Wait, What? Co-Op Survival Mode Revealed in Crackdown 2 Interview

Jim "txshurricane" McLaughlin October 23rd, 2009 at 1:24 PM

"Dig in and shut up. We're in for a ride."

While poring over Joystiq's interview with Crackdown 2 lead designer Steve Iannetta, we came across a little tidbit that means big news for co-op gamers...especially those who enjoy co-op survival modes...

[We're proud of] things like our 8-player versus enemy mode.

It's quite unique. Quite structured. Again, drop-in, drop-out: Where if you want to engage in this mode you can have up to eight players in an environment fighting against a huge amount of enemies.

Joystiq pressed a little further, asking about a scene during a hands-off demo in which eight players were faced with a swarm of "Freaks". Steve reaffirmed the survival mode.

Yeah. Eight guys. Online, fighting together in an environment like that. We believe it could be just fantastic fun.

This mode is in addition to the 4-player online campaign.

It's no secret that we have an affinity for killing zombies, and we love co-op survival modes. In light of yesterday's Army of Two news and our recent editorial, this bandwagon just got bigger and better!

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9 Total Reader Comments

Zeaxel at 09:05 AM on 10.23.2009

"Wait, what?" what? It sounds good to me. Can never have enough co-op

txshurricane at 09:09 AM on 10.23.2009

It sounds GREAT to me! "Wait, what?" is because we totally missed that on the first pass.

Evil The Slayer at 09:25 AM on 10.23.2009

I think the title fits perfectly, I was not expecting this from Crackdown 2. Now I want it even more.

bapenguin at 10:45 AM on 10.23.2009

Wow. Crazy. This is going to be pure chaos though in Crackdown. I can't wait to have 8 guys throwing cars at infected.

smurphster at 11:01 AM on 10.23.2009

... and having infected throwing cars back at the 8 of us

this should be fun

Zeaxel at 11:24 AM on 10.23.2009

this scared me a little. but now I'm even more excited for this game

bigDinyomouth at 02:19 PM on 10.23.2009

Shit! and I though pacific city was going to suffer a lot of collateral damage from 4 player co-op! But 8 player survival!?? We are just going to down right scourch the earth!

Also unlike other people.I never get tired of zombies/infected.