Critical Gaming Flops in 2019
Crackdown 3
Crackdown 3’s long gestation period and the addition of Terry Crews gave us small hints that this title would either be a game of the year contender or one of the worst Microsoft exclusives in recent years.
Oh, and Crackdown 3 needed to be a great game, as we really haven’t gotten much from Microsoft lately in terms of high-quality triple-A exclusives.
Crackdown 3 didn’t wholly fail at its goal, and it’s still a fun game in a lot of ways, but it was far from being the big-time Xbox One exclusive game that all gamers could get excited about. It’s a flawed game that is only going to appeal to some.
Not everything needs to be Red Dead Redemption 2, but the game really needed a bit more time in the oven (yes crazy to say but true), in order to modernize its gameplay a bit more.
Crackdown 3 might have been more of a success story if it ended up giving us a fleshed out world with interesting enemies, and possibly a few more one-liners from Terry himself, but none of that was present in Crackdown 3 and it’s just a shame.
Now, the game does have a score of 60 on Metacritic, which again isn’t terrible, but comparing it to other highly-anticipated exclusive games, it doesn’t make the cut. Fans agreed, and once again, their user scores were even lower.
