Condemned 2 PS3 Review

Condemned 2 is a psychological horror FPS games for PS3 and X360, which developed by Monolith Productions, and published by SEGA.

It is sequel to the original game called "Condemned" that already came out since 2005. It is the crime detective with horror elements, darker atmosphere, serial killer antagonist, and some scary shit, what makes the game sounds worth entertaining as hell.

This game is compared with FEAR series, which also involves with psychological horror elements and darker themes of the games atmospheres is sounds pretty similar together.

If you like the horror games like FEAR series, then you might give a go with this game.

This game takes place after the first game, Detective Ethan Thomas, who is becoming alcoholic and pissed off character, have suffered with paranormal vision causing him to have nightmares, so his mission is to investigate the next crime scenes that involved the murder of Malcolm Vanhorn was killed by Serial Killer X.

The story in the game has decent plotlines that focuses on the character's investigation and paranormal setups to keep the story put straightforward. The characters is pretty okay, but it's not so memorable in the game.

This game has 11 chapters on single player, and featuring online mulitiplayer with 9 maps, 8 players and 4 modes.

The gameplay is played pretty okay, but there some issues on the combat controls. The main character can able to use brawler attacks for combat mechanics. You could use punching and kicking as the basic moves, but also performs stronger attacks with chain combos and finishing moves through QTE purposes, which makes the good attacking techniques, but it feels bit slow for hand to hand combat gameplay is due to controls issues makes the combat feels repetitive, but you need to get used with the controls.

You could also pick weapons as melee attacks are quite useful for combat gameplay, which you can whack them to death or by throwing at them too. For firehand gameplay, the weapons is worked very well to have balanced shooting range and accurate aiming to keep the gameplay played good. Your abilities is automatically upgrades after you beat the each level allowing to have better techniques and skills.

I also like the investigation mode is where you have to scan the evidence and find the clues during the investigation.

The levels is quite challenging with puzzle solving, discovering new things, and the great horror atmospheres of gameplay with tons of deadly monsters is fun to play.

The graphics has excellent visuals and darker animations to make the game look terrified with gruesome gore effects to keep the game look bloody as possible. This is by far the best graphics on the seventh generation consoles to make the game look detailed and fully prepared.

The music and sounds has the best atmospheres of sound effects to make it sounds scary and terrifying to hear it. The voice acting did the good job on the game to fit well on the characters with well fitting voice.

PS3 version has a little bit problem with audio issues, which causing to have crackling sounds, but not a lot, so you won't have a problem with X360 version is sounded more cleaner.  

The special features has unlockables art concept, rewards, and challenging mini games has the great choices of this game.

Advantages

Great graphics

Superb atmosphere

Decent story and characters

Good puzzle solving

Decent gameplay

Disadvantages

Hand to hand controls feels repetitive 

Audio issues 

Update patch may not working is due to freezes the game, especially quitting the game as well unless you have to disable the internet connection from network settings.  

Final Verdict

Bottom line is...

Gameplay 7/10 - Decent gameplay with great weapons, investigation mode and worth challenging levels.

Graphics 8.5/10 - Excellent visuals, darker animations and gruesome gore effects.

Music and sounds - 7/10 - Superb atmosphere and good voice acting.

Special features 7/10 -  Unlockables art concept, rewards, and challenging mini games.

Overall 7/10 - Condemned 2 is somewhat a very good horror games with fantastic horrific elements such as paranormal visions and some disturbing scenes, more scary atmospheres with lot of shit happening in the game, and great single player campaign with decent storyplot is by far deserves to be scariest game on mulitiplatform consoles, but too bad the game didn't sold very well since 2008. If it is the X360 version, I would give it 7.5/10 because it didn't have the major problems like the PS3 version does, so If you like the psychological horror games like FEAR series, then I recommend to get this game for PS3 or X360 because Condemned 2 is the most underrated horror games that you should able to try the game out and it's going to enjoy your gaming experiences.

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