Twelve years ago this month, Microsoft began distributing invites for the Halo 3 beta through copies of an Xbox 360 exclusive title called Crackdown. The explosive open-world action game might not have made much of a splash if not for the inclusion of the beta invite, but once people actually got their hands on Crackdown, they discovered something unlike any other open-world game on the market. Crackdown went on to garner critical acclaim.
Crackdown looked poised to become a staple of the Xbox brand, standing alongside the likes of Halo, Gears of War, and Forza, but then, in 2010, the sequel dropped. Despite the three-plus year wait, critics and consumers complained that Crackdown 2 was too much like its predecessor. It would be more than eight years and a new console generation later before the series would return, but after all that time, Crackdown 3 has arrived.
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