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Condemned: Criminal Origins (X360)
 My friend Dan, who's been telling me to get an Xbox 360 for the last year or so, told me I should download the demo of "Condemned" from the Xbox Live Marketplace. I remembered that Condemned was a 360 launch title and, wrongly, I assumed this meant it'd be clunky and/or rushed and I wouldn't be too impressed. Wrong!
Condemned is produced by Sega of America in association with Warner Brothers. It shows. The game has a sort of Max Payne-like cinematic quality that I can't quite put my finger on, and although I'd have loosened up the controls a little bit if I'd been in charge, it plays really well as a result. You play a forensic investigator (right?) and in the demo, you have to investigate a murder scene inside an apartment block. Eventually you have to navigate through the place in the dark, and use pipes from walls, boards with nails in 'em and so on, to fend off psychos that run at you from the dark.
Speaking of dark... normally I complain that video games have gotten too dark and depressing looking and that this needs to change. Games like Condemned are the exception, because it creeps you out and makes a bigger deal of what you DON'T see than what you do. Magnifique! I just bought it for £12.99 from Gameplay (UK release, region free). Hoozah!
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