Criminal Crackdown renamed Calling All Cars

David Jaffe's e-distribution PS3 game Criminal Crackdown has been renamed and will now be known as Calling All Cars.

David Jaffe, creator of God of War, has updated his blog revealing that his upcoming PS3 e-distribution title Criminal Crackdown has been given a name change. According to his post there was such a "mad rush to reveal the game at GAMER'S DAY a few weeks back and all the legal checks had not yet come down giving us permission to use that name."

Jaffe goes on to say that this kind of name changing is perfectly normal for a video game, but it's just not normally done in public view. "For example, TWISTED METAL was going to be called: URBAN ASSAULT... then it was going to be called CARS AND ROCKETS... then it was going to be called HIGH OCTANE," writes Jaffe.

Jaffe also notes that he assumes the name change has come about "because MS has a very sweet looking game called CRACKDOWN coming out and the titles were just too close for comfort." That sounds like a pretty safe assumption to us.

Calling All Cars won't be available at the US or Japanese launch of the PS3, but it is expected early in 2007, so should be available at the European launch in March.