Condemned: Criminal Origins Reviews

would love to recommend it but the fps is so low gonna get a refund sadly prolly gonna find a xbox 360 disk of it later

The biggest and best (selling) point about Condemned is its combat and setting. People scraping at walls and ripping pipes off to use to bludgeon each other to death onto a poorly lit, shit stained carpet floor in the tight cramped halls of an abandoned eroding building. You never get to see any of the normal, ordinary people trying to survive in this game. You don't even get a glimpse or an idea that they exist. But I find overall its definably mediocre. At every point during Condemned you kinda feel like you're playing a game, there's all these little game-isms like being forced to stand in place for a second so that a scare can get you, an overreliance on placed tools for level design and medkits strewn about all over and while these are fickle and tiny examples that kind of style makes up the entirety of Condemned like a cloud. On top of that the movement is a bit too slow, the non combat gameplay a bit dry and yadda dee yadda doo its ok. The whole game is ok. If you want that ugly, gross sickening pointless violence, I still think far cry 2 is the absolute pinnacle of this aesthetic. And If you want a similar to condemned game in everything but combat, I recommend you just go play F.E.A.R 1 instead, to me thats the peak of Monolith as a company. (Don't buy that stupid 50$ copy. get it on GOG and install the same patch you use to make this game runable) Sometimes I wonder if this game suffered from limited resources, and I think I walk away with not much of a feeling that I was glad I spent the 9 hours and 4 bucks I did on it. If you still want it, I think you'll enjoy it quite a lot. SIDE NOTES. "A cop must prove his innocence and to do so, you brutally beat to death a thousand homeless people with improvised weapons". The premise of this game is an insane look man. Insane. Two, Dont use the taser. Just dont. Three, The chief officer calls it Metro-City(fantastic work team) but the city is modeled after detroit. Dont even fuck around. Four, The future is now. EDIT. rest in peace monolith. we'll miss you.

If you enjoy collecting dead birds and random pieces of scrap metal, then this is the best game ever- for everyone else it's probably merely decent. You engage in overly simplistic forensic research sequences that are all identical, take five seconds and are isolated to one area so there's no puzzle element. Occasinally you may need to follow a trail but the game is so linear it barely matters. You also beat up homeless people- a lot of homeless people. The combat is brutal and kinda clunky- it's clearly trying to be like Silent Hill, the ending sequence even straight up plagiarizes the bathroom scene in Silent Hill 2. The story is interesting but also kind of nonsensical and the cut scenes are hilariously bad and don't hold up at all. The game looks somehow worse than the Xbox 360 version but that's probably because the X360 had pretty weak hardware and used filtering techniques to make the games look better than they were. Also, the achievements are in the game but not tied to Steam, yet they are organized in the poorest manner possible and I don't think there's any reason to collect them. While I think the overly fumbly gun and melee combat was advanced for its time in that it was minimalist, it can also be really irritating since your odds of killing an enemy are sometimes random. About halfway through the game you get an upgraded overpowered taser that kills everything in one hit, but they take it away from you in the last level and force you to engage in the crummy melee combat against hugely difficult enemies, resulting in a massive difficulty spike. There's a really cool and memorable level that takes place in a decrepit shopping mall at Christmas where humans dressed as mannequins start moving and attacking. It's just great. This game would be great if it was less linear, the forensics were more complex and interesting and the combat was more varied, but as such, it is a good game that is worth playing. Condemned 2 is also a blast and I think it should be put on Steam as well.

A perfect game that has it all: a thrilling investigative story; varied and compelling enemies/ environments; superb melee mechanics plus lethal but limited gunplay; it even has collectables and achievements. To think this was a OG Xbox 360 title is incredible. What a game to get right out of the gate!

Still holds up even today. They nailed the horror elements and atmosphere with fresh gameplay for its time. Once a few years I came back to it.

A classic game that is in dire need of an audio patch: A lot of audio is just missing from the Steam version and you have to look elsewhere for the missing audio files and Frankenstein these together for yourself. It is also a shame that the EAX Sound System is deprecated (but with a bunch of workarounds perhaps rescueable), which adds so much more to the auditory atmosphere. Good game for its age, satisfyingly meaty combat, a serviceable story.

It's a very unique horror experience with a challenging combat mechanics that were fun when you get the hang of it, It has a washed out look to it with bland colors but it still looked pretty good, the story was good but the length was short, except all of that i enjoyed it, 7/10

classic backlog 2000s game, havent got time to finished it... grab it and play!

I have played many horror games but Condemned: Criminal Origins its really decent for starters its a good game the combat is nice its really scary and it really introduces you in the world of twisted psychotic minded horror games the problem i have whit this game is that its kind of hit and guess you run around whit no idea where you going and some times you even come to the place you already been like you gotta go find a object and its like a whole enter maze (i had times where i had to look for a walkthrough) but overall its cheap creppy and really good i think you should try it out ONLY if you like HORROR GAMES

Games good! Make sure to check out PCGamingWiki if you want this to run well on modern hardware, it has some pretty major issues that take less than a minute to fix.