Crackdown 3 tilbragte lang tid i limbo, men kom for nylig ud af skyggerne ved X018-messen med en frisk udgivelsesdato og en opdateret multiplayer-del. Spillet lader da til at være ganske ambitiøs pakke, særligt med måden hvorpå banerne kan destrueres i Wrecking Zone, men forvent dog ikke at denne del ekspanderes til at inkludere en battle royale-lignende mode.
I et nyligt interview med Windows Central fortæller Microsoft Publishing-chefen Jorg Neumann, at tekniske begrænsninger forhindre dem i at benytte sig af så avanceret destruktion i battle royale.
"We prototyped a bunch of modes. We have all kinds of dreams how this can take off. People were asking about Battle Royale, "why aren't there 100 players?" There's a reason we have five versus five, and the map sizes too. There's so much stuff that you need to keep in memory, due to the destruction, that there are limits. Once you have a map that is a nice size and creates the pace of destruction the way we dreamed of it, having more players can be counter-productive, but we're still experimenting, the tech will evolve too."
Crackdown 3 udkommer d. 22 februar.
