May 14th 2009 8:09 pm PT

Looks pretty nice. Shame I have the free K! theme .. Pandora. <3

nice!

ooooh very nice!

would love a cod mw2 one tho

Looks awesome! But would rather have a Crackdown 2 =) hehe.

Awesome!

Nothing like paying extortion prices for a theme of a game released years ago. Way to fail on appreciation to your fans.

Sigh. I miss this game. I need to go find the rest of those hidden orbs…

Also:
http://majornelson.com/archive/2007/02/27/download-the-agility-orb-sound.aspx
http://majornelson.com/archive/2007/03/22/download-the-hidden-orb-sound.aspx

The agility orb sound still makes me happy when I hear it .

Looks great Major. Can’t wait for APB, hopefully we will see something on E3.

Sequel confirmed?

I second that, e.

I found all my hidden orbs recently. Extremely satisfying, no guide involved. I also got all the agility orbs before they made it easier.

Oh wow – sweet. Crackdown is one of my favourite games on Xbox 360. It has a good balance and just loved how you could jump in co-op and the experience would not be degraded. Looking forward to possible a sequel sometime and will be grabbing this theme.

What about a GTA IV theme? Is there one available?

“Nothing like paying extortion prices for a theme of a game released years ago.”

Three bucks is extortion pricing? Methinks you need to go out and get a job instead of wasting time whining on online blogs.

Awesome! I’ve been waiting for some signs of life on the Crackdown/APB front…

i can haz now?

I wish there was a way to pre-purchase/queue coming soon content. Gamestop let’s you do it, why not marketplace?

How ironic, considering Crackdown can’t be installed to the hard drive…

Seleste:

He’s right. It is extortion. Everyone would riot and burn the world down if you were told you had to start paying $3 per desktop wallpaper on your PC. So why is it all of a sudden okay to pay for the exact same stuff on game consoles? It makes no sense, but unfortunately Microsoft gets away with it because there’s enough rubes out there who seemingly don’t mind throwing money away without thinking about it.

And telling someone to get out and get a job for someone expressing an OPINION YOU DON’T AGREE WITH on an online blog, aka the exact same place you’re spending time on, is the most hilarious passive-aggressive thing I’ve ever heard.

If I were to “Play More Crackdown!” it is not because I buy a theme. Maybe if it was free but not if I will have to pay with MSP for it. No, you Major Nelson. Tell that to your colleagues to make it free. Then I might play.

Maybe they are releasing this to get people excited at the possibility of a sequel? That would make me extremely happy.

“All Xbox LIVE regions”? Including Germany? Are you sure?

498. Thanks for reminding me. Somewhere in Pacific City, there are two agility orbs taunting me. >:(

You know what would make this worth the cost? Animated backgrounds. That one panoramic picture of the city at night would be perfect if the searchlights on the Agency Tower were scanning the sky and the cars were in motion on the highway. And if the neon lights on the buildings behind the Xiis would blink.

Makes me want to play more Crackdown just thinking about it…. X)

Seleste, I made a pretty nice chunk of change before I recently decided to become a stay at home parent so don’t belittle me for valuing my money. AnEternalEnigma hit it right on the head, if I’m going to buy this I might as well go out and buy the horse armor as well. It isn’t worth the money and would have made a better show of appreciation for fans by making it free.

Sweet!!! Crackdown is one of my favorite games ever. Now where’s Crackdown 2???

+1 to all the “Crackdown is one of my favorite games” comments.

Why are they releasing a premium theme when the game came out so many moons ago? I hope this means a sequel is coming. Wishful thinking, I know.

SEQUEL CONFIRMED!

How interesting that this should pop up out of nowhere right when I’ve been playing the hell out of this game lately…

Let me Guess MS is trying to get all Crackdown excitement high for the Crackdown 2 anoucement at E3.

Id love to play crackdown, but iv gotten used to playing installed games without that god awful roar of the dvd drive.. WHY CANT IT BE INSTALLED? Make an update that fixes it dammit!

I had 160 points left and I was waiting for the perfect theme. Here it is!

Does this smells to Crackdown 2 ????

Know what would be great? If the guide didnt LAG after i purchased this. Its getting very very annoying.

I’m still not sold on these Premium Themes. Usually I’m one to defend changes to the console, but the Friends List in the NXE (Not the one in the Guide) is so woefully inconvenient, and since it’s really the only thing these themes have any effect on other than the background, I can’t see them being worth paying for.

How funny. I just bought Crackdown today, after having rented it about a year ago.

Crackdown?
Isn’t that the bonus game that came with the Halo 3 Beta?

Looks SWEET!

wait a minute, Why is it 240 MPS? Aren’t premium themes usually 250?

anyways, Glad to see some new ‘support’ for the game! Can’t wait for any potential E3 announcements!

So Crackdown 2 E3 reveal, right Major?

People pay for themes and pics?

I had 499 orbs and gave up, I looked absolutely everywhere

not free, hahah pathetic!!!! for such an old shitty game this should be free!!!

Or you could save your money and just upload a few of these using a flash drive or connected PC.
http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/crackdown/download_6168976.html
http://crackdownoncrime.com/Media/wallpaper.htm

Your Xbox already has a wallpaper feature built in.

This all but confirms a E3 announcment of Crackdown 2. YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!! One of my top ten games of all time. E3 I cant wait. No one can tell me that this close to E3 a Premium them for a game this old isnt a sign. BRING ON CRACKDOWN 2.

I haven’t played this game in AGES!!! I want to play it again now.

Having a theme for a 2? 3? year old game just “for the heck ouf it” doesn’t seem right… I smell sequel in the air…

@ Rune 70: Yeah maybe, if you don’t mind them getting chopped in half by the Grey Dome of Death.

Um… oh my… wow… gots to buy this… I want more! Crackdown 2 Four Player Multiplayer Online? Lean out of passenger window and fire weapons? Grappling hook added to inventory? 2 Player+ game – Drop In Drop Out without interuppting gameplay. Female characters with different abilities? Robocop, Shaft, Kojak, Jon and Ponch (from C.H.I.P.S) as secret unlockable characters? And can we PLEASE get an included sound track this time. I was not around for the original Crackdown launch and I will certainly buy the Limited Special Edition (though I won’t buy any others and i mean it this time) if it came with some limited code, NOT ONLINE for purchase for less that 5 months after releasal, Crackdown poster, a metallic ‘Key to the City’ a Crackdown keychain emblem (like in the Limited Edition Soul Calibur IV pack). Crackdown IS Xbox360. “You can now jump 20 feet into the sky…”

@Rune 70
Yep, I know it, I have Kratos, Super Mario (with a fireball), TLC, The Avatar and a few other hi-res images as Theme Wall Paper, but THIS is a PREMIUM THEME! Can’t pass this one up bud, I just can’t. It’s “crack-a-lack’in”… Heh heh heh heh…..

@Maj
Thanks for the great update; now this is a theme worth it!

nice, getting that for sure.

but how about some more dlc. loved the game.

This should be free for everyone who purchased Crackdown during the Halo 3 beta,duhh.

OMG! If you are a 360 owner and haven’t played this game yet you should at the very least give it a rental. One of the great 360 exclusives from the “golden days” of 360 gaming.

I really hope this is a hint that we might be seeing a sequel??

A discount on the Crackdown DLC is long over due.

Cool, this is my fav xbox360 of all time can’t wait for a the sequel

Good thing theres a link to marketplace to buy this, imagine waiting 15 minutes on the XBOX360 to navigate ti download this theme.

**YaoIsGod said: “People pay for themes and pics?”**

People pay for ring tones too … no I don’t get it either

Still the best game on the system, IMHO, and one of the best of all time.

I really hope for a sequel announcement on E3, too … unfortunately, I know it ain’t so …

I would definitely bought this but developers still feel the need to put the games name all over the theme, a big Crackdown logo at the bottom of the theme dosent look good .

Anyways please can you preview all the themes as you have done here, i always back away from buying a theme after buying a few that were rubbish due to no preview being available.

CrossyX

“Availability: All Xbox LIVE regions” < Thats wrong, its not available in Germany!

Availability: All Xbox LIVE regions > Execpt Germany…

I’m still waiting for the Free-For-All and Getting Busy packs to be available in my region. I loved Crackdown, but I won’t be buying number 2 if it comes out, not if I’m gonna be cut from the “whole” experience again.

Great game. Crap theme Sorry.

This theme looks nice, but I’m not going to pay $3 for something as worthless as a theme. Plus I try to spend as little time on the dashboard as I can since the NXE launched. I hate seeing those stupid looking avatars.

I thought for sure that a theme for a game this old would have been free.

What’s next, an 8 bit Pac Man theme?

“I had 499 orbs and gave up, I looked absolutely everywhere ”

I think there’s at last one place you didn’t look.

Nice looking theme

I will never pay 240 MS points. That would be the end of the world! GIVE US SOME FREE FUCKING THEMESE YOU PUSSY’S

wow i can’t believe there’s so many people here that like shitty games…this game was one of the worst in history and i hope it never has a sequel.

@ Sneeches that said “wow i can’t believe there’s so many people here that like shitty games…this game was one of the worst in history and i hope it never has a sequel.”
LOL Says someone playing a CSI game and buggie bunnies. LOL Talk about bad games.
OH yeah one more thing. You cant talk down on a game and think people will value your opinion when you never played it. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.

I’d venture most of the themes are purchased by those who’s MS points are paid by someone else, aka. parents and so on. Now if theme design were opened up for user created content like community games are, there could be something interesting to spend money on.

Other than that, I do agree that games should come with themes and gamerpictures and such. Gamecontent is already split up to downloaded parts to discourage second hand market. Adding these things wouldn’t certainly be much of an leap going down that road.

I love crackdown but $3.00 for a theme to a game that was release 2/20/2007 over (27) months ago. Yeah 27 months! I wish they could of done better on the price.

The timing seems rather odd, it has to be said. Still, I suppose it is good that it is there at all for those strange people who would want to buy it. Never let it be said that MS don’t cater to people who enjoy wasting money! In other news, a whole lot of people wouldn’t download this even if it were free because they don’t want to put anything else onto their history for fear of never being able to use the 360 dashboard again. I think MS have their priorities wrong.

Oh Hell Yes! This surely means Crackdown 2 is incoming, please?! Maybe there is a god

I like this. We need more things like this. Just stumbled across the RE5 premium theme last night and I’m digging that one too.

@Bubbal – I’ve played the game, and it was fucken horrible so I took it back. Its shitty games like this that’ll keep the 360 in second place. You guys think games like this are good, have you never played a metal gear, or uncharted? You must not have because that’s what a good game is, and it shines in every aspect.

PS: My games are played by my wife and I, so if you see a XBLA game that you dont like then it’s prolly my wife playing it.

I do agree that Crackdown was one of the best games that I have played. I really hope that we see a sequel in the near future, maybe announced at E3? lol While I love this theme I also hope that we can get a premium Fallout 3 theme.

it’s really funny that this just showed up…I have been all over this game again lately!

This is still a great game. Oh and that sound file is awesome, been rocking that for about 2 years now on my Moto Q.

Would love to see a sequel.

ditto on the pricing comments. Nice looking theme, but too bad it’s 3 bucks to essentially get users to promote a game via a handful of wallpapers that can’t be seen most of the time. The friends list is the only place the premium themes offer much – and many people find the guide button offers a much more useful friends list…

Truly custom themes might be worth a little money, but themes to sponsor/advertise for a game should be free.

i like the theme, i like crackdown and i will play more crackdown but, i am not going to pay 240MSP ($3) for this theme. rock band songs are cheaper. anyways, i’m down for getting back on crackdown. if anyone wants to run around co-op or whatever, msg me. i finished the game but, i still need to get the rest of the hidden orbs (i have all of the agility). and i’m willing to help if people have missions left or questions on how to get to certain orbs.

+ Nice to have a preview

- Too expensive
- When will previews be mandatory on Marketplace?

Re: SEQUEL CONFIRMED

Totally. Why would they release this if not?

I just hope this means some type of Halo-related Beta.Frankly,that’s what the previous Crackdown meant to me.Although, I did get into it a little during the wait for the beta release.

Should be free since I pay for Xbox Live.

Two years later it should be free damn.

btw You can find this game at newegg for $9.99. For those interested in spending a few dollars more for something with actual value

“Should be free since I pay for Xbox Live.”

+1

Instant win!

Getting ready for Crackdown 2, MS?

Well looks good…
But why do themes cost so much?
$4 Australian dollars for a theme
I would buy a lot more themes if they where from 50 to 100 points.
Themes just seem like impulse buys,cause we have no idea what they look like half the time.

Wish this was free, I hate spending points on frivolous things, but I do love this game, I own two copies so that I can play with my kids. Shouldn’t I get this for free for that fact alone

Dude. Crackdown is, was and always will be balls out awesome. Too bad I never found those last 2 agility orbs. I lost my original save cuz the console with the original save on it was a three red ring incident in 2007. So now if I want em all, I gotta start over. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Oh, and the theme looks nice. It’s just not $3.00 nice, sorry. Does Microsoft not know that there are millions of us without jobs and therefore have almost no disposable income to waste on frivolous things such as premium themes? The game is old. This theme shoud be free, damn it!

If you spend real money for a theme for your Xbox menus, you might have a mental disorder.

Its ‘Crackdown-erific’, not mental. I’ve been waiting for Crackdown 2 (when it was suspended and APB was up for PC only (according to the site). This is great news. Even greater would be a World Spree Mode for up to 4 players ort roam free chasing gangs or each other and doing the mini tasks (collecting orbs, stock piling, stunts, climbing tall objects, check point chases, car races, etc) would just be totally wild and welcomed. This thime is a MUST for anyone who is a fand of Crackdown. $3? Don’t buy the $5 footlong.

I don’t understand the concept of paying for themes – it’s the dashboard for crying out loud! Hopefully you’re just there as a means to start something else (a game, movie, etc). Be smart and avoid it.

This would actually make a perfect complement for those who spent the 560 points on the Fable II See the Future DLC and want to even up their points again.

”I was pretty excited when I was able to get a preview of what it will look like as well.”

I think I speak for the entire community Major, when I say that we do too.
I don’t ever buy a gamerpic or theme without seeing it first. I hope your Marketplace guys make the publishers aware of that, because I think the big guys put too much stock in their brand names.

I wish that i could use the agilty orb sound on my iphone. I can create ringtones on garageband but not message tones

FIX THE GOD DAM GUIDE. PARTY SYSTEM, PHOTO PARTY LOCATION!

Im tired of a freezing guide and parties that wont even connect for no reason. Also, why do i have to access the market place just to start the photo party App. Make a god damn app bar for this crap. My whole experience for the last 3 hours has been a slow mess all because of these problems that have been ignored.

I refuse to pay for themes or gamer pictures. Give someone five minutes in photoshop and they’ll make something equal or better than the “premium” themes. Gamer pictures? Charging for something that takes two seconds to make is great!

lol mafia i a-gree in some cases but i think the avatar background is a 3d mesh done by 3d studio or something like it btw major just ask if u can answer if you read this far back in the posting is there or are you guys are able to let the NXE community able you make the Premium themes for there arcade i mean it only fare to make it even playing ground for the new programmers that making the spot light in marketplace

we should be getting premium themes with the game tbo. the prices for some of the DLC is bad enough, but to add insult to injury? especially when this game is so old. get it together.

This is a nice theme, but we really need some more non-game themes. How about a free beach theme for the summer? After spending all that money on themes for the old Xbox interface that I can’t use anymore it would be nice to get something for free.

they need to have previews like this on all premium themes… i want to know what im buying looks like… i wont be buying any themes without a preview… LISTEN TO ME MAJOR!

Freakin’ LOVE this game. It’s still probably my all time favorite. All 800 Orbs collected.

Plus, a big thanks to MajorNelson for those sound effects – I remember downloading them in… what, 2007? But yeah, when I got my “new” phone (Moto Q9C with Windows Mobile 6.1) back in November, I set up a sound scheme for my phone:

Text Messages are the achievement unlocked sound
Voice Mails are the Agility Orb
Notifications and error messages are the Hidden Orb.

I never thought I’d pay for a theme – I never did on the old dashboard… but this might just make me do it!

NuAngel

There have been rumours of Ruffian Games working on a sequel or a remake of the game. You can see a Crackdown map poster on the wall of one of their offices

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ruffiangames/3426092971/in/set-72157616628188444/

Hopefully this new theme will mean an announcement soon, E3 maybe?

That mp3 and wma audio file is a neat idea there Major. Perhaps M$ could work on adding value to the gold membership by making many more of these sort of sound effects available to gold members to download.

I’m sure there are lots of people that would love to get ringers, alerts, and other sounds clips and download them to their computer/phone. I could see an interface on the 360 and on the web for gold members making this possible. On the 360 you would put in your phone# and select your carrier and send the ringer directly to your device. On the computer you could sign-in and download files and save them directly to your device.

Perhaps eventually gold members could get access to music tracks from games this way too. Food for thought.

Great game but this content is not worth 240 points.