Duck and Cover

I leeched this at a LAN some 4 months ago, but blew the PSU on the comp. Finally bothered to play it, and it's actually pretty funny. Nice creepy atmosphere, and it's had a few parts where I've jumped. Much like one of those other games I played (Call of Cthulu?) you don't have gun sights, not even iron sights, and you have to physically check your guns ammo supply, and when you run out you just beat the shit out of people with the gun.

For some reason though, it either got reemed due to the no 18+ rating here in Aus, or it just didn't get distributed much here. Anyone else played it? It does seem rather fun in a almost VtM-BL haunted mansion kind of way.

edit: finished in roughly 6 hours. Twas fun, but just like afformentioned Bloodlines the last stage was utter wankery, and didn't really offer the closure to the story that I was hoping.

I've never heard of it. Doesn't look so special judging from screenshots. Are there any puzzles or just the stardard straightforward zombiehunt?

It was like one of the initial 360 launch titles. Bum Fights 360 was the original nick name for it. It looked ok, just never good enough to warrant a purchase.

I remember playing that game for a bout an hour. The whole picking up dead birds thing was odd. It was a well spent hour, I guess, but I didn't have to buy the thing, so ehue and whatnot.

VasikkA wrote:I've never heard of it. Doesn't look so special judging from screenshots. Are there any puzzles or just the stardard straightforward zombiehunt?

Pretty much zombie hunt. Go here, do this, kill these drug addicts on the way. The most indepth it ever really got was finding certain breaching weapons. Fireaxes could chop down certain doors, sledgehammers for padlocks and crowbars for safes/gates.

And yeah, the birds thing. Yet another thing the game never really explained about. You get dropped some hints that all the many psychos are increasing in the area of dead birds, and they seem to just use them like unlockables for concept art. It feels like there's a bit more to the story they ment to add into the game, but never did. :kotor2:

Wolfman Walt wrote:Bum Fights 360 was the original nick name for it.

The good kind of bum, or the bad kind of bum?

It's Monolith... This is all one should need to read in order to be persuaded to play Condemned =>

Don't play it for the action, which is unusual but enjoyable, play it for atmosphere and story. It's not a system shock 2/silent hill, but it has some fine fearin'.

Great game, uses the FEAR-engine. But in my opinion they shouldn't have even bothered making fear.

Condemned is great if you dont play it like a retarded fps-gamer.