Gamescom 2015: Every Brand New Gameplay Demo You Need To See

16. Crackdown (3?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge3PQ2nQM4Q Remember the Crackdown story? No? Good, because it doesn't seem to matter any more. The whole 'Your commander was the bad guy all along, ridding the city of crime just made him the overlord'-type stuff appears to be out the window, as Microsoft finally demoed some all-new gameplay from Crackdown, showing it's a return to collecting orbs, jumping entire buildings in a single bound and causing even more destruction than ever before. In all honesty it looks exactly the same as the first two titles, with the narrator even mentioning it's going to have "That classic Crackdown gameplay", so if you were hoping for a more innovative take on the idea of a superheroic cop tasked with cleaning up an entire city, well, it's not here - not yet, anyway. For the rest of us that are happy to throw lorries at gangs of goons before propelling ourselves skywards for some city block-hopping parkour sections, that stuff is back in abundance - and it's never looked better.
Gaming Editor
Gaming Editor

WhatCulture's Head of Gaming.