![]() While they too often boil down to a psychopath in a giant mech, there are some clever fights that require more than just shooting a single target for a minute before you win. Those showdowns are the highlights of combat in Crackdown 3. Even if you don’t know what to do or where to go, just running around destroying things long enough will eventually allow you to stumble toward a boss fight. And though you can tackle them in any order – you can even head straight for the bosses if you like – picking them apart weakens the hierarchy, making for an easier time bringing it down piece by piece. “All these color-coded targets employ lieutenants who report to the bosses who report to the big bad leader of the corporation. that are taken apart by – you guessed it – shooting the guards and destroying the vehicles, or hacking panels to free prisoners or shut down the installations. The red Security wing has set up detention camps, vehicle depots, defensive installations, etc. The green Industry branch has refineries, toxic storage facilities, and chemical excavation sites that are all undone by shooting the guards, tanks, and machinery until it’s all destroyed. The purple-themed Logistics arm has taken over the monorail stations throughout the island, each of which can be reclaimed by shooting their robot guards before shooting the miniboss that spawns. ![]() There is a loose structure to the Terra Nova corporation when it comes to how you dismantle it, at least. So keep in mind as I tell you about the rest of what Crackdown 3 does, which is almost entirely combat, that the combat isn’t good. ![]() Running up to an enemy to punch it to death is slower and less efficient in almost every situation. There’s simply no need to rely on melee combat, because it’s just more efficient to run into an outpost and mindlessly cycle through enemies with automatic fire or one of the explosive ordinance launchers. “I’m not exaggerating when I say the majority of my experience through the entirety of the campaign was as follows: left trigger to lock on, right trigger to fire, left trigger to lock on, right trigger to fire, left trigger, right trigger, left trigger, right trigger.
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