![]() Perhaps that's giving the game more credit that it deserves by the end, the tension dissolves into fire-fights and oddball enemies instead of the carefully plotted and white-knuckled levels of the first game. On the whole, it's scary, strange and very occasionally inventive for a game that sits in a very crowded genre of me-too horror FPSs. Of course, it does provide plenty of gameplay meat to gnaw on along the way, and Condemned 2 (or Condemned 2: Bloodshot, if you're a yankee), sequel to one of the Xbox 360's most compelling launch titles, tries very hard to immerse you in a blend of David Fincher's 'Seven' and developer Monolith's own F.E.A.R. Not exactly the happiest premise, really. It's a game about a drunken jerk who kills his way through junkies and monsters to stop a serial killer who has a thing for severing heads and ripping people up. It's the ends justifying the utterly blood-sodden means. Nobody? …Alright, so most normal people (read: non-IGN staff) can go about their lives without resorting to heretofore unheard of levels of violence, but that's the kind of game series Condemned is. ![]() Who hasn't ever hosted the notion of grabbing a crazy woman in bondage gear, throwing her head into a hydraulic press and creating brains-pâté? Let me see a show of hands.
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