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According to Crackdown 2 executive producer Peter Connolly, there hasn’t been time to implement video recording and sharing into Crackdown 2, but there are plans to add the functionality post release via DLC.
“We wanted to get that functionality into this game,” Connolly told OXM. “It won’t be there at release, but that doesn’t mean we’re not going to work on it. We want to do it properly.”
“That’s an important part of Crackdown, the emergent gameplay. People did a lot of things in the first game that we didn’t really know could be done. We’ve expanded it a bit now so we’re expecting them to do more with it this time. But in order to do a replay system in a four-player co-op game is not a simple task, and we want to do it well.”
Senior test engineer John Noonan also chipped in, pointing out that fans shouldn’t think the functionality has been held back in order to charge gamers for the content at a later date.
“There’s this perception that we’re holding stuff out from the main game to put into DLC,” he said. “The reality is we’re just working like crazy to get the core game out, then there’s six to eight weeks of manufacturing and distribution that goes on. And then all of a sudden the team’s got a little bit of bandwidth to start looking at DLC and stuff like that.”
Crackdown 2 is scheduled for release this summer, perhaps June 11.
