Ranting Kenya

To clarify this right off the top, I was already accepted to the Halo 3 beta. I did not buy Crackdown for the Halo 3 beta.That said, I did download the demo. And I played it. And it was ok. I ran around, shot some dudes, died a few times, and I didn’t think much of it. Went back to playing Gears of War, Poker, Geometry Wars, College Hoops 2k7 and whatever else I got.

In the following week or so, I noticed some people on my friends list playing Crackdown. Of course I had heard more about the game itself from Major’s podcast and other web sources. So I went back to the demo, and I tried leveling up. This is where Microsoft made me buy Crackdown, this whole downloading the demo thing is perfectly evil.

Before I knew it, I was jumping from rooftop to rooftop, throwing propane tanks, jumping cars, basically having a blast. One of my “things” about video games is I like to play games when I’m doing things I wouldn’t normally do. That means, I like sports games, but I really like shooting people. Well Crackdown I like a lucid dream. You jump super high and throw cars, neither of which I’ve done in real life.

And then they add character leveling. So I’m leveling up as I go. Now I have the RPG hook in a shooting game. Very hard to put down. This is the first game in a while that I’ve played where late night fatigue is less important than playing “just 10 more minutes”. I’ve had two late nights in a row now, just like back in the day.