January 17 update: The demo is delayed, but will still be available sometime before the end of January.
The Xbox 360 game Crackdown explodes onto Xbox Live Marketplace with a single-player and online cooperative demo on January 18th, followed by its arrival on North American store shelves February 20th at a price of $59.99.
Pacific City is overridden; crime controls the streets. Three powerful gangs have taken the once-great metropolis hostage, and the police have proven powerless in their efforts to regain control. Only the Agency—deploying genetically enhanced agents of justice—can provide citizens with some sense of hope.
Gamers will arm themselves with high-tech weapons, transformable vehicles and incredible, gravity-defying superskills in preparation to take back Pacific City as they battle their way through the roads and rooftops of Crackdown.
From Realtime Worlds, made by the original creator (David Jones) of Grand Theft Auto, Crackdown pushes the action-driving hybrid genre into the next generation in a 3-D playground. Gamers will level up their Agent’s strength, agility, firearms, explosives, and driving skills while scaling the fully vertical world of Crackdown. This M-rated game incorporates co-op gameplay throughout the entire free-form campaign. Creating a volatile cocktail of judicial oppression, players will clean up the streets of an interactive world.
Here’s a few minutes of gameplay footage: