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THE WORST GAME EVER
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Rating: 1,
Useful: 5 / 65
Date: December 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User
This is the worst game ever, If games are supposed to show how great HD is whats the point if your stumbling around in the dark, with a crappy flashlight that hardly works at all. This game is pointless, i would not waste you money on it, unless of course stumbling around in the dark seems like a fun way to use your new Xbox.
This game sucks
1
Rating: 1,
Useful: 3 / 42
Date: December 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User
If you want a really scary game get Resident Evil 4. This game is definitely for children. Didn't scare me what so ever. I was more scared of the ghosts in PacMan than these silly characters.
what is this
1
Rating: 1,
Useful: 3 / 80
Date: December 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User
the 360 has the worst games ever and this is one of them. Don't buy
A good game until the end
1
Rating: 1,
Useful: 1 / 15
Date: October 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User
I liked this game, even though it was basically the same thing over and over but it was still enjoyable until the end. This is the reason I'm giving this game a 1 star rating; at the last part when you're fighting the guy with the sword on the rooftop for some reason it would let me pick up the health but it wouldn't let me pick up the board or the small steel pipe. I tried this 12 times, the only thing it would let me do is kick so needless to say I had no weapon (besides my foot) and I could not block. I took the game out and threw it away (glad I only paid $10 for it). That part right there made this one of the worst games I ever played. I do recommend it if you want to kill a little time but that's about it. I was very dissapointed in that.
Really deserves 0 stars
1
Rating: 1,
Useful: 1 / 15
Date: October 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User
This is one of the most boring games I've ever played. All it is, is walking around various hall ways performing the same tasks. The worst part is that the character moves at such a sluggish pace it takes forever to do the same thing over and over again.
Additionally, the creepy sound effects played through out the game while walking around the hallways sound suspiciously similar to F.E.A.R. Seems like Monolith wanted to churn out a cheap game to profit off of the popularity of F.E.A.R. Instead of making Condemned 2, why not try for F.E.A.R. 2 Monolith? That game actually didn't seem like I downed a bottle of Nyquil.
dislike
1
Rating: 1,
Useful: 3 / 23
Date: July 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User
This is a boring game, really limited bullets.. you spend all day walking around. I really think its a pass.
I didn't know an X-Box 360 would read vomit.
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Rating: 1,
Useful: 3 / 23
Date: December 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User
There are few things in this world that make me weep openly. First there's Terminator 2 when the T-man has Connor lower him into the molten metal. Second there's the direction the Final Fantasy series has taken. Third there is this retarded, repetitive, poorly written abortion.
The most disturbing thing about this game is the number of people that LIKED it! It has been a trend lately of just...releasing a game. Do the people making these games even communicate? Who writes the story?
On this game I'm going to go ahead and guess that a 40 year old sweaty guy with the greasy hair and beard of an Apple product-user (you know the people I'm talking about) sat in his mom's basement and wrote this crap on a MAC. Actually...I think a MAC is about the only thing that could manage to be as useless as this game.
What the frick is the storyline? I am a sharp guy...I get things with relative ease. This story was mung! Mung is more interesting to study than this game! I'd actually rather go out and poke poop with a stick than play this game. I stopped playing to go out and mow my lawn and the grass wasn't even that tall.
Also, you probably think you're going to get to study crime scene evidence and hunt down clues in order to find a serial killer, right?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! FOOLED YOU! There are little glowing pictures of fingerprints or shoe prints or evidence. You then pull out your "scanner" or whatever other make-believe tool you could think of for a Men In Black movie and then point at the "evidence". Then, the voice of a woman comes over your headset and tells you what the evidence is. I don't even get to put the evidence into context for myself!? This part of the game seemed like something that was added at the last minute. It's almost as if someone bothered to play the game before release and then went to their boss and said, "Dude...this thing plays like a first person Double Dragon...except that it sucks. After this employee explained the level of suck this game had attained upper management started throwing out bones until the game was tolerable to victims of brain injuries instead of people who demand very expensive and poorly designed trivets.
Hmm...let's go through a check for this game.
Repetitive levels and gameplay? Check.
Repetitive enemies and weapons? Check.
Broken promises regarding game properties? Check.
No continuity or sense in the story at all? Check.
Most goat-licking ending of any video game ever? Check.
It's official! This game sucks more nasty burrito than a homeless guy sleeping behind Taco Bell.
The absolute best part? I see they're making a SEQUEL!
Coming soon to a video game store near you; Condemned 2, a whole new level of suck!
I weep for the people that enjoyed this game. It just goes to show that the younger generation has no idea what it takes to make a good game. It's the "no one loses" philosophy. The truth hurts, boys and girls, so don't hate me because I'm right.
Repetitive....and not scary.
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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.
good game but bad reflection of our society
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Rating: 2,
Useful: 2 / 11
Date: May 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User
First off I realize these reviews should focus on the game not a persons personal opinions of larger moral issues. I have never been a big fan of slasher type movies and find it a little disturbing how many such movies one sees on the shelves of a place like blockbuster video. I just wonder why so many people find such things pleasant to watch.
I do, however, like to play survival horror games because the environments are so tense and being in the center of action in such a game can be very entertaining. This game certainly has that. The environments are outstanding and the combat is pretty fun. It also has an interesting story line and the character development is good. The music also fits the mood just right. I have played quite a few games of this type and don't think I am overly squimish. However, there is some stuff in this game that is just over the top in terms of human suffering and torture. Perhaps I am being a hypocrite by critisizing it in such a way when I bought it and will probably finish it, but it does make me wonder what people really value in our society?
If you like these type of games this is one of the best you will find but please don't play it around children.
Not So Fast!!!!!!!!!
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Rating: 2,
Useful: 2 / 6
Date: June 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User
I read several of the reviews about this game and got suckered into shelling out sixty bucks for it. It is ten levels long -- six bucks a level. It takes only a day to beat it. The graphics are excellent, but game play is too slow and boring. They at least could have given us another serial killer to hunt down after you catch Serial Killer X to make another ten levels or so. But then again this game is so slow and boring it wouldn't hold your attention for twenty levels -- you'd be selling it on Amazon just like I'm going to do after I write this. This game just doesn't have much going for it other than being pretty.
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