A great concept taken only to routine gameplay with a meager play time.

User Rating: 8.3 | Condemned: Criminal Origins X360
Condemned takes a first-rate idea and makes into a repetive, short game. The story involves a FBI agent who's on the trail of a serial killer. Much like the movie Seven, the killer is twisted and leaves behind clues. It's your job to go around, finding these clues with no puzzles to solve. Well, it's also your job to go around and club or shoot the fiendish feens living in the crime scenes.

Each level makes you out to be a mouse just being led along in the maze. Your tools of the trade include things like a cell phone, tazer, and a uv light. Yeah, just like the dirty discovering black lights on MTV, the UV light finds fingerprints and spilt liquids. The weapons range from pipes to sawed-off shotguns.

The game is very short. I'm not one to beat games all too often yet I even beat it within two days of having it. Very disappointing. They could changed the concept a little bit to make the game last longer. Only if they had, it could have maybe been a better, longer game.

The graphics are very good. The humans in video games have become very detailed yet I just can't say the graphics are perfect. Even though they may have no flaws, they just haven't impressed me enough. A next generation game should have next generation graphics. The change in graphics is barely noticeable. This shouldn't make me dock points for Condemned, but I'm doing it anyways.

If you have a free weekend, Condemned could fill those two days with a usually fun game, when it's not the same thing as always.