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Good Budget Game...But it has it's Flaws

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

You can buy this game really cheap now (got it for $25), and it can be interesting. However, one drawback that annoyed me was that when I reached a checkpoint, and I had one enemy behind me, with a little bit of health, and med kit right in front of me, I died. So, no matter what, whenever I'd load that checkpoint, I'd die. So therefore, I had to go to the previous level, because there are no restart chapter options. So, needless to say, I was pretty pissed about this.

Besides that, there is the investigating. I felt it could've been more interesting, more indepth. It's just to linear. Also, the blocking is flawed. I've only connected with my blocks a couple of times. I usually just sprint backwards, stun 'em with my taser, and give 'em hell.

Other than that, fun game, but not a whole lot of replay value.

Repetitive....and not scary.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: March 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I played it alone...in the dark.....and practically fell asleep. Im sure I would have rated it better if I played it when it came out. But it's dated now.

Creepy game that you'll love!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I can't really base my review on the full gaming experience yet because I've yet to beat the game, but this game is everything I expected. For some reason I had a hard time finding it where I am until the gaming store here had a Buy 2 Get 1 Free special on used games and all of a sudden they had about 50 copies of this. So I've been waiting for a while to dive into this game, and haven't been disappointed one bit. The crime solving tools are a neat add to the survival horror game as you try to solve these murders by hunting for clues. But the game makes you dive into abandoned buildings, to search for these clues. But what's waiting for you isn't the normal zombie or other disturbing creatures you find in this type of game, but drug addicts and mentally insane individuals who'd love to split your head open. Armed with a flash light and basic hand gun or weapons found laying about like a pipe, you must press on to catch this mad man. You see shadowy figures running across the hallway you must travel down, hear them moving around in the well created environments. I haven't seen a run down, falling apart building look so good in a game. Love it all because it scares the crap out of me yet makes me want to play it more.

Sickest game iv ever bout

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: October 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I played this game at my friends house a while ago and decided to buy it....one of the sickest games iv ever bought so far

First Person, Same stuff just done all over again.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: November 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I am not one for first person shooters...first person anything.

I did give this game a shot though as I do LOVE survival horror or anything deemed as scary. With it's reputation behind it for me, this game failed miserable.

The battle action is slow and clunky guns aren't very effective and melee seems to be block, attack, taser, attack, attack, block, attack, lame finishing move...the finishing moves are very hard to see and not very gory or fun to watch at all and after the novelty effect wears off it just gets easier to smack them with a rebar with concrete on the end.

As for storyline...meh it's slow and predictable chasing someone around doing this doing that.

The uniqueness, yet at sometimes boring is the forensics aspect of it. In any event it is no where near real forensics but it's still lame all and all with your stinkomter, camera, laser, uv light and other toys it just gets to be cumbersome.

The scariness of this game isn't very at all...some of the baddies are odd but that's the worst of it.

It's not unbearable, but it doesn't stack up to Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Fatal Frame or Eternal Darkness by any means.

It's cheap and you'll burn a couple of hours. So why not?

twisted title for the xbox-360

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

this game feels, looks and sounds great. when you are going threw a small room with office supplies thrown around with voices coming from shadows and footsteps over head it feels like your in the x-files or in nightmare of serial-killing, manhunting addicts chaseing you. the fps aspect of it is very nice (you can see your shawdow and legs) but also the enviorment is totally interactice, when your walking slowley trying to follow the voice of a killer you might run into a chair or a pile of newspapers that you might not have seen and makes a noise witch can creep you out thinking it's the killer but then relising it was you. then comes the fighting, the most relistic melee' weapon fighting i have ever seen, if you hit an enemy in the face his own blood will temparalily blind him causeing him to swing murdurasly in your drection then you hit him in the knee cap makeing him a cripple and causeing him to try to crawl away from but then stomping on his head leaveing a bloody-crippled-twitching murderur on the ground. the only thing i didn't like, is the plot. i liked it better when you were a cop looking at a crime scene rather than being a framed-wanted man. over-all it's one of the best games i have ever played.

Silent Hill Meets CSI

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Condemned: Criminal Origins is quite scary, I played this game during the day and I was still jumping. The thing is you can't really tell that an enemy is hunting you down at times. It's easy to see something in the corner of your eye, but then it's gone. The enemy AI adapts to your movements. There are times when the "crazies" go at each other and there are brief moments where you can stand in a corner and watch them eliminate each other. The music is something out of a Twin Peaks episode. It's keeps you on edge and some of the imagery is disturbing, especially in the abandoned shopping center.

Great budget game....

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Even if many of you bought and sold this game way back @ the xbox 360 launch,
it is now cheap and just as fun, go get it and get those achievement points you never earned!!

Survival/Horror fans should get this game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Graphics aren't the best but they hold up pretty well. The environments are really impressive.

While the First Person Shooter approach might bug some, I found it unique and a nice change up from the typical third person persepective and they found a way to make it work well.

I definitely had some scares. One in particular that may have been the hardest I've ever jumped while playing a video game. If you like Silent Hill, you'll like this game. I'm sure of it.

Great fun and great scares, just a little repetitive

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game after playing the demo of it and having the crap scared out of me. Now that I own this game, I can't stop playing it. Condemned has a great story line that pushes the game forward where it falls behind. One such place is it's repetitiveness. All of the enemies move in predictable ways, and attack in the same manner. You also have a taser gun, which seems cheap because after using it you can walk right up to your enemy and disarm him or kill him. But in the light of gameplay, originality, storyline, and creepyness, Condemned:Criminal Origins is a great game.

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