Condemned 2 officially gave me nightmares

I rented Condemned 2 approximately two weeks ago and due to the large amount of cheese I ate last night I had a horrific nightmare of a game I thought i put behind me two weeks ago…

(note: from here on I will document what I remember of my nightmare – please excuse any bad writing or grammatical mistakes as this is merely the rambling of a slightly traumatised teenager)

My entire dream was like a section out of Condemned 2 including the creepy atmosphere, my point of view, the way I moved…just generally the whole shebang was exactly like Condemned 2. Along with a few other refugees I was hiding in a hotel to keep away from the violent (zombified?) men, I found a few of them had infiltrated the hotel so I took it upon myself to shotgun my way through them, after a long bloody and truly horrifying battle I died and respawned in the room where I started except this time there were more of those horrific monstrosities of men, after going through a cycle of creeping around the hotel on edge, mutilating already mutilated guys, then respawning worse than I started. Eventually the whole hotel had become these beastly (zombies?). I had to gun down my friends with some rather conveniently placed guns and ammo, i found a large guy talking to a normal child and with my bolt-action rifle shot him through the head; afterwards he came running at me still with the bullethole in his forehead, I frantically reloaded and repeatedly shot him in the forehead but each shot only gave him another freaky hole and more blood dripping down his face which he spat at me inbetween punches and strangling. Eventually he grabbed my gun and started shouting at me as I desperately left-hooked him in the face all to no effect.

After that I woke up, dripping with sweat and soaked with fear, although it may not sound scary when told trust me it freaked the hell out of me. Anyone who’s played condemned will know the fear of the game, just try to imagine it being real and you can understand my traumatisation.

Site update/Call Of Duty 4 review/ Condemned 2 first glance

Ok i’ve just changed the theme of my blog, I haven’t decided if it’s permanent yet so bear with me the next few days if i keep on tweaking things.

Ok this is going to be pretty short as COD 4 is simply a brilliant game. What’s there to say? the fps gaming is rock solid fun and the graphics are really good (note: I’m reviewing the ps3 version). I can’t fault the actual game in any real way (apart from perhaps a 5 minute cutscene where you really wanna shoot something but that’s just really if i had to nitpick). It’s a shame the game is so short; I played continuously for what felt like 5 hours and I completed story mode although looking at the stats I actually played for twice that long (time flies when your having fun). To increase its longevity COD 4 has an online multiplayer, at times it is quite addictive however its mainly just your standard: get shot in the back, shoot someone in the back or both hold the fire button until someone falls over; I suppose it’s probably better on PC with mouse-controlled guns. If you own a ps3 and you like first person shooters it is probably a sin not to own Call of duty 4 so you should go to amazon and buy it now!

Condemned 2 is an awesome game; the atmosphere is shit scary it truly brings honour to the term ‘survival horror’. Unlike certain survival horror games like Resident evil 4 where everything’s scary until you realise a shotgun blast can take an enemy’s head clean off in one shot (at which point the game becomes a merry fun-fest) the enemies in Condemned 2 are creepy, brutal and skilled. You can get away from most scrapes unharmed but you’ll allways focus on strategic fist fighting. For this game i wholeheartedly recommend a High-definition tv as standard definition really can’t capture the truly pant-wetting atmosphere and that is what horror is all about. I let my friend play Condemned for about 30 minutes and heres what he had to say: http://liamki.wordpress.com/2008/06/14/condemned-2/ – I think he describes it better than I do. So why is this only a first glance? well i didn’t finish the game – I found myself getting either stuck or lost every 20 minutes (10 minutes of which was just random exploring or fighting bloodied hobo’s) I had it on rental so I sent it back due to accumulative frustration. Despite this I do recommend Condemned 2 to almost any gamer I actually give it a thumbs up.

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