Condemned 2: Bloodshot

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Plot
Players will assume the identity of Ethan Thomas, the former Special Crimes Unit investigator, who’s been called back to duty to track down his missing partner.

The disturbing events from Ethan’s past have left him a broken man – a desperate burnout, drifting aimlessly through a society in inexplicable decline. Fighting inner demons throughout his one-man investigation into a sinister conspiracy, Ethan will need to use anything and everything in the environment to survive as he unravels the mysteries shrouding the city in darkness.

Condemned 2 begins about one year after the events that occurred in the previous installment, Condemned: Criminal Origins. The many strange and unexplainable things that happened to Ethan in the past have left him a desperate burnout, homeless, and a drunk. Killing about 200 people in the first game, Ethan is now prone to many more hallucinations and strange visions that are mostly made up in his mind. It has been confirmed that the fact that Ethan has become an alcoholic will somehow be played into the storyline, but any details on the subject have not yet surfaced.

Greg Grunberg will not be voicing Ethan in Condemned 2 mostly due to the personality change.

Single player
As Ethan, players will engage in visceral combat using a variety of firearms, blunt instruments and an all-new fighting system complete with defensive and offensive combo chains. It is rumored that grapple moves may feature also. There will be four layers of combat. fist fighting(combos), melee weapons(can be thrown), firearms, and over 40 finishing moves. You can also buy upgrades with points you earn by being creative with your destruction. Forensics will also earn you points to upgrade; three known upgrades are brass knuckles, steel toed boots, and shoulder mounted flashlight.

Multi-player:
The game features 4 multiplayer modes:

-Deathmatch - The player to reach the kill limit or the player with the most kills at the end of the time limit wins.

-Team Deathmatch - 2 teams of multiple players try and get the most kills.

-Bum Rush - A time based game. SCU Agents versus Influenced bums. The SCU cannot respawn, and must last as long as possible against the bums.

-Crime Scenes - Another gametype pitting the SCU agents against the Influenced. The Influenced must hide two cases of evidence, while the SCU agents must use their equipment to find the evidence before time runs out.

Some moves and weapons from single player are not present in multiplayer. These include the stun gun, kicks, chain attacks, and environmental kills.

The first one was actually pretty cool. Scared the crap out of me though.

I wish that the first was available for PS3. It looks very good.

Haha, Bum Rush. 😛

Always been a big fan of Monolith games and this game looks just as good there other ones.

Considering I recently replayed No One Lives Forever for the hundreth time, I cant wait.

Loved the first and I consider the game that freaked me out the most. Monolith is very good at scary FPS games.

Why the multiplayer...Why???? For godsake...Every single FPS game now has to have a multiplayer?? They mostly suck like Blacksite, SoF and so...Why? Noone actually plays it online and the achievements for the 360 are sometimes hard as hell. I don't get it. People will play the mutli for like what, 1 month?? Oh come on...

Who cares if there is MP.

It's an added bonus to have MP, it doesnt hurt the overall game.

Nice examples of games you have thier. Area 51 Blacksite and Soldier of Fortune.....pretty shit games.

I liked the first game... so I may give this one a spin... doubt I'll bother with mutliplayer though

Me niether. Monolith MP's are rarely interesting in my opinion.

I played through this game last week, followed by the original after that(first time). I really liked it, and I believe its much better than the original. The level design, the drunken/supernatural moments, the new CSI mechanics, and deeper combat all make the game much better than the original.

I also personally like the new take on Ethan in "Bloodshot", I love Heroes but the original Ethan acted and sounded completely clueless("the trail ends at these lockers"...."have you looked inside?"😉. I dont see any resemblance to the old Ethan, but who cares, he is badass and actually knows what the hell is he doing.

He's a ***** in this game....

I really liked it. The last level I played until my save got mysteriously delated was the cabin. It was pretty damn sweet and very interesting.

I had a ****ed up glitch, in one level you have to throw bombs out of a window before they explode, well the game autosaved 1 second before one bomb missed and bounced back to me, so I loaded up and died instantly. 🙄

BTW, im very excited for the sequel, I hope the game sells enough to earn it.

That sucks.

I hate it when developers dont give a few options to load your game from different points.

I dont really know if you can do that in Condemned 2 but it should be mandatory that developers give you an option to do that so you dont have to restart the level, or not have the ability to go to a previous checkpoint.

Especially in this game on where the checkpoints are in weird places.

thought the first one was a piece of shit. I doubt i'll play this one at all, but i hope it is stunning and that something convinces me to play it.

Originally posted by Smasandian
That sucks.

I hate it when developers dont give a few options to load your game from different points.

I dont really know if you can do that in Condemned 2 but it should be mandatory that developers give you an option to do that so you dont have to restart the level, or not have the ability to go to a previous checkpoint.

Especially in this game on where the checkpoints are in weird places.

Yeah, it wasnt bad, but it did piss me off enough to quit playing for a few hours. Plus it made me do that damn

Spoiler:
bear

Yeah, that sequence is pretty easy once you know it.

Pretty much the whole game is pretty easy in terms of puzzles once you know it.

It's kinda of the theme of the game.

I remember playing the demo of the first Condemmed.

It felt like CSI meets Land of the Dead. lol

Yeah, I really liked the CSI moments in the sequel, I honestly wish there were more of them.

Ill pass

or steal it from my friend

I downloaded the PS3 demo last night.

Although it was a pretty short demo, I liked what I saw. The story seemed kinda weird and unfinished, but it seemed easy enough to get into.

I might have to rent this.