{"id":6466,"date":"2010-06-23T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T08:40:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"crackdown-2-demo-live-with-a-supporting-facebook-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/6466-crackdown-2-demo-live-with-a-supporting-facebook-game","title":{"rendered":"Crackdown 2 Demo live &#8230; with a supporting Facebook game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The demo for Crackdown 2 is available to Xbox Live Gold subscribers on Xbox Live Marketplace according to <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5568855\/the-crackdown-2-demo-has-a-facebook-twist\" target=\"_blank\">Kotaku<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/2010\/06\/21\/crackdown-2-demo-now-available-facebook-game-unlocks-bonuses\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joystiq<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It weighs in at 1GB and features accelerated character levelling, four-player co-op and a head start on earning &lsquo;achievements&rsquo;. Said achievements will naturally only be counted once you buy and play the full game.<\/p>\n<p>Augmenting the hefty demo is a <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.facebook.com\/chucksducks\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook game called Chuck&#8217;s Ducks 2<\/a> which allows players to unlock an additional difficulty level for the demo as well as a multiplayer weapon for use in the full game. By playing Chuck&#8217;s Ducks 2 you earn Quackers, duck-shaped sticky bombs which you&#8217;d normally have to hunt down and collect in Crackdown 2.<\/p>\n<p>Crackdown 2 is set to release on 8 July in the US and South Africa&#8217;s major retailers are predicting a local release of 9 July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xbox LIVE Gold subscribers get access to the Crackdown 2 early yesterday morning but in a surprise twist a matching Facebook game provides unlocks and further rewards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}