This is a really, really good game. One of those B tier games from a bygone era that experimented with things that games 20 years later would try to take credit for inventing.

It is worth remembering though, it was B tier then, and is B tier now. Everything is "Good" but not "Great". Combat is fun but repetitive, moving feels painfully slow, The story is actually really die-hard interesting right up until the near-ending where it becomes more like "...Really? That's how you chose to explain everything?"

Where Condemned shines is that they took something that most games take for granted, being the weapon selection, and made the WHOLE GAME all about it. You don't find keys, you need specific weapons to unlock/break down certain doors. Guns are rewards for finding secret areas but never overshadow melee weapons as your main implement (Though later they do in fact become what you use for a lot of the game).

I cannot stress enough how cool this is, imagine if a game made healthkits interesting by making 12 normally mundane healing items into the game's weapons, keys, storytellers, secret rewards, and enemy difficulty telegraphs all at once. The weapons in condemned are shape-shifted into actual tools, as opposed to only being items to make enemies stop hurting you like most games do. Unfortunately, while melee is meaty, it's tame on the visual damage side compared to modern titles.

The game has a very basic "Detective mode" with a suite of tools that are all fairly brainless to use, but still serve to give you little breaks from all of the slow-moving melee combat. The tools are fun, if finicky, to use.

Unfortunately, like so many greats from this era, this game needs outside fixes to run in a way that won't make you want to carve out your own eyeballs. Fixes exist in the guide section.

Should you try it? Is this game fun without nostalgia? I think so! I was actually gripped by it and played through it in a couple of sittings, I couldn't easily put it down. There was a thrill to it, the atmosphere and the lore, even just by the loading page blurbs, really made the whole world feel scary and lost.

As an aside, with butchers creek out and stirring up nostalgia for this game, I want to make it known that remaking this game and its sequel for modern machines and releasing it as a remastered set will essentially create a money printer. Millennials are coming to the age where we covet terrible old games we played, not just the halos or the call of duty's, but the just-ok-but-innovative games like this one. Condemned is a cult classic waiting to happen. Find all of the bad games we rented from blockbuster as kids and start the magic remake engine if you want an easy path to making lots of money.

AMAZING GAME

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