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Ok so I got a chance to download and play the Condemned 2 demo from PSN (I never played Condemned 1) and I have to say… that is a scary fucking game.
Remember how Jericho was suppose to be super scary and it ended up just being a mindless shooter that didn’t do any 1 thing particularly well? If they had handed Jericho over to the Condemned 2 team, I think I would be shitting blood.
Not having payed Condemned 1 before, I was amazed as how fluid and how accurately the “First Person Perspective” was done in Condemned 2. The movement (kicking, climbing, punching, swinging, etc.) is simulated so accurately from a first perspective perspective that it hooks your… eyes I guess into thinking you are this person on the screen… it is super subtle, but worked in hooking me more closely with the character I was playing (as opposed to a completely static view point like in any other FPS).
Given that I’m now more engaged in this character, the game surrounds you with this hellish environment… I don’t really know how else to describe it… it’s basically a nightmare, come true… even more so than say the Silent Hill series. Then you have these possesed/fucked-up homeless people attacking you from the shadows and the game is pretty much one giant heart attack waiting to happen.
Also, I thought the graphics looked fantastic… which just makes it that much scarier.
While I was blown away by the quality of this game both in graphic/audio fidelity but also it’s representation of this hellish world, I don’t know if I’ll get it… the entire time I was playing the demo my heart was racing and I felt exhausted by the time I was done.
I *really* am not looking forward to the future of gaming when Condemned 5 comes out on the PS4 and I have a VR headset that allows me to fully interact with that environment… I’ll have a goddamn stroke.
So anyway, bravo to the Condemned 2 team… you guys did an amazing job on this game to freak me out enough to not want to play it (sorta back-fired… but bravo anyway). For the horror fans out there that love a good scare and revel in it, I think this is probably a “must buy” for you.
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March 31st, 2008 at 1:35 pm
“you guys did an amazing job on this game to freak me out enough to not want to play it (sorta back-fired… but bravo anyway)”
lol
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March 31st, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Oh man I tell you, I really like stories like this, but I don’t want to play them… I get too *into* the game and get all freaked out.
I much rather watch someone play it.
April 24th, 2008 at 3:50 am
LoL reali boreng not scary game ////////\\\\\\\\
April 24th, 2008 at 3:51 am
REALI BORENG
April 27th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
yah i played condemned 1 and it was scary but this one is crazy scary. i keep sittin down to play this one level and i end up shuttin it off cause i cant figure out where to go. im in the hotel or whatever… and im lost but i keep shuttin it off cause it scares the shit outta me everytime
April 28th, 2008 at 9:10 am
Becca,
That is exactly what I was worried about, I think I’ll pass on this game. I would really enjoy *watching* someone play this game cause it would be like a movie, but I think playing it myself, in a dark room, would give me a stroke
May 2nd, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Hahahah!!! yeah prettty scary!
June 16th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
okay yeap. just played first two lvls!!!
OMFG OMFG OMFG played with my friend on his 50″flatscreen hdtv highest resolution…5.1 surround sound…at 10PM (when i got off work)
Now i don’t think i’ll be able to sleep or look into a mirror…. *cry*
June 17th, 2008 at 8:41 am
scaredshless,
Hah, probably not a smart thing to do… a friend offered to send me the game for free, but I turned it down because honestly I don’t see how/when I would play it and not poop my pants.
Doom 3 was the last game I played that scared the shit out of me… that is when I realized that I don’t like being scared *that* much.