"I can see my house from here..."

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The Agents are genetically modified human beings, created by the Agency, using the disgraced work of Dr. Balthazar Czernenko. In Crackdown, there are eight playable agents characters in total (12 if you have downloaded the Four-Play pack DLC) however the exact number of Agency Agents in service is presumed to be much higher. In Crackdown 2, there are only four Agents to choose from, but a variety of suit colors to select (16 in single-player with all DLC, 20 in multiplayer with all DLC).

Contents 1 Characteristics and Abilities 2 Crackdown Agents 2.1 Standard Agents 2.2 DLC Agents 3 Crackdown 2 Agents 3.1 Suit Colors 4 Trivia

Characteristics and AbilitiesEdit

The Agents have The Agency's best equipment at hand in their fight against crime in Pacific City. Agents start off with basic Agency weapons, such as the Colby "Master" sidearm and the Colby EAR50 assault rifle, which both have agency skins and are highly advanced in technology compared to average weapons. Agents are given the choice to unlock Agency supply points around the city, which are indicated by a orange beam of light, which is only visible through an Agent's HUD. Unlocking an Agency supply point means the Agent can store gang weapons he has collected and use them in the fight against crime.

Agents have access to vehicles designed by the Agency, which react to the Agents presence and driving skill. As the Agents driving skill evolves, so do the vehicles the Agent uses, so much so that when the Agent reaches a 4-star level in driving skill, the vehicles gain their own special ability, for example, The Agency Supercar transforms into a vehicle which bears resemblance to the Batmobile, and gains two guns that appear on the side of the car, which can be fired at enemies, provided that said enemies are directly in front of the car.

The Agents also use a special bio-armour, which was created by the Agency to adapt to an evolving Agent. This armour will evolve as the the Agent does, changing their appearance as they improve their 5 core skills. With all skills at max level (level 4) the Agent will wear a full set of armour. The armour also has a advanced shielding function, which will absorb all damage to a certain extent before damaging the Agent themselves. This shield also regenerates when not taking damage.

Agents have super-human capabilities because of extensive genetic enhancements done by the Agency, including increased agility, faster reactions and super strength. Consequently, the public look up to the Agents as being heroes.

Crackdown AgentsEdit

Note: In the pictures, the prominent agent face on the left is the Agent's facial appearance at the beginning level of the Agility skill. The smaller image on the right is the Agent's face at the highest level of agility. The agents in the game represents different ethnicities.

Standard AgentsEdit

• Black Agent - This is the African Agent, and is the Agent that Realtime Worlds (the game's developers) uses to show off the game. As he progresses in agility skill, his face becomes more square, and the hair style and beard change.

• Asian Agent - This Asian Agent is said to represent a modest Agent. As the Agent increases the agility skill, instead of the face bulking up, the Agent appears older. Also, as the Agent increases his strength skill, he grows a goateé, a small pony tail and a small amount of spiky hair at his fringe.

• Norse Agent - The Norse Agent evolves rather menacingly. He develops a large braid from the front to back of his head, and a knotted beard on his chin, as well his scarred eye becoming more prominant. As he develops, he dons traditional Nordic warpaint.

• Goth Agent - The Goth Agent represents the Gothic sub-culture. As the Goth Agent upgrades, his face becomes more square, he develops a Mohawk haircut that continues into flared sideburns and a thin beard.

• Russian Agent - As this Agent's agility level increases, his cheek bones become more prominent and his eyes more sunken and closer set. He swaps his cropped hair for some blue tribal tattoos, and his beard develops clumps. He also gains several facial piercings, including two through his nose, and three through the labrette.

• Maori Agent - As this Agent becomes more agile he goes back to his tribal roots by adopting tribal face paint and hairstyle. Also as this Agent's skills increase, he gains eyebrow piercings across his whole forehead, and a bull ring piercing in his nose.

• Hispanic Agent - As this Mexican Agent develops, his face shape changes, and he grows facial hair and a beard, and gains ear, eye brow and nose piercings. He then begins donning some tribal tattoos.

• Thai Agent - As this Agent becomes more agile, his chin becomes larger, and his hair is contained to two rows of four bunches. He also dons red and white face paint.

DLC AgentsEdit

• Black Agent (DLC) - As this Agent develops he grows dreadlocks and a beard.

• Caucasian Agent - As this Agent develops he paints his face with camouflage, wears goggles, and dons a bandana.

• Helmeted Agent - When this Agent develops he dons a full-face helmet complete with red vision-enhancers and lights along the top of the helmet. Also, when near a wall and the character becomes transparent, his fully developed face can be seen,

• Masked Agent - When his agility increases, the Masked Agent develops a face mask with a gas breather included.

Crackdown 2 AgentsEdit

In the Pacific City Archives mini-series released prior to Crackdown 2's release, it is revealed in Episode 2: "Evil Seed" that the original Agents from Crackdown were infected with a deadly virus by Catalina Thorne, which grossly mutated the Agent clones. This resulted in the destruction of the Agency's cloning labs, setting The Agency's cloning technology back many years effectively to "square one".

Crackdown 2 sees the creation of a new type of Agent. These new Agents are now protected by a more advanced suit, which evolves along with the Agent, providing the Agent with heightened body protection and full facial protection.

The new Agents also gain new abilities once they reach the peak of their abilities. Agility level 5 earns you a Wingsuit, and Strength level 5 earns you two abilities: Barge, which knocks enemies and environmental objects out of the way while running, and Ground Strike, which will damage everything around the Agent in a large shockwave.

Suit ColorsEdit

• Standard
  • Agency Blue
  • Dark Grey
  • Mid Grey
  • Light Grey

• Multiplayer Only
  • PVP Red
  • PVP Green
  • PVP Blue
  • PVP Yellow

• DLC: Pre-order Bonus
  • Gold
  • Gunmetal
  • Black
  • Xbox Agent

• DLC: The Toy Box
  • Peacekeeper
  • Terror Firma
  • Agent Orange
  • May Contain Nuts
  • Minti-Sting
  • Mega Agent
  • Haz Mat
  • Dem Apples
  • Nude
  • Stripper metal
  • Dickwax

TriviaEdit

• In the Xbox Live Arcade release of Rareware's Perfect Dark, an Agent can be unlocked as a playable multiplayer character by having a Crackdown 2 save file on your hard drive. This Agent is known as "Agent 4".