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Microsoft shows off first Crackdown 3 gameplay

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Somehow, a transforming car is perfectly logical for Crackdown.

David Jones, head of Reagent Games, showed off the first Crackdown 3 gameplay at Microsoft’s Gamescom press conference today in Cologne, Germany. The fighting — and we saw a lot in the trailer — takes place in a “dangerous new city, once glistening metropolis” with destructible environments and multiplayer combat. You can drive a car that transforms as you go to different loctaions.

The trailer showed that multiplayer begins summer 2016. One tantalizing fact: Microsoft said that the game will connect to the Microsoft Cloud, tapping computing power that will be 20 times more than that of your Xbox One game console.

 

 

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.