One of the superb luanch title for the 360

User Rating: 8.4 | Condemned: Criminal Origins X360
Condemned Criminal Origins is a survival horror game from monolith productions. In the Game you play as FBI agent Ethan Thomas, you begin trying to track down the serial killer known as the Match Maker. Also you need to clear your name after you got framed for the murder of two police officers. You go through a creepy subway tunnel, a abandoned department store and a school building that makes you want to wet your pants among other creepy locales, simply put the atmosphere is equally creepy to the serial killers.

The graphics engine renders some incredible details and good physics, running smooth at 720p it makes the graphics look almost photo realistic. The audio is equally amazing letting you hear every moan, grunt, thud whatever, nicely suited for the game. The serial killers character models you’ll see pays a lot of attention to detail, realistic facial expressions and animation. You’ll have to play it and you know what I mean. As well as superb sounds, visuals it also has nice gameplay.

As you move through the dark environments, you have only a small flashlight to guide you through the darkness and whatever you can grab from the area to use as a weapon (pipes, crowbars, axes, the occasional guns with limited ammo etc), I wished they left out the guns though and made it fully melee. Forgot to mention that Condemned has one of the best Melee gameplay in a first person game. Through out the game you will need to search for clues using your forensic tools such as light lamp, or a gas spectrometers, from things like particles, chemical residues and fingerprints. To sum it all up this game is highly recommended for Horror fans.