Microsoft’s rules around achievements have been mostly steadfast over the past two generations of consoles. Every game launches with 1,000 Gamerscore, with a few exceptions made along the way for day-one DLC situations. Crackdown 3 might wildly deviate from that norm.
Some data mining sites have found the Crackdown 3 achievements, and there’s a glaring omission: There’s not a single achievement dedicated to the multiplayer mode. Microsoft has expended significant energy talking about Crackdown 3‘s multiplayer and its cloud-based destruction. It’s not an afterthought, unworthy of any achievements.
Rather, Microsoft has splintered Crackdown 3 into two separate downloads — one for the standard campaign and another for the Wrecking Zone five-on-five multiplayer. Here’s a look at how the Microsoft Store presents the Crackdown 3 bundle:
Source: Destructoid Crackdown 3 looks like it’ll launch with two separate achievement lists