Crackdown 2 Coming First Half of 2010

December 21, 2009 2:40 PM

While Microsoft has remained rather quiet as to when exactly Ruffian's Xbox 360-exclusive sequel Crackdown 2 is due, thus far only specifying a vague 2010 timeframe, Microsoft product mangement director Aaron Greenberg recently narrowed the release window to "first half of the year" during his time on Major Nelson Show #344. "Starting in January, we have a triple-A exclusive title pretty much every month for the first half of the year," said Greenberg. "You got Mass Effect 2, you got Splinter Cell [Conviction], you got Alan Wake, you got Crackdown 2. We know we got things like Fable 3 and Halo Reach coming later in the year. Those are just the exclusives, it doesn't include Final Fantasy [XIII]. There's no way we had a first-half of the year like that last year."

Of all the games mentioned, Ruffian's super-powered action sequel was the only one to receive such clarification --Mass Effect 2 hits January 26, Splinter Cell: Conviction is due February 23, Alan Wake arrives in the "spring" and Final Fantasy XIII premieres March 9, with Fable 3 not hitting early in the year and Halo Reach due in fall.

Chris Faylor

Chris Faylor was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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December 21, 2009 3:11 PM

Aren't Mass Effect 2, Splinter Cell: Conviction, and Alan Wake coming to PC?
- dedgecko
  
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  December 21, 2009 3:20 PM
  
  ME2 will be a "console exclusive" to the 360 - but the other two are 360 exclusives for now and there's only rumors that they might be ported to the PC.
  - Autocrawler
    
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    December 21, 2009 3:21 PM
    
    Um, excuse me? http://store.steampowered.com/app/33220/
    - dedgecko
      
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      December 22, 2009 10:53 AM
      
      well said..
- Autocrawler
  
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  December 21, 2009 3:20 PM
  
  Microsoft Game Studios being Remedy's publisher doesn't want to publish Alan Wake for the PC, presumably to boost 360 sales, but the other two are going to be on the PC.
- Chris Faylor
  
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  December 21, 2009 3:28 PM
  
  Mass Effect 2 and Splinter Cell, yes. Alan Wake, it's "up in the air."
  
  (http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/59493)
  
  Typically, when Sony or Microsoft discuss exclusives, they're referring to "console" exclusives--i.e., games that only appear on one console.