Condemned: Criminal Origins (2006) (PC) (Monolith Productions)

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Published on August 31, 2010 4:13:42 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izEfXdFtY-g

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Condemned: Criminal Origins (2005)

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Many shooter fans hold Monolith in high esteem, but I've honestly never been that impressed by their games. Blood was certainly an important Duke 3D-era shooter...but their other supposed classics such as Shogo, No One Lives Forever, Aliens vs Predator 2 and FEAR are all more competent than great in my opinion. The slick 60's nostalgia of NOFL and over-the-top anime self-parodies of Shogo deserve the most praise for being such brave departures from conventional shooter norms in stylistic terms, but when it comes to the actual gameplay I can hardly remember a single level from either NOLF1 or NOLF2. And Shogo, well, let's just say that game hasn't aged particularly well.

Condemned: Criminal Origins was a shooter/beat em up hybrid I thought about buying when it came out four years ago but ultimately I decided against it since I'm rather sick of the gory nonsense which counts for "psychological" horror in movies and games these days. When Direct2Drive had a sale some time ago and practically gave the game away for two or three Euros I nonetheless decided to pick it up but I haven't tried it out until now.