Crackdown 2 will not feature female agents
by Ben Gilbert 
on Apr 1st 2010 2:00PM
Admitting that the ability to create and play as a female agent in the first
Crackdown was originally intended (but eventually cut), Billy Thomson, Ruffian Games creative director and former lead designer of
Crackdown at Realtime Worlds, explained to
1UP that the functionality won't be making an appearance in
the sequel either. According to Thomson, it was excluded from the first game due to memory constraints that would've required a "massive reduction" to other parts of the game.
Similar limitations will keep playable female characters out of
Crackdown 2 at launch, Thomson claimed. "You've got four players (in cooperative play), and that means every single player can be a different character, and that has to be in memory all the time ... we had to save memory all over the place because we've got so much more content in this game than we had in the first game ... we don't stream." While the studio isn't making any promises about a female agent DLC update, "we never know what happens in the future," teased producer James Cope.
