Oh, and the scare tactics and gore effects are quite good - make sure you read the graffiti on the walls. The city itself is in worse shape than ever with new grotesque inhabitants and seedy locations to explore. What we can say is this: The story so far is told in a more straightforward and sensible manner, primarily through a series of cutscenes in between each level. That's as far as we'll go on story and fright specifics in the interest of keeping this preview as spoiler free as possible. Starting with a rifle in hand, this stage takes things back down a notch and focuses on forensics and a bit of gore as it begins to build the insanity back up towards another crescendo. It seems you're not the only one looking for him, though exactly why isn't apparent just yet. The second level opens with the police force bringing you back in to track down Vanhorn.
The game starts with such a bang that it's hard to imagine where it could go to top the opening. It looks great, plays well and the atmosphere is downright creepy. This level is exactly what you'd want out of a Condemned game. Crazy liquid goblins emerge from the oil to attack you - some pop out of walls while others drop down from the ceiling. No more than a few minutes into the game you find yourself in an alternate version of the city covered in a shiny oil-like substance. The game doesn't wait long to start upping the shock factor. After a quick combat tutorial, your first task is to track down a man that looks to be Malcolm Vanhorn, an old friend from the first Condemned game. This is where the twisted adventure begins. After another bar patron gives Ethan a little wink on the way out, our hero proceeds to beat the snot out of him and winds up getting tossed out on the street.
Things have not gone well in the year since he left the force. The game opens with Ethan Thomas crushing pills and hallucinating in a dive bar, a shell of his former self. Right from the start, you can tell that Monolith is upping the ante for Condemned 2 in every way.
This is a game that addresses every criticism of the first title and then ratchets the intensity up to 11. The sequel quite literally pulls no punches. Guns were an afterthought - to survive you had to use whatever blunt object you could find. Condemned: Criminal Origins took us into the heart of a city gone mad, filled with psychopaths and unfriendly vagrants, on a search for a serial killer.
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