Crackdown
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Crackdown is an M-rated third-person action game in which the player, as a genetically-enhanced, superpowered police officer, is tasked with bringing down three powerful criminal organizations (Los Muertos, the Volk and the Shai-Gen Corporation) and restoring peace to Pacific City. It was released on February 20, 2007 for the Xbox 360 [1].
[edit] Halo 3 Beta
- Main article: Halo 3 Beta
Gamers with specially-marked copies of Crackdown were given invitations to download the Halo 3 Beta from May 16th, 2007 - June 6, 2007. Despite plans for this to be only selected copies, all copies of "Crackdown" up until the end of the Beta were marked copies. However, a bug delayed gamers who were to be playing the Beta through "Crackdown" (as opposed to the Rule of Three, and didn't allow them to download the Halo 3 Beta for 14-18 hours until an Auto-Update for Crackdown was released later that day that fixed the Beta download problems. Due to the download errors, the Halo 3 Beta was extended to last until June 10, four more days than originally planned. A common joke at the time was, "Halo 3 Beta comes with a free Crackdown game!".
Other than containing the Beta and in-game advertising for the map packs, Crackdown is completely unrelated to the Halo series.
