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Crackdown was an awesome, awesome game and maybe you do not realize it because of limited brain function, but those of us who really loved the game and inpatiently await for a sequel got a bit of bittersweet news from a recent article on VG247.

In an interview with Videogaming247, Colin Macdonald, of Realtime Worlds (the developer of Crackdown), talked about how the team regrets not starting work on a sequel right after the release of the game.

To not develop a sequel "was a horrible, horribe decision that we still dwell on[...] But I don’t think the door’s closed. Obviously, right now we’re tied up with APB and everything else, but hopefully in the future we’ll have the resource and something can be worked out with Microsoft.” - Hear THAT Microsoft? Give us some free-roaming, slightly cel-shaded, free-roaming love.  More after the jump.

He continued to add "We poured five years of our lives into that game. You know, we’ve got guys on the development team that have Crackdown tattoos, permanent tattoos on their arms[editor's note: Good thing it's a permanent tattoo. I was starting to think it was one of those silly temporary tattoos maintained by not showering since the launch of the game]. We’re extremely passionate about it." - It's good to know that Microsoft and its affiliates keep the love for stupid tattoos even when Peter Moore is gone and the Zune dude is suing them.

But why DIDN'T they develop the game, you ask? “But at the end of the day we’re a company that has to do what’s best for the company. We’ve got to stay in business. And the numbers just didn’t add up. We’re not in the business of doing things because we’d like to, if we can’t guarantee that it makes sense for the company. That doesn’t work.” - So we all better buy APB and buy copies of Crackdown 2 for everyone and their mothers, do yo hear me?