Crackdown 2 (Ruffian Games)
One of the most popular Xbox 360 games to date makes a return with cooler guns, gear, vehicles and an overly friendly zombie horde. There are plenty of things to shoot and pummel for the action adrenaline junkie and budding sociopath.
Crackdown 2 can best be described as Halo meets Grand Theft Auto meets Resident Evil. The game is set 10 years after the original game (released in 2007) and unfortunately Pacific City is not doing very well. Due to a virus outbreak, a large section of the populace have been turned into zombies and in the ensuing chaos a group of criminals and thugs called CELL have taken over parts of the city. In an attempt to regain control of the city 'The Agency' and its high-powered Agents have been tasked with taking out the trash.
The game is similar to its predecessor in many ways: it has an open, sandbox environment, the player can achieve superhuman powers and jump to incredible heights, and anything that twitches can be annihilated.
Gamers start off with a basic Agent who has limited abilities that over the course of the game can be boosted through use of those abilities and by collecting upgrade orbs. There are five abilities that can be upgraded: agility, strength, firepower, driving and bomb blasts.
The main objective is to take over CELL bases and destroy zombie nests. These strongholds then become Agency bases that allow the player to request vehicles and weapons. The player can also drop off vehicles that have been appropriated for future use.