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The game does not end this time around when you beat the single player story mode. There is a Fight Club mode, which consists of a few ring-sized arenas where you must kill enemies in the designated fashion. For instance, in one fight club level, you must destroy 100 exploding dolls before they kill you. The online leader boards are your only competition in this mode. The main addition to the single player mode though is the multiplayer mode. You can now go online or use system link with Condemned, and play a sort of deathmatch psychos-versus-cops game or a made called Crime Scene. I urge you to disregard the deathmatch game as it is more of a dark mess than anything else. No matter which team you are on, you just find the other team’s members and kill them. Since the cops start out with guns and the psychos start out with whatever they find, it brings to mind the old saying – you don’t bring a knife to a gunfight. Enough said. The Crime Scene multiplayer game still pits psychos against CTU cops, but this mode has more of an objective based goal. The psychos are there to prevent the cops from finding a box. Inside this box is, what else, a head! The psycho team can move the box at any time, or even use false box emitters to mess with the electronics the CTU uses to help find the “head in the box.” The mode is fun, for sure, but this one decent multiplayer mode sadly is not enough to save the non-single player game in C2. It was a decent try to add something more to an inherently single player genre, but it falls flat. You will probably spend an hour or two at most in multiplayer. It also only supports 8 players at once, 4 on a team. Who knows, may be 24 psychos rioting against 24 cops might have been crazy fun. As I said in the beginning, Condemned 2 is a sequel, and this comes with many strings attached. As long as the game advances the franchise, then sequels are fine with me, and Condemned 2 really does accomplish this task. Sure, there are flaws, and the story is much more pinned down this time around, but that was unavoidable when you have to make a sequel story stand on its own and follow another game at the same time. Since the originality factor has been killed by the game being a sequel, there are only the game’s additions to rely on. Since Monolith did add a good amount to the game, I can truly say that Condemned 2 accomplishes its job as a second installment. The game play improvements, storyline wrap-ups, and game engine tweaks overshadow the shortcomings enough to still provide a scary ride through the world of Condemned. The game is short, only 8 or 10 hours to finish, but it is worth the money if you are able. |
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