I completed F.E.A.R and Doom 3 and this is scarier than both, and has more to offer, story wise. Don't miss this one!
Walking in the dark with a flashlight isn’t anything new, (to video games) but forcing you to go hand-to-hand with smart AI enemy is. In Condemned, you can’t sit back with your chain-gun and confidently shoot up anything that moves. You’ll learn to sweat every time you hear a ‘bump’ in the dark, crazed breathing and coughing, or feet running to flank you or get a good hiding spot where you’ll pass by.
What you’ll love:
· It’s a mix of shooter, hand-to-hand combat, mystery/adventure story, with horror and crime solving to boot.
· Good graphics and physics (uses the F.E.A.R engine).
· Good voice acting, great ambient music, and sound effects.
· Controls are mostly standard and easy to learn.
· Awesome art to create creepy environment, with lots of detail.
· Hand-to-hand combat ‘feels’ real. If you die, it’s because you did something stupid, like forget to block, or faced too many enemy when your health was low.
· Playing with forensic tools to gather evidence at crime scenes (impatient types might not like this break in the action).
What I didn’t like:
· Not being able to crouch, jump or lean around corners, and having to press the ‘action’ button to crawl under and over things.
· Not being about to turn off the pop-up action messages, (example: when you want to open a door is it really necessary to have a message pop up telling you to press the action key?).
· Lots of locked doors you can’t open.
Want a classic ‘shooter’? This isn’t the game for you. Looking for something new, that can suck you into the action with a story, very creepy buildings, fun hand-to-hand, and crafty enemy? Don’t miss this game!