You’ll work your way through foe after foe, desperately pushing for the next checkpoint, occasionally being battered down by particular hard nuts or just sheer numbers. Basically, there’s a lot of combat to wade through, and arguably too much for comfort. Play it alone, late at night, with the lights turned off and headphones on (as I did) and Condemned 2 really can be powerful stuff.īut it’s not long before the problems that dragged down the original game reappear. The initial sequences have a bizarre nightmare logic to them, as realistic settings give way to a dark fantasy world of thick black ooze and strange liquid creatures, leaving you wondering whether the events are actually happening or just a figment of Thomas’ diseased imagination. What did was the game’s opening, with Condemned’s hero, Ethan Thomas, now a deranged, mangy alcoholic living rough on the streets until caught up in a cycle of escalating urban violence, seemingly exacerbated by the appearance of strange sonic devices around town. In fact, if Konami ever wants to put Silent Hill in a first-person format, then Monolith has given them a pretty good template to follow. Character modelling is generally excellent, and the lighting is absolutely top notch.
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You want filthy, cracked tiles, rotting woodwork, plentiful filth, scrawled, mouldy concrete and the sort of atmosphere you can practically smell? Well, you don’t need to watch Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares – Condemned 2 does them all as well. Condemned 2 does a great line in David Fincher-esque urban decay. It helps, of course, that the visuals are still a strong suit. In fact, my hopes rose as it emerged that Condemned 2 wasn’t just the dumb batter-em-up I’d feared. It’s one of the best implementations of first-person close combat since Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, though that’s not actually saying all that much. What’s more, the actual bashing business is a bit more interesting, with a decent system of jabs, blocks and combos put together through combinations of the shoulder/trigger buttons. One up for the homeless community, one down for the ASBO wielding youth. Sure enough, Condemned 2 is even heavier on the tramp battering than its predecessor, though at least this time the tramps have been replaced by deranged, leather-clad gang members, emaciated junkies and assorted hoodies. Perhaps that’s why I didn’t have such high hopes for Condemned 2: Bloodshot, particularly the more I heard about how the team had put a lot of work into a new, more elaborate melee combat system. Even surrounded by a fine plot and some great shock moments, actually playing the game was a bit of a chore. While Condemned had sections where the tangibly creepy atmosphere and the forensic investigations all came together with a bang, it transformed all too soon into a constant grind of what you might call tramp battering, with crazed vagrant after crazed vagrant wandering towards you to be battered with your waiting 2×4 (nails optional).
Unfortunately, the finished product didn’t quite live up to my hopes. Where so many other early next-generation games seemed to be doing the same old stuff but with shiny new HD graphics, Condemned promised an interesting mix of gritty, story-driven FPS with survival horror and the trappings of a CSI-style police procedural.
When I first saw Condemned, just a few months before the Xbox 360 launched, I had it down as the hidden gem of Microsoft’s launch line-up.
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”’Platforms: PlayStation 3 & Xbox 360 – PS3 version reviewed.”’
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