Condemned 2 review

Condemned 2 is the sequal to the first game condemned. We all know that and we all know it was the csi/horror launch game for the 360. Well years have gone by and the people at SEGA/Monolith have went back to the gritty series to make it darker and more of a mind fuck then before. With the sequal I feel that they have accomplished this. The game has a creepy eerie atmosphere that can scare the shit out of you if you play with all the lights off and the sound way up. You play as Ethan Thomas again who has spiraled down from the respected person he was for the first game. He seems to have went on a drung and alcohol bender that makes him see and act like a lunatic. You again are on the hunt for a killer on the loose who is making all the bums and drug addicts go crazy and want to beat the fuck out of anything and anyone. The game is again in the first person with the trigger buttons being you left and right arm and the stick click in is your kick. You still use weapons as well to beat down your foes, but they added more gunplay this time around making it a FPS for a few parts of the game. What they did really well this time is the scare factor and the tension level for this game. Majority of the game keeps you on the edge of your seat and weary of turning that next corner. But what lacks is that the game all of a sudden just loses that feeling and makes it more of a FPS with a slower pace. This is where the game starts to lack in my opinion and slowly works its way away from the high tension feeling I had at the beginning of the game. While its still a good game the last few chapters kind of lack and feel a little disappointing when your playing them. As for the online this is a game that did not need it and is not a selling point for this game, dont waste your time with it more than maybe a few times to try and see how bad it is.


Overall rating - B+