Ruffian Games

This is the love/hate relationship between me and plenty of other people in the world of gaming. Every week I will pick someone who gets my Fist-bump for doing a good deed, someone who gets my undesirable Bitch-Slap for doing something wrong (or just something that pisses me off), and I'll share my experience/opinion along the way. 

A while back we alerted you to a new animated series that would be running over the course of the next month or so leading up to the Crackdown 2 release. Well the schedule is progressing on-time, and that means we have another episode to lay your peepers on. Episode number two entitled “Evil Seed” showcases one of the new characters in the world of Crackdown: Catalina Thorne. She looks to be the catalyst for “The Freaks” as a scientist who was working on the Agency cloning program gone rouge.

For all those out there that are as excited for a Crackdown sequel as I am, there’s some new footage out today. “Toy Box” is the third and final ViDoc from developer Ruffian Games, and does a great job of establishing hype for the upcoming title by showing off some of the new gear that you’ll be able to play around with.

My personal favourite has to be the tethers. After playing about 70 hours of Just Cause 2, I’m eager to be provided with the option of multiple tethers, elasticity, and multiplayer.

It seems as though another large video game franchise is going the prequel movie/series route. It was announced today that Microsoft and Machinima has partnered up to bring a 5 episode arch of Crackdown to us. The series is an animated one, which will be airing over the next few weeks. The point of the series is to bridge the gap between the first and second games, letting you get an idea of what’s happened to the city that caused such a dramatic difference in the locale in Crackdown 2.

Check out the second developer diary episode from Ruffian Games for Crackdown 2. The second episode is titled “Nothing is Sacred” and it explores how much freedom and creativity gamers will have in the new sandbox-shoot’em-up. Beating down giant beach balls never looked so good.

 I’m also amped by how it looks when playing this game in co-op. This will just make the Crackdown 2 experience more chaotic, destructive and AWESOME!

Check out the latest trailer for Ruffian Games follow up sequel to Crackdown dubbed: "Fight, Camera, Action!" The trailer was shown exclusively released on Machinima.com's Youtube Channel.

Corey and Ian are on their way to Boston right now to lock down Shogun’s coverage of the first ever PAX East. I’m stuck in Vancouver. While I had every interest in going to PAX East, it’s unfortunate that it didn’t work out. I may have been disappointed about that fact, but I was never really angry at it until now.

Typically the Summer period is a long drought when it comes to game releases. With a few exceptions there’s usually not a lot to play until things begin to heat up around September. That looks to change this year with the announcement that Crackdown 2 will be released both in North America and Europe in July.

While there has been a flood of information about games like Fable III and Halo: Reach, other favourites didn’t end up getting the star-treatment I was hoping for. Case in point: X10’s coverage of Crackdown 2. I was looking to hearing and seeing a lot more about this game then what ended up being provided, regardless there are a few tidbits to be provided, and some new screenshots to ogle.

Many 360 fans shouted with glee when Microsoft showed a teaser trailer for Crackdown 2 at their E3 2009 conference. The first Crackdown game gained a huge following who loved its art style and the badass feeling that they felt when they picked cars up to throw at gang members or when they scaled a massive building only to jump off and strike a badass landing.