Crackdown 3
A Microsoft open-world action game.
Where Crackdown 3 comes up1 episode or test
Crackdown 3 was reviewed for accessibility in Game Maker's Toolkit's look at 2019's biggest games. It earned credit for a lock-on toggle instead of a held button, but lost points for tiny subtitles and preset-only controls with no full remapping. The lesson: ship the basics early, meaning readable subtitles, full remapping and toggles, since gaps in any one of them are what reviewers single out.
- Controls: presets only
- Lock-on: toggle
- Controls: remap per character
- Lock-on: hold button
Split: toggle lock-on helps, but no full remapping
From Game Maker's Toolkit, 2019 games review
What was said about Crackdown 3
Crackdown 3 shipped with subtitles too small to read comfortably. Game Maker's Toolkit's review of 2019's biggest games named Crackdown 3, along with The Surge 2, as having tiny subtitles. Good subtitles have big fonts, speaker names and high contrast backgrounds, and can be tweaked in a menu.
Control, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Metro Exodus were the examples of readable subtitles. The review also says plain sans serif text beats on-brand fonts.
Crackdown 3 offers only preset controls, with no full remapping. The review lists Crackdown 3 and Resident Evil 2 as games that only offer control presets. It says presets are not good enough for players with motor disabilities, who need to move key functions to buttons they can reach.
Devil May Cry 5 is the contrast, with separate remapping for Nero, Dante and V. The review argues remapping should be built into the game rather than left to system-level remapping.
Crackdown 3 lets players toggle lock-on instead of holding the button. Crackdown 3's lock-on works as a toggle, so players do not need to hold a button down for long periods. The review counts this as good accessibility practice, since holding a button can be impossible with some motor disabilities.
Borderlands 3 (aim, sprint, crouch) and Yoshi's Crafted World (egg throwing) were also praised for toggles. Devil May Cry 5 makes you hold lock-on.
How Accessible Were 2019’s Biggest Games?
Has tiny subtitles and only preset controls, but its lock-on works with a toggle.
Crackdown 3 shipped with subtitles too small to read comfortably. Game Maker's Toolkit's review of 2019's biggest games named Crackdown 3, along with The Surge 2, as having tiny subtitles. Good subtitles have big fonts, speaker names and high contrast backgrounds, and can be tweaked in a menu.
Control, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Metro Exodus were the examples of readable subtitles. The review also says plain sans serif text beats on-brand fonts.
Crackdown 3 offers only preset controls, with no full remapping. The review lists Crackdown 3 and Resident Evil 2 as games that only offer control presets. It says presets are not good enough for players with motor disabilities, who need to move key functions to buttons they can reach.
Devil May Cry 5 is the contrast, with separate remapping for Nero, Dante and V. The review argues remapping should be built into the game rather than left to system-level remapping.
Crackdown 3 lets players toggle lock-on instead of holding the button. Crackdown 3's lock-on works as a toggle, so players do not need to hold a button down for long periods. The review counts this as good accessibility practice, since holding a button can be impossible with some motor disabilities.
Borderlands 3 (aim, sprint, crouch) and Yoshi's Crafted World (egg throwing) were also praised for toggles. Devil May Cry 5 makes you hold lock-on.
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