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This is my Crackdown review.  I wrote it kind of quickly (I'm not getting paid for this ya know!!), but it's still readable for sure.  So what do you guys think?  Agree?  Disagree?http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/crackdown/player_review.html?id=426565 Read more »

You know, Crackdown has been touting its great use of memory and lack of pop-in as one of the major strengths of the game, so I decided to do some testing tonight and came away with some disappointing results.  My first test was to sit at an intersection and pile up the cars so I could make them explode.  This simple task revealed two problems.  The first is that cars do indeed disappear by looking away from them.  After stacking about 3 to 4 cars, I went to get another one and when I turned around 1 had disappeared.  You could eventually stack a decent number, but the disappearing got worse so it made it a much tougher task than it should have been.  The second problem was that there is a noticeable pop-in with cars and pedestrians, and I found some evidence the draw distance may not... Read more »