Crackdown 3 Wrecking Zone Uses Power of Azure Cloud Equivalent To 12 Xbox One For Full Destruction

Crackdown 3 separates the main game campaign and its full destruction multiplayer mode called Wrecking Zone. This mode runs on Azure Cloud to offer full destruction for the city leading to some impressive multiplayer matches.

[Jin_Sakai]

And buildings still “break apart like cardboard and styrofoam.” IGN

The game doesn’t look impressive at all. Sorry.

[StrengthInNumbers]

That is just one person's opinion. I could say 'buildings break apart like bread crumbs'. That doesn't make it a credible reference or fact.

[ziggurcat]

it makes it credible when the visuals back up the statement.

[Tech5]

it's breaking technical boundaries in it's own way. Nvidia wants PC gamers to spend $1,300 to see ray tracing. this is a cheaper way to see a new form of physics calculations. of course you can always go deeper with pre-calculated destruction generating a million particles and whatnot. anyways seems like an interesting incentive that doesn't cost you an expensive rig to see.

[Muzikguy]

How is seeing something with your eyes an opinion? That's like Trump claiming the next day he never said something many heard and been witness to, and calling it fake news

[milohighclub]

Àccording to the agrees its also 62 other ppl's opinion too.

[ArchangelMike]

@Jin_Sakai

Completely agree. If this is all they have to show the POWA OF DA CLOUDz then they've wasted alot of time, money and effort for nothing. They should havd instead used the resources to make Crackdown a truly AAA
expericence to rival their closest competitors. Instead we get what looks like a low budget AA last gen effort.
Red Faction and Battelfield games have had multiplayed destruction since last gen without the use of cloud computing, what's so special about this?

Such a huge dissapointment.

[GameStallion]

I almost always agree with what you say and this is no different.

[stuckNhere4Good]

It sure doesn't... But what I find comical is that the description (buildings break apart like they’re made of cardboard or styrofoam) Ryan McCaffrey gave of CD3's cloud-based destruction reads worse than Chris Roper's description (wasn't the most impressive physics tech) of the cloud-based destruction he saw running on a set of CELL-based blades at E3 2005... https://www.ign.com/article...

That demo was running on 14 CELL processors... https://slideplayer.com/sli... ; which is roughly equivalent to 7 PS3s.

[Tech5]

dupe post.

[Muzikguy]

The game doesn't look impressive to me either. I'd like to know how they came up with the 12 Xbox One statement. Sounds like over hype to me

[AmUnRa]

Yeah that statement sounds over hype.
I think you can do what CD3 is doing on local hardware.

[gravedigger]

Not again with that "power of the cloud" bullshit

[alb1899]

Don't play it. I see it as an experiment.... could go well or wrong.

[bobsmith]

red faction has it on 360 and got the remarstered to play unill this but no ones online ever

[spicelicka]

Has what? Cloud computation?

If you mean destruction in general, not sure what your point is. Battlefield has it too, and plenty of other games.

[spicelicka]

I think there was misconception in my comment. It definitely new tech and destruction like this has never been done in multiplayer. I was trying to say you can't equate red faction to Crackdown 3.

[ArchangelMike]

TBH this looks like a last gen game. For all the power of the cloud it still doesn't hold up to the exclusives of the competition. I was expecting something that couldn't be done, but we've seen multipayer destructible environments before - heck Battlefied has been doing that since the 360 days with BFBC. Epic disapointment.

[sprinterboy]

The power of 12 xbox one's? Shouldnt the game have like destuctability on par with say a future xbox two or three then?

[Gamist2dot0]

Based on the videos I've seen, looks like Azure is powerful equivalent to 12 Xbox one (the gen before 360).

[crazyCoconuts]

Maybe they meant there will be 12 Xbox Ones playing this game

[mkis007]

This is getting ridiculous. Spiderman puddles got flak for nothing, but cloud destruction is being treated like it hasnt been massively reduced

[conanlifts]

I disagree, pretty much everyone is hating on this game, they always have.
As for the power of 12 Xbox one's, if it does use this much power, based on the results, they are terrible programmers. Or the cloud is massively inefficient. Or both.

[Abnor_Mal]

Eyes wide shut, old saying but apt. Some people willingly put scales on their eyes. Rose tinted scales.

[chiefJohn117]

When did we see gameplay of cloud destruction before this? How can something we never seen be reduced/downgraded?

The destruction does need more "weight" they probably should've spend their resources working on MP only and scrapped the campaign. This way the game would be more polished and more mp content

[mkis007]

Really?! Are you kidding me?! Ignorance is your defense? Here ya go:

https://www.gamespot.com/fo...

Should never have allowed that video to release. Oh but they also used it in their gamescom 2015 reveal trailer. In game footage notifier included.
https://youtu.be/AE273fzxSh...

How the check can you claim we never saw it before!!

[chiefJohn117]

I never saw that game play. Definitely looked better there. The weight I was talking about and debris like dust is present there.

[ArchangelMike]

Yeah when you see the Gamescom 2015 footage its then you realize there has been a massive massive downgrade. It doesn't really even come close to the original vision.

[salmonade]

BAHAHAHahahahaahaAaaa lmao

[Thundercat77]

Crackdown 3 is a joke. After all that hype of the power of the cloud, this game is downgraded and is just an average generic gamepass quality game.

Keep the spin MS, meanwhile you are being masacre by Sony and Nintendo.

[Rhythmattic]

I wonder if MS will use this statistic as Xbox's sold?

Apologies, Couldn't help myself... Just too good to pass up. lol

[conanlifts]

Just attachment rate. "In the first week crackdown saw the utilisation of 4 million Xbox One's, a new record for the Xbox division"

[jwillj2k4]

“There are no technical limits to how big we could make this map or the number of players we could put into it. I mean, I’m sure there are eventually some limits, but there are no hard, immediate technical limits. The reason why the map is the size it is, the player count we have, those are all design choices. We could have chosen to spin up more Azure servers. There are, of course, costs associated with that, so we had to find some balance between the experience and the cost. But that’s how we’re using cloud compute, to create this consistently fun, fully destructible experience for everyone on all platforms.” 🥴

Is that you Donald?? 🤣🤣🤣
🤣 🤣 🤣

[Larrysweet]

Oh god just quit dont embaress yourselves further jesus christ

[PrinterMan]

Didn't we hear this all before? Now with (from what I hear) such a downgrade how can anyone be impressed? I have seen a few videos now, but I have not played the game but ignoring the 100% destructible environments the game looks pretty average. I just don't get the hype.

[dekke]

596p confirmed and power of the cloud and DX12 ^^

[azizlksa]

This game is nothing but fake promises and setting high expectations and not meeting them. sorry but its the truth, and im glad people are not interested in it.

[azizlksa]

Reading the statement above you would expect the distruction to be epic and real towers collapse on each other. But in reality, buildings look like cardboard and even red faction had better distruction. This game is nothing but fake promises and setting high expectations and not meeting them. sorry but its the truth, and im glad people are not interested in it.

[jznrpg]

Lol

[GameStallion]

As usual Microsoft’s priorities are in the wrong place. They should have focused on making a great AAA title, but instead they’re focused on some random project that does nothing to elevate gaming to a more beautiful, artistic, emersive experience (< Sony). I’ll leave my Xbone in the trunk for this exclusive junk as well.

[ShadowWolf712]

How do I put this:
From early previews, the destruction isn't "bad", but it certainly underdelivers on the hype they were giving it, which is a problem.

And that they're starting to try to make those same hyperbolic statements again isn't gonna help the game much.

[generic-user-name]

Not so much that it underdelivers on hype, more than its simply been drastically downgraded from what they previously advertised. Back then it looked impressive and I was genuinely jealous that I didn't have an xbox back then to play it, now it looks like Agents of Mayhem with some mercenaries destruction.

[Ratchet75]

I loved the first two, so I will definitely play it when he comes on Xbox PASS, but I agree with the critics about how it looks. Over 4 years for that???

[CYALTR]

I figure it will be one of the options on Game Pass, so I will just check it out there. Already decided to pick it up to play We Happy Few, I game I wanted to try, but not enough to pay for it. I would put CD3 in this category.