DICE 08: Microsoft owns Crackdown IP, sequel an 'option'

by James Ransom-Wiley on Feb 8th 2008 3:40PM

Despite the dynamic pairing of good sales and majority acclaim for Crackdown, Shane Kim grew cagey when questioned about the status of a sequel at DICE, during an interview with Game|Life. "I don't really want to talk about that discussion," said Kim when asked to comment on reports that Realtime Worlds would not develop a sequel to last year's successful super-cop sandbox shooter. What Kim did clarify is that Microsoft owns the Crackdown IP and is free to pursue development of a sequel with a new studio. "I think that customers would like to see more in that space," Kim vaguely noted, "So that's an option for us."

Source

Tags: Action, crackdown, dice, dice-08, Microsoft, realtime-worlds, Riot-Act, Sandbox, shane-kim, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (53)

I loved Crackdown. But PLEASE, if there is a sequel, bring back the original developers!!!!!

I loved Crackdown, it was a great surprise. I played the hell out of that game. I would have liked a little more story, more villians... bigger areas to explore. I would definitely buy a sequel.

This is pretty much the best news I've seen on Joystiq in a long, long time.

Hopefully this pressures Realtime Worlds into doing the sequel, but even if they don't there is a ton of great stuff to build on for whoever picks it up.

Crackdown was one of the most underrated games I've played in a long, long time. Even though I'm an FPS guy I'd take a sequel to this over another Halo, Call of Duty, or Bioshock game any day.

Previous 50 Comments