-person shooter video game for the {{Xbox 360}}, ''{{Crackdown}}'' was for a time, famous for being the game [[PreviewPiggybacking you had to buy in order]] to get into the ''{{Halo 3}}'' beta.
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An open world, third-person shooter video game for the {{Xbox 360}}, ''{{Crackdown}}'' was for a time, famous for being the game [[PreviewPiggybacking you had to buy in order]] to get into the ''{{Halo ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}'' beta.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Despite the Agency orchestrating the police state-ification of Pacific City and crushing those who stand against them with extreme prejudice, the Director still does ''not'' approve when you kill innocent civilians.
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** The guns you get early on are pretty modest in stopping power, and the aiming reticule can be finicky. The easiest way to deal with low-level gang members, then, is to run straight at them and melee them to death.
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* ContinuityReboot: The Thrid Game in the series is set in the Future of the First game but [[CanonDiscontiunity undoes]] the plot of the second.
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* ContinuityReboot: The Thrid Game in the series is set in the Future of the First game but [[CanonDiscontiunity [[CanonDiscontinuity undoes]] the plot of the second.
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* ContinuityReboot: The Thrid Game in the series is set in the Future of the First game but [[CanonDiscontiunity undoes]] the plot of the second.
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Not to be confused with the end-of-the-80s arcade game by {{Sega}}.
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''Crackdown 2'' was not as well liked as its predecessor. Everyone was upset that the game took place [[ItsTheSameSoItSucks in an exact copy of Pacific City from the first game]], except the city was rundown instead of bright and vibrant. And the fun StormingTheCastle missions were replaced with repetitive king of the hill games. Plus, fighting members of LaResistance with legitimate complaints [[WhatTheHellHero was just not the same as taking out gangmembers]], nor was killing zombies that you could kill with a single punch.
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''Crackdown 2'' was not as well liked as its predecessor. Everyone was upset that the game took place [[ItsTheSameSoItSucks [[ItsTheSameNowItSucks in an exact copy of Pacific City from the first game]], except the city was rundown instead of bright and vibrant. And the fun StormingTheCastle missions were replaced with repetitive king of the hill games. Plus, fighting members of LaResistance with legitimate complaints [[WhatTheHellHero was just not the same as taking out gangmembers]], nor was killing zombies that you could kill with a single punch.
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** The sequel, however, has quite a few literal broken bridges, having gone from [[CrapsaccharineWorld Crapsaccharine]] to CrapsackWorld. [[AvertedTrope Still, there's nothing stopping you from swimming to the other islands.]]
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** The sequel, however, has quite a few literal broken bridges, having gone from [[CrapsaccharineWorld Crapsaccharine]] {{Crapsaccharine|World}} to CrapsackWorld. [[AvertedTrope Still, there's nothing stopping you from swimming to the other islands.]]
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* CleanUpTheTown: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] with a vengeance. Instead of improving the state of Pacific City, the Agent's actions instead [[spoiler:pave the way for the rise of totalitarian state]].
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* CleanUpTheTown: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] {{Deconstructed|Trope}} with a vengeance. Instead of improving the state of Pacific City, the Agent's actions instead [[spoiler:pave the way for the rise of totalitarian state]].
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* CoolCar: The three main Agency vehicles, which evolve alongside the Agent's skills. The Agency Supercar goes from a nice-looking muscle car to a [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Batmobile]] {{Expy}} with machine guns and blinding speed. The Agency SUV becomes a monster truck with improbable handling skills. As for the Agency ''[[TheJuggernaut Truck]]''...
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* CoolCar: The three main Agency vehicles, which evolve alongside the Agent's skills. The Agency Supercar goes from a nice-looking muscle car to a [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Batmobile]] Franchise/{{Batm|an}}obile {{Expy}} with machine guns and blinding speed. The Agency SUV becomes a monster truck with improbable handling skills. As for the Agency ''[[TheJuggernaut Truck]]''...
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* [[EarthShatteringKaboom Earth Shattering Flash of Light]]: The final beacon.
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* GreyAndGreyMorality: You play the genetically-enhanced supercop running around shutting down gangs, which makes you unambiguously the good guy, right? [[spoiler:'''Wrong'''. Turns out, the Agency covertly sponsored the three gangs, ''letting'' Pacific City get to the point of ruin, only to (ahem) crack down on them with the Agents, giving them control of the area in question. They also plan to do this in other cities until they [[OneWorldOrder own the world]].]]
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* GreyAndGreyMorality: GreyAndGrayMorality: You play the genetically-enhanced supercop running around shutting down gangs, which makes you unambiguously the good guy, right? [[spoiler:'''Wrong'''. Turns out, the Agency covertly sponsored the three gangs, ''letting'' Pacific City get to the point of ruin, only to (ahem) crack down on them with the Agents, giving them control of the area in question. They also plan to do this in other cities until they [[OneWorldOrder own the world]].]]
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* JerkAss: The Director, who is an endless font of uncaring or outright demeaning snark. For example, he makes fun of you when you ''catch on fire''.
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* LightEmUp: In ''Crackdown 2'', Freaks are [[NocturnalMooks nocturnal]] and are terribly WeakenedByTheLight. Your goal is to turn on as many light-generating devices as possible to wipe them all out, and in the meantime, you have a few "UV" weapons specifically designed to annihilate Freaks but spare humans.
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* LightEmUp: In ''Crackdown 2'', Freaks are [[NocturnalMooks nocturnal]] {{nocturnal|Mooks}} and are terribly WeakenedByTheLight. Your goal is to turn on as many light-generating devices as possible to wipe them all out, and in the meantime, you have a few "UV" weapons specifically designed to annihilate Freaks but spare humans.
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** Some of the pedestrians [[{{Clerks}} aren't even supposed to be here today.]]
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** Averted in the first game -- the player starts off with an assault rifle with an adjustable scope, access to the best vehicles in the game, the ability to jump ten feet straight up while standing still, and the strength to rip a car door off its hinges... and ''everything goes up from there''. Of course, given that you eventually become TheIncredibleHulk with a [[StuffBlowingUp missile launcher]] and a [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Batmobile]], it's hard not to feel underpowered when you replay the game from the beginning.
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** Averted in the first game -- the player starts off with an assault rifle with an adjustable scope, access to the best vehicles in the game, the ability to jump ten feet straight up while standing still, and the strength to rip a car door off its hinges... and ''everything goes up from there''. Of course, given that you eventually become TheIncredibleHulk with a [[StuffBlowingUp missile launcher]] and a [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Batmobile]], Franchise/{{Batm|an}}obile, it's hard not to feel underpowered when you replay the game from the beginning.
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* BadassNormal: In addition to the Peacekeepers, in very rare cases in 1, there will be armed civilians who take on the gangs themselves. In 2, there are civilians who fight Freaks alongside the Peacekeepers.
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-->[[spoiler: '''The Director:''' Congratulations Agent, peace at last... You overthrew the world's most evil criminal masterminds and their dominant empires. You have returned law and order to Pacific City. You gave the people back their lives. Thank you. ''(EvilLaugh)'' It's taken years of meticulous planning and patience to reach this stage, but it was worth it. Who do you think supplied Los Muertos? Who do you think turned a blind eye to the Volk's activities? Who do you think was Shai-Gen's biggest supporter? Who do you think ran organized law-enforcement, and ran it into the ground? The people had to experience absolute anarchy, before they would accept unconditional control. [[PoliceState You are the portent of a New World Order, Agent.]] [[TodayXTomorrowTheWorld Pacific City was only the beginning.]]
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-->[[spoiler: '''The Director:''' Congratulations Agent, peace at last... You overthrew the world's most evil criminal masterminds and their dominant empires. You have returned law and order to Pacific City. You gave the people back their lives. Thank you. ''(EvilLaugh)'' It's taken years of meticulous planning and patience to reach this stage, but it was worth it. Who do you think supplied Los Muertos? Who do you think turned a blind eye to the Volk's activities? Who do you think was Shai-Gen's biggest supporter? Who do you think ran organized law-enforcement, and ran it into the ground? The people had to experience absolute anarchy, before they would accept unconditional control. [[PoliceState You are the portent of a New World Order, Agent.]] [[TodayXTomorrowTheWorld Pacific City was only the beginning.]]]]]]
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-->[[spoiler: '''The Director:''' Congratulations Agent, peace at last... You overthrew the world's most evil criminal masterminds and their dominant empires. You have returned law and order to Pacific City. You gave the people back their lives. Thank you. ''(EvilLaugh)'' It's taken years of meticulous planning and patience to reach this stage, but it was worth it. Who do you think supplied Los Muertos? Who do you think turned a blind eye to the Volk's activities? Who do you think was Shai-Gen's biggest supporter? Who do you think ran organized law-enforcement, and ran it into the ground? The people had to experience absolute anarchy, before they would accept unconditional control. [[PoliceState You are the portent of a New World Order, Agent.]] [[TodayXTomorrowTheWorld Pacific City was only the beginning.]]
-->[[spoiler: '''The Director:''' Congratulations Agent, peace at last... You overthrew the world's most evil criminal masterminds and their dominant empires. You have returned law and order to Pacific City. You gave the people back their lives. Thank you. ''(EvilLaugh)'' It's taken years of meticulous planning and patience to reach this stage, but it was worth it. Who do you think supplied Los Muertos? Who do you think turned a blind eye to the Volk's activities? Who do you think was Shai-Gen's biggest supporter? Who do you think ran organized law-enforcement, and ran it into the ground? The people had to experience absolute anarchy, before they would accept unconditional control. [[PoliceState You are the portent of a New World Order, Agent.]] [[TodayXTomorrowTheWorld Pacific City was only the beginning.]]
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* [[spoiler:TheBadGuyWins]]: [[spoiler: The Agency definitely counts.is [[TheReveal revealed]] to have been supplying the gangs of Pacific City with weapons and resources in order to create the very problem that the Agency would be brought in to stop. This supposedly helps the Agency generate [[VillainWithGoodPublicity good publicity]] for themselves and high public demand for their services after the player eliminates the gangs.]]
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* CleanUpTheTown: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] with vengeance. Instead of improving the state of Pacific City, the Agent's actions instead [[spoiler:pave the way for the rise of totalitarian state]].
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* CleanUpTheTown: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] with a vengeance. Instead of improving the state of Pacific City, the Agent's actions instead [[spoiler:pave the way for the rise of totalitarian state]].
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''Crackdown'' was met positive reviews. What was particularly liked was how your Agent [[LevelUp levelled up]]. The Agent's five abilities, agility, firearms, strength, explosives, and driving, increase in power when you use them and unlock more cool stuff for you to use. For instance if you beat up a bunch of people you eventually get stronger and can lift heavy objects, or if you perform well in driving missions you get cooler cars. The ability people enjoyed most though was agility, which you filled up by collecting orbs on rooftops that made you faster and jump higher. So by the end of the game you go from a regular guy to a super cop who jumps effortlessly from rooftop to rooftop. [[JustOneMoreLevel And goddamn was it addictive collecting those orbs and jumping around.]]
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''Crackdown'' was met with positive reviews. What was particularly liked was how your Agent [[LevelUp levelled up]]. The Agent's five abilities, agility, firearms, strength, explosives, and driving, increase in power when you use them and unlock more cool stuff for you to use. For instance if you beat up a bunch of people you eventually get stronger and can lift heavy objects, or if you perform well in driving missions you get cooler cars. The ability people enjoyed most though was agility, which you filled up by collecting orbs on rooftops that made you faster and jump higher. So by the end of the game you go from a regular guy to a super cop who jumps effortlessly from rooftop to rooftop. [[JustOneMoreLevel And goddamn was it addictive collecting those orbs and jumping around.]]
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* CoolCar: The three main Agency vehicles, which evolve alongside the Agent's skills. The Agency Supercar goes from a nice-looking muscle car to a [[BatMan Batmobile]] {{Expy}} with machine guns and blinding speed. The Agency SUV becomes a monster truck with improbable handling skills. As for the Agency ''[[TheJuggernaut Truck]]''...
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* CoolCar: The three main Agency vehicles, which evolve alongside the Agent's skills. The Agency Supercar goes from a nice-looking muscle car to a [[BatMan [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Batmobile]] {{Expy}} with machine guns and blinding speed. The Agency SUV becomes a monster truck with improbable handling skills. As for the Agency ''[[TheJuggernaut Truck]]''...
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** Thoroughly averted in the first game -- the player starts off with an assault rifle with an adjustable scope, access to the best vehicles in the game, the ability to jump ten feet straight up while standing still, and the strength to rip a car door off its hinges... and ''everything goes up from there''. Of course, given that you eventually become TheIncredibleHulk with a [[StuffBlowingUp missile launcher]] and a [[{{Batman}} Batmobile]], it's hard not to feel underpowered when you replay the game from the beginning.
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* WholePlotReference: The game is basically JudgeDredd [[AC:[[RecycledInSpace WITH SUPERPOWERS]]]]!
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The city, therefore sought additional help from "the Agency," an organization that, in addition to outfitting and supporting Peacekeepers, has used advanced surgical and cybernetic technology to create SuperSoldiers known as "Agents." The Agency is based out of a former hotel in the very center of the city. The player takes on the role of one of their Agents, and is tasked with systematically bringing down all three organized gangs, while keeping both the populace and Peacekeepers safe. The Agent's actions are continuously monitored by the Agency, and its Director (voiced by MichaelMcConnohie) provides continuous reports to him of his progress.
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* CarFu: The player is at times, encouraged to use vehicles as a weapon, in addition to improving their driving skills. In addition to the standard form of vehicular homicide, when your agent becomes powerful enough, you can wait until your enemy exits their car (on the opposite side from you) and then immediately ''kick it into their face.'' Sadly, the enemy AI have 1337 car-dodging skillz, so running them over is much harder than it should be.
** When your driving skills are fully maxed, the Agency cars become really [[IncrediblyLamePun killer]]: the Supercar has guns and can drive under almost any other car, the SUV OVER any car (and most flat surfaced buildings and terrain), and the truck, as long as you don't go off-road, can maintain a high speed in opposing traffic indefinitely.
** When your driving skills are fully maxed, the Agency cars become really [[IncrediblyLamePun killer]]: the Supercar has guns and can drive under almost any other car, the SUV OVER any car (and most flat surfaced buildings and terrain), and the truck, as long as you don't go off-road, can maintain a high speed in opposing traffic indefinitely.
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* CarFu: The player is at times, encouraged to use vehicles as a weapon, in addition to improving their driving skills. However, the enemy AI have incredible car-dodging skills, so running them over is much harder than it should be. In addition to the standard form of vehicular homicide, when your agent becomes powerful enough, you can wait until your enemy exits their car (on the opposite side from you) and then immediately ''kick it into their face.'' Sadly, the enemy AI have 1337 car-dodging skillz, so running them over is much harder than it should be.
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** When your driving skills are fully maxed, the Agency cars become really[[IncrediblyLamePun [[{{Pun}} killer]]: the Supercar has guns gains machineguns and can drive under almost any other car, the SUV OVER can drive over any car (and most flat surfaced buildings and terrain), and the truck, Truck can drive through any car and, as long as you don't go off-road, can maintain a high speed in opposing traffic indefinitely.
** When your driving skills are fully maxed, the Agency cars become really
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An open world, third-person shooter video game for the {{Xbox 360}}, ''{{Crackdown}}'' was for a time, famous for being the game [[PreviewPiggybacking you had to buy in order]] to get into the ''{{Halo}} 3'' beta.
The game takes place in the fictional metropolis of Pacific City, whose several districts and areas are divided among four islands. The city is controlled by three crime organizations: [[TheCartel Los Muertos, of Central American origin;]] [[TheMafiya an Eastern European gang, the Volk;]] and the formerly above-the-books [[MegaCorp Shai-Gen Corporation,]] from East Asia. Normally, a police-like organization called the Peacekeepers kept the city under control; their forces, however, were overwhelmed by the sudden rise in crime.
The city, therefore sought additional help from "the Agency," an organization that, in addition to outfitting and supporting Peacekeepers, has used advanced surgical and cybernetic technology to create SuperSoldiers known as "Agents." The Agency is based out of a former hotel in the very center of the city. The player takes on the role of one of their Agents, and is tasked with systematically bringing down all three organized gangs, while keeping both the populace and Peacekeepers safe. The Agent's actions are continuously monitored by the Agency, and its Director (voiced by {{Michael McConnohie}}) provides continuous reports to him of his progress.
The game takes place in the fictional metropolis of Pacific City, whose several districts and areas are divided among four islands. The city is controlled by three crime organizations: [[TheCartel Los Muertos, of Central American origin;]] [[TheMafiya an Eastern European gang, the Volk;]] and the formerly above-the-books [[MegaCorp Shai-Gen Corporation,]] from East Asia. Normally, a police-like organization called the Peacekeepers kept the city under control; their forces, however, were overwhelmed by the sudden rise in crime.
The city, therefore sought additional help from "the Agency," an organization that, in addition to outfitting and supporting Peacekeepers, has used advanced surgical and cybernetic technology to create SuperSoldiers known as "Agents." The Agency is based out of a former hotel in the very center of the city. The player takes on the role of one of their Agents, and is tasked with systematically bringing down all three organized gangs, while keeping both the populace and Peacekeepers safe. The Agent's actions are continuously monitored by the Agency, and its Director (voiced by {{Michael McConnohie}}) provides continuous reports to him of his progress.
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An open world, third-person shooter video game for the {{Xbox 360}}, ''{{Crackdown}}'' was for a time, famous for being the game [[PreviewPiggybacking you had to buy in order]] to get into the ''{{Halo}} 3'' ''{{Halo 3}}'' beta.
The game takes place in the fictional metropolis of Pacific City, whose several districts and areas are divided among four islands. The city is controlled by three crime organizations: [[TheCartel Los Muertos, of Central American origin;]] [[TheMafiya an Eastern European gang, the Volk;]] and the formerly above-the-books [[MegaCorp Shai-Gen Corporation,]] from East Asia. Normally, a police-like organization called the Peacekeepers kept the city under control; their forces, however, were overwhelmed by the sudden rise incrime.
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The city, therefore sought additional help from "the Agency," an organization that, in addition to outfitting and supporting Peacekeepers, has used advanced surgical and cybernetic technology to create SuperSoldiers known as "Agents." The Agency is based out of a former hotel in the very center of the city. The player takes on the role of one of their Agents, and is tasked with systematically bringing down all three organized gangs, while keeping both the populace and Peacekeepers safe. The Agent's actions are continuously monitored by the Agency, and its Director (voiced by{{Michael McConnohie}}) MichaelMcConnohie) provides continuous reports to him of his progress.
The game takes place in the fictional metropolis of Pacific City, whose several districts and areas are divided among four islands. The city is controlled by three crime organizations: [[TheCartel Los Muertos, of Central American origin;]] [[TheMafiya an Eastern European gang, the Volk;]] and the formerly above-the-books [[MegaCorp Shai-Gen Corporation,]] from East Asia. Normally, a police-like organization called the Peacekeepers kept the city under control; their forces, however, were overwhelmed by the sudden rise in
The city, therefore sought additional help from "the Agency," an organization that, in addition to outfitting and supporting Peacekeepers, has used advanced surgical and cybernetic technology to create SuperSoldiers known as "Agents." The Agency is based out of a former hotel in the very center of the city. The player takes on the role of one of their Agents, and is tasked with systematically bringing down all three organized gangs, while keeping both the populace and Peacekeepers safe. The Agent's actions are continuously monitored by the Agency, and its Director (voiced by
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->''"You are authorized to use whatever means you feel is necessary to remove the filth from the streets."''
-->-- '''[[MissionControl The Director]]'''
An open world, third-person shooter video game for the {{Xbox 360}}, ''{{Crackdown}}'' was for a time, famous for being the game [[PreviewPiggybacking you had to buy in order]] to get into the ''{{Halo}} 3'' beta.
The game takes place in the fictional metropolis of Pacific City, whose several districts and areas are divided among four islands. The city is controlled by three crime organizations: [[TheCartel Los Muertos, of Central American origin;]] [[TheMafiya an Eastern European gang, the Volk;]] and the formerly above-the-books [[MegaCorp Shai-Gen Corporation,]] from East Asia. Normally, a police-like organization called the Peacekeepers kept the city under control; their forces, however, were overwhelmed by the sudden rise in crime.
The city, therefore sought additional help from "the Agency," an organization that, in addition to outfitting and supporting Peacekeepers, has used advanced surgical and cybernetic technology to create SuperSoldiers known as "Agents." The Agency is based out of a former hotel in the very center of the city. The player takes on the role of one of their Agents, and is tasked with systematically bringing down all three organized gangs, while keeping both the populace and Peacekeepers safe. The Agent's actions are continuously monitored by the Agency, and its Director (voiced by {{Michael McConnohie}}) provides continuous reports to him of his progress.
''Crackdown'' was met positive reviews. What was particularly liked was how your Agent [[LevelUp levelled up]]. The Agent's five abilities, agility, firearms, strength, explosives, and driving, increase in power when you use them and unlock more cool stuff for you to use. For instance if you beat up a bunch of people you eventually get stronger and can lift heavy objects, or if you perform well in driving missions you get cooler cars. The ability people enjoyed most though was agility, which you filled up by collecting orbs on rooftops that made you faster and jump higher. So by the end of the game you go from a regular guy to a super cop who jumps effortlessly from rooftop to rooftop. [[JustOneMoreLevel And goddamn was it addictive collecting those orbs and jumping around.]]
The sequel was released on July 6th, 2010. Ten years have passed since the last game and the Agency faces two new problems. [=CELL=] is an anti-Agency group armed to the teeth that has taken over parts of Pacific City that attacks during the day. At night the streets are filled with hundreds of fast zombies called "Freaks" that attack everything. A new Agent has to take back the parts of the city controlled by [=CELL=] during the day, and clean out the Freak nests at night with the help of a new weapon called Project Sunburst.
''Crackdown 2'' was not as well liked as its predecessor. Everyone was upset that the game took place [[ItsTheSameSoItSucks in an exact copy of Pacific City from the first game]], except the city was rundown instead of bright and vibrant. And the fun StormingTheCastle missions were replaced with repetitive king of the hill games. Plus, fighting members of LaResistance with legitimate complaints [[WhatTheHellHero was just not the same as taking out gangmembers]], nor was killing zombies that you could kill with a single punch.
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!!This game series contains examples of the following:
* AntiHero: The Agent that the player controls can fall into this. By the second game it's gone straight past Type V and on into VillainProtagonist.
* ArtMajorPhysics: The initial energy field that spreads outwards from the activation of the [[spoiler:Tower Beacon]] causes every object in the cutscene not securely attached to the ground to float upwards. Cars, rocks, Freaks, everything.
** Also, the UV Shotgun and Grenades still send moveable objects flying, even though they fire blasts of concentrated light, lethal to Freaks, but not normal humans. It sends Humans flying too, which in itself can turn out to be fatal.
* AscendedGlitch: The ability of the Agency SUV to drive up walls? That's a bug. It was kept in because it was really fun and wasn't a GameBreaker.
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:Some of ''Crackdown 2'''s audio logs mention a high-ranking former Agency employee who's working with Cell.]]
* AwesomeButImpractical: There's really nothing you can do with lifting and throwing heavy objects that you can't do more efficiently with explosives or firearms or just punching everyone.
* [[spoiler:TheBadGuyWins]]: The Agency definitely counts.
* BigBrotherIsWatching: The Agency, and especially its Director.
* BoringButPractical: The "UV Shotgun" is basically a ''really'' big flashlight.
* BrickJoke: Upon climbing the Agency Tower in the first game the Director will cheerfully inform the Agent, "I can see my house from up here." In the second game, the same act gets a just as cheerful quip, "I can see the charred remains of my house from up here."
* BrokenBridge: Averted in the first game. The entire city is open right from the start, but the numerous gangs that might attack you are supposed to encourage the player to go after one gang at a time.
** The sequel, however, has quite a few literal broken bridges, having gone from [[CrapsaccharineWorld Crapsaccharine]] to CrapsackWorld. [[AvertedTrope Still, there's nothing stopping you from swimming to the other islands.]]
* CaptainObvious: In addition to his annoying Jerkass quips, the director will state "''You did <insert remarkable action here>, that's worth an achievement!''" while you get an achievement.
* CarFu: The player is at times, encouraged to use vehicles as a weapon, in addition to improving their driving skills. In addition to the standard form of vehicular homicide, when your agent becomes powerful enough, you can wait until your enemy exits their car (on the opposite side from you) and then immediately ''kick it into their face.'' Sadly, the enemy AI have 1337 car-dodging skillz, so running them over is much harder than it should be.
** When your driving skills are fully maxed, the Agency cars become really [[IncrediblyLamePun killer]]: the Supercar has guns and can drive under almost any other car, the SUV OVER any car (and most flat surfaced buildings and terrain), and the truck, as long as you don't go off-road, can maintain a high speed in opposing traffic indefinitely.
** In the sequel, at least, it is difficult but possible to turn the [[CoolCar supercar]] or buggy into a saw, sending it in a wild spin down any given street. [[BloodyHilarious The result is a trail of blood and screams]].
** The sequel gives you streets positively heaving with mutants at night, so it becomes far easier to net some kills via car.
* TheCartel: Los Muertos
* CleanUpTheTown: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] with vengeance. Instead of improving the state of Pacific City, the Agent's actions instead [[spoiler:pave the way for the rise of totalitarian state]].
** It does happen ''visually'' though with the streets becoming tidier as each gang is defeated.
* CoolCar: The three main Agency vehicles, which evolve alongside the Agent's skills. The Agency Supercar goes from a nice-looking muscle car to a [[BatMan Batmobile]] {{Expy}} with machine guns and blinding speed. The Agency SUV becomes a monster truck with improbable handling skills. As for the Agency ''[[TheJuggernaut Truck]]''...
* CoolGun: Nearly the entire arsenal is a wonder to use, comprising everything from {{Hand Cannon}}s to {{Roboteching}} {{Macross Missile Massacre}}s and MoreDakka.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The Shai-Gen leader is the biggest normal example of this. [[spoiler:After you learn the Director's true intentions at the end]], he could count as this too, which is confirmed by the second game.
* CrapsaccharineWorld: [[spoiler:What you help to set up in ''Crackdown''. A beautiful, safe, clean ''totalitarian dictatorship''.]]
* CrapsackWorld: In ''Crackdown 2'', mutants overrun the streets at night, the Agency has lost all control ''again'', the civilians are rebelling, the agent cloning program was sabotaged, and the city looks like a tornado hit it. As the director once said: "It's all gone to shit."
** The intro to the original; the world is said to be anarchic. The Agency is allegedly a union of various police units around the world, and by the start of the game, really only maintain control over their headquarters.
* CutAndPasteEnvironments: Totally averted. The game may have no plot, but you could definitely make a case for saying that the city itself is a character, with no two buildings or neighborhoods alike.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The first game is bright and colorful, and it seems right up until the end that [[spoiler:you're working for the good guys]]. The sequel takes place in a half-ruined, smoldering city with a perpetual grey sky and a severe zombie problem, and [[spoiler:it becomes clear much sooner that the Agency's up to no good]].
* DeadpanSnarker: Mission control guy is this at certain points.
* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: When the player dies, they simply regenerate at the last visited Supply Point. This ''does'' impair the player a bit if they are deep in a gang's hideout though.
* DiegeticInterface: The Director refers to columns of light and other things visible in the game as being part of a graphical interface attached to the Agent's eyes.
* TheDragon: The Agent to the Director.
* [[EarthShatteringKaboom Earth Shattering Flash of Light]]: The final beacon.
* EliteMooks: You get to play as one!
* EvilTowerOfOminousness:
** The Agency HQ Tower, the tallest building in the city, rises from the island at the middle of the map. Also, the Shai-Gen mastermind and his top lieutenant dwell atop their own massive towers; the Agent must [[ItsAllUpstairsFromHere fight his way up]] from the ground floor to the penthouse ([[spoiler:though he can use adjacent buildings to skip the entire lower half of Shai-Gen boss' tower]].)
** By ''Crackdown 2'', the Agency has built the Hope Tower in unity heights, as tall as the Agency Tower.
* EvolvingAttack:
** To a degree, the Agent's improved jumping and melee attacks, and more so, the improved weaponry the Agent can procure both from the nearest safehouse, and off of dead enemies.
** The three agency vehicles are also notable; their handling improves the higher the player's driving skill is. Once the player maximizes their driving skill, they gain Bond-style special abilities.
** The game actually calls the Agent's ability to upgrade himself "evolution" and as you progress, his armor subtly transforms from something very light to a huge power suit as the man himself becomes huge and muscular. The transition is so gradual, though, you likely won't notice it until you replay the game after beating it. [[spoiler:Alternately, you could always just flip through the various stages of armor evolution in Keys to the City mode.]]
* FastballSpecial: You can use a variant in multiplayer. Have one Agent stand on top of a car driven by the other Agent. The latter deliberately drives into the barricades blocking a reinforced position, flinging the former into the fray.
* GameBreakingBug:
** It has happened that the island's geometry sometimes either fails to load or spontaneously ceases to exist, dropping the player and all objects into the ocean.
** In ''Crackdown 2'', some Cell soldiers have grenade launchers. Getting hit with several of these at once causes the game to lag tremendously, and if a large Freak knocks you down, the Agent has quite a bit of trouble getting back up. It can be annoying if you're guarding a beacon or trying to recapture territory.
* GenericEthnicCrimeGang: Los Muertes are TheCartel, the Volk are TheMafiya, and Shai-Gen are the {{Yakuza}} crossbred with EvilInc.
* GreyAndGreyMorality: You play the genetically-enhanced supercop running around shutting down gangs, which makes you unambiguously the good guy, right? [[spoiler:'''Wrong'''. Turns out, the Agency covertly sponsored the three gangs, ''letting'' Pacific City get to the point of ruin, only to (ahem) crack down on them with the Agents, giving them control of the area in question. They also plan to do this in other cities until they [[OneWorldOrder own the world]].]]
* HeroAntagonist: [[spoiler:Catalina Thorne and The Cell]].
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:The Agent throwing himself into Catalina's helicopter to stop her is a bizarre inversion of this, considering Catalina is the most outright heroic character in the series and the Agent is effectively just a {{superpowered mook|s}}. Since the Agent can be resurrected as necessary, however, it's questionable how much of a sacrifice his death is.]]
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Played straight with the Director. He's normally TheVoice, but they show him several times in the opening cinematic for ''Crackdown 2''... but [[TheFaceless we never see his face]].
* HideYourChildren: Only adults reside within Pacific City.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: The HRX Harpoon gun which... shoots harpoons. Agents are [[CosmeticAward encouraged]] to pin whole gangs of criminals to their car, but nail them to a wall and they can work as stepping stones.
* InASingleBound: As in many other free-roamers with superpowers, you can jump ''incredibly'' high once you get your agility levels up. It gets to the point you don't really need a car anymore.
* InUniverseGameClock: The game can go from day to night in roughly 20 minutes of real-time in ''Crackdown'', but it only takes around 15 minutes in ''Crackdown 2'' due to the addition of the [[NocturnalMooks mutants]].
* JerkAss: The Director, who is an endless font of uncaring or outright demeaning snark. For example, he makes fun of you when you ''catch on fire''.
* KnightTemplar: The Agent is made out to be one.
* LaResistance: The Cell is a pro-democracy terrorist organization that function as one of the primary antagonists of Crackdown 2. Overlaps with HeroAntagonist.
* LawOfCartographicalElegance: Pacific City is essentially one giant island, broken up into 3 parts; four if you count the tiny Agency HQ situated in the middle.
* LeParkour: One of the defining features of this game. The Agent's Agility stat enables him to leap ludicrous distances, hang from ledges, run across rooftops, and basically make the city his own with his superhuman mobility. Very few players bother using cars as anything other than blunt weapons.
* LightEmUp: In ''Crackdown 2'', Freaks are [[NocturnalMooks nocturnal]] and are terribly WeakenedByTheLight. Your goal is to turn on as many light-generating devices as possible to wipe them all out, and in the meantime, you have a few "UV" weapons specifically designed to annihilate Freaks but spare humans.
* LighthousePoint: The Agency's HQ serves as this (complete with rotating light), while another literal lighthouse serves as the headquarters for a Los Muertos boss.
* LightningBruiser: By the time the Agent's skills are fully maxed, he counts, especially in the sequel. They run fast enough to keep pace with many vehicles (and in ''2'' gain the ability to plow straight through oncoming traffic), can lift and throw heavy objects with ease, and are able to resist quite a lot of ordinance and rapidly heal any damage taken.
* LudicrousGibs: In ''Crackdown 2'', if you ram a civilian or peacekeeper at high speed with a vehicle, or if you ground-strike them, they will explode into [[OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank gallons of blood]]. This occurs even if said ground strike began only a foot above them and was moving no more than 5 mph.
* MacrossMissileMassacre: The MSK Lobber fires up to five homing mini-rockets in close succession; it's absurd enough to allow Agents to juggle targets (people, mutants, ''cars'') in the air for several seconds... which is exactly the point -- there's even Achievements for it.
* MadScientist: One of the Shai Gen's priority targets is a crazy geneticist whose hideout is overrun with mutants. Additionally, the Agency used his work to create the Agents.
* TheMafiya: The Volk
* MegaCorp: The Shai-Gen Corporation and [[spoiler:the Agency]].
* MissionControl: The Director serves as this in both games.
* MoreDakka: Guess.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Some players may react this way to the ending.
* NewEraSpeech: [[spoiler: At the end of the first game, the Director gives the Agent a speech.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Thanks to the player killing the above MadScientist, the Pacific City of the second game is menaced by virus-infected creatures let loose from his labs. Oh, and [[spoiler:ushering in a police state was probably also not nice]].
* NoNameGiven: You are simply "the Agent".
* NoPlotNoProblem: Crackdown has no plot. It has a ''premise'', then kicks you into it and tells you to go nuts. There are no hard missions and no cutscenes to speak of other than briefing videos (and "this neighborhood is clean!" victory videos, which are mostly just pans over the existing city while the narrator talks more).
* NoticeThis: Gang members have little icons above them to make them stand out against civilians, cars shimmer for a moment when your aiming reticule points at them, and power ups (Hidden Orbs) not only glow, but also make a distinctive noise when you get close.
* OhCrap: A Freak gives this expression when all the beacons are lit.
* OmniscientMoralityLicense: {{Subverted}} to a degree. You can be as vicious as you want [[PayEvilUntoEvil to the gangs]], but if you start attacking civilians and/or Peacekeepers, you'll get reprimanded and lose a small amount of experience points, plus any Peacekeepers that saw it will shoot at you. If you go on a total rampage, you'll eventually get a "wanted level" and the Peacekeepers will start seriously attacking you. They're slightly less [[PoliceAreUseless useless]] when trying to kill you than they are trying to help you, mainly because of unexpectedly high respawn rate, but since their weapons still suck they aren't nearly as big a threat as the gangs. Then they'll back off if you hide on a rooftop for a while.
* PoliceAreUseless: The entire point of creating the [[SuperSoldiers Agents]] is that the peacekeepers cannot stop the gangs themselves.
** Gets worse in the second, where they only have Assault Rifles. Said Assault Rifles are the weakest ones in the game.
* PoliceBrutality: The player can fall into this depending on how much carnage they feel like causing. This is also visible with fellow Peacekeepers when they attack the gangs alongside the player, cheering and beating down on gang members.
* PowerUpMagnet: The tiny orbs, that act as XP, are innately drawn to the player. The larger ones still have to be found normally.
* RagdollPhysics: The fate of those who meet the wrong end of a machine gun. You can even ragdoll while still alive, if you're hit by an explosive or car.
* RemovableTurretGun: In ''Crackdown 2'', when the player reaches high Strength levels, turrets can be torn off and fired manually.
* RealIsBrown: {{Averted}} by the bright and colorful first game. Played somewhat straighter by the DarkerAndEdgier sequel.
* RespawningEnemies: Typically, gang members will respawn over time until you kill their leader, and even then there will be some remaining. An achievement is awarded when you finally take them all down.
* RedShirtReporter: In the sequel, a female reporter comments on the Freaks that are over-running the city at night. She is of course instantly pounced upon by one.
* RoundhouseKick: One of the standard melee attacks.
* RPGElements: The player can collect Hidden Orbs to increase either their jumping / running ability, or everything at once in small increments. Using weapons and driving cars also contributes to an increase in skills. ''Crackdown 2'' offers more levels of customization.
* RuleOfCool: Be honest, if you were in law enforcement, you wouldn't get to have a harpoon gun in your standard loadout. In the sequel, there's a shotgun that fires ''sunlight''.
* SequelHook: ''Crackdown 2'' ends with one. See TheStinger, below.
* ShoutOut:
** Given its roots with ''GrandTheftAuto'', the game gives a few winks and nudges to them, among other things.
** One of the alternate skin in ''Crackdown 2'' is called "Gun Metal". Though that is an actual term for color, it could be seen as a nod to the game ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_Metal_(computer_game) Gun Metal]]'', which was developed by Rage Software. A lot of Rage employee went on to form Realtime Worlds (the developers of the first Crackdown) after Rage went bankrupt.
** Some of the pedestrians [[{{Clerks}} aren't even supposed to be here today.]]
** One of the quotes the Director can throw at you when you fail to capture a Strategic Location in the Sequel is "The assault on this Strategic Location is aborted. [[VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou Come back and try again when you grow a pair!]]"
** A couple of pedestrians call the Agent {{Superman}}.
* SoftWater: Despite their superhuman strength and endurance, Agents can suffer severe injury from falling from great altitudes... unless they splash into the water, which is entirely harmless. This is even used for an [[CosmeticAward Achievement]].
* TheStinger: In the sequel, after the credits roll, one final cutscene shows that [[spoiler:Catalina Thorne survived her crash and is cheerfully doing something with a hand from the Agent. Trying to recreate the virus? Or clone an Agent for herself]]?
* StuffBlowingUp: So ''very much'', because you are equipped with grenades at the beginning, get a rocket launcher early on, and there are ExplosiveBarrels everywhere.
* SuperSoldiers: By the end of the game, your agent can leap tall buildings InASingleBound, runs faster than most vehicles, and can effortlessly carry and throw ''cars''.
* TakeYourTime: The gang leaders can be eliminated at the player's casual discretion, with only the occasional reminder from the Director to let you know that, yes, the gangs need to be taken down.
** Likewise in the sequel you can let [=CELL=] and the Freaks run wild without any trouble while you dally.
* TheTetrisEffect: You'll imagine seeing green orbs everywhere on buildings, monuments... and that pulsing hum they make will haunt you for ''days'' after you've stopped playing.
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:The Agent. The Agency's plan involved running the law enforcement of the world into the ground, allowing complete anarchy, so they could step in and take over the world as a totalitarian government -- which they do, now that you've been so polite as to take out the gangs for them. Some think the action montage ends with the Agent shooting the Director -- this has definitely been {{Jossed}} by ''Crackdown 2'']].
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: It's there and readily available for your exploitation.
* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: If you kill civilians or peacekeepers, you get docked some XP, though the amounts are small enough that it doesn't make much difference.
* VillainProtagonist: The Agency would be the ''bad guys'' in most games. Taken to extremes in the sequel, where you play as [[spoiler:the primary agent of a repressive police state fighting to suppress a [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits ragtag band of]] [[LaResistance plucky freedom fighters]]]], which is pretty much a total inversion of a fairly common video game plot.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: [[spoiler:The Agency. They want to look good to the people, so they trust them. So if you screw with civilians, they'll take you out. Of course they're only playing goody-two-shoes until they TakeOverTheWorld...]]
* WhatTheHellHero: The Director does this to you if you cause too much collateral damage.
--> ''"[[ThisIsSparta Do. Not. Kill. Innocent civilians!]]"''
* WholePlotReference: The game is basically JudgeDredd [[AC:[[RecycledInSpace WITH SUPERPOWERS]]]]!
* WideOpenSandbox: The scale of the city lends itself well to this.
* WithThisHerring:
** Thoroughly averted in the first game -- the player starts off with an assault rifle with an adjustable scope, access to the best vehicles in the game, the ability to jump ten feet straight up while standing still, and the strength to rip a car door off its hinges... and ''everything goes up from there''. Of course, given that you eventually become TheIncredibleHulk with a [[StuffBlowingUp missile launcher]] and a [[{{Batman}} Batmobile]], it's hard not to feel underpowered when you replay the game from the beginning.
** Played straight in the sequel, which starts you off with access to a standard-issue Peacekeeper cruiser and the most budget SMG and shotgun the Agency could find -- even weaker than the [=SMGs=] and shotguns on the street, in the hands of the Cell.
* ZergRush: The favored tactic of Freaks in ''Crackdown 2''.
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[[caption-width-right:352:[-Like ''GrandTheftAuto'', but [[GoodCounterpart you're a cop]] and [[{{Dissimile}} you have super powers]].-] ]]
->''"You are authorized to use whatever means you feel is necessary to remove the filth from the streets."''
-->-- '''[[MissionControl The Director]]'''
An open world, third-person shooter video game for the {{Xbox 360}}, ''{{Crackdown}}'' was for a time, famous for being the game [[PreviewPiggybacking you had to buy in order]] to get into the ''{{Halo}} 3'' beta.
The game takes place in the fictional metropolis of Pacific City, whose several districts and areas are divided among four islands. The city is controlled by three crime organizations: [[TheCartel Los Muertos, of Central American origin;]] [[TheMafiya an Eastern European gang, the Volk;]] and the formerly above-the-books [[MegaCorp Shai-Gen Corporation,]] from East Asia. Normally, a police-like organization called the Peacekeepers kept the city under control; their forces, however, were overwhelmed by the sudden rise in crime.
The city, therefore sought additional help from "the Agency," an organization that, in addition to outfitting and supporting Peacekeepers, has used advanced surgical and cybernetic technology to create SuperSoldiers known as "Agents." The Agency is based out of a former hotel in the very center of the city. The player takes on the role of one of their Agents, and is tasked with systematically bringing down all three organized gangs, while keeping both the populace and Peacekeepers safe. The Agent's actions are continuously monitored by the Agency, and its Director (voiced by {{Michael McConnohie}}) provides continuous reports to him of his progress.
''Crackdown'' was met positive reviews. What was particularly liked was how your Agent [[LevelUp levelled up]]. The Agent's five abilities, agility, firearms, strength, explosives, and driving, increase in power when you use them and unlock more cool stuff for you to use. For instance if you beat up a bunch of people you eventually get stronger and can lift heavy objects, or if you perform well in driving missions you get cooler cars. The ability people enjoyed most though was agility, which you filled up by collecting orbs on rooftops that made you faster and jump higher. So by the end of the game you go from a regular guy to a super cop who jumps effortlessly from rooftop to rooftop. [[JustOneMoreLevel And goddamn was it addictive collecting those orbs and jumping around.]]
The sequel was released on July 6th, 2010. Ten years have passed since the last game and the Agency faces two new problems. [=CELL=] is an anti-Agency group armed to the teeth that has taken over parts of Pacific City that attacks during the day. At night the streets are filled with hundreds of fast zombies called "Freaks" that attack everything. A new Agent has to take back the parts of the city controlled by [=CELL=] during the day, and clean out the Freak nests at night with the help of a new weapon called Project Sunburst.
''Crackdown 2'' was not as well liked as its predecessor. Everyone was upset that the game took place [[ItsTheSameSoItSucks in an exact copy of Pacific City from the first game]], except the city was rundown instead of bright and vibrant. And the fun StormingTheCastle missions were replaced with repetitive king of the hill games. Plus, fighting members of LaResistance with legitimate complaints [[WhatTheHellHero was just not the same as taking out gangmembers]], nor was killing zombies that you could kill with a single punch.
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!!This game series contains examples of the following:
* AntiHero: The Agent that the player controls can fall into this. By the second game it's gone straight past Type V and on into VillainProtagonist.
* ArtMajorPhysics: The initial energy field that spreads outwards from the activation of the [[spoiler:Tower Beacon]] causes every object in the cutscene not securely attached to the ground to float upwards. Cars, rocks, Freaks, everything.
** Also, the UV Shotgun and Grenades still send moveable objects flying, even though they fire blasts of concentrated light, lethal to Freaks, but not normal humans. It sends Humans flying too, which in itself can turn out to be fatal.
* AscendedGlitch: The ability of the Agency SUV to drive up walls? That's a bug. It was kept in because it was really fun and wasn't a GameBreaker.
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:Some of ''Crackdown 2'''s audio logs mention a high-ranking former Agency employee who's working with Cell.]]
* AwesomeButImpractical: There's really nothing you can do with lifting and throwing heavy objects that you can't do more efficiently with explosives or firearms or just punching everyone.
* [[spoiler:TheBadGuyWins]]: The Agency definitely counts.
* BigBrotherIsWatching: The Agency, and especially its Director.
* BoringButPractical: The "UV Shotgun" is basically a ''really'' big flashlight.
* BrickJoke: Upon climbing the Agency Tower in the first game the Director will cheerfully inform the Agent, "I can see my house from up here." In the second game, the same act gets a just as cheerful quip, "I can see the charred remains of my house from up here."
* BrokenBridge: Averted in the first game. The entire city is open right from the start, but the numerous gangs that might attack you are supposed to encourage the player to go after one gang at a time.
** The sequel, however, has quite a few literal broken bridges, having gone from [[CrapsaccharineWorld Crapsaccharine]] to CrapsackWorld. [[AvertedTrope Still, there's nothing stopping you from swimming to the other islands.]]
* CaptainObvious: In addition to his annoying Jerkass quips, the director will state "''You did <insert remarkable action here>, that's worth an achievement!''" while you get an achievement.
* CarFu: The player is at times, encouraged to use vehicles as a weapon, in addition to improving their driving skills. In addition to the standard form of vehicular homicide, when your agent becomes powerful enough, you can wait until your enemy exits their car (on the opposite side from you) and then immediately ''kick it into their face.'' Sadly, the enemy AI have 1337 car-dodging skillz, so running them over is much harder than it should be.
** When your driving skills are fully maxed, the Agency cars become really [[IncrediblyLamePun killer]]: the Supercar has guns and can drive under almost any other car, the SUV OVER any car (and most flat surfaced buildings and terrain), and the truck, as long as you don't go off-road, can maintain a high speed in opposing traffic indefinitely.
** In the sequel, at least, it is difficult but possible to turn the [[CoolCar supercar]] or buggy into a saw, sending it in a wild spin down any given street. [[BloodyHilarious The result is a trail of blood and screams]].
** The sequel gives you streets positively heaving with mutants at night, so it becomes far easier to net some kills via car.
* TheCartel: Los Muertos
* CleanUpTheTown: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] with vengeance. Instead of improving the state of Pacific City, the Agent's actions instead [[spoiler:pave the way for the rise of totalitarian state]].
** It does happen ''visually'' though with the streets becoming tidier as each gang is defeated.
* CoolCar: The three main Agency vehicles, which evolve alongside the Agent's skills. The Agency Supercar goes from a nice-looking muscle car to a [[BatMan Batmobile]] {{Expy}} with machine guns and blinding speed. The Agency SUV becomes a monster truck with improbable handling skills. As for the Agency ''[[TheJuggernaut Truck]]''...
* CoolGun: Nearly the entire arsenal is a wonder to use, comprising everything from {{Hand Cannon}}s to {{Roboteching}} {{Macross Missile Massacre}}s and MoreDakka.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: The Shai-Gen leader is the biggest normal example of this. [[spoiler:After you learn the Director's true intentions at the end]], he could count as this too, which is confirmed by the second game.
* CrapsaccharineWorld: [[spoiler:What you help to set up in ''Crackdown''. A beautiful, safe, clean ''totalitarian dictatorship''.]]
* CrapsackWorld: In ''Crackdown 2'', mutants overrun the streets at night, the Agency has lost all control ''again'', the civilians are rebelling, the agent cloning program was sabotaged, and the city looks like a tornado hit it. As the director once said: "It's all gone to shit."
** The intro to the original; the world is said to be anarchic. The Agency is allegedly a union of various police units around the world, and by the start of the game, really only maintain control over their headquarters.
* CutAndPasteEnvironments: Totally averted. The game may have no plot, but you could definitely make a case for saying that the city itself is a character, with no two buildings or neighborhoods alike.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The first game is bright and colorful, and it seems right up until the end that [[spoiler:you're working for the good guys]]. The sequel takes place in a half-ruined, smoldering city with a perpetual grey sky and a severe zombie problem, and [[spoiler:it becomes clear much sooner that the Agency's up to no good]].
* DeadpanSnarker: Mission control guy is this at certain points.
* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: When the player dies, they simply regenerate at the last visited Supply Point. This ''does'' impair the player a bit if they are deep in a gang's hideout though.
* DiegeticInterface: The Director refers to columns of light and other things visible in the game as being part of a graphical interface attached to the Agent's eyes.
* TheDragon: The Agent to the Director.
* [[EarthShatteringKaboom Earth Shattering Flash of Light]]: The final beacon.
* EliteMooks: You get to play as one!
* EvilTowerOfOminousness:
** The Agency HQ Tower, the tallest building in the city, rises from the island at the middle of the map. Also, the Shai-Gen mastermind and his top lieutenant dwell atop their own massive towers; the Agent must [[ItsAllUpstairsFromHere fight his way up]] from the ground floor to the penthouse ([[spoiler:though he can use adjacent buildings to skip the entire lower half of Shai-Gen boss' tower]].)
** By ''Crackdown 2'', the Agency has built the Hope Tower in unity heights, as tall as the Agency Tower.
* EvolvingAttack:
** To a degree, the Agent's improved jumping and melee attacks, and more so, the improved weaponry the Agent can procure both from the nearest safehouse, and off of dead enemies.
** The three agency vehicles are also notable; their handling improves the higher the player's driving skill is. Once the player maximizes their driving skill, they gain Bond-style special abilities.
** The game actually calls the Agent's ability to upgrade himself "evolution" and as you progress, his armor subtly transforms from something very light to a huge power suit as the man himself becomes huge and muscular. The transition is so gradual, though, you likely won't notice it until you replay the game after beating it. [[spoiler:Alternately, you could always just flip through the various stages of armor evolution in Keys to the City mode.]]
* FastballSpecial: You can use a variant in multiplayer. Have one Agent stand on top of a car driven by the other Agent. The latter deliberately drives into the barricades blocking a reinforced position, flinging the former into the fray.
* GameBreakingBug:
** It has happened that the island's geometry sometimes either fails to load or spontaneously ceases to exist, dropping the player and all objects into the ocean.
** In ''Crackdown 2'', some Cell soldiers have grenade launchers. Getting hit with several of these at once causes the game to lag tremendously, and if a large Freak knocks you down, the Agent has quite a bit of trouble getting back up. It can be annoying if you're guarding a beacon or trying to recapture territory.
* GenericEthnicCrimeGang: Los Muertes are TheCartel, the Volk are TheMafiya, and Shai-Gen are the {{Yakuza}} crossbred with EvilInc.
* GreyAndGreyMorality: You play the genetically-enhanced supercop running around shutting down gangs, which makes you unambiguously the good guy, right? [[spoiler:'''Wrong'''. Turns out, the Agency covertly sponsored the three gangs, ''letting'' Pacific City get to the point of ruin, only to (ahem) crack down on them with the Agents, giving them control of the area in question. They also plan to do this in other cities until they [[OneWorldOrder own the world]].]]
* HeroAntagonist: [[spoiler:Catalina Thorne and The Cell]].
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:The Agent throwing himself into Catalina's helicopter to stop her is a bizarre inversion of this, considering Catalina is the most outright heroic character in the series and the Agent is effectively just a {{superpowered mook|s}}. Since the Agent can be resurrected as necessary, however, it's questionable how much of a sacrifice his death is.]]
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Played straight with the Director. He's normally TheVoice, but they show him several times in the opening cinematic for ''Crackdown 2''... but [[TheFaceless we never see his face]].
* HideYourChildren: Only adults reside within Pacific City.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: The HRX Harpoon gun which... shoots harpoons. Agents are [[CosmeticAward encouraged]] to pin whole gangs of criminals to their car, but nail them to a wall and they can work as stepping stones.
* InASingleBound: As in many other free-roamers with superpowers, you can jump ''incredibly'' high once you get your agility levels up. It gets to the point you don't really need a car anymore.
* InUniverseGameClock: The game can go from day to night in roughly 20 minutes of real-time in ''Crackdown'', but it only takes around 15 minutes in ''Crackdown 2'' due to the addition of the [[NocturnalMooks mutants]].
* JerkAss: The Director, who is an endless font of uncaring or outright demeaning snark. For example, he makes fun of you when you ''catch on fire''.
* KnightTemplar: The Agent is made out to be one.
* LaResistance: The Cell is a pro-democracy terrorist organization that function as one of the primary antagonists of Crackdown 2. Overlaps with HeroAntagonist.
* LawOfCartographicalElegance: Pacific City is essentially one giant island, broken up into 3 parts; four if you count the tiny Agency HQ situated in the middle.
* LeParkour: One of the defining features of this game. The Agent's Agility stat enables him to leap ludicrous distances, hang from ledges, run across rooftops, and basically make the city his own with his superhuman mobility. Very few players bother using cars as anything other than blunt weapons.
* LightEmUp: In ''Crackdown 2'', Freaks are [[NocturnalMooks nocturnal]] and are terribly WeakenedByTheLight. Your goal is to turn on as many light-generating devices as possible to wipe them all out, and in the meantime, you have a few "UV" weapons specifically designed to annihilate Freaks but spare humans.
* LighthousePoint: The Agency's HQ serves as this (complete with rotating light), while another literal lighthouse serves as the headquarters for a Los Muertos boss.
* LightningBruiser: By the time the Agent's skills are fully maxed, he counts, especially in the sequel. They run fast enough to keep pace with many vehicles (and in ''2'' gain the ability to plow straight through oncoming traffic), can lift and throw heavy objects with ease, and are able to resist quite a lot of ordinance and rapidly heal any damage taken.
* LudicrousGibs: In ''Crackdown 2'', if you ram a civilian or peacekeeper at high speed with a vehicle, or if you ground-strike them, they will explode into [[OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank gallons of blood]]. This occurs even if said ground strike began only a foot above them and was moving no more than 5 mph.
* MacrossMissileMassacre: The MSK Lobber fires up to five homing mini-rockets in close succession; it's absurd enough to allow Agents to juggle targets (people, mutants, ''cars'') in the air for several seconds... which is exactly the point -- there's even Achievements for it.
* MadScientist: One of the Shai Gen's priority targets is a crazy geneticist whose hideout is overrun with mutants. Additionally, the Agency used his work to create the Agents.
* TheMafiya: The Volk
* MegaCorp: The Shai-Gen Corporation and [[spoiler:the Agency]].
* MissionControl: The Director serves as this in both games.
* MoreDakka: Guess.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Some players may react this way to the ending.
* NewEraSpeech: [[spoiler: At the end of the first game, the Director gives the Agent a speech.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Thanks to the player killing the above MadScientist, the Pacific City of the second game is menaced by virus-infected creatures let loose from his labs. Oh, and [[spoiler:ushering in a police state was probably also not nice]].
* NoNameGiven: You are simply "the Agent".
* NoPlotNoProblem: Crackdown has no plot. It has a ''premise'', then kicks you into it and tells you to go nuts. There are no hard missions and no cutscenes to speak of other than briefing videos (and "this neighborhood is clean!" victory videos, which are mostly just pans over the existing city while the narrator talks more).
* NoticeThis: Gang members have little icons above them to make them stand out against civilians, cars shimmer for a moment when your aiming reticule points at them, and power ups (Hidden Orbs) not only glow, but also make a distinctive noise when you get close.
* OhCrap: A Freak gives this expression when all the beacons are lit.
* OmniscientMoralityLicense: {{Subverted}} to a degree. You can be as vicious as you want [[PayEvilUntoEvil to the gangs]], but if you start attacking civilians and/or Peacekeepers, you'll get reprimanded and lose a small amount of experience points, plus any Peacekeepers that saw it will shoot at you. If you go on a total rampage, you'll eventually get a "wanted level" and the Peacekeepers will start seriously attacking you. They're slightly less [[PoliceAreUseless useless]] when trying to kill you than they are trying to help you, mainly because of unexpectedly high respawn rate, but since their weapons still suck they aren't nearly as big a threat as the gangs. Then they'll back off if you hide on a rooftop for a while.
* PoliceAreUseless: The entire point of creating the [[SuperSoldiers Agents]] is that the peacekeepers cannot stop the gangs themselves.
** Gets worse in the second, where they only have Assault Rifles. Said Assault Rifles are the weakest ones in the game.
* PoliceBrutality: The player can fall into this depending on how much carnage they feel like causing. This is also visible with fellow Peacekeepers when they attack the gangs alongside the player, cheering and beating down on gang members.
* PowerUpMagnet: The tiny orbs, that act as XP, are innately drawn to the player. The larger ones still have to be found normally.
* RagdollPhysics: The fate of those who meet the wrong end of a machine gun. You can even ragdoll while still alive, if you're hit by an explosive or car.
* RemovableTurretGun: In ''Crackdown 2'', when the player reaches high Strength levels, turrets can be torn off and fired manually.
* RealIsBrown: {{Averted}} by the bright and colorful first game. Played somewhat straighter by the DarkerAndEdgier sequel.
* RespawningEnemies: Typically, gang members will respawn over time until you kill their leader, and even then there will be some remaining. An achievement is awarded when you finally take them all down.
* RedShirtReporter: In the sequel, a female reporter comments on the Freaks that are over-running the city at night. She is of course instantly pounced upon by one.
* RoundhouseKick: One of the standard melee attacks.
* RPGElements: The player can collect Hidden Orbs to increase either their jumping / running ability, or everything at once in small increments. Using weapons and driving cars also contributes to an increase in skills. ''Crackdown 2'' offers more levels of customization.
* RuleOfCool: Be honest, if you were in law enforcement, you wouldn't get to have a harpoon gun in your standard loadout. In the sequel, there's a shotgun that fires ''sunlight''.
* SequelHook: ''Crackdown 2'' ends with one. See TheStinger, below.
* ShoutOut:
** Given its roots with ''GrandTheftAuto'', the game gives a few winks and nudges to them, among other things.
** One of the alternate skin in ''Crackdown 2'' is called "Gun Metal". Though that is an actual term for color, it could be seen as a nod to the game ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_Metal_(computer_game) Gun Metal]]'', which was developed by Rage Software. A lot of Rage employee went on to form Realtime Worlds (the developers of the first Crackdown) after Rage went bankrupt.
** Some of the pedestrians [[{{Clerks}} aren't even supposed to be here today.]]
** One of the quotes the Director can throw at you when you fail to capture a Strategic Location in the Sequel is "The assault on this Strategic Location is aborted. [[VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou Come back and try again when you grow a pair!]]"
** A couple of pedestrians call the Agent {{Superman}}.
* SoftWater: Despite their superhuman strength and endurance, Agents can suffer severe injury from falling from great altitudes... unless they splash into the water, which is entirely harmless. This is even used for an [[CosmeticAward Achievement]].
* TheStinger: In the sequel, after the credits roll, one final cutscene shows that [[spoiler:Catalina Thorne survived her crash and is cheerfully doing something with a hand from the Agent. Trying to recreate the virus? Or clone an Agent for herself]]?
* StuffBlowingUp: So ''very much'', because you are equipped with grenades at the beginning, get a rocket launcher early on, and there are ExplosiveBarrels everywhere.
* SuperSoldiers: By the end of the game, your agent can leap tall buildings InASingleBound, runs faster than most vehicles, and can effortlessly carry and throw ''cars''.
* TakeYourTime: The gang leaders can be eliminated at the player's casual discretion, with only the occasional reminder from the Director to let you know that, yes, the gangs need to be taken down.
** Likewise in the sequel you can let [=CELL=] and the Freaks run wild without any trouble while you dally.
* TheTetrisEffect: You'll imagine seeing green orbs everywhere on buildings, monuments... and that pulsing hum they make will haunt you for ''days'' after you've stopped playing.
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:The Agent. The Agency's plan involved running the law enforcement of the world into the ground, allowing complete anarchy, so they could step in and take over the world as a totalitarian government -- which they do, now that you've been so polite as to take out the gangs for them. Some think the action montage ends with the Agent shooting the Director -- this has definitely been {{Jossed}} by ''Crackdown 2'']].
* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: It's there and readily available for your exploitation.
* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: If you kill civilians or peacekeepers, you get docked some XP, though the amounts are small enough that it doesn't make much difference.
* VillainProtagonist: The Agency would be the ''bad guys'' in most games. Taken to extremes in the sequel, where you play as [[spoiler:the primary agent of a repressive police state fighting to suppress a [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits ragtag band of]] [[LaResistance plucky freedom fighters]]]], which is pretty much a total inversion of a fairly common video game plot.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: [[spoiler:The Agency. They want to look good to the people, so they trust them. So if you screw with civilians, they'll take you out. Of course they're only playing goody-two-shoes until they TakeOverTheWorld...]]
* WhatTheHellHero: The Director does this to you if you cause too much collateral damage.
--> ''"[[ThisIsSparta Do. Not. Kill. Innocent civilians!]]"''
* WholePlotReference: The game is basically JudgeDredd [[AC:[[RecycledInSpace WITH SUPERPOWERS]]]]!
* WideOpenSandbox: The scale of the city lends itself well to this.
* WithThisHerring:
** Thoroughly averted in the first game -- the player starts off with an assault rifle with an adjustable scope, access to the best vehicles in the game, the ability to jump ten feet straight up while standing still, and the strength to rip a car door off its hinges... and ''everything goes up from there''. Of course, given that you eventually become TheIncredibleHulk with a [[StuffBlowingUp missile launcher]] and a [[{{Batman}} Batmobile]], it's hard not to feel underpowered when you replay the game from the beginning.
** Played straight in the sequel, which starts you off with access to a standard-issue Peacekeeper cruiser and the most budget SMG and shotgun the Agency could find -- even weaker than the [=SMGs=] and shotguns on the street, in the hands of the Cell.
* ZergRush: The favored tactic of Freaks in ''Crackdown 2''.
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