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Parent's please don't buy this game for your children !!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 17 / 19
Date: December 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Let's start off bluntly. I love Condemned: Criminal Origins absolutely! This game is the 360's sleeper hit without a doubt. It hasn't really gotten the press or the coverage it deserves, and once you begin playing the game you'll ask yourself why the hell not?? The combat in the game is engaging and INCREDIBLY realistic, the visuals are perhaps the best of the 360's launch lineup and INCREDIBLY realistic, and the most important part, is that the game leaves you with a feeling that I've never felt after playing a game ever, a feeling that is INCREDIBLY realistic.

I've made my point three times that this game is incredible, but there is one thing it's not. This game is not for your children!! I'm 20 years old, and I've been playing violent games my whole life, from first-person shooters to survival horror games, and I enjoy all of them. But, Condemned was the first game to really scare me, and I mean after I put the controller down. The feeling that you get when you smash a lunatic bum's face with a sledgehammer felt to me very similar to the feeling that you would get if you smashed a real face with a sledgehammer. It's that good.

I've never believed that people could play a game like DOOM, and have that inspire them to take out their classmates in a hail of gunfire, but the lasting effects of the environment and violence in Condemned made me feel that this game could. In fact, it probably more than likely scared me out of doing something like that, because now I can understand how gruesome some things are, but children on the other hand, most likely can't.

So to my warning, please don't buy this game for your children. The video game industry is the target of enough trouble and dismay that a game like Condemned could be the icing on the cake of a very important lawsuit or peice of legislature. Particulary if Soccer J. Mom buys it for little Timmy and little Timmy decides to go swinging crowbars and 2x4's for real. I said the game was realistic enough times to hopefully tie this together. Children today do not need this game, they don't need real violence in their streets, and they don't need violence this realistic on their television screens.

However, for every responsible adult. Go forth, and smash bum-face for the greater good.

A Game That Acually Scares You

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 15
Date: November 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Are you looking for a very dark and scary game??? If so this is the game for you....Looking for a game where you can pretty much use any object as a weapon? this is the game for you! This is a very fun game especially if you are into csi and stuff like that as you have alot of tools to help solve cases and stuff. You cant tell who is a good person you can walk past somebody you think is good and once u walk by they are attacking you. Its amazing it gets your heart going for sure!

Condemned:Criminal Origins

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: December 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I borrowed this game from my friend while he had it rented, I play it for about 6 hours and almost beat it! I had to levels left supposedly. But despite its shortness, its packed full of scares and good action. So thats why im soon to end up buying this game! If you want a scary game, but nothing that OVER does it, then get this! It has a REALLY good storyline, never goes off subject, stays on the whole time, and the action is real good. While your tracking down a serial killer, you use forensic tools to find evidence (a big plus in the game to me). A lot of plot twists, youll see a good one at the beggining! Seriously dont rent this game, just buy it! But if you dont, then just go ahead and rent it. But it might want to make you buy it afterwards like it did to me! But I love this game, really good stuff. I think THIS game is the BEST 360 launch game!!!

Graphics - 5/5
Gameplay - 5/5!
Longetivity - 4/5 (If you dont want to play it over after beating it, but I would!)

This is a GREAT game don't listen to the one-star panseys below me

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 16
Date: December 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

How dare some of U people give a great game like this a one star U guys wouldn't know a scary thrill if it hit U straight in the face with a burning 2x4. and to the people that said good things about this game I agree with U 100%. this is one of my favorites on the xbox360 (ok so I'll admit it is alittle over the edge in violence in some areas well not allittle ALOT over the edge. If ur below 15 years old or U have a kid below 15 I wouldn't suggest U get this game). What could be more fun than beating the crap out of a derranged sireal killer with alot of things like a 2x4,fire axe,gas pipe and more things like that(U get some guns too don't worry). the sudden attacks U encounter with ur enemies sometimes is gaurenteed to make U jump out of ur seat. so don't listen to the one star panseys below me they are too scared to play this game and games like this. I STRONGLY RECCOMEND this game to people who are 15+ first of all and second of all I strongly reccomend this game to someone who is looking for and/or likes horror games U won't be dissappointed. If U want a good scare this is the game for you.

Freaky, Freaky, Freaky

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: February 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

So the controls may be a little sluggish and the gameplay a little repetitive - this game is just flat out FREAKY to play.

This is an interactive horror experience. This could have easily turned into a corny, over-the-top B movie ... but it actually succeeds at remaining creepy throughout the game.

Anybody complaining that the game is "too short" or "too easy" needs to play on a harder difficulty level.

I highly recommend this game to any new Xbox360 owners. It's a nice departure from all the other first person shooter games currently available for 360.

Most underrated 360 Launch game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have to say, this is one of the scariest games i've ever played. Not only do the characters scare you, but the atmosphere is so diverse. I have never had so much fun in a single player game before. I played through this game twice and both times were equally different and fun. I reccomend this game to everyone for at least a rent. There are tons of different weapons and not to mention many awesome achievments to earn. This game also has a very cool twist ending. So at least give it a rent. It's not short and given the right conditions: 3:00 in the morning, everyone asleep in the house, surround sound, this game is a lot of fun. So pick it up, it won't dissapoint.

Great system.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: February 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I like the first person perspective of thriller games like this, and it is a big realistic change compared to most games in it's genre. My only question is where did all the crack heads come from.

The Scariest Game Ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: February 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is a game that deserves the title of scariest game ever. You are Ethan Thomas an FBI agent who is suppose to find the Match Maker a man who kills his victims by making them into manniquenns. Around 10-15 minutes you will be framed for the murder of two policemen. This is where the game gets interesting because you battle people that are on this strange drug as they say and its gone rampant throughout the city.

You then have to prove that you're still a good guy by finding the criminal who killed the two policemen. You'll then face different varieties of enemies, but there aren't many though. Then you will be tasked to gather lots of evidence and try to find the Match Maker, but there is another criminal the one criminal who stole your gun and killed the two policemen, his name is Serial Killler X and trust me he is very smart making you put your brain to the test.

This game will make you go to places you really wouldn't want go to, for example you go to the appleseed orchard which is probably the scariest place in the game. The game doesn't get very scary until you get to the 5th chapter then things will get scarier. The game uses very amazing graphics. The enviroments and atmosphere is incredibly scary and realistic, but the character designs aren't incredible they're kind of rubbery but they're still good. The whole game is extremely dark and if you didn't that very very handy flashlight then well....... this game would get one star. you also get a very handy taser (the reason they put it in here is probably because sometimes you might not be good at blocking so you can taser some criminal butt.) This game is extremly awesome and scary and gives me hope for FPS and other first person games for the Xbox 360.

It's a crime not to own this game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

First off let me just say that I have played videogames for years and I know the difference between a good one and a bad one. This one however is amazing, the graphics are top quality but the gameplay, story line even and controls rock. Basically you are a cop that goes in scary, dark and very bloody enviroments and kill hobos hopped up on crack that jump out at you from the shadows. Towards the end it gets really sci-fi but in a cool way. The weapons are sweet, i wish there were more choices but here are a few that you can grab by your choice: rebar stick with concrete at the end, 2X4 with nails, paper cutter, variety of pipes, fire axe, sledge hammer, shovel. The blood in this looks fairly fake, but there is quite a bit. It was also creative that you can grab almost any weapon you see and beat guys to death with them. I rate this game 5 out of 5.

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.

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