Microsoft, publisher of 2007 hit action-adventure game Crackdown is currently giving away free copies of the original game(playable on Xbox 360 & Xbox One), even permanently it seems, as a way to celebrate and promote the upcoming launch of Crackdown 3, scheduled to launch Feb. 15.

To celebrate the launch of Crackdown 3, we are giving away the original Crackdown for free! Play it on your Xbox One with Backward Compatibility, Director of Programming for the Microsoft gaming network Xbox Live, Major Nelson, announced yesterday on his blog.

Crackdown is an open world action-adventure video game developed by Realtime Worlds (Mr David Jones) and distributed by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360 in 2007.
Set in the fictional open world named Pacific City, the player controls a biologically enhanced Agent, tasked with defeating three crime lords and their organized crime syndicates in a rather free open-world setting. The game also features a two-player cooperative mode via Xbox Live.