Condemned Criminal Origins | 
 enlarge | From: Sega Of America, Inc.
Category: Video Games
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Rating:  76 reviews
Sales Rank: 2641
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: Action Games
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
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Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
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MPN: 100730
Model: 10086680010
UPC: 827307931178
EAN: 0827307931178
ASIN: B0009SQFHA
Release Date: June 15, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| • | Weapons and ammunition are scarce, leaving the player vulnerable to the game's mentally deranged criminals | | • | Careful detective work and precision reflexes are your primary means of survival | | • | Intelligent enemies respond strategically to your offensive and defensive maneuvers | | • | High-level physics allow players to manipulate background items, which respond realistically when picked up, kicked, or bumped | | • | Tightly wound story, backed with strong character development and major plot twists |
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Product Description
Condemned: Criminal Origins allows players to experience the unnatural, as they track down serial killers and bring them to justice. Play as Ethan Thomas, an FBI agent in the Serial Crimes Unit (SCU), whose pursuit of relentless serial killers leads him through detailed urban environments filled with sociopaths who lurk on the edge of humanity. Condemned maintains an intense, focused pace -- Players can never be sure what waits around each corner. Meticulously crafted 5.1 surround-sound will cue players to the location of offscreen enemies Next-generation lighting, mapping, and filtering techniques provide for environments of unprecedented detail and visual quality
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| Customer Reviews: Read 45 more reviews...
 Parent's please don't buy this game for your children !! December 3, 2005
Cody B. Musser (Apollo, PA USA)
17 out of 19 found this review helpful
Let's start off bluntly. I love Condemned: Criminal Origins absolutely! This game is the 360's sleeper hit without a doubt. It hasn't really gotten the press or the coverage it deserves, and once you begin playing the game you'll ask yourself why the hell not?? The combat in the game is engaging and INCREDIBLY realistic, the visuals are perhaps the best of the 360's launch lineup and INCREDIBLY realistic, and the most important part, is that the game leaves you with a feeling that I've never felt after playing a game ever, a feeling that is INCREDIBLY realistic.
I've made my point three times that this game is incredible, but there is one thing it's not. This game is not for your children!! I'm 20 years old, and I've been playing violent games my whole life, from first-person shooters to survival horror games, and I enjoy all of them. But, Condemned was the first game to really scare me, and I mean after I put the controller down. The feeling that you get when you smash a lunatic bum's face with a sledgehammer felt to me very similar to the feeling that you would get if you smashed a real face with a sledgehammer. It's that good.
I've never believed that people could play a game like DOOM, and have that inspire them to take out their classmates in a hail of gunfire, but the lasting effects of the environment and violence in Condemned made me feel that this game could. In fact, it probably more than likely scared me out of doing something like that, because now I can understand how gruesome some things are, but children on the other hand, most likely can't.
So to my warning, please don't buy this game for your children. The video game industry is the target of enough trouble and dismay that a game like Condemned could be the icing on the cake of a very important lawsuit or peice of legislature. Particulary if Soccer J. Mom buys it for little Timmy and little Timmy decides to go swinging crowbars and 2x4's for real. I said the game was realistic enough times to hopefully tie this together. Children today do not need this game, they don't need real violence in their streets, and they don't need violence this realistic on their television screens.
However, for every responsible adult. Go forth, and smash bum-face for the greater good.
Condemned:Criminal Origins December 26, 2005
Wu-Tang_Assassin (California)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I borrowed this game from my friend while he had it rented, I play it for about 6 hours and almost beat it! I had to levels left supposedly. But despite its shortness, its packed full of scares and good action. So thats why im soon to end up buying this game! If you want a scary game, but nothing that OVER does it, then get this! It has a REALLY good storyline, never goes off subject, stays on the whole time, and the action is real good. While your tracking down a serial killer, you use forensic tools to find evidence (a big plus in the game to me). A lot of plot twists, youll see a good one at the beggining! Seriously dont rent this game, just buy it! But if you dont, then just go ahead and rent it. But it might want to make you buy it afterwards like it did to me! But I love this game, really good stuff. I think THIS game is the BEST 360 launch game!!!
Graphics - 5/5
Gameplay - 5/5!
Longetivity - 4/5 (If you dont want to play it over after beating it, but I would!)
Freaky, Freaky, Freaky February 20, 2006
R.M. Fernandez
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
So the controls may be a little sluggish and the gameplay a little repetitive - this game is just flat out FREAKY to play.
This is an interactive horror experience. This could have easily turned into a corny, over-the-top B movie ... but it actually succeeds at remaining creepy throughout the game.
Anybody complaining that the game is "too short" or "too easy" needs to play on a harder difficulty level.
I highly recommend this game to any new Xbox360 owners. It's a nice departure from all the other first person shooter games currently available for 360.
This game will scare the snot out of you! May 17, 2007
eternal now (mankato)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
You are a federal agent who specializes in hunting down serial killers. You have a handy set of forensic tools with which to investigate crime scenes.
You are sent to investigate the latest murder by the "Matchmaker killer" and end up being framed for the murder of two police officers.
From here, the story unfolds in a twisted and dark fashion.
The setting is a decaying city where crime has drastically increased. Drug addicts, gang members and vagrants of all types are roaming the streets committing random acts of violence and mayhem.
Your mission is to clear your name by tracking down the man who framed you.
You will explore dimly lit abandoned buildings, subway tunnels, dark alleyways, service tunnels, an abandoned department store, and all sorts of scary and decaying areas. Your only source of light is a dim flashlight. Your only weapons are those that you find either hidden or items that you can literally rip off of the environment. You also have a kick that comes in handy more than you would think.
The levels are very detailed and very, very scary. Most of the level will consist of you searching through dark, dirty and grimy areas searching for clues or following the man who framed you, while drug addicts, gang members and vagrants roam the darkness searching for weapons to kill you with. These levels are dark! Your flashlight barely lights the way. The game engine produces amazing lighting and shadow effects which really set the mood. Textures and environments are absolutely stunning in their detail. Each level looks just like its realistic counterpart. Character models are well mapped and their movements are realistic.
Condemned: Criminal Origins is a true treat for your eyes.
And a treat for your ears as well. The high level of care that was put into the graphics has been put into the sound as well. Aluminum cans and glass bottles clank around when kicked or stumbled over, garbage shuffles and shifts under your feet, metal clangs when it hits the floor. An eerie soundtrack of ambient noise plays constantly through the game, which really intensifies the mood.
Sound is the dominant sense here. Since most of the levels are bathed in darkness, you will have to rely on your ears to sense whether an enemy is close. You can hear them cough and shuffle around - which is extremely creepy yet helpful.
Weapons consist of whatever you can find laying around. Pipes of all sizes, rebar,2X4's, shovel's, fire axes, sledgehammers, conduit pipes, crowbars and signs all pose as weapons which you can literally rip off of the environment and use on your enemies. Of course they can use them too, and often you will run into an enemy who will run away from you in search of a pipe or some kind of makeshift weapon to bash your skull in with.
Combat is fun, especially since you and your enemy have a block feature that works really well. Combat actually has some soul behind it as well, it not just button mashing. You have to strafe, stick-n-move and block (the enemy AI has good aim). The Enemy AI in general is very top notch and smart. They will flank you, take cover, run off to find more weapons, adn try to ambush you. They block your moves and react to each other as well. If a group attacks you and they accidentally hit each other, they will forget about you and try to kill each other - this leads to some interesting moments where you can just sit back and watch all of the enemies kill each other, doing all of the work for you.
You also have access to finishing moves (available when you have an enemy on their knees). They consist of: A headbutt, a finishing punch to their face, slamming their head into the ground, and snapping their neck.
There are more traditional weapons around (guns). You actually start off with a gun, however you soon lose it. There are handguns and shotguns scattered around the levels, some hidden. The only stipulation is that they are limited to the ammo that is already loaded into them, so don't expect to run around on an ammo hunt like in most games.
Since you ARE the federal agent, the point of view for this game is a First Person point of view. The game does really well of hardly ever breaking that view either, save for the cut scenes. If you get kicked down some stairs, your point of view does not change, and it seems like YOU actually got kicked down the stairs.
Your only point of contacts is a lab rat who analyzes the evidence that you find and gives you some tips at certain parts of the game, and a guy named Valhorn who somewhat helps you. They contact you via your cellular phone.
The game features a whole laundry list of achievements, from finding all of the dead birds and metal pieces in a level, to actually passing a level, to finding hidden XBOX 360 systems hidden throughout the game. You also get an achievement if you finish the game without firing a gun (you can use the guns as blunt objects also). No online features, however it would be hard to have some kind of multiplayer game without it getting boring fast.
Overall, Condemned: Criminal Origins is a very engaging game that should have you investing about 10 hours or so into it. There are 10 missions, about one hour per mission (this is considering that you are looking for the dead birds and the metal pieces, but not considering if you get lost enjoying the graphics of each level). Visually this game is a great representation of "next-gen" gaming, the gameplay is great and the sound is killer.
Condemned comes off as a very realistic game where you have to think before you move. You cannot defeat the game by running and gunning. Pacing and nerves of steel are required for this game, as it will test both.
I really enjoy Condemned, graphically and in gameplay.
freakiest game i've ever played February 3, 2006
Matthew Aldieri (Nebraska)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This game is by far the creepiest and most disturbing game I have ever played. The creators at Sega and Monolith are quite possibly deranged psychopaths, but that just makes this game all the better. In my humble opinion, Nintendo needs to take a lesson from Sega and stop making consoles and stick to games (and make sure they involve characters besides Mario). But sticking to the task at hand, the freakiest part for me (and this is all I'm going to say about it) is what/who you find inside a locker at the high school. The final level, the boss at the end, and how the story finally ends are also very unnerving, for lack of a better word. The videos and segways between levels are also creepy as hell. In one, you're thrown around like a rag doll by some invisible force(it thankfully doesn't affect your health). The graphics are simply amazing, and definitely the best of any of the five games I've played on this conxole. The storyline is solid and completely engrossing, and by what I gather from the absolutely insane ending, I would not be surprised to eventually see a sequal. In short, if you're in the mood for good a old-fashioned zombie massacre kind of game this needs to be on the top of your list.
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