First Crackdown 2 Add-On Announced

Crackdown 2, developed exclusively for the Xbox 360 by Ruffian Games, will be receiving its first add-on content pretty soon. Aside from super-jumping, constantly shooting people in the face with rocket launchers and kicking your foes across the city, you’ll now be able to enjoy a handful of perks that will be included in the upcoming DLC.

The new DLC is called Toy Box and, according to the official word on the street, offers free content as well as paid additions for those of you willing to cough up some mullah for added goods.

For those of you wondering what the free content has, it provides a new Vehicle Tag mode, a level six ability reward and the Keys to the City (which will all be explained after the break).

If you want to have all the sweet stuff like 10 new Achievements, new vehicles and gadgets and Avatar Awards, you’ll be spending a not-so-bad 560 Microsoft Points. For a full explanation for the soon to be released DLC, hit the jump.

Originality In Gaming: An Observation Of The Industry Today

Right now if you were to ask me which game I thought would win game of the year 2010 my response would probably be a sequel of some kind. Things have become quite banal in games as of late. Personally, it seems like we just see one big shooter after another, with various tidbits of unique titles here and there. It’s the middle of July, meaning there are less days left in 2010 than there are days that have gone by. What fresh noteworthy game has come this year? As difficult as it might be, try to limit your response to non-sequel games also. You may find that the pickings are quite slim. For perspective, let’s reflect on what made 2009 a great year in gaming and explore whether or not there is still hope for the rest of this year.

New Release Rundown ~ Week of 7/4/2010

What comes out this week, you ask? Not a whole lot. However, there are two notable titles. Crackdown 2 we’ve been hearing about for quite a while hits this week, as does the PSP port of Persona 3, from Atlus. This game, my friends, makes up for the lack of decent titles this week, and then some. If you haven’t played it already on the PS2, you owe it to yourself to give it a shot, whether you enjoy RPGs or not. You heard me. Check out the full list of what is coming out this week after the break. Don’t cry, maybe next week will be better.

Crackdown 2 Hits the Shelves

Did you like the first Crackdown? Do you have sixty bucks just collecting dust in your wallet? If you answered yes to both of these questions then you may wanna head down to your local game retailer and grab Crackdown 2. Lame used car salesman pitch aside, the sequel to the 2007 third person shooter, hit the shelves today.

Crackdown 2 boasts improved graphics, new story, and two to four player co-op so you can hit the streets killing mutants with friends. If co-op is not quite your cup of tea, there are a few sixteen player competitive game types where you can go head to head with other agents. Sound fun? Well if you think so head out to wherever you normally get your gaming fix and pick up Crackdown 2.

Life After E3: What Games We’re Looking Forward to Most

I knew stepping into E3 that my list of games was going to change. Priorities on what I would spend my gaming hours on would not be the same after witnessing what E3 2010 had to offer and I knew that going in. Trying to cope with life after E3, which included dreams of running around the show floor being chased by Sephiroth with a gun-blade, led me to ask my fellow staff at DualShockers what they were looking forward to after this massive “super bowl of gaming” took place. Find out what they had to say and see what life after E3 means for DualShockers’ upcoming wishlists.

Crackdown 2 Demo Unlocks Achievements

For everyone cranking up the Crackdown 2 demo on Xbox Live you will be pleased to know that you can unlock some achievements that will count for the full game when it releases this July 6th! I have often said that demos should offer Achievements/Trophies as a further incentive for gamers to try out a game, and now that dream has become a reality. If they will just get Achievements/Trophies for cleaning your room, getting good report cards, and preventing cavities then the world will be a better place, just kidding, enjoy the demo folks!

Crackdown 2: Inside the Toybox Documentary Released (w/ Game-play)

Super powers, guns, jet-packs, rocket launchers, and a lot more await you. In the latest video documentary for Crackdown 2 you will see the basic idea of what type of super-mayhem gamers can expect to be unleashing on Xbox 360 July 6th this year. Diversity and excitement are the core dynamics explored in the official trailer (with game-play) after the break.

PAX East 2010: Crackdown 2 – Jim Cope Video Interview

At PAX East 2010, there weren’t that many titles that the DualShockers team hadn’t already seen or had a hands on with in some form or another. However, for one of the biggest titles at the show this wasn’t the case. Crackdown 2, was on hand for those in attendance and unlike most titles showing off snippets of their main story or campaign, the team at Ruffian thought it would be smart to bring some much needed multiplayer mayhem to the show floor, and they certainly delivered. We had a chance to speak to Jim Cope the game’s producer about what to expect in Crackdown 2’s multiplayer, check out the highlights of that interview below.

PAX East 2010: Crackdown 2 Impressions

I clearly remember a couple of years back when the first Crackdown was introduced to the Xbox 360. I was awed with the cell-shaded appearance that penetrated through the display and, most importantly, the style of gameplay that was introduced to fans of the sandbox genre. There’s no game out there that lets you freely punt, not kick, the crap out of pedestrians and villains, toss all sorts of objects, and leap buildings in the most superhero-like fashion.

The game was amazing and entertaining in every sense of those two words; the only issue I had with it was the fact that the ending pretty much left me hanging, which had me pulling out my hair. I, personally, just clenched my jaw in anger and sighed heavily at the cliffhanger ending. No worries, though. We knew that eventually Microsoft Game Studios and Realtime Worlds would produce a sequel to the first and give us the rightfully deserved continuation we were entitled to. But they didn’t. Instead, taking the helm of development is Ruffian Games (which was formed by former Realtime Worlds video game developers Gaz Liddon and Billy Thompson). And at PAX East 2010, DualShockers got some hands-on time with some Crackdown 2 – a game that so far is living up to its hype.

Crackdown 2 Screens Hit the Streets

Like any orb junkie, the moment I hear anything about Crackdown 2 I instantly start rocking back and forth while mumbling about the orbs. And I gladly look forward to finding all those little bastards this next go around. Anyways, here are some new screens of Crackdown 2.

Crackdown 2 Hits July 6

Crackdown was an amazing game. It did have a pretty lame ending, but it did what it set out to do: keep us entertained as we powered up our orb-absorbing juiced up crime-fighting combatant to an unstoppable villain field goal-kicking superhero. Ah, the good ol’ days…

A couple of years later, with an obvious sequel announced, Microsoft has finally shed some light on the release date for our return to the skyscraper-filled megalopolis that is Pacific City. Crackdown 2 will launch in North American on July 6, with a release of July 8 for Asia, Australia and New Zealand, and a  European release date of July 9. I’ve been waiting a long time to get back into abusing baddies in the most inhumane ways possible.

Getting Super High with Crackdown 2

Ruffian Games is going big with their return to Pacific City. The game will be bigger with more stuff to do and…lots taller. I know that one of my favorite past times in Crackdown was climbing buildings and generally jumping around like a superhero.

Now, we will have even higher buildings to climb. The lead designer of Crackdown 2, Steve Ianetta, said that in Crackdown the biggest altitude change from lowest point to highest was under 400 meters. Now, in Crackdown 2, there will be altitude changes of over 1000 meters. That is over a 1/2 mile in altitude change. I hope you can Wile E. Coyote it off the top of buildings and leave craters in the ground. That shit would be fantastic…or am I the only one who thinks that?

Regardless, Microsoft said that we should prepare for Crackdown 2 to come out in the first half of this year. Get ready to get higher than ever before!

Via EuroGamer