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Realm of Rikonia
Rikonian Revuze
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Reviewed By: Lord High Rikonian ( 11/7/2009 3:06:18 PM)
Overall Rating: 4.00 kicks to old dude's spines
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Review: Crackdown is good semi-mindless fun. If it were new, I'd say it's just a rental, since I beat it in a week. However, since you can get it for 10 bucks as of the writing of this review, go ahead and buy it, as you'll probably go back to it again sometime.
The game is fairly simplistic. The goal is straightforward: 3 gangs with 7 leaders, you kill all 21 of these guys and you win.
But the game is jam packed with fun goodness. It was made by some of the people who made GTA. And you can see some of the GTA elements: automotive mayhem, inappropriately funny crude humor, gang violence, car radio stations. However, this game actually has better driving controls than GTA (though they're still the least reliable of your tactics).
Luckily, you can also use a wide array of guns, bombs, or your own genetically enhanced strength to kill gang members. The guns range in usefulness from damn good (the 480 round rifle you start with and the 800 round rifle you can snag from the Shia-Gen) to the incredibly useless to the increbily fun "bad guy go boom" Firefly rocket launcher. And the ability to target heads for quicker kills or limbs to weaken your foes does add a much needed tactical element to gunplay. Your brutality can also be unleashed upon the civilians, of course, but that penalizes your skill advancement. Still, small price to pay for kicking an old man in the spine, sending him into oncoming traffic and causing a 5 car pileup. Or for kicking a minivan off of a suspension bridge. Or for running up behind a cop car and kicking its rear bumper, thus sending the cop car skidding and flipping forward into a traffic jam. I (accidentally but it still counts) killed some gang members with that one.
Playing Advice: Of your 5 core attributes, strength will likely raise first, as kicks are usually a one-shot kill and require no ammo. But be sure to use your guns and bombs early on, because you'll want those skilled raised too. And be sure to always look out for the orbs to raise your agility, because it will make it easier to bypass ambushes and get the drop on your foes, instead of them getting the drop on you.
Driving is pretty worthless, as even with a good car, most times the enemy will sidestep at the last second and you'll end up plowing into a civilian instead, which slows your driving skill advancement (which would be a worse downside if driving didn't kind of suck anyway).
For tough boss fights, remember, you don't have to get out, you just have to get in. And if you can get in kicking range of your foe, you can probably kick him to death before his friends can shoot you to death.
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