MICROSOFT: Crackdown 2 confirmed

Microsoft has unveiled the sequel to its award-winning Crackdown.

The game’s trailer was briefly shown during the platform holder’s pre-E3 press conference, and is due for release in 2010. Crackdown 2 brings back its trademark open world gameplay but with revamped cooperative and competitive multiplayer modes

“We know that your fun and our success boil down to one thing: our ability to make games that are creative, diverse and entertaining. Period. And this year, we deliver in spades with the biggest and best line-up in our history,” said Microsoft Game Studio’s general manager Phil Spencer.

“From the core first-person-shooter fans who’ve enjoyed Xbox since the first Halo to new audiences who are discovering us today with genre-defining games like 1 vs 100, we have something for everyone with our best and broadest lineup ever.”