Condemned: Criminal Origins

Ethan Thomas, who is on the trail of a serial killer. This game has some of the most viscous most amazing hand to hand combat. You explore these condemned atmospheres, not only with random weapons picked up from the environment, but also your forensic tools to investigate. When fighting psycho killers one will notice the impeccable A.I placed in all of the characters. These characters will do as much as even through some trick punches to fake you out when you are trying to block or hit.

The only problem with the actual game play is the lack of tricks and options. There is about 10 hours of game play but in only like 2 hours you can reveal all of the tricks and graphics that the game has to offer. This may make for some very monotonous gamming after only the first hour in a half or so. The forensic tools are yet another great feature of the game it’s like watching your favorite investigation show. All you do is stand above the point of investigation and then pick the correct forensic tool and then begin investigation. This makes the tools you have become very interactive. You will be all hand on when it comes to using the tools provided. After using the tools you will call using your cell phone to headquarters. From phone calls you will gain more background info about the game. This will help change the game up so it doesn’t become so monotonous after an hour or two.


(guns and stuff) When it comes to the weapons you will be doing a lot of melee fighting and most of the weapons will be coming from the environment, such as broken pipes from the walls, axes or 2 x 4’s with nails in it found on the ground. If you find any guns there are only a few shots left in them so you shoot a few times then drop that weapon then grab another weapon in the surrounding area.

The only thing that critics really had to say about this game that was bad was the problem with the non contrasting environments. What I had to say with that was this game is based on a dark intense filled world. I think the environments looked absolutely awesome for this theme. You can’t really get much more contrast with environments or levels with this specific theme. This game is definitely going to be a good buy for the next-gen gamming experience.