The Agency is recruiting again: First Crackdown 2 trailer

by Richard Mitchell { Jun 2nd 2009 at 12:15AM }

"The city is infected. You are the cure."

So begins the first trailer for Crackdown 2. The trailer subsequently showcases one of the Agency's supercops doing what he does best. If you've played the first Crackdown, you'll know that what an Agent does best is basically to be a complete and total badass. The only difference is that this time, it looks like the Agents just might have met their match. We won't spoil it for you, so just go ahead and give it a watch.

Tags: crackdown, crackdown-2, e3-2009, mgs, microsoft-game-studios, ruffian, ruffian-games

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Obie @ Jun 2nd 2009 12:21AM

Kills for skills, agent, kills for skills.

I hope that cheesy narrator is back, just make his lines more varied and accurate.

Premature ejaculation man @ Jun 2nd 2009 12:27AM

I was under the impression it was the other way around...

BLASPHEMY

Magetto @ Jun 2nd 2009 12:39AM

Heh, I turned his voice off after a while. It got pretty annoying because he said the same thing over and over again.

I cannot wait for this game, I loved the first crackdown and this looks to add things that might actually be a threat to your super-human powered enforcer.

Anticrawl @ Jun 2nd 2009 12:46AM

Should probably turn the volume on your computer up, because he is the man talking in the video.

aaron @ Jun 2nd 2009 12:50AM

Good grief...

I haven't seen anyone get the lines right the first time in months...

Anticrawl @ Jun 2nd 2009 12:53AM

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0566332/

CTC XBL-supapaypamawio PSN-ctclaw @ Jun 2nd 2009 3:48AM

I loved that guy. My favorite was "I can see my house from here"...half the time he said it I was just hanging out on the ground.

Brandon @ Jun 12th 2009 1:03PM

It wouldn't be Crackdown without the Voice in my head, telling me to kill, giving me the skills.

Professor Lario @ Jun 2nd 2009 12:21AM

Awesome and can't wait. Love how they started the trailer with the orb sound.

Good job todayJoystiq!

Alex @ Jun 2nd 2009 12:22AM

Damn, stoked they are actually making a sequel to Crackdown. Love me some skyscraper jumpin!

Dopple Boppler @ Jun 2nd 2009 12:24AM

Why couldn't they have talked about this for five minutes instead of showing some random dancing car trailer for Forza 3 during Microsoft's conference

Joe @ Jun 2nd 2009 12:25AM

Maybe its only me but I like the car videos of forza 3.

Random G @ Jun 2nd 2009 12:32AM

Your not alone. I enjoyed them as well.

Drew -- PS360: uphillbothways @ Jun 2nd 2009 11:49AM

But it's the definitive racing game of this generation!

james @ Jun 2nd 2009 12:25AM

I hope this game actually trys to 1up itself gameplay wise. Improved graphics are certainly there but I reallllyy dont want it to feel like crackdown 1.5.

Premature ejaculation man @ Jun 2nd 2009 12:28AM

What I want improved is the AI. I felt it to be a bit strange that they were all such sharpshooters who could all swivel 'round and shoot me with a shotgun while I'm 100ft in the air when I so much as looked at them.

shamowfski @ Jun 2nd 2009 2:23PM

Stay away from infamous then. Everyone with a gun is highly trained head hunting sniper.

VaultICEE @ Jun 2nd 2009 12:30AM

HELL TO THE YES.

Blank-Mage @ Jun 2nd 2009 2:54AM

Dante's Inferno being Yes to the Hell, I would assume.

Caboose @ Jun 2nd 2009 12:30AM

this was a good game.. but whats with the infection type game play? we going to be fighting zombies this time arond ?

Tonicboy @ Jun 2nd 2009 1:05AM

What are you on about? I'm not sure how you got infection or zombies out of anything in that trailer.

Blank-Mage @ Jun 2nd 2009 2:55AM

Left 4 Crackdown 2: The Sprequel.

NukeAssault @ Jun 2nd 2009 12:34AM

This is gonna be amazing! I only just bought the first just a few months ago but after i finished i knew i wanted more. Dont wanna jump the gun but... there were four guys on that building... 4 play co-op? Either way i cant wait to see more.

F1: Basu Gasu Bakuhatsu @ Jun 2nd 2009 12:35AM

I don't know. Last time I played this game I got shot in the head at the end...

R (XBL: Esoteric Lord) @ Jun 2nd 2009 12:36AM

Yeah, we need an answer to the "wtf" ending of crackdown 1.

Blank-Mage @ Jun 2nd 2009 2:56AM

Not that a headshot would really kill you, though. Might give you a light headache, but it's not like the Agents really thought much anyway.

Brian @ Jun 2nd 2009 12:45AM

first was fun in terms of the running and jumping but the driving and shooting always felt "meh"
so hopefully thats is better i dont need lock on it always seemed too easy but the jumping seemed so real when you fell i loved it

Vidikron @ Jun 2nd 2009 12:55AM

I thought the driving was pretty good. Once you got your driving skill maxed out it was a lot of fun. The shooting could be improved, but it was better than GTA and most other open world games.

Blank-Mage @ Jun 2nd 2009 2:58AM

Needed bigger streets, though. Your car was too damn fast to navigate those roads.

Brian @ Jun 2nd 2009 12:47AM

Anticrawl @ Jun 2nd 2009 12:48AM

The ending of Crackdown was a perfect setup for an interesting sequel, but instead it seems as though they ditched it for the current gaming "hot plot."

Premature ejaculation man @ Jun 2nd 2009 12:51AM

Indeed. Unless of course these crazy enemies are also quite powerful. So they'll kick you off buildings and slam on your face on for you to throw them up in the sky followed by a few rockets...

But I'd still rather be fighting against the agency or converting new cities.

Anticrawl @ Jun 2nd 2009 12:51AM

By the way don't underestimate the power of news on the 360. They had several of the gameplay videos up before they were posted anywhere around the web.

rv @ Jun 2nd 2009 12:50AM

Please make agency tower 100000 stories tall. That is one of the most fun parts of cdown 1.

Manly Mcbeefington (Mr. ESC) @ Jun 2nd 2009 12:53AM

Base Jumping was the best part.

They should put a save point at the top,jumping down from there is a lot of fun.

Manly Mcbeefington (Mr. ESC) @ Jun 2nd 2009 12:51AM

"The best view in the city,agent"

/staring at wall

wait,what?

"The best trailer in the whole E3 Agent"

/watching petz trailer.

Wait,what?

This is awesome.

ill trooper @ Jun 2nd 2009 12:57AM

"I can see my house from here"

ORB ADDICTION, I FEEL THAT BURN AGAIN

MisterSquared @ Jun 2nd 2009 2:36AM

There's a flood coming Agent, you've got an Ark to build.

Brian @ Jun 2nd 2009 1:08AM

it was better then older gta's but i played gta 4 with lockon turned off and i loved it
and i suppose the driving did improve with skill points i was biased after the begining haha

Arkm @ Jun 2nd 2009 1:56AM

This actually caught me by surprise. Awesome. Looks like I'll be up playing this until 5am every night, just like Crackdown in 2007. I'd better get ready.

Vcize @ Jun 2nd 2009 2:20AM

YES!!!

Katana @ Jun 2nd 2009 4:19AM

I had to rewatch the trailer because I didn't think it was in Pacific City again until I saw the skyline on the logo. Then I realized that the whole trailer is in La Mugre, but that the land seems to have been extended, and somehow the tower is right next to the island. So small changes maybe but it looks awesome.

Also whoever said it's following the hot trend with zombies and/or monsters, you must be forgetting about the freaks that ended up running around towards the end of the first one. This seems like a bigger, meaner version of them.

Boff @ Jun 2nd 2009 5:24AM

Thankyou!!! My day has just been made!
Nice vid, bit worried about this 'new threat' living in the sewers.

Maybe it's Crackdown2: Agency v TMNT. You heard it hear first.

Oh, and 00:28-00:29 Mmmmmmm orbs... I can feel the addiction coming back already!!