The Condemned Rookie's Review
The environments, while positively drenched in mood enhancing madness, it often feels like the game is "on rails". You'll feel you have few options but to carefully creep forward and try to keep your enemies coming one at a time.
The second environmental problem is darkness. I get it, the game is supposed to be dark... but unless you're pimpin' a high def 50 inch plasma, forget about sitting more than a couple feet from the screen. Its just too dark.
The nail in the coffin for me was the controls. Maybe its just not "my thing", but I found the controls too cumbersome. I love the innovative approach to close combat, I just found the execution a little hard to pull off. Kuddos to those of you who mastered it though, I'm sure it improves the game experience vastly.