Crackdown 3 is almost upon us, the game will hit the Xbox One and PC on February 15 and has now revealed its campaign length. Microsoft Game Studios creative director, Joe Staten, spoke with Gamesbeat about Crackdown 3's development.
Staten has revealed that the game's campaign will go for 15 hours, a longer length than the first and second title in the franchise. The campaing will be the mode for players who are just looking for a way to kill time and follow a story.
He also spoke about a different mode called Wrecking Zone, where players can just jump in and wreck havoc across town. This is for players who want to compete against other people, the competitive mode of the game. This new mode uses Havok physics and cloud computing, here is the director talking about the benefits of this.
The thing that’s interesting from a technical, developer point of view–I’m really eager for other developers to take a look at this and see the one interesting choice we made, simulating destruction in the cloud. Smart developers can say, “Well, what could we do?” There are clearly things you can with animation, with AI, with machine learning. Bigger player arenas, higher player counts, you name it.
I hope people will look at Crackdown and think deeply about other novel experiences they could do with their game. Microsoft has big expensive data centers all around the world. [laughs] We have harnessed a fraction of that power for this one experience.
Crackdown 3 is the first game that uses this type of cloud computing technology, no title that uses this tech has been announced yet. Crackdown 3 will hit the Xbox One and PC on February 15.
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Crackdown 3 will hit the Xbox One and PC on February 15