Unlike previous titles from the game series, the upcoming "Crackdown 3" will feature a few noticeable changes in terms of its gameplay experience.
For one, the third installment in the "Crackdown" franchise will no longer include moving collectible orbs or the option to completely destroy a city in the game's singleplayer campaign.
In the "Crackdown" universe, Agility Orbs can boost a character's ability to run faster, jump higher and perform other actions, Twinfinite reported. In the first game, these items are stationary which means gamers can just simply run up to them and claim them.
But in the second game, developer Reagent Games decided to add a bit of twist by making the orbs move. This frustrated a number of gamers because aside from evading enemies, they had to keep up with the fast-moving collectible items.
Fortunately, the third game will no longer have moving orbs, as confirmed by studio director Dave Jones during Gamescom 2015. Instead, they will be static just like in the first game.
Aside from the orbs, another noticeable change in "Crackdown 3" is the removal of the option to completely destroy the fictional Pacific City, Gaming Bolt has learned. This may seem as a huge letdown for gamers especially since the series is known for its destructible environments.
But, as Jones noted, this restriction will only apply to the singleplayer mode. He explained that since this mode follows a campaign that will put gamers in the shoes of a heroic character, allowing them to blow up an entire city simply goes against the concept of good versus evil.
"One of the things that we want to do is that we don't want to destroy the city in the campaign, you are going to be the good guy in the campaign, you will be saving the city so we came up with a whole new way to take 'Crackdown' to this multiplayer experience," the director told Twitch.
But, as Jones stated, players will still be able to wreak havoc on Pacific City through its multiplayer mode.
According to Kotaku, Reagent Games was able to achieve a fully-destructible city in the game's online mode used Xbox One's cloud-based technology.
With the help of this concept, the developers were able to accurately calculate and analyze the physics behind buildings blowing up and toppling on one another.
The entire destruction is then presented in-real time, which means player who are logged on to the same multiplayer game will be able to see the city crumbling at the same time.
There is no exact release date yet for "Crackdown 3" but the game is scheduled to come out sometime during the third or fourth quarter of next year. It will be exclusively available for the Xbox One.
