Most Original 1st person Gameplay

User Rating: 8.3 | Condemned: Criminal Origins X360
By sausn2002 | Review Date:
Never before have I played a game and gotten so immersed into it. It keeps you wanting to see more as the game progresses and only gets better and better. It is also the creepiest game I've ever played thanks to the next generation graphics and lighting effects. This game isn't as disturbing as Silent Hill, and doesn't have the shocks of Resident Evil, but it does keep that chill up your spine going in anticipation and only makes it grow and grow until you have to turn your light back on. There were a many a time that I had to stop in my tracks and ask myself, "what did I just see" and have second thoughts about going further with playing the game. It was an effort playing the game without having to take those short breaks so to break off that feeling up my spine.

This is also the most violent game I've ever played in terms of just throwing everything right in your face. Just wait till you see how you kill the last boss in the game. Might not like the ending though. It has a traditional movie-esque twist to it, but with that and everything else that happens in the game, its like never forgetting all those great memorable parts in a movie. You definetely won't forget the ending.

Gameplay is tremendously original, and I haven't seen a game take the first person perspective in this way before. You really get a sense that you are having a real physical conflict with the enemies and have to be on your toes to survive, not to mention give them alot of pain. Also, the game is as much of a movie as it is a game (you interact with everything that happens of course). Maybe Sega's partnership with Warner Bros. helped that for this game.

I didn't like the fact that the game had too much repetition in its gameplay. The first time through, you don't notice how much the repetition hurts the game because you are being progressed through the game by the storyline, in which the game does very well, but after you beat the game, you will have second thoughts about playing it again.

You get almost 1000 points on your Xbox 360 Gamerscore from this game and score more than half that by just simply playing the game and making sure you find all the secrets (which wasn't hard at all).

I would highly recommend to rent this title and play it, but unfortunetely it will be hard for someone to play it a second time around due to the repetition in the game that I described above.

Going to be a personal favorite of mine, but wierd enough, I can't get myself to buy it and/or play it again, but I won't ever forget this one.

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