Zero Punctuation: Crackdown 2

[beema]

Anyone else get phone interference or is my phone trying to make me feel lonely by tricking me into thinking someone is trying to call me?

I got the phone noises too. From the look of it, so have others. I guess that sound is actually in the video! Weird...

 

[winter2]

RE: the weird sound:

It's not really cellphone interference... well not directly, anyway. It's actually Bluetooth interference. [ ... ]

I strongly doubt this is correct.

Cell phones have been generating that characteristic RFI buzz for years, long before Bluetooth achieved wide adoption. Further, Bluetooth operates over the 2.4GHz band, the same bands as 802.11[bgn] wireless networking. If transmissions over the 2.4GHz band were causing that buzzing, we would have noticed it the moment we put a Wireless Access Point in our homes.

I often hear this buzz right before I receive a call or a text. My personal guess is that there's a common transceiver component that everyone uses (because it's cheap and it "works") that spills a lot of noise into a band that amplifiers can pick up at close range. If the Federal Communications Commission were actually fulfilling its charter, this sort of thing would have been investigated and fixed by now.

What he said. I used to get that interference sound when I was in college back in.. erm... 94 or so. It always preceded a call or a text message.

 

[SYSTEM-J]

Particularly liked the jacuzzi metaphor.

 

[Le_Lisra]

He insulted the original UT.. get him!!!!!11!

Anyway, funny video about something I have never heard or care about, lols were had and mission accomplished.

 

[Yopaz]

Great review today. I laughed so hard when he did that joke about World of Warcraft subscribers in the sun. Made me want to test Crackdown (1) at least.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Crackdown 2 graphics and mechanics

+

Crackdown 1 missions and building interiors

=

Best game ever

Unfortunately, they left out some of the best stuff from the first. What were they thinking?

 

[AhumbleKnight]

What on earth was the static sort of noise near the end? Was that only me, or was there something annoyingly beeping in the background at one point?

I got it too. It sounds exactly like a mobile phone syncing next to a receiver. So next time Yahtzee might want to move his mobile away from his mic when recording these things.

 

[Captain Pancake]

Being a WoW subscriber... I found that joke very funny!

 

[Digikid]

Yathzee. There is NO control issues with Crackdown 1 at all. If you are having issues then get a new controller. Problem solved.

That said Crackdown 2 is a good game....however Crackdown 1 is BETTER.....

Now to the guy that was wrongfully punished for saying that it had worse graphics than CD1....he is indeed wrong. The graphics are the same.

 

[Spinwhiz]

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[Spinwhiz]

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[De Ronneman]

I think I might get Transformers: War For Cybertron instead of Crakdown 2 now. I'm happy with Crackdown 1, and if nothing's changed, I'm not paying £40 for it.

If you have to think about the choice between transforming robots in space and a cop, then you must think about your priorities dear sir
No, seriously Transformers:WfC is better in every single way, imho.

Eventhough CD2 is bad, it's not THAT bad. Sure the story is thin, and the city stayed the same(which could also be viewed as good), but it's still pretty fun to use supercharged punches to make the ground explode >=)

 

[gmacarthur81]

Crackdown 2 graphics and mechanics

+

Crackdown 1 missions and building interiors

=

Best game ever

Unfortunately, they left out some of the best stuff from the first. What were they thinking?

Different developer, different ideas.

Realtime Worlds > Ruffian Games

 

[MasterOfHisOwnDomain]

Thought that could have been more critical. Not only does Crackdown 2 not appear to add anything that justifies it being a sequel rather than DLC, it actually takes away the structure and flimsy storyline of the first game.

 

[Dropshot]

I enjoyed the cell phone feedback part

 

[rescuer86]

As a WoW subscriber, I must say that there's nothing to fear about direct sunlight. It just needs to be handled in the same way as direct interactions with people and any sort of interaction with customer service: in small doses while covered in lotion to prevent skin damage.

What kind of lotion would you slather on to prevent people talking to y . . .ooooooh.

 

[Bifford]

"Good women in games tend to be better looking."

Come to think of this, this tends to be true. Evil femme fatales usually have something discomforting about them, like excessive makeup or provocative wear or an aggressive air. They're rarely the cute girl-next-door that you want to date.

 

[Rhatar Khurin]

They're made by two very different companies. Crackdown was made by realtime worlds who did the early GTA games and are currently pumping out APB.
Crackdown 2 is made by Ruffian games who are an offshoot of Realtime worlds but clearly missing the talent that the old folk brought along. This is the first game made by them afaik.