“Why are YOU Buying Crackdown” Poll
- Scribbled on February 20th, 2007 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Action, Microsoft Xbox 360, New Release(s)
Over at Xbox 360 Fanboy, they’re running a “Why are you buying Crackdown” poll to gauge the motivations behind the interest in Dave Jones’ latest unholy spawn of Grand Theft Auto III and The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, and most of the people are buying it to actually play the game, though a good chunk of them are delighted at the prospect of the Halo 3 multiplayer stress test beta that the first shipment will include. Only 22% of the voters said they only cared about the Halo 3 aspect or weren’t buying it at all.
The interest in Crackdown, which hits stores today, on its own is chiefly due to the popular demo on Xbox Live Marketplace, and I suspect had there been no Halo 3 carrot it still would have been just as successful, just as there was no buzz about Dead Rising til its demo hit the Marketplace. What do you think?
February 20th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
I’m getting Crackdown because it’s a ton of fun to level up your character and leap around, toss stuff, and live life like a superhero. There really isn’t much else that gives you such a sense of being a hero in such a HUGE completely open world. It’s great fun. Probably will burn through hours of jumping around without doing any missions or side missions.
February 20th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
If M$ had piggybacked the beta invite on a really bad game, it would have generated a lot of bad press. I haven’t tried crackdown, but I imagine its decent.