First Glimpse of Crackdown in 2005?

Maybe I’ve been playing too much Crackdown but when flipping through an old issue of Edge magazine this job posting jumped out at me screaming a big ol’ “DUH!” The art style, though not quite the same as the final game, could easily be some early concept stuff. In fact, the ad was posted in the June 2005 issue of Edge which is right around the time Realtime Worlds announced their publishing agreement with Microsoft to deliver “a number of exclusive titles developed for the new Xbox 360”.

As for the female character, I swear I remember reading something about there originally being a female agent. Seeing how little non-physical interaction you have with everyone in the final game I can’t imagine that a female “four-play” pack would be that impossible to release on the Marketplace.