Crackdown Devs Form New Studio, Working On Crackdown 2?

Oh boy. According to a Gamasutra report, several members of the Crackdown development team - including lead designer Billy Thomson - have formed a new development studio. And "may" be working on Crackdown 2.

The "form a new studio" bit, that's legit. They're called Ruffian Games, and are based in Dundee, Scotland. But the Crackdown bit?

Gamasutra only state that there are "unconfirmed reports" that the studio are working on it at the moment. Though it's certainly possible, what with the composition of this team, the fact they're not at Realtime (who developed Crackdown) working on APB and the fact Microsoft got awful coy the other day about the possibility of a second Crackdown.

Report: Scottish Developer Ruffian Formed - Crackdown 2 A Possibility? [Gamasutra]

This is one of my favourite games so far this generation. I would love to see a sequel.

Hopefully 2010...

I find myself somewhat torn. Crackdown was a seriously good game, but it was the gaming equivalent of a drunken binge. A six hour high followed by days of regret. Like I cannot believe this cost me sixty dollars. The games over powered characters and its oh so short play through complimented each other far too much. Quick to burn you out, and leave you with nothing.

Knowing what I now know I am very wary of another Crackdown. Yes you eventually get your moneys worth, but here is the catch you play those six hour binges every couple of months. Which is most definitely not why you lay down sixty dollars. When you do that you expect to be entranced for a solid week at least. You just cannot continually play the game over and over, and hunting down agility orbs gets really annoying really fast. Especially when you do not need them.

I would say I am mildly interested. However the game will need some radical design changes. Were it to be to true to the first game it would be far less inviting. The worlds needs to be a little less hectic, and a little more strategic. I love the leveling, and the focus on moving around the environment, but I do not want a game I can defeat in less then three hours. I need a game that will engage me for around thirty hours straight out of the box. Otherwise it is not worth sixty dollars on day one. A slick online mode with fifteen friends may be slick enough to hook me though. Especially if its game modes are competitive.

Halo 4 confirmed?

Crackdown always felt like a half finished game to me. The large sandbox city was great, but there was just a lack of interesting missions.

It was like mercenaries where you have to capture / kill the HVT targets, but all the missions were gone.

Crackdown is one of my best experience this gen.

Truly.
Amazing
Game.

Crackdown 2 is already on my "Buy on day 1" list.

Halo 4 Beta will be bundled.

I bought this game used for 15 and felt it was damn well worth the money. I enjoyed it shitloads more than GTA4 and loved feeling like a SuperHero running super fast, punching super hard, jumping super high, driving super fast.

@Dodece what about the ability to change difficulty would that have warranted a 60 dollar buy? I spent well over 3 hours on this around 20 but that's only because I had so much fun going after Retomoto Tower when the game said chance of success...extremely low! I armed myself with a pistol and the semi auto Rocket Launcher. It was so effing hard >

I really hope this is true.

Please give the bosses agent-like powers, and create a few multiplayer modes in addition to co-op.