New Crackdown 2 screens -- zombies included [updated]
by Ben Gilbert 
{ Sep 24th 2009 at 6:00PM } 
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Is it still kosher to assume zombies are what's being featured in these Crackdown 2 screens? We saw a glimpse of the ... let's call them "mutated" enemies in the trailer released back at E3, but we'd yet to see them being punched, kicked, and exploded so vociferously before. With any luck, we'll nab some new gameplay video -- or maybe just impressions of new gameplay video -- when we check out the game this week at the Tokyo Game Show. Update: After spotting 10 unlisted Crackdown 2 images on Ruffian's Flickr page, we were asked by Microsoft to remove the screens due to an exclusivity agreement with Game Informer magazine. In the interest of playing nice, we've complied with the request. We'll have the images back on Joystiq as soon as possible, we assure you ... though a Google Images search might net you results a bit sooner.
Gallery: Crackdown 2 (TGS 2009 #2)
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Platinum_Skeet @ Sep 24th 2009 6:03PM
Supercops and Zombies!!! What will they think of next?!?
Bubbameister33 @ Sep 24th 2009 6:05PM
Babies and zombies?
Solace @ Sep 24th 2009 6:07PM
zombies monkeys
'nuff said
AsherR [Planeteer | Power of The Hoff] @ Sep 24th 2009 6:07PM
Robots, Ninjas and Pirates!
LegendaryRedass @ Sep 24th 2009 6:13PM
Not robots, ninjas and pirates but robot ninja pirates. With a parrot that spits the lost souls of the forsaken.
Bubbameister33 @ Sep 24th 2009 6:30PM
Jim Henson Presents: Muppets vs. Zombies would awesome, I'm just throwing that out there.
AsherR [Planeteer | Power of The Hoff] @ Sep 24th 2009 6:35PM
I like your thinking Legendary. How about one step further? A Zombiefied Robocop that is a ninja pirate? WIth a lolcat instead of a parrot on his shoulder. The most cliche, yet original monstrosity ever. Bwahahahahahaahahahahaha!
Stevetrop @ Sep 24th 2009 7:55PM
Supercops and baby monkey ninja robot pirate zombies?
Shagittarius @ Sep 24th 2009 6:04PM
Wow, those screenshots look pretty unpleasing to my eye. Is it just me?
Marius @ Sep 24th 2009 6:10PM
My eyes are bleeding
Solace @ Sep 24th 2009 6:12PM
@marius
You should tell that to National Geographic and I think you might get your own documentary
Dirty @ Sep 24th 2009 6:36PM
The first didn't look that great either. Doesn't mean its not fun.
Oh noes! Those Nintendo Trolls infected my brain!
Anthony33 @ Sep 25th 2009 10:10AM
It looks much, much better in motion. The cel-shading makes the characters really stand out.
DonGeronimo @ Sep 24th 2009 6:10PM
Instant Erection!
ripslymemc @ Sep 24th 2009 6:59PM
+1. Figurative boners ftw.
AvA (ice~) @ Sep 24th 2009 11:45PM
Figurative???!!! LOLOLOL
I Are ODST @ Sep 24th 2009 6:09PM
WHOA. That guy looks like he's Master Chief with a grav hammer and a brute shot on his back....
Anybody else see that or just me?
ripslymemc @ Sep 24th 2009 6:58PM
Right but that guy is faster, stronger, and he can jump higher. He has aim lock on too.
Traceur_Ryuk [All Digital until December] (PSN: Ryuk_shinigami) @ Sep 24th 2009 6:09PM
Just in the past few years my love of zombies went from about an 8 to a 2.
Solace @ Sep 24th 2009 6:11PM
mine has gone up from a 1.2 to a 9.4
Traceur_Ryuk [All Digital until December] (PSN: Ryuk_shinigami) @ Sep 24th 2009 6:13PM
Because of the over excessive amount zombie games?
Solace @ Sep 24th 2009 6:27PM
yesh and Nazi Zombies is so much fun I just wish I had L4D
Traceur_Ryuk [All Digital until December] (PSN: Ryuk_shinigami) @ Sep 24th 2009 6:11PM
Your "sig" is starting to piss me off, that's why we have a "website" section in our profiles.
Solace @ Sep 24th 2009 6:12PM
just click on the "exclamation point" and the he will be taken care of
Space @ Sep 24th 2009 6:15PM
This is the game that'll make me buy another 360. the first one was heaps good, I imagine this one will be better.
ripslymemc @ Sep 24th 2009 6:57PM
I'm thinking of getting a used arcade (if they still exist) for this. Maybe odst/reach also. CRACKDOWN 2 SHOULD HAVE A COLLECTORS EDITION!!!
Space @ Sep 24th 2009 8:02PM
yeah me too, I've been looking on amazon, they have refurbished 20 gigs for $199 and they have a 1 year warranty
Special Agent Steve @ Sep 24th 2009 6:16PM
Ehhh... this doesn't look like the real Crackdown. :(
Dante Sparda @ Sep 24th 2009 6:21PM
Looks just like the original Crackdown. Some people are forgetting that these "zombies" were in the original Crackdown as well.
ripslymemc @ Sep 24th 2009 6:55PM
The zombies of this game are the freaks of the last game. They were so damned strong too. The game looks exactly like the last one.
No Kill Tayler @ Sep 24th 2009 6:19PM
I miss the days when zombies were you know ZOMBIES.
Juande [Xylon Uxkid] @ Sep 24th 2009 7:09PM
Yeah, now they are a bunch mutant super human killer machine.
rahmenxnoodles69 @ Sep 24th 2009 6:29PM
Why is it that so many new games have zombies in them EXCEPT Resident Evil..?
What a strange world we live in these days XD
Kimosabae @ Sep 24th 2009 10:11PM
Christ. Zombies must be the new Bloom Lighting.
emperorzeroxx @ Sep 24th 2009 6:40PM
Graphics look pretty cruddy, but the first game was pretty awesome I'll be sure to grab this... also can't go wrong with zombies
ColorblindMonk @ Sep 24th 2009 6:49PM
Trying to cash in on the zombie games, they are.
Dante Sparda @ Sep 24th 2009 7:48PM
No they are continuing the story and events that happened in the first game.
Seriously did nobody play the first game? These are not Zombies, they are mutants and showed up towards the end of the first game.
ripslymemc @ Sep 24th 2009 6:53PM
OMG THIS MAKES ME MAD I TRADED MY 360!
Seriously, Crackdown was my favorite game on the 360 and definitely in my top 10.
Those ability orbs are just asking to get jumped after...
and the Agents look cooler.
I hope they have new Agency vehicles also.
Seriously, fanboy moment. CRACKDOWN 2 FTFW!!!!!!
whookid @ Sep 24th 2009 7:10PM
In the infamous words of Marcus Fenix.. "NICE!"
Altairio @ Sep 24th 2009 7:52PM
Eh. You should be fighting the company this time around, not zombies. And why does it look so much like Halo?
Handbone @ Sep 24th 2009 8:15PM
It may look the same because it's the city as the first
Jack Tretton @ Sep 24th 2009 9:30PM
Crackdown is a great game -- I've played through twice -- but, yeah, I just realized looking at the screenshots the sequel will probably take place in Pacific City too. SNORE. When it was announced I thought there'd be a new city or something, like GTA. I hope there is, but the screenshots of the industrial area make me think otherwise.
Arno @ Sep 24th 2009 8:19PM
Looks great! I can't wait.
Asmerom (PSN: neon6plz) @ Sep 24th 2009 8:36PM
Might as well take a page from Quarantine...
"They're not Zombies, they're just sick".
Yeah, they're sick and they want to eat your brains.
Mr. Manly ESC Mcbeefington Ferguson The Second @ Sep 25th 2009 12:06AM
Oh look orbs,fuck!
Well it is work in progress,hopefully the final product will look better.
Mechanical @ Sep 25th 2009 12:12AM
They're not zombies, though. They're botched agent prototypes and other freaks. Geesh, didn't you guys play the game?
dylan @ Sep 25th 2009 12:16AM
All I need to know is, will there be lock on shooting and jumpy jumping? If yes, sign me up.
Boff @ Sep 25th 2009 4:49AM
That armour looks new, makes the character look a bit generic though.
Also: Orbs. Mmmmmmmmm.
Boff @ Sep 25th 2009 4:50AM
Have we had confirmation that the Narrator will be back for the second outing??
Snowblind @ Sep 25th 2009 5:27AM
Yes, he's in it.