Crackdown 3 Devs Working on Unannounced Xbox Project

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Xbox Game Studios’ Crackdown was quite successful when it was released for the Xbox 360 in 2007. Unfortunately, 2010’s Crackdown 2 did not quite live up to its predecessor, and 2019’s Crackdown 3 is generally regarded as a disappointing game.

However, Crackdown 4 or something like it may not be entirely out of the cards. It appears that Xbox Games Studios is developing a new unannounced game and brought back several former Crackdown 3 developers to work on it.

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According to Tech 4 Gamers, Xbox Games Studios veterans James Goddard, Mark Simon, and Dave McCrate have been working together on an unannounced project for several years. Simon was a Design Director for ReCoreand Crackdown 3 and had been working on the new project since 2017, according to his LinkedIn profile. Goddard was a Design Director on Ryse: Son of Rome and Crackdown 3 and joined the project in 2019. Finally, McCrate was a Senior Producer on Crackdown 3 and also joined the new project in 2019.

Xbox Game Studios has yet to reveal what Simon, McCrate, Goddard, and their teams are developing. However, the fact that they all worked on Crackdown 3 makesCrackdown 4 seem very likely. If that is not the case, it at least appears possible that Xbox Game Studios is developing something very similar to a Crackdown game. Xbox fans could be looking at a new open-world action-adventure game, possibly incorporating Crackdown 3’s destructible cityscape. However, Gamers may not know for sure until Xbox Game Studios makes an official announcement, and there is no way to tell how far off that might be.

The original Crackdown put players in the role of a cybernetically augmented operative tasked by the secretive Agency