Game News - Crackdown Alerted As Gold, Demo Locked Up Longer

Game News - Crackdown Alerted As Gold, Demo Locked Up Longer

   Overwatched by one of GTA's original creators - David Jones, now of Realtime Worlds - the new Xbox 360 action game Crackdown has gone gold over the weekend, and it should be released under the Microsoft Game Studios brand in just about a month, on February 20 in North America and February 23 in Europe. The announcement followed a slightly bad news last week, when the devs admitted that the Crackdown demo was being delayed a bit from its originally planned release on January 18:
"The demo is going through the final steps of the certification process, which has delayed the scheduled release by several days, though it is still on-track to appear before the end of January."    Crackdown recently received a generous bosst of hype, after it was announced that preordering Realtime Worlds' game would entitle fans to join the upcoming Halo 3 multiplayer beta phase, scheduled to begin this spring.

   And speaking of hype, Crackdown is listed among Gamespot's Most Wanted Games of 2007, which they proudly announced this Monday. If you're curious about the other 13 titles, below is the full list, in what Gamespot calls "alphabetical order" - you know, as in ...E, F, H (?!), G...
- BioShock (2K Games/Irrational Games - Xbox 360, PS3, PC)
- Burnout 5 (Electronic Arts/Criterion Games - Xbox 360 / PS3)
- Crackdown (Microsoft Game Studios/Realtime Worlds - Xbox 360)
- Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (Activision/Splash Damage - PC)
- Forza Motorsport 2 (Microsoft/Microsoft Game Studios - Xbox 360)
- Half-Life 2: Episode Two (Valve Software - PC, Xbox 360, PS3)
- God of War II (SCEA/ SCE Studios Santa Monica - PS2)
- Halo 3 (Microsoft Game Studios/Bungie Software - Xbox 360)
- The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (Nintendo - DS)
- Mass Effect (Microsoft Game Studios/BioWare - Xbox 360)
- Spore (EA Games/Maxis - PC)
- Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo - Wii)
- Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo/HAL Labs - Wii)
- Tomb Raider Anniversary (Eidos Interactive/Crystal Dynamics - PS2)

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