The tale of Crackdown 3 is one filled with delays, setbacks, delays, and even more delays. The game was supposed to arrive years ago, but kept getting pushed back. Then last year, it made a big splash via a trailer at E3 2017 for a release date in 2017, but then it got delayed to 2018, and now, it’s delayed to 2019. Leaving many to wonder if it will ever come out, and even if it does, will it be any good? Well, according to developer Sumo Digital, there will not be any more delays.
Managing Director Paul Porter talked with Gameindustry.biz and noted that the release date of February 2019 is a hard stop release date. And he even went on to note that the game is “pretty much done”, and they’re using the time to make the game even more polished:
“…As you know the release date’s moved back, confirmed as February next year, and that’s great news because it gives us the time to polish a game that’s pretty much done, but make it better and better,” said Porter. “The way to make the best games is you finish them, then finish them again, and then finish them again. That’s what we’re doing with Crackdown 3.”
But what will Sumo Digital do to prove that this game has been worth the wait? Easy, make it worth it to play:
“My experience of Crackdown is probably similar to a lot of other people’s,” he says. “I played the first one to death – played it in co-op, collected all the orbs. After a couple of hours of playing Crackdown 2 I wanted to throw my controller at the TV, and I was really quite sad. That’s definitely not the route that’s been taken with Crackdown 3.”
We’ll have to wait and see just how well they succeed in making the game fun.
