Crackdown 3 has a Formal Release Date Again

As hard as it may be to believe, Crackdown 3 has a real, genuine release date. Microsoft Studios announced the open-world action game's official release for February 15, 2019.

The announcement was made Saturday during X018, the biggest Xbox Insider episode of the year and a celebration of Xbox and it's content. It was presented alongside a new gameplay trailer titled Wrecking Zone. As part of their Xbox Play Anywhere program, the game will be available on PC and Xbox One both, regardless which one you purchase it for. The game, like many other Xbox exclusive titles, will be available as part of the Xbox Game Pass subscription service at launch. And yes, the Play Anywhere program applies to that too.

To further celebrate this announcement Microsoft has announced that the original Crackdown game will be available for free on Xbox One. With new Xbox One X support, the 2007 Xbox 360 title will support 4K resolution when enabled.



Wrecking Zone, the gameplay mode premiered in the trailer above, will be the game's competitive multiplayer option. Announced a while back, this is the first good look we have towards the mode. It features entirely destroyable environments, something so complex on a computing level that the game has to use Microsoft's cloud computing platform Azure to process it quickly enough.

This has been the latest in a long and unreliable trip for Crackdown 3. The game had been in wait since it's original unveiling five years ago during the E3 2014 presentation. It was originally intended to release in 2016, But after repeated delays, the title would go unspoken during the following two E3 events. It wasn't until 2017 and 2018's E3 did we hear anything about Crackdown 3 again.

Finally.