Condemned 2: Bloodshot

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Condemned 2: Bloodshot is a game available on PS3 & XBOX 360, I have recently purchased it as it looked quite a good game from reading the description and from what I've been told by friends about it.



So, firstly, whats it about, you play Ethan Thomas former Serial Crimes Unit investigator, who has been called back to duty to track down his missing partner, who you see running away from something/someone at the begining of the intro video, sounds like a normal kind of puzzle game does'nt it, you find clues and are helped by a team of other Serial Crimes Unit members, but no, it's nto normal, yes, you find clues and have to guess yourself from multiple choices either what happened in a certain place, or how someone died, but throw in a psychopathic town of weird folk in mask's that include pigs, gas masks and other strange stuff, also creatures that can appear out of oil slicks and stuff thats on the wall and my not so favourite creepy dolls that had me screaming like an 8 year old when they dont get what they want, oh, I should also mention that all of these people/things want to kill you, so theres the recipe for a nice bloodbath/gore fest.

Your key to survival is to use anything, yes anything, ranging from your fists to metal pipes to even toilet seats to basically batter your opponents to death, and theres also a neat little finisher move which allows you to throw them through windows or break there arms (which is quite funny if you break both because they hop around trying to headbutt you, they basically look like an angry version of flipper), this is where the review starts.

Yes, so far I like the game, although I'm sticking to playing it in the day because of the moving inanimate objects that scare the living shit out of me (The reason for that is watching Childs Play at a young age because me & a friend thought it would be cool, it wasn't), but there are some parts of the game, mainly the interaction that sometimes lets it down, so, your walking through a hotel room when a pole wielding maniac runs at you and hits you to the ground, you land next to an electrical cord thats hanging out the wall, so you try to grab it and then all of sudden the option to pick it up disappears, meaning you have to quickly look around again waiting for it to come back up and the by the time it has your all ready lying in a pool of your own blood, so i get furthur into the game and im now in a room where someone's been crucified, I get a call of HQ to do an evidence search (Shown Below.).


(Image from Videogamer.com)

So I start my quest for evidence, and yet again, the interactivity isn't much of a help, infact neither are the team, who just tell you obvious things to do like photograph the scene, when you eventually find what your looking for, your given muliple choices on what it could be or what happened, your judged on this and you get a score at the end ranging Poor(1) to Perfect(5), after pretending to be Columbo for a while its back into the insane world of gang violence, where again, your allowed to use weapons to bash people's face's in, where your then told that there are side missions to do as well as the main mission, these can be anything from destroy Oro machinery which are little machines that sound out a whistling sound which is what is sending people crazy and making them kill each other for fun to smashing up drug labs, they add to the games plot and gives you something else to do, but usually take a while to find unless you use your cool sound detector toy which is useless as it leads you somewhere then change's it's mind meaning you have to turn back around and go where you just came from.

So as im only around halfway into the game it wouldn't be fair to say its rubbish because of these minor things, infact it's fun (if your into that kind of thing), and its creepy as hell in parts which adds to the gameplay as it has you thinking what that noise was that usually turns out to be nothing, or it turns out to be a metre high walking doll thats trying to kill you, graphics wise, its good, the environments are things you see in everyday life like streets and warehouses, and an odd hotel every now and again, but they have all been turned into twisted and creepy places, which are usually only lit up by your torch.

So far it's the interaction part thats letting it down, I shall conclude the review when I have finished the game and let you know if there's anything else that could have been better, but for now, here's some screens of the game.