10 Times You Bought The Wrong Video Game INTENTIONALLY
1. Buying Crackdown For The Halo 3 Beta
Oh, we all thought it’d be worth it, didn’t we? Spending forty quid on a Halo 3 beta key. We were prepared to drop that kinda cash on an unfinished multiplayer demo product, because Halo 2’s shadow had been cast very far, for very long.
Yet, when all that dust had settled on the Halo 3 beta period, and we’d stopped giggling like schoolbairns about Dual Spikers and Brute Shots, there was still that... game there, unplayed.
To Realtime Worlds, I apologise. I had no idea the delights I had been foregoing in order to taste the newest, shiny nectar.
Crackdown was, and still is, a damned hoot.
It’s almost criminal how a game so open, which plays so much like a childhood power fantasy, is still known as “the game that came free with a Halo demo”. If you felt like chaos, kick a pile of Smart cars off a cliff. If you liked platforming, climb any skyscraper in the game. If you liked driving, th... well, aye, the driving’s not great. But those green orbs? Aye, those bad boys put the crack in Crackdown.
Sometimes, it’s good to buy the games for the... er... games you didn’t want. Sometimes.