New Crackdown video featuring "The Car" (x360)

[munkieNS]

http://www.xboxyde.com/news_3409_en.html

Damned sweet looking. I LOVE the whole theme of this game. A guy with super powers working as an almost independent part of the task force that needs to clean up the city and rid it of the crime that's overtaken it. Coming out of the "bat cave" as it appears is just frickin awesome looking, and the overall mechanics and especially the music are great looking to me. THIS is the GTA style game I'll be buying, and it's from the original GTA creator too [thumbup]

[chris0288]

looks awesome actually, whens it due out?

[valtterieranen]

The physics looked non-existant in the video. Every time the car landed is seemed like it just autoleveled and glued itself to the ground. [thumbdown]

[munkieNS]

looks awesome actually, whens it due out?

End of the year actually.

The physics are there, however you have to remember that this is a comic book style game, and as such it's going to be a little on the weird side sometimes, but that's on purpose I assure you. The fact that the car doesn't bounce all over the place and go stupid nuts makes me happy, as I hate making big jumps in a car only to have it hit the ground, roll a couple hundred times and then explode when it hits a tree, killing me AND the fun at the same time. I want in-air control (which this has, RUSH style), and non-retarded physics that let me have fun.

[rizob]

I have been semi-interested in this game for a while now. It's a great concept but so far i'm not sold on the execution. The controls seem far too 'floaty' at the moment. I know this is partly on purpose, as it's an over-the-top comic-book style game, but it just gives me that 'Just Cause' impression of the controls (ie. not very good).

A demo of this game could completely quash my worries though.

[cleeve]

this game looks alright at this point. I'm not exactly looking forward to it, but if it recieves great reviews on release i'll probably pick it up. The graphics just don't do it for me at this point.

[Irontiger]

The environment looks refreshingly different, but I hope they'll change the pre-baked environment maps on the car to realtime sampled ones. Even the Burnout games on the original Xbox had realtime sampled cubemaps on the cars.