Condemned: Criminal Origins

[Zakath]

This game is awesome! The atmosphere is A LOT like FEAR, except you can't blast into rooms with guns blazing and tossing grenades left and right. In the very rare occasion you get a gun (so far I've only used a pistol and shotty) you have extremely limited ammo - usually 3 rounds or so. There's a cool animation though where you check the magazine to see how much ammo it has. Anyway, the majority of combat is melee. You can pick up a ton of stuff like a 2x4 with nails sticking out of it, pipes, conduits, shovels, crowbars, sledgehammer etc. I'm currently using a mannaquin's arm. You also have a taser but it reloads slowly. If you taser someone it allows you to disarm them, but if an enemy is unarmed they'll run around looking for another weapon and come back for seconds. This game is creepy as hell! It's made me jump a couple of times when enemies pop out of closed closets or whatever and start screaming jibberish. Supposedly it gets repetative, but so far it's great fun. Nothing is better seeing chunks of brain splatter across the wall after nailing a enemy in the head.

[Phill]

It sounds pretty Cool, Any links for reviews/trailers etc?

[Zakath]

It sounds pretty Cool, Any links for reviews/trailers etc?
Gamespot.. IGN.. etc

[AA-12]

I beat this game a few months ago, and it get really old after a while. No replayability either. Still good to play for a while though.

[Kif]

I'd go as far as to say this is the scariest game I've played. There are graphic scenes near the beginning which are pretty unsettling, but later on when it starts getting really ****ed up, that's when you start questionning the game.

There's a scene I remember where you are in the mall, and one one of the sections you look left and there are 10 mannequins all still. It's dark and pretty eerie, but there's some colour to the level. Then, as you walk forwards and away from the mannequins, the screen flashes black and white. I turned around and there were the same 10 mannequins, perfectly still again, just standing where I just was. This continues for a while, and it freaked me the hell out.

I loved Condemned since it was pretty unique. A FPS with barely any guns, crackheads and murderers and dead birds. I hope they do a sequel

[IbanezSamurai]

Are there any zombies in there cause from screenshots I saw, the enemies look like zombies.

[Zakath]

No, they're cracked out psychos.

[Ramsey]

Gamespot.. IGN.. etc
hahahahaha



Anyways. I beat this game. Yeah it is pretty great, and it does get fairly repetitive towards the end, but if you play it with a friend it stays pretty fresh.

[Jim Hull]

I love it but cant complete it. I am a big wimp. I can only play it for 30 minutes and get so scared I have to turn it off! At this rate, it will take me like a year to complete.

[Zakath]

Haha yea this is the first game that had me creeped out as I was walking around. Other games have had some "jump" moments but for some reason this game is just freaky.

[Kif]

I think it's the 11th chapter, where you are in the house and there's no bad guys whatsoever except for in the basement. That level is just annoying, since you have to look for the clues, and they just come out of nowhere.

[team_racket]

i heard its really demanding but looks really good. il have to download a demo or something. is it comparable to the film se7en ?

[SantaDuJuan]

I got it at 360 release, it's fun but I havn't picked it up again.

[ProSeries]

Nice. I'll check it out.

Over 200 seeders and I'm dling at 30k compared to a normal 250k +. ****ing jews.

[Zakath]

This game is great. I just beat the metro station chapter.. the major scare of that level was when I was trailing some evidence with the green light thing, and it led me to a railing when out of nowhere a crackhead jumped up from the stairs below. :eek:

[Tillius]

This game looks ****ing incredible. I've yet to get a 360, though.:(
If/when I do, though, this will likely be the first game I pick up for it.

[Turtle Soup]

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/adventure/condemned/index.html?q=condemned


And very fast demo torrent http://www.gameupdates.org/details.php?id=333

[Zakath]

I've yet to get a 360, though.:(
You and me both. :(

[Kif]

This game is great. I just beat the metro station chapter.. the major scare of that level was when I was trailing some evidence with the green light thing, and it led me to a railing when out of nowhere a crackhead jumped up from the stairs below. :eek:
Haha I remember that bit so well. I literally jumped back from the screen.

I might play through this again, there's still some achievements I need to collect.

[ProSeries]

Got the game. Pretty good, love the weapons.

[Zakath]

I wanna play this game now but it's still light out and one of the windows in the room doesn't have a shade! Argh!

[Zakath]

Can someone explain to me wtf this sign means? :confused: :lol:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v190/Zakath/Warning_Sign.jpg

And I just played the Library level.. HOLY **** when you fall through the floor I jumped away from the screen and almost screamed like a girl. I had the sound all the way up and it was so quiet.. I was just slowly sneaking through the rows of bookcases expecting something to jump out then BAM you fall through totally unexpected.. that **** scared me the most I've ever been scared in a game I think.

[Turtle Soup]

:lol:

[Kif]

I think the most scared this game got me I've already said (The mannequins, it's the only thing that makes me not want to play this again haha), but I remember a bit where you fall through a floor, and it is pitch black. You don't have your flashlight for some reason, and you can't see a thing, and this thing just lurks around you, and finally starts jumping at you. My instinct of course was to kill it, so I shot, and it turned into the black woman who helps you through the game. Freaked me out that did.

[Zakath]

but I remember a bit where you fall through a floor, and it is pitch black. You don't have your flashlight for some reason, and you can't see a thing, and this thing just lurks around you, and finally starts jumping at you. My instinct of course was to kill it, so I shot, and it turned into the black woman who helps you through the game. Freaked me out that did.
Yea that's the part I was talking about. It's kinda weird too because if you pause the game in that part while you're waiting for the girl to come down to where you are, instead of the usually mission objectives and stuff it was something like "join....us......" and a bunch of other words that I don't remember.

But seriously.. does anyone have any idea what that sign means? I wish you could zoom in on the 5 steps on the bottom of it..

[Eccles]

how does it compare to FEAR? I thought FEAR was awesomely creepy at times but also a little cheesy in its horror. It sounds like killing crazy psychos would more realistic and therefore way creepier and cooler :cool:

[JohnXDoe]

This game is very different then FEAR or any other game I have played. It's creepiness level is hard to determine, and in the demo at least it has a FEAR sort of vibe the way you are going room to room and never know quite what to expect. You hear pychos running around on the floors above you, dashing around in the distance, things are getting knocked over. It is indeed creepy.

When I first played the demo I didn't care for it too much. It seemed kind of goofy and cheesy. But once you become familiar with the controls and the weapons and the atmosphere takes over, it hooks you. The AI is tough and crazy, and it's all hand to hand/melee combat too, which is even crazier. I just got a tazer and that helps tremendously in certain situations. You can taze one guy and stun him and then go after another guy with a lead pipe or fire axe. Then before the tazed guy comes to you can smash him with your pipe. It's good fun. :)

My only complaint so far is that it's not gory enough. If I smash a guy over the head with a fire axe I want to see a busted open head, blood and brain pouring out. A mess, basically. You don't get that here. Just the usual spatter of blood and puddle on the ground. I want to see crushed bone and disfigurement. Then it would be perfect.

[Klown]

If I smash a guy over the head with a fire axe I want to see a busted open head, blood and brain pouring out.

I want to see crushed bone and disfigurement. Then it would be perfect.
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/4288/emotpwnonk4vz.gif

[Kif]

It's still pretty violent in that you are just hitting people to death.

[Zakath]

how does it compare to FEAR? I thought FEAR was awesomely creepy at times but also a little cheesy in its horror. It sounds like killing crazy psychos would more realistic and therefore way creepier and cooler :cool:
It's much scarier then FEAR. It's a lot creepier and more intense walking around with only one of those giant paper cutter blades then it is when you're carrying a machine gun, a shotty and a nail gun. Personally I was never creeped out by FEAR, it had a couple cheap scares like bodies being thrown through windows out of nowhere but in terms of atmosphere.. Condemned >>>> FEAR. And when you do get a weapon in Condemned, you have so little ammo that you have to choose your shots wisely, which is hard.

[Zakath]

Although more brutal and gory violence would be cool, I think this is still a great game. You can see bits of brain matter along with the blood splattered on the wall when you take someone out, and after a few guys your weapon is covered in blood. Another nice touch is how the stock of your shotty can be broken if you're using it as melee weapon.

[Kif]

The game gets way too easy though when you find a fire axe. You don't even have to block the enemy, just shock them, then give them a swift hit to the head. There are some challenging bits, but overall, it is quite easy

[Zakath]

Only pussies use the taser. I tried the super taser once but that was so gay it made it laughably easy.

[Kif]

Haha I still have to complete it again without using an firearms for the achievement.

[JohnXDoe]

Dude, irl if I had a taser I would use it. I don't care WTF, if I have a 2X4 and a taser and three drugged out maniacs armed with lead pipes rushing me, I'm tasing the shi out of at least one of them. :smash:

[Zakath]

Haha I still have to complete it again without using an firearms for the achievement.
I'm still on my first playthrough.. but I don't know if I could do that. I love the sawed off shotty.

[Kif]

Yeah the taser is handy for the situations where there are a lot of people. It's funny making the crackheads turn on each other, then hide and let them beat the **** out of each other.

And I avoid firearms as much as I can. They are pretty much useless once your unloaded. Of course, if an enemy has a shotgun, I'll let him reload before tasering him and knicking it off him :thumb:

[Let's Chop Cats!]

Just downloaded this game. Is it worth actually playing through or would I be better off turning on god mode and destroy the **** out of things?

[Zakath]

Just downloaded this game. Is it worth actually playing through or would I be better off turning on god mode and destroy the **** out of things?

It's definitely worth playing through. God mode would make it really boring and not fun at all, because it's not like there's a crapload of enemies thrown at you all at once. It takes a bit to get the hang of blocking, but then it's really fun melee'ing it up against the enemies, and when you occasionally get a pistol with like 3 rounds in it it's like a gift from god. :lol:

[Kif]

You don't need god mode to beat this game really. It's easy enough, but still fun.

[meanpeoplesuck]

Just watched a quick youtube of it, looks deadly! Spooky alright.

[Zakath]

You don't need god mode to beat this game really. It's easy enough, but still fun.

Yea true, I can remember only one part where I had a little trouble, but besides that the real draw to this game is the creepiness, it's like FEAR + steroids - Alma.

[Kif]

It's probably the scariest game I've ever played. The FPS perspective adds to that a lot, but it's just the environment really. You aren't fighting weird scary girls or any typical horror game bad guys, these are crackheads who are completely out of their mind. Their AI is quite good too actually depending on the difficulty.

I might replay this game because of this thread. I haven't actually enjoyed this on my HDTV yet. And when I say enjoyed, I mean thoroughly **** out my heart.

[meanpeoplesuck]

Were you playing it on a standard TV, or one with 480 or something? If it was just a normal one, were the graphics still impressive?

[Zakath]

Yea I might have to get it again now. :lol:

[Kif]

Were you playing it on a standard TV, or one with 480 or something? If it was just a normal one, were the graphics still impressive?
It was just using composite through a regular TV.

[Let's Chop Cats!]

This first level is pretty boring. Blocking is a pain too, doesn't let you hold it down, have to time it right. Looks like crap on my laptop, might wait till I'm home to play more. Not big on creepy FPS, prefer puzzles/destroying ****.

[Zakath]

doesn't let you hold it down, have to time it right.

That's kind of the point :p

[Tillius]

God damn I really wanna play this game, but I don't get a 360 til Christmas.
Ugh....reading about it so much makes me wanna play it so damn bad.

[Let's Chop Cats!]

That's kind of the point :pI'm lazy. Once again I prefer just blocking everything, then beating the crap out of it.

[Kif]

To be fair, I didn't block much when I played the game. There's too many health packs around to care about blocking too much. Besides, you can simply just back off when they attack, and then counter.

REINER: Stick it out until a few levels later. The story opens up in the hunt for Serial Killer X, and the levels are insane. The mall still freaks me out just thinking about it, those mannequins creeping up on you everytime you move.

[Zakath]

To be fair, I didn't block much when I played the game. There's too many health packs around to care about blocking too much. Besides, you can simply just back off when they attack, and then counter.

REINER: Stick it out until a few levels later. The story opens up in the hunt for Serial Killer X, and the levels are insane. The mall still freaks me out just thinking about it, those mannequins creeping up on you everytime you move.
oh yea I completely forgot about that part.. holy crap that scared me bad, especially when they start following you.

[Mazeppa]

Cool game this, though I'm not sure if I actually completed it in the end...

Still, I do remember it had some pretty creepy moments.

[Tillius]

So I finally got a 360 tonight and have finally begun playing this game.
Awesome game so far, but creepy as hell.

[Jeckyll]

Im getting a 360 tomorrow for christmas, and this is one of the games my parents bought me.

I've been talking to my dad about this game ever since it was released.

[Tillius]

haha
That dude in the subway who jumps out of that door and pushes you down that escalator scared the living **** outta me.

[funluvinhobo]

i played the demo of condemmed and it was so cool, the guy i kow with an xbox is too scared to buy it tho :(

[Tillius]

I'll never look at a manequin(sp?) the same way again. :(

[Kif]

Haha, the mall claims another victim of stupidly crazy ****.

[Tillius]

Just finished it.
Great game, but it was a little short...and I was kinda disappointed with the ending.

[Chanandler Bong]

My copy won't run in my machine. :/