Flashback - Breakdown
It’s Friday so why not Flashback to another interesting title from the Xbox days. Namco’s Breakdown may have been victim of being too ambitious for its time. It told the story of Derrick Cole who couldn’t remember his past as he fought against some military faction. He also was lucky enough to gain some extraordinary powers in the process. The cool thing about it is that you experienced the character in a pretty cool first-person perspective.
You put the smackdown right behind the fists of Derrick and his “super powerful fists of glowing”. It was a new twist to the first-person adventure that I thought was great. The story and the design were both very good but I think the release may have been a bit before its time. Perhaps though with the pending release of Mirror’s Edge, people may embrace looking at first-person adventures differently. I think Mirror’s Edge is trying to do what Breakdown attempted a few years ago.
Flashback Game: Breakdown
Released: March 15 2004
Platform: Xbox
Next-Gen Meter: High
I’d like to see this revisited and if Mirror’s Edge is what I think it is, then I may have gotten my wish. It is backward compatible so it works on the Xbox 360 for those of you interested in breaking some bones with Breakdown.
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June 20th, 2008 at 9:08 am
Oh they hyped this game so much back in the day. I never got a chance to play it since I bought my Xbox 1 after it was already going out of production…
By the way, the way they handled the first Xbox was really shoddy, felt like SEGA back in the Dreamcast day.
June 20th, 2008 at 9:11 am
Hmm, I never played this one before. It almost looks like Dark Sector.
June 20th, 2008 at 10:41 am
This game was awesome. I remember playing this forever but never getting very far in it. I know my brother beat it and I watched a lot of it. It got really crazy near the end. Definitely something everybody should at least try once.
June 20th, 2008 at 11:47 am
I have this game & while it was unique for it’s time, Riddick did Hand to Hand First Person fighting far, far better… Breakdown’s control & camera performance needed time to get use to. It was good, but not great.
June 20th, 2008 at 11:58 am
I never played this game but it looks pretty sweet.
June 20th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Never played this. I really liked a lot of generation 1 xbox games. If it came to xbox originals I might give it a try.
June 20th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Hey, I played this game years ago and really liked it. It was one of the great games that came out on the original XBOX.
June 20th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
yep this one i enjoyed a lot.
June 20th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Deacon, I love when you go over past games. I hope you do more of them. Maybe 1 a month?
June 20th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
@Boston, yep i’ve been doing about 1 a month
so i think i can try to continue that. glad ya like the feature my friend.
June 21st, 2008 at 10:08 pm
+1 on “Flashback” being a regular feature.
June 21st, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Now I have to go out and try to find myself a copy of “Breakdown”
June 21st, 2008 at 11:28 pm
i may have to break it out myself from the old school collection