During Microsoft’s Gamescom Press Conference, MS delivered a new trailer for their upcoming sandbox game, Crackdown 3. The gameplay seems similar to what we experienced in the first Crackdown game, with the familiar voice directing our agent towards imminent danger. One big new feature is the destructible environments, using the ‘power of the cloud’, any building, in whole or part can be blown apart, and even used as a weapon in both co-op and multiplayer. In one shot, a large sky scraper was brought down by a few explosions, causing death and destruction to all in the area as it fell across several buildings, bringing those down as well. This shot reminded me a lot of the DX12 tech demo Microsoft shown us earlier in the year at GDC. Crackdown 3 is currently scheduled to come out in 2016, though no firm release date has been offered at this time.