Crackdown (video game series)

Crackdown is a series of open world action-adventure video games created by David Jones and published by Xbox Game Studios. The series takes place in futuristic dystopian cities controlled and enforced by a law enforcement organization called the Agency. The games center on the Agency's supersoldiers, known as "Agents", as they fight threats ranging from various criminal syndicates, a terrorist group known as "Cell", zombie-like monsters called "Freaks", and a powerful megacorporation known as TerraNova.

Games of the series have been developed by various game developers, with the first game, Crackdown, completed by Realtime Worlds on February 20, 2007, and a sequel titled Crackdown 2 developed by Ruffian Games on July 6, 2010. Both games were released for the Xbox 360. A third installment, Crackdown 3 developed by Sumo Digital, was released on February 15, 2019, for the Xbox One and Microsoft Windows. Critics praised the sandbox-style third-person shooters for allowing the ability to cause massive destruction in a non-linear gameplay, garnering mostly positive reception and commercial success, and becoming an influential series in the sandbox superhero genre.