I did alot of urban exploring years ago as a newly minted adult. The Hotel mission in this game to this day reminds me of some of the buildings I entered in Vegas and Detroit before their economical "revival" after the recession. Especially Detroit. Where I see now alot of the buildings I went to don't even exist anymore. They did an amazing job encompassing that atmosphere and it still gets my heart racing.
@@Disconnect350 Nah it literally doesnt only thing it does that kills any chance of having popularity and modding also better graphics and framerate etc
@@Disconnect350 Your pfp explains all also yes console excluvsives kills the potential of the game just sake of running garbage hardware btw when did i say console excluvsives bad or unpopular?? Also yes in most sitution it does makes it forgettable, Dont put words my mouth. Also i can easily tell you never used pc in your life because there is no sane or logical person tells "modding sucks" keep crying bozo
For me, this game still slaps. The one thing Monolith were masters at is atmosphere, and this game is one of the only ones that still makes feel like I need to turn around every few minutes just because I always feel like I'm being watched even when no one's there (and sometimes, you actually are being followed). And also, what are two of the most terrifying combinations out of there? Rabies and bears. By ALL accounts, this game deserves full credit for giving me a near heart attack and a literal nightmare over that. And then you get to the lodge, and there's a taxidermy of a bear in there. They knew what they were doing when they put that in there. That's one of the best sequences I've ever experienced in a horror game. This game's amazing.
I was borderline obsessed with this series as a teenager in high school; the lore of this one specific I found to be super appealing for whatever strange reason. Would have loved a third game, but I didn’t find it negative in any fashion compared to the first game, and actually preferred this even with the gun play. Loved the sort of campy aspect to it all, and the b-movie-ish slock factor. Chicks with sharpened lollipop weapons, infant dolls as weapons, game was all over the place; especially the voice exploding aspect? Third game would have been great though had they had the ability or resources to pull it off.
Damn! I remember 4PlayerPodcast. My friends and I used to watch their scary game videos in school and the bear and mannequins is what convinced my friend to get Condemned 2. I played it and I remember it was all over the place. you were fighting hobos and tweakers with extreme body mods. There was black sludge and the weird knights, the bear and I felt the paranormal stuff didn't gel with the criminal investigation side of things
This game is DEFINITELY underrated, but at the same time it is hard to go back and play it today because the title could easily have just been "Edgelord: The Game." Ethan is a walking Godsmack album. Everything about this have is trying to be edgy for edginess' sake.
This game needs to be backwards compatible for Series X|S already! I love this games low-budget, Redbox, direct to DVD, SyFy channel charm! Obsessed with this game back in the day!
@@therealroseface Yeah me and my buddy would 2 vs 6 as Influenced in the Farmhouse and ambush the SCU kill em with driveshafts and piss covered toilet seats lmao and take their guns and kill their friends, got so good with the combos and strafing, multiplayer was underrated atleast Crime Scene mode. Single player was great until the last 2 levels, I did enjoy the magic theatre but the ending left it with enough where I was like if they explained away some of the ridiculous plot points as Ethan's hallucinations, then they could really make a survival horror game that could rival The Evil Within, it's just such a raw, real experience with alot of lore
Bro, so you just brought back a memory. I was a kid and went to a buddies house for the weekend and we played this none stop trading the controller every death. He moved a few weeks later so I never got to play it again or anything and forgot about it until now, cheers I'll sub for that.
It is funny how we all almost know this game exclusively for its bear level. Bears should be in more horror games. I think overall it is not the worst and has a lot of fun ideas and gameplay. Meth monkeys and dolls were also horrifying. Shame they changed the protag for some unnecessary reason, making him very different from the first.
They didn't change the protagonist. You play the same character. The graphics are a lot better so the character designs changed a bit. It also took place 11 months after the first game. I was thrown off by the heavy redesign of Rosa though.
Great review! And it was a surprise to learn that I wasn't the only one who fondly looked back on 4PP! I give them a lot of credit for broadcasting many types of games which would never have caught my interest otherwise. Brad in particular was the main reason why I even played both Condemned games and became such a huge survival horror fan so many years ago. It's nice to see them going strong after soo many years too following Justin tv's glory days. Good times indeed!
I really dug this game on 360. And it offered a great reward for completing the story. FPS Mode, where you start each chapter with a specific firearm, and an unlimited ammo reserve. That was a nice incentive to play right through it again, being able to just cap some enemies that were a nuisance in the first playthrough.
Man I thought I was the only person who remembers 4PP, I remember them playing Family Matters in the background when they were playing Fatal Frame and the Urkel Dance being engrained into my brain forever with Fatal Frame. And shit that brings me back, Fatal Frame the original horror game people played before Amnesia or Slender gameplay.
Ive been struggling to remember the channel's name for such a long time bc I used to watch them as a kid and as soon as he mentioned 4PP I literally gasped. I can finally be at peace now :')
I don't want to sound like a hater but this game is a fascinating mess. The lack of understanding the appeal of the first game, the comic book character and enemy design combined with the uneven tone and unbelievable story turn the whole thing to candy floss! It's problems/pitfalls were things some of the staff were even aware of during profuction and even seemingly learned from as when they were able to give input creatively they avoided making similar decisions in the other titles they worked on. Hell, someone involved with both even talked about how if they did a Condemened 3 or even just flat out rebooted at the time they would have been playing off Condemened 2 as a bad dream/hangover nightmare and gone for a "Silent Hill" approach.
This is one of my favorite games to play growing up, the first game had me covered in goose bumps, and when the second one came out, i absolutely loved it. It upsets me that the only way to play it is to find an overpriced physical copy, or emulation which i am reluctant to try. I hope that one day there is a PC port so i can relive this Diamond in the rough. People would buy it.
I really hated this game. It seemed to ascribe to the mid 00's Cliffy B ethos of "bigger, better more badass" at the sacrifice of the slow paced horror of Condemned 1 and turned it into a full on action title with one of the worst stories ever committed to the medium
He didn't once talk about the health bar. The health system in this game is distributed into 3 simple portions. Full. Medium. And low. If you take enough damage and lose a portion, it will only refill to the certain portion. You need to find health kits to refill the lost portion. To this day, it is the best health system I've ever seen. It can be applied to SO many genres excluding FPS's and mobas. But what do you guys think? I just wish this health system was used more oftenly. (Far Cry 3 tries it and it's not the same...) Great review, by the way. I love this game.
16:18 glad you mentioned 4PlayerPodcast, they're still very active to this day, they stream less but still maintain the podcast and run a nice discord.
Played this and the original on 360 when I was younger, shi gave me goosebumps because of the darkness and that thought of knowing anyone could pop out from behind a shelf and start swinging at you. Good times man I need to relive it so badly
The combo counter at the top of the screen looks like it's straight out of one of those "modern Ubisoft UI" parody photoshops. Like goddang talk about immersion annihilating. But then games were still figuring out that kind of thing back then. Honestly it's stunning playing modern games and then taking a step back, and realizing how far we've come with minimalistic or otherwise... diagetic? UI design.
The sequel switches rails in so many small but meaningful ways. Ethan himself looks HUGE (meaning broad and buff), as well as changing his facial structure. I always thought Ethan from 1 looks a bit Native American or perhaps Mexican, then bam, he’s a Neanderthal looking dude. The combo counter UI is wacky. The guns and the obvious Bioshock influences take things up to a schlocky level.
Played the hell out of this during high school on my 360. Funny enough the museum and doll factory levels are what stuck out to me the most. Not so much the bear even though it did make me shit myself at the time lol. Oh and i do remember that last level with the rivet gun or whatever to be ass.
I remember really enjoying the multiplayer in this game, but then it was dead very shortly after because the player base was so small lol. I think it was cops versus thugs if I am remembering right
The cops vs. thugs multiplayer was so much fun, and if it had been expanded and refined, it could have been a real smash hit.... well, niche smash hit, but certainly not dead within a month or two.
Although it's still not a clear answer in their discord they stated that the main reason why Condemned 2 didn't and won't get ported to PC is becuase of a publishing deal, they want to port it but they can't.
amazing vid as always, but i did have one thing. Going off the definition, sh2 is basically all liminal locations, all familiar, museuams, hospitals, bowling alles, hotles, vacation town in general. All locations you visit in passing, nothing is permananent.... I understand its a newly popular term but damn, it hits hard as fuck. I am a huge fan of the term, love the way it makes me think/feel, mix of melancholy, nostalgia and loss. Sorry for the short rant but I genuinely enjoy the genre that term has created, it evokes emotion for me, and that is more than I can say for 97.25% of games nowadays
I remember playing this game when I was like ten years old and being completely blown away by how weighty and brutal the combat was and I would played through the entire game but being a stupid kid I got stuck in some haunted toy factory cause I didn't know what to do to progress haha!!.. I'd absolutely love to actually play it again someday and also the first one which I never got a chance to play at all.
Condemned 2 must be upgraded to play on series x! Absolutely mind blowing that it hasn't been. There are so many great levels. The doll factory was my favorite. I just recently found the prima game guide brand new on Amazon for 20 bucks and had to snatch it up.
I was an avid player of the MP in this game. Back then at least it really was something special even if it wasn't as well thought out as it could have been. I was absolutely garbage at it too but something kept me playing lol.
The multiplayer was fantastic for this game, the creep factor with the hands on knuckle to knuckle aspect, or pure melee aspects against other real people was amazing. I disagree with their take that they should have cut or never done multiplayer; it was some of my favorite online bits there back on Xbox 360.
@@knowledge5686 The 360 servers are still up because they use XBL, the PS3 servers are down because they used gamespy however you can still use Xlink Kai to play it since it has a LAN option.
Once you understand game design (and limitations that come with it), it's not scary. It's a cool looking, sounding and inventive set piece, along with the build up, but it's clear there is an option of getting away due to the house not being 100% destructible and you know it's not feasible for an option to get away, because everything is so scripted otherwise.
Loved this game when I was a kid & actually found some parts pretty creepy .. I’d love to see a sequel or a remaster of both games .. don’t think there’s anything like this out there at the moment ?
Another thing I disliked was the word "combo" appearing at the top of the screen, along with "disarm attack," it takes away from the horror and mood and makes it feel less atmospheric. I feel like it makes the game seem less serious.
loved the first one, and this one, I played it once for an hour and then had to go do stuff, and I never played again. Idk what happened to my copy it was just gone. I think my roommate stole it and I forogt about the game until months later.
I'll never forget the first time I played this. After loving the first one, I fired two up and was immediately hit with a sense of "something here isn't right" when the opening cutscene fades in and I'm greeted with a subtitle that just says "*alt rock music plays*" as new teenage Edgelord Ethan crushes pills with a shot glass in a skidrow public bar. They went to complete other direction when it came to the style of this sequel. Its got one of the worst opening levels if you like the first game because this first level in the second game goes way too hard on the occultish hallucinatory horror way too soon. Its jarring that the first mission starts on 11 and the second level tones it way down to Condemned 1 kinds of horror. I do dig the combat and the detective stuff but the second game goes in for constant loud jump scare horror where the first felt like long stretches of atmospheric tension punctuated by combat/jumpscares
There are definitely some things that this game shouldn't have threw away from the first one, subtlety and less action, but I absolutely loved the opening stage/cutscene. Plus combat and the character design were a HUGE improvement.
It's a shame they went so video gamey with the sequel. The first game was a brutal journey through a hellish urban nightmare, no combo system, no scoring, just you, a tanked up homeless guy and a rusty pipe. wow - 4PP I used to watch those guys all the time!
12:06 - I'm glad you pointed out about Rosa looking so different from C1. That was a real eyebrow raising moment.
heaven forbid your female cohort not be there for your penis
I did alot of urban exploring years ago as a newly minted adult. The Hotel mission in this game to this day reminds me of some of the buildings I entered in Vegas and Detroit before their economical "revival" after the recession. Especially Detroit. Where I see now alot of the buildings I went to don't even exist anymore. They did an amazing job encompassing that atmosphere and it still gets my heart racing.
Your tenacity and dedication to pumping out long, high quality videos is crazy and appreciated
Except he keeps pronouncing "herbs" with the "h"
@@jonbourgoin182 The proper pronunciation.
@@jonbourgoin182 Tell that to Gordon Ramsay & let us know what he says
The multiplayer was phenomenal. The mode where you hide the severed head was classic.
Aye, do you have a 360/PS3 and the game still?
@@CarvedStonesyea
"you're a drunk, and a liability."
"Here. Take a moment to get familiar with your weapon."
The Drunk Liability: *shoots him in the face*
"The dark blood... the metal kings... the Oro!"
That's it. I'm starting a metal band called The Oro, just so we can be nicknamed the metal kings.
Underrated game from my childhood. The fact that there is no PC port is an absolute sin.
I like it more than the first one
Being a console exclusive gives it more value imo. Good thing I still have it on Xbox 360.
@@Disconnect350 Nah it literally doesnt only thing it does that kills any chance of having popularity and modding also better graphics and framerate etc
@@secondaccounta320 Lol are you saying console exclusives aren't popular? also, modding sucks.
@@Disconnect350 Your pfp explains all also yes console excluvsives kills the potential of the game just sake of running garbage hardware btw when did i say console excluvsives bad or unpopular?? Also yes in most sitution it does makes it forgettable, Dont put words my mouth. Also i can easily tell you never used pc in your life because there is no sane or logical person tells "modding sucks" keep crying bozo
Love how you go through each/many of the levels in your analysis, highlighting the specific low and high moments of the game.
For me, this game still slaps. The one thing Monolith were masters at is atmosphere, and this game is one of the only ones that still makes feel like I need to turn around every few minutes just because I always feel like I'm being watched even when no one's there (and sometimes, you actually are being followed).
And also, what are two of the most terrifying combinations out of there? Rabies and bears. By ALL accounts, this game deserves full credit for giving me a near heart attack and a literal nightmare over that. And then you get to the lodge, and there's a taxidermy of a bear in there. They knew what they were doing when they put that in there. That's one of the best sequences I've ever experienced in a horror game. This game's amazing.
Remember the crackhead that ran behind us when we was in the apartment 😅
I was borderline obsessed with this series as a teenager in high school; the lore of this one specific I found to be super appealing for whatever strange reason. Would have loved a third game, but I didn’t find it negative in any fashion compared to the first game, and actually preferred this even with the gun play. Loved the sort of campy aspect to it all, and the b-movie-ish slock factor. Chicks with sharpened lollipop weapons, infant dolls as weapons, game was all over the place; especially the voice exploding aspect?
Third game would have been great though had they had the ability or resources to pull it off.
Damn! I remember 4PlayerPodcast. My friends and I used to watch their scary game videos in school and the bear and mannequins is what convinced my friend to get Condemned 2. I played it and I remember it was all over the place. you were fighting hobos and tweakers with extreme body mods. There was black sludge and the weird knights, the bear and I felt the paranormal stuff didn't gel with the criminal investigation side of things
I f*cking LOVED this game. Still can't have all gold medals tho
I’d love to see you do a video on Clive Barker’s Jericho. Underrated game, in my opinion. Always craved that sequel that was teased and planned.
Don't really see why there would be a sequel tbh. The game felt concluded
@@tanker00v25 I mean them being stuck in a vague time period, in the ocean, was the setting up of the sequel that Clive always wanted to do.
@@CrackingCody well in either case I doubt we'll ever see that sequel
my favorite game of all time, and still no pc port. i would honestly put the time and work to remaster that game myself on unreal if i could.
Leach is not confirmed dead and gone... and who is, in the Pyxis? :) I'd love a sequel but doubt we'll see it, or any more Galloway games, sadly.
This game is DEFINITELY underrated, but at the same time it is hard to go back and play it today because the title could easily have just been "Edgelord: The Game."
Ethan is a walking Godsmack album. Everything about this have is trying to be edgy for edginess' sake.
This game needs to be backwards compatible for Series X|S already! I love this games low-budget, Redbox, direct to DVD, SyFy channel charm! Obsessed with this game back in the day!
Big facts, I have the first one downloaded, just give us both games we're already deprived of a sequel to this point..
@@bigbouncer4196 yessir! Can't tell you how many hours I spent as a tween throwing hammers at people 😂😂😂
@@therealroseface Yeah me and my buddy would 2 vs 6 as Influenced in the Farmhouse and ambush the SCU kill em with driveshafts and piss covered toilet seats lmao and take their guns and kill their friends, got so good with the combos and strafing, multiplayer was underrated atleast Crime Scene mode.
Single player was great until the last 2 levels, I did enjoy the magic theatre but the ending left it with enough where I was like if they explained away some of the ridiculous plot points as Ethan's hallucinations, then they could really make a survival horror game that could rival The Evil Within, it's just such a raw, real experience with alot of lore
I know "PC release being an aftermath" was a slip-up, but it's super accurate given the state some games were/are released in.
Bro, so you just brought back a memory. I was a kid and went to a buddies house for the weekend and we played this none stop trading the controller every death. He moved a few weeks later so I never got to play it again or anything and forgot about it until now, cheers I'll sub for that.
In highschool the bear level was legendary amongst my group of friends lol
It is funny how we all almost know this game exclusively for its bear level. Bears should be in more horror games. I think overall it is not the worst and has a lot of fun ideas and gameplay. Meth monkeys and dolls were also horrifying. Shame they changed the protag for some unnecessary reason, making him very different from the first.
Metro: Last Light has an excellent bear boss fight.
They didn't change the protagonist. You play the same character. The graphics are a lot better so the character designs changed a bit. It also took place 11 months after the first game.
I was thrown off by the heavy redesign of Rosa though.
There's a game on the Wii called Disaster: Day of Crisis that has a section with a bear trying to eat your rear
@@nobodyinparticular9640 You can't save everyone.
This game looks incredible great art direction
im SO GLAD you gave a shoutout to 4pp. I remember seeing their videos years ago. the nostalgia is real with that one!
Great review! And it was a surprise to learn that I wasn't the only one who fondly looked back on 4PP! I give them a lot of credit for broadcasting many types of games which would never have caught my interest otherwise. Brad in particular was the main reason why I even played both Condemned games and became such a huge survival horror fan so many years ago. It's nice to see them going strong after soo many years too following Justin tv's glory days. Good times indeed!
I really dug this game on 360. And it offered a great reward for completing the story. FPS Mode, where you start each chapter with a specific firearm, and an unlimited ammo reserve. That was a nice incentive to play right through it again, being able to just cap some enemies that were a nuisance in the first playthrough.
Lol I would play this game with my son when he was pretty young , underrated game . The bear Chase would freak him out
Man I thought I was the only person who remembers 4PP, I remember them playing Family Matters in the background when they were playing Fatal Frame and the Urkel Dance being engrained into my brain forever with Fatal Frame. And shit that brings me back, Fatal Frame the original horror game people played before Amnesia or Slender gameplay.
Ive been struggling to remember the channel's name for such a long time bc I used to watch them as a kid and as soon as he mentioned 4PP I literally gasped. I can finally be at peace now :')
I don't want to sound like a hater but this game is a fascinating mess. The lack of understanding the appeal of the first game, the comic book character and enemy design combined with the uneven tone and unbelievable story turn the whole thing to candy floss! It's problems/pitfalls were things some of the staff were even aware of during profuction and even seemingly learned from as when they were able to give input creatively they avoided making similar decisions in the other titles they worked on. Hell, someone involved with both even talked about how if they did a Condemened 3 or even just flat out rebooted at the time they would have been playing off Condemened 2 as a bad dream/hangover nightmare and gone for a "Silent Hill" approach.
This is one of my favorite games to play growing up, the first game had me covered in goose bumps, and when the second one came out, i absolutely loved it. It upsets me that the only way to play it is to find an overpriced physical copy, or emulation which i am reluctant to try. I hope that one day there is a PC port so i can relive this Diamond in the rough. People would buy it.
I really hated this game. It seemed to ascribe to the mid 00's Cliffy B ethos of "bigger, better more badass" at the sacrifice of the slow paced horror of Condemned 1 and turned it into a full on action title with one of the worst stories ever committed to the medium
Holy shit didn't think i'd be seeing you here 🥺
Chad video tastes from a chad video creator
@@Joey-ps3oo haha like any other man i do enjoy a good dissection of 15 year old videogames 😆
He didn't once talk about the health bar. The health system in this game is distributed into 3 simple portions. Full. Medium. And low.
If you take enough damage and lose a portion, it will only refill to the certain portion. You need to find health kits to refill the lost portion.
To this day, it is the best health system I've ever seen. It can be applied to SO many genres excluding FPS's and mobas. But what do you guys think? I just wish this health system was used more oftenly. (Far Cry 3 tries it and it's not the same...) Great review, by the way. I love this game.
"I'm...[10 second pause] Tony Rhodes."
“The one with the bear level” thank you I could never figure out what game that was but I remember my dad playing it when I was a kid
I'm glad me, you, and Grimbread all agree that that is Rosa's daughter
16:18 glad you mentioned 4PlayerPodcast, they're still very active to this day, they stream less but still maintain the podcast and run a nice discord.
Played this and the original on 360 when I was younger, shi gave me goosebumps because of the darkness and that thought of knowing anyone could pop out from behind a shelf and start swinging at you. Good times man I need to relive it so badly
OMFG OMFG OMFG SOMEONE IS ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT CONDEMNED 2! So underrated and the combat is so much fun can’t wait to give it a watch!
I remember playing this game alone in my grandparents house while it was storming outside and how much it terrified me lol
UA-cam keeps recommending your videos to me. And god dammit, I finally clicked.
And I’m glad I did! Great content! New subscriber
The combo counter at the top of the screen looks like it's straight out of one of those "modern Ubisoft UI" parody photoshops. Like goddang talk about immersion annihilating. But then games were still figuring out that kind of thing back then.
Honestly it's stunning playing modern games and then taking a step back, and realizing how far we've come with minimalistic or otherwise... diagetic? UI design.
Loved both games but Bloodshot is my favorite. Both had some amazing atmosphere.
hobo fighting simulator with guest appearance from cocaine bear.
The sequel switches rails in so many small but meaningful ways. Ethan himself looks HUGE (meaning broad and buff), as well as changing his facial structure. I always thought Ethan from 1 looks a bit Native American or perhaps Mexican, then bam, he’s a Neanderthal looking dude. The combo counter UI is wacky. The guns and the obvious Bioshock influences take things up to a schlocky level.
Played the hell out of this during high school on my 360. Funny enough the museum and doll factory levels are what stuck out to me the most. Not so much the bear even though it did make me shit myself at the time lol. Oh and i do remember that last level with the rivet gun or whatever to be ass.
I'm still waiting for another Condemned game
I remember really enjoying the multiplayer in this game, but then it was dead very shortly after because the player base was so small lol. I think it was cops versus thugs if I am remembering right
I loved it too
I am loving the 4PP shoutout, love those guys
The cops vs. thugs multiplayer was so much fun, and if it had been expanded and refined, it could have been a real smash hit.... well, niche smash hit, but certainly not dead within a month or two.
Although it's still not a clear answer in their discord they stated that the main reason why Condemned 2 didn't and won't get ported to PC is becuase of a publishing deal, they want to port it but they can't.
I forgot this game actually starts with a “yeah, that’s me.”
Honestly I'm impressed you made it through this whole review without one "Fus ro dah!" reference.
One of the most underrated games in the history of gaming
Condemned 2 is a great game
Great video essay! Thank for sharing
I loved playing this game back in the day and had spent hours on the multiplayer
I spoke with Jace Hall about the IP back in 2015, and he told me that he had chosen a studio to grant the rights to, but that's as far as I heard.
amazing vid as always, but i did have one thing. Going off the definition, sh2 is basically all liminal locations, all familiar, museuams, hospitals, bowling alles, hotles, vacation town in general. All locations you visit in passing, nothing is permananent.... I understand its a newly popular term but damn, it hits hard as fuck. I am a huge fan of the term, love the way it makes me think/feel, mix of melancholy, nostalgia and loss. Sorry for the short rant but I genuinely enjoy the genre that term has created, it evokes emotion for me, and that is more than I can say for 97.25% of games nowadays
The MP was pretty good and actually scary af too.
I remember playing this game when I was like ten years old and being completely blown away by how weighty and brutal the combat was and I would played through the entire game but being a stupid kid I got stuck in some haunted toy factory cause I didn't know what to do to progress haha!!.. I'd absolutely love to actually play it again someday and also the first one which I never got a chance to play at all.
Condemned 2 must be upgraded to play on series x! Absolutely mind blowing that it hasn't been. There are so many great levels. The doll factory was my favorite. I just recently found the prima game guide brand new on Amazon for 20 bucks and had to snatch it up.
Babe wake up! New boulder punch video dropped!
It really surprised me back when it came out. Super fun.
Great game, very underrated.
loving the content!
I was an avid player of the MP in this game. Back then at least it really was something special even if it wasn't as well thought out as it could have been. I was absolutely garbage at it too but something kept me playing lol.
It did look intersting when I watched some footage on it.
same, I used to love lobbing bricks at other players, too bad it's dead
@@imonke5303 oh my God I forgot about that part that was so fun lmao
Love the vids man, great work.. Any plans on covering Manhunt in the future?
Never knew there was a sequel
I just wish Condemned 2 was backwards compatible with 60 fps for XSX. Looks brutally fun!
Let me find out Capcom used Condemned 2 for Resident Evil 7 ideas. Even the main characters are both named Ethan.
The multiplayer was fantastic for this game, the creep factor with the hands on knuckle to knuckle aspect, or pure melee aspects against other real people was amazing. I disagree with their take that they should have cut or never done multiplayer; it was some of my favorite online bits there back on Xbox 360.
We still play the multiplayer.
@@CarvedStones they still have Xbox 360 and ps3 online still up? I thought they shut them down.
@@knowledge5686 The 360 servers are still up because they use XBL, the PS3 servers are down because they used gamespy however you can still use Xlink Kai to play it since it has a LAN option.
@@CarvedStones ah gotcha. Sadly I'm on pc so I don't think there's a way to play it.
@@knowledge5686 Aw that’s a shame. And as of right now no. But they are looking to bring multiplayer compatibility to Xenia and such.
This is not ovah, BEARS!!!
The Highlander 2 of videogames.
1:01 22:59 The Evil Within 2
Holy hell I forgot about that museum level. I kept letting myself die because it was so much fun.
All I know is being chased through a house by a rabid bear has been the most scariest moment I've ever played. Even after outlast and resident evil 7
Once you understand game design (and limitations that come with it), it's not scary. It's a cool looking, sounding and inventive set piece, along with the build up, but it's clear there is an option of getting away due to the house not being 100% destructible and you know it's not feasible for an option to get away, because everything is so scripted otherwise.
Loved this game when I was a kid & actually found some parts pretty creepy ..
I’d love to see a sequel or a remaster of both games .. don’t think there’s anything like this out there at the moment ?
I enjoyed Bloodshot, though the weird goo monsters freaked me out when I played it way back
Paul Eiding and Michael Bell. I was worried Steve Blum was voicing a character but for a mid 2000s game it has a good cast
The online was amazing I was like 8 playing it and loved every second of it 😂
Props for bringing up 4pp lol, I don’t think I beat condemned 2 back on 360, that or I just forgot the ending.
The game is the reason I bought the console again. Love it play during Halloween
I remember the Yakuza and cod mw2 clips as well
Another thing I disliked was the word "combo" appearing at the top of the screen, along with "disarm attack," it takes away from the horror and mood and makes it feel less atmospheric. I feel like it makes the game seem less serious.
If I’m not mistaken I think you can remove it but you have to memorize the timing to get certain combos.
14:11 wait a moment, is that you Reznov? or is it Chernov/Nikolai?
Not as scary as the first one, but fun. And the multiplayer was SO UNDERRATED! It was like Hide N Seek with murder lol.
Please make a video for the evil within series
I second that! He hasn't already though? I'd say alan wake too. Maybe shadows of the damned.
Mirror got me also. Great memories.
Omg I can't tell you the last time I thought of 4pp
Amazing video
loved the first one, and this one, I played it once for an hour and then had to go do stuff, and I never played again. Idk what happened to my copy it was just gone. I think my roommate stole it and I forogt about the game until months later.
Your ex roommate was a real jerk for stealing your game, that was very uncool of them. 😤
he got kicked out of our until eventually for being a lazy POS anyways, in the end I wont lol@@RK-eo8gl
I still own Condemned 1 and 2.
Loved the condemned games, must dig them out of the attic sometime
These games were so fuckin scary. They did so good with what they had
i couldnt remember which of the gaming channels i sub to did this, so i searched "condemed" 1st result, the algorithom knows me well
Is the first one available on PS?
I'll never forget the first time I played this. After loving the first one, I fired two up and was immediately hit with a sense of "something here isn't right" when the opening cutscene fades in and I'm greeted with a subtitle that just says "*alt rock music plays*" as new teenage Edgelord Ethan crushes pills with a shot glass in a skidrow public bar.
They went to complete other direction when it came to the style of this sequel. Its got one of the worst opening levels if you like the first game because this first level in the second game goes way too hard on the occultish hallucinatory horror way too soon. Its jarring that the first mission starts on 11 and the second level tones it way down to Condemned 1 kinds of horror.
I do dig the combat and the detective stuff but the second game goes in for constant loud jump scare horror where the first felt like long stretches of atmospheric tension punctuated by combat/jumpscares
There are definitely some things that this game shouldn't have threw away from the first one, subtlety and less action, but I absolutely loved the opening stage/cutscene. Plus combat and the character design were a HUGE improvement.
Hey, how have u got Xenia to work so smoothly? Mine gets all kinds of frame drops
This might trigger some people a bit but I love both games not just the first one.
Hell YEAH I remember 4pp
good times
It's a shame they went so video gamey with the sequel. The first game was a brutal journey through a hellish urban nightmare, no combo system, no scoring, just you, a tanked up homeless guy and a rusty pipe.
wow - 4PP I used to watch those guys all the time!
You got a cold or something? Great video none the less
Can you try saw and it’s sequel please?