Condemned: The SPOnG Review

good review.
I would have been a bit more enthusiastic... i really did love this game, ran through it in three sittings... each time with a crowd of 3-5 spectors who where content to just watch it happen. what it lacks in original game play it seriosuly makes up for with atmosphere... and the animation on the bad guys its obsolutley phenominal, if not a bit repetitive.

oh, and i may be wrong but it looked to me lik the flash light was not actually casting shodows. kind of liek doom3 it seems to eluminate surfaces but not cast any shadows... i remeber specifically checkign it on some of the other cops at the very begining. it may have been casting on other objects but the other characters didnt.

either way it doesnt detract from it in anyway. I woudl highly recomend this for anyone who cant decide which one of the perfectly above average launch titles to get.
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I thought I was... :)

I have to agree on the whole spectator aspect you mentioned - it's definitely a game that's almost as much fun to watch as it is to play. At least my girlfriend would agree anyway, although she did have to revert back to reading her book during some of the scarier moments. Chicks, eh? Wusses!

And I tell you one thing I noticed with the lighting - near the beginning, about when you first get your flashlight, there's another agent with one, and his casts shadows on characters, while yours just affects the environments. I thought that a bit odd.

i suppose, but i feel like i would have gone higher than b-.... its kind of like ico... sure its flawed and repetitive... but i relaly didnt notice cause i was having such a good time with it.

you are right about the light at the begining... i assume yours doesnt do real tiem shadows cause it woudl have bogged the game down at points (or it might have actually hurt play by making it to efing hard to see!)... there are alot of things that i think coudl have been made fantastic if this wasnt a launch game.... but i think they made the right dicisons as to what to focus on... some of the... "you need the clever!" things coudl have actually been animated and there for less "Game" and more realistic... but i imagine it was time constraints... gotta choose your battles. In the end, as far as exclusive launch titles go, i think its really top notch.

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