Condemned :Criminal Origins is one of the best games i have ever played its sheer terror on every corner
so far ive only played it for an hour on level 3 just got it yesterday but i am really impressed already which is hard to do,at first i was only able to get the xbox 360 core system as they are sold out everywhere had to pay £265 of ebay which was a bargain compared to £480 which i seen one go for .
the point is i was still amazed by the graphics and sound i now have the hd cable but not an hd tv but a new widescreen which has 480dpi it was alot smoother but i have played this ,perfect dark zero,fifa rtwc,project gotham racing all on standard definition and they all looked great compared to what am used to,
back to condemned the first thing that struck me about this game was literaly a plank of wood with nails in OH DAMM it just felt and sounded like this guy had just cracked me in the face so i swiflty bat him with the butt of my hand gun and WOW two teeth just sqirted out with a bit blood very impressive,
a little bit further and a creppy junkie is taunting me through a window so i pop him in the head with my last hand gun round it goes through the window splats through his head and leaves a lovely blood patch on the wall if you watch out for these small details it blows you away,
my grandma came round while i was playing and i had to turn it off thats how graphic it was and my grans a hard lady but the blood spaying on the screen and the sound were making her uneasy,
the gameplay so far has been good,its basicly a first person shooter except there is not much gun play more melee attacks with crowbars,planks,shovels,pipes and plenty other things to crack skulls,the cool thing is they are not just scattered about you pull them from walls,pull pipes apart grab steel girders with bits of concrete still on to bat them with,there are around 3-4 guns i think handgun shotgun machine gun i think but you only get a certain amount of ammo,another cool feauture is the way you have to check the clip to find out how much ammo you have left instead on it being displayed on the screen,
in the game you are a forensic agent with all these cool gadgets for retrieving evidence the vad point to this is personaly i would of prefered some types of mini games to use these gadgets but this part of the game is rarely easy just follow the on screen instructions,also you will always know when to use your tools as it automactily says press x when in the vicinity of evidence,whichis good for those people who just wanna run and smash heads but i think a few mini games and less help finding the evidence would stop it from feeling like the same thing over and over again which hasnt happened yet but am only on the 3rd level
this review is just for people interested in this game and also the xbox 360 the info about the game itself is limited,i should of completed it before this review but i have been so impressed by this game already just wanted to let people know this is definitly worth having in your xbox 360 collection the only online content is a leaderboard which i love i love the fact that every1 on the leaderboard is a real person,am hoping space invaders will be on xbox live soon i will be at the top of that leaderboard
i can still remember playing space invaders years ago in an arcade as a kid my dad had to lift me up ha ha and now looks at whats out it makes the future scary what will it be like in ten more years will we really be running from serial killers in a matrix style way of jacking your hole body into a game very scary but damm exciting