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Message: [QUOTE="Jediuser, post: 145186, member: 338790"] Recently returned to Condemned: Criminal Origins. Believe it or not, I actually started with the contested sequel (as tv tropes would put it), Condemned 2: Bloodshot. Bought it some years ago as a spooky game to play around Halloween. Honestly, not entirely sure which one I like more. I think Condemned 2 is better from a pure gameplay standpoint, with a deeper combat system and a more hands-on forensics system where you actually feel like you're piecing together evidence instead of simply being led by the hand, like in the original. But in terms of plot and atmosphere, the original is far superior. Put simply, 2 feels like Monolith trying too hard to go bigger and losing sight of what made the original so unsettling. The original Condemned, for all its hints towards some mysterious force behind the scenes, ultimately had a sort of gritty realism where you investigate desolate, dilapidated buildings on the trail of a serial killer, where the only inhabitants are drugged-up lunatics that attack you with things like pipes and sledgehammers. Think something like Se7en and Silence of the Lambs. The sequel, on the other hand, sets the standard in the opening level by having you face down....tar monsters. That fall from cocoons on the ceiling. And it only gets sillier from there, with a later level having you face down living porcelain dolls. Yeah........the plot, which now involves cultists pulling some supernatural shit, is pretty silly, which isn't good for immersion. So, which do you prefer? [/QUOTE]

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