Condemned: Criminal Origins

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you need some patches but then it's a super fun game

Throughout the first few chapters I was impressed by the game's cinematic story that is clearly aimed at adults. This impression was, however, a bit spoilt by introducing unclear paranormal enemies. Why? What's the point? Nevertheless, the atmosphere is great. When it comes to the gameplay, it is pleasant. It is a mix of quite linear exploration, searching for tools and fighting off enemies. There is also an element of investigation using Bond-like devices which was a bit riddiculous and sometimes frustrating. The idea behind combat is good, but sometimes I had issues with assessing distance: I was convinced that the hits will not reach me, but they did and the othey way round. Blocking gets quite frustrating with faster enemies and I can imagine it can get unpleasant at high difficulty level. Playing on normal was more forgiving though. In general, I can recommend Condemned despite its flaws.

i love this game

one of my all-time favorites in the horror genre, and definitely one of my most played over the years. it's not exactly the most.... nuanced game out there and imo it sends some weird messages about homeless people but I can't really deny how much enjoyment I get out of the gameplay style. you literally get to rip shit off of the walls and use it as a weapon! you can't beat that shit

Good game. The only thing I disliked about it is the stamina bar which serves no purpose but to slow you down.

Good but repetitive.

this game got some disturbing dark urban atmosphere that i thrive for (as someone who loves a lot of atmo black metal and such)

but overall the story isnt that bad but just isnt as interesting really, some parts were pretty disturbing and some parts kind of jumpscared me, i already knew what was coming up for the ending so i wasnt as surprised really

id say that this game is pretty ok? no clue of how to feel abt the game other than just how clunky the gameplay is which i dont mind as much, not much of a gameplay freak

overall ill just give this game a decent 6/10, 5 points for the atmosphere and 1 for the disturbing parts, otherwise i didnt like the gameplay and story as much to say, it was like a bad horror crime movie

The First entry in a trilogy... except the second one isn't on PC and the Third never got made...

Think of this game as the reverse silent hill. Where Silent hill had a very strong story but weak gameplay, this game has very weak story but very strong gameplay. It has a melee focused combat system with parrying and timed blocks where you need to search the environment for different weapons to use, on the floor, on the wall or hidden behind objects. There are also guns but they are rare and only hold a limited number of bullets. You will also sometimes need to pick up special weapons that can unlock certain areas or tools e.g. break down a door with a fire axe, break a lock with a sledgehammer to open a medical kit, open a safe with a crowbar. These weapons are big and slow but deal a lot of damage. There is also a good detective system where you can search crime scenes for evidence.

Some advice though:
1. Make sure to get the audio fix, the Steam port has a really weird bug where a few audio files are just straight up missing from the game, there is a guide to fix this, just go the games guide page and sort by most popular of all time.
2. Set the difficulty to hard, you will get the most out of this game on that difficulty
3. NEVER use the Taser. It is too overpowered and makes the combat worse, especially when you upgrade it and it just becomes an instant kill.
4. Your attack is affected by your movement direction. just a useful tip.
5. Enemies can pick up weapons you drop, including guns (even if they are empty)

This game is very good. Still pretty scary and creepy. The detective stuff is cool. Combat is very good!

Can't imagine if there's a remake. Good title,

real good horror game, the combat is fun, and got actually scared a few times

I overall liked it quite a lot. It wasn't too long or short, just the right amount. The story has some wack moments but I overall liked it and the mc had an interesting arc that was fun to follow. The gameplay and atmosphere is where the game truly shines, the visuals although dated produce this visceral feeling that I really enjoyed. The sound design is also really good and the music was also surprisingly great. This game at times reminded me of Manhunt. The environments you explore feel sickly and abandoned, espially the mall level. What makes this game so intriguing to me is how real it feels, gameplay and atmosphere wise. It genuinely feels like if I wandered off into some dangerous part of my city I could find shit like this.
Buy it for the stellar atmosphere and gameplay :p

I didn't understand the ending

AMAZING GAME

Polisiye konulu gerilim istiyorsanız, bu oyun tam size göre! Kendisi gerilim ve korku oyunu türündedir. Hikayesi birazcık kafa karıştırıcı ve bazı yerlede noluyor dedittiriyor. İşin sonunda, bir çok yer gördük ve yer yer halisülasyonlardan dolayı bizde kafayı yiyoruz. Tabii çok daha iyi anlamak için 2. oyunu oynamak lazım diye düşünüyorum. Ama maalesef 2. oyunu steam de mevcut değil. Oyun, Zamanına göre birazcık yavan kalabilir fakat blocklama ve ateş etme mekanikleri beni epey tatmin etti. Sevmediğim kısımları ise, koşma staminası birazcık hızlı bitiyor ve merdivenlerden inmek ve çıkmak birazcık işkence olabiliyor. Çünkü, hiç bir şey yokmuş gibi, bir beyefendi gibi yavaş iniyor ve çıkıyor. Oyunun aksiyonunu ve gerilimini birazcık geriletebiliyor. Bu oyun, Outlast in atası olarak sayılabilir. Oyun eski olduğu için, oyun içi fps düşüşü olabilir ve bu çok normal. Bunu düzeltmek için, tarayıcınıza "Directinput FPS Fix v1.0" yazarak inidirin. Daha sonra içindeki "dinput8.dll" dosyasını, oyunun sistem dosyasına atarak sorunu çözebilirsiniz.

Excellent game. The premise right off the bat is super interesting, and the combat is probably the best 1st person melee combat I've ever experienced in any game... ever. It's that good.

Vagrants will straight up rip cables out of walls to try and end you, subsequently killing the street light that the cable belonged to. There's a ton of interacting with the environment, and the atmosphere is very gritty and grunge.

If you're at all into the films Se7en, Silence of the Lambs, Jacob's Ladder, or Red Dragon, you'll definitely dig this game. My only gripes were the very abrupt ending to the story, and probably the slow walk speed, lol. Not a lot to complain about. Give it a shot.

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.

It has really good suspense and eerie moments.

Every horror game should have a unlimited use taser.

i love this game but i hate the fps drops even i have a rtx 3050

No es un mal juego y es lo suficientemente corto y barato como para que no sea una carga demasiado grande el comprarlo, aun así no siento que el combate, atmósfera o historia valgan la pena. Probablemente valga mas la pena gastar un poco mas de dinero y comprar algún otro juego.

When I was a little boy I've played this on XBOX 360.

Rip Monolith. I wish we got a remastered version of this game before they were canned. This game from 2006ish is peak tho. The horror elements mixed with the serial killer hunting operation was just insane to experience. I can't speak more or I'll spoil the entire game. Do yourself a favor and play this gem. You should be able to force the game into 1080p, if not there has to be a mod out there for this game.

A really good thriller and horror atmosphere!
The only downside, some of the dudes in this game take bullet shots like mosquito bites.

If you have FPS problems, download the DirectInputFpsFix

The enemies that crawl around are terrifying!

don't know why it took me almost 20 years to give this a solid try, but this game is excellent. top notch atmosphere and solid gameplay and pacing

omg call my fav

played this when on Xbox. will always remember being able to take the blade off a paper cutter and use it as a weapon. Epic

most peaceful night in Detroit

10/10

outlast if mc wasn't a photographer

very underrated. deserves a proper remake or reboot.

rest in peace, monolith.

Masterpiece.

I can't get past the first 5 minutes of the game. It randomly slows down to 3-16 fps and crashes if you tab out. As soon as I bring out the investigation tool, it goes to 3 fps...

fire game

One time I'm grateful not having a partner because she'd be stone cold stunnered from the constant intensity of this unpredictable game of horrors

I have wanted to play this since it came out on xbox but couldn't play FPS on controller. It's nice to finally get to make it through this game, but I will say this game is inferior compared to other games of its time.

The game tells you the answer to almost every puzzle or tells you what tool to pull out to progress, takes away your taser at the end of the game so that if you've been using that as a strategy you're suddenly defenseless, and (ending spoilers) gives you a choice of shooting the dude or not, but gives you the same cut scene no matter what meaning the ending doesn't even really matter what you choose.

tl;dr: The game starts out promising but when it hits the landing it breaks both legs and then bites back at you to cause you pain. It's worth playing if you realize it's an inferior version of both F.E.A.R. and Silent Hill.

way too overrated. i'm not saying its bad but its kinda boring if your expecting a horror game with "brutal combat" its not here. the only reason i'm recommending this game is cause it kinda has some decent moments

yea

good scares good combat every encounter feels different

pretty much everything monoliths ever done has been superb. this is an oldy, but goody. not to mention exclusive as it comes. don't believe it ever launched anywhere other then pc, kinda like the witcher. rare indeed.

the sequels even better. fps /w batting practice. couple forensic sequences. fbi on the case, potential serial killer. dig? good? now go get em agent!

Great hobo beat-em-up sim. LoL but seriously this is a unique survival-horror FPS in that you aren't fighting monsters, you are fighting insane transients under the spell of some supernatural influence that is gradually spreading throughout the city. Since you are an FBI forensic specialist you are frequently called upon to use a series of contextual tools to solve puzzles and progress the story-- leading to one of the best if not the best jump scares in video game history. If you know you know.

Combat is melee focused and absolutely brutal-- swing, block, buy yourself some time with the taser. Enemies are smart and will use the environment to get the upper hand on you, often using feints to cause you to miss so they can get in a cheap hit. There are firearms, but you are only limited to what is in the clip. No reloading. I like this, as guns feel like temporary powerups that must be used carefully and sparingly. Handguns, shotguns, rifles, and sub-machine guns all make an appearance, and a clever (or lucky) player will trigger infighting between enemies.

The atmosphere here is the real star. The world of Condemned is bathed in an everlasting night. The environments feel gritty and abandoned, with the possibility of threats concealed in each shadow. This is one of the few shooters where the levels seem to get better as the game progresses, rather than tapering off as the developers lose Steam. You start our battling your way through back alleys and subway stations, moving on to a decrepit shopping mall, a fire-damaged public library rife with crackheads, a dilapidated elementary school and eventually a farmstead infested with fat rednecks and karate cultists.

My only beef would be that the ability to perform executions on stumbled enemies is completely performative; it doesn't provide health or anything like that, which would be very welcome in a game where every landed blow causes devastating trauma.

Condemned is a little gem of a horror thriller from one of the posthumous heavy-hitters of the genre, Monolith, may they rest in peace.

Very happy to find my childhood nightmare again 10/10 👍🏻

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Actually a great game with amazing graphics for its time and extremely fun gameplay. A Monolith classic and one of the best first-person horror games ever made.

ok la, i play through youtube walkthrough

amazing game play got rid of a pussy mechanic near the end homeless mario kart in a garbage dumpster
just needs 2 game patches and its perfect actually wish it got modding it deserves and for the love of god dont play the second one

A very original concept for an FPS Horror/Shooter.
Storytelling is unlike any other game and it keeps you wondering what is going to happen next.
It can be a bit rough around the edges and the graphics show their age, but if you are looking a unique and interesting horror/shooter definatly play this. It's a game worth remembering!

peak

Game didn't age like fine wine, but it's still pretty fun. Extremely slow movement though