Sadly, this resulted in both the game and its developer Realtime Worlds to be shut down. You can thank the executives at EA for that one. APB suffered a rocky launch in 2010, however, due to its subscription-like model that required players to buy “game time” on top of the initial retail purchase. It’s an online third-person action game consisting of two sides fighting each other in missions as Enforcers attempt to stop Criminals from completing objectives. Meanwhile, APB Reloaded, a free-to-play game set in a modern-city is the opposite. Sadly, it has been reluctant to add multiplayer support and there’s no guarantee that it’ll arrive in the future either. Its developer Avalanche Studios appears to be following a three-year development cycle for the franchise. Its gadgets allow for unlimited possibilities and experimentation, while the gameplay is focused on player agency and providing a massive sandbox with all the tools needed to make the experience unique for everyone. Thankfully Just Cause 4 is a genuine boot-load of fun. If you love action-crime sandboxes, there’s very few options for you outside of GTA Online. But all of these other great franchises like The Getaway, Sleeping Dogs and Driver are now a thing of the past and it’s a real shame.
It’s been seven-years since the last installment in the Grand Theft Auto series, with developer Rockstar Games instead opting to focus on supporting GTA Online. It drove competition, and this in turn fuelled innovation.īut today, the genre feels almost non-existent. Despite the overused term “GTA clone” which commonly appeared in reviews, press coverage and discussion around these games – a phrase that I am advocating to be retired, each of these titles brought something new to the table.
The best part was that no two games were ever identical. There was no shortage of fantastic crime-action games to check out, so if you liked stealing cars, gunning down peds and pulling off epic stunts in an open-world environment, you were covered. What do all these games have in common with one another? They all form what I consider to be the open-world crime sandbox genre and let me tell you, throughout the 2000s and early 2010s, it was booming. Heck, one-time it always felt that the next entry in the Grand Theft Auto series was right around the corner. Remember games like Scarface, True Crime and The Getaway? Or how about Sleeping Dogs, The Godfather and Mercenaries? I’d be remised if I didn’t mention Driver, The Saboteur or Total Overdose! Then you had the prime days of Saints Row, Crackdown and APB Reloaded.
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