Almost everything you want to know about Condemned 2

by Nick Doerr { Aug 22nd 2007 at 7:30PM }

Condemned was a launch title for the 360 -- it was mostly overshadowed by other 360 launch titles, but those who played it derived more enjoyment from it than they honestly expected to. It was creepy, violent, and overall a good experience to introduce them to the new off-white console. Condemned 2 is coming and it's not just on the 360 -- it's coming to the PS3 as well. Here's what PSU learned about the upcoming game in an interview with senior producer Dave Hasle:

There's more open-endedness when it comes to forensic parts of the game -- your power of observation and tools to use are entirely up to you. If you feel like it, you can skip right past those bits and continue fighting baddies. Whatever you prefer.
While that sounds open-ended, the overall experience will be quite linear. We expect one, maybe two endings depending on how involved you get in the story.
Weapon count right now is at 60, might hit 90 by the time the game finishes up. Throwing weapons are making a pretty big impact on the dev team: bowling pins, booze bottles, etc.
No cross-platform play, but online modes to be announced later. Monolith has already murmured of an online co-op feature, but until super-duper official announcements are made, we'll take that with a grain of salt.
No Sixaxis features implemented. Take that as good or bad, whatever your taste.

We didn't go into the storyline or other, more particular, features of the game to save the surprises for our readers who like to stay in the dark on some things. If you are curious, though, check out the full interview and become a knowledgeable person ... about Condemned 2. It's slated for a Spring '08 release, so until then, we'll keep looking for more info.

Tags: condemned2, monolith

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

MYPS3KilledMy360 @ Aug 22nd 2007 7:43PM

Dead Rising 2 anyone?
so called ton of games second installments show up on the PS3. 360 has survive by 3rd party devs not true exclusives but good timing. 360 is good but people hold it up 2 high.

apease @ Aug 22nd 2007 7:49PM

Wow, it's not a good sign if it was overshadowed by launch titles for the 360.

Consolcwby @ Aug 22nd 2007 8:47PM

Quoted: **PSU: What differences, even if minimal, are there between the 360 version of this game and the PlayStation 3 version? Would you consider one version technically better than the other one?

Dave: Our differences are minimal at this time, mostly on the technical back-end side such as memory management and modifications for the rendering. On the game side, there are some things that we want to do but only time will tell – so I am going to keep this under my hat for now.**

This is too bad. It means, like with GTA4, that the PS3's textures will be compressed again! And the game will probably be 720p native. Again. The only thing that will be good is probably a 60fps game. I guess as long as it is spooky, it will do it's job - but quite frankly, I'm kinda disappointed in hearing this from Monolith.

x silence x @ Aug 22nd 2007 8:19PM

The original condemned was not over shadowed... It just wasn’t all that good. Most of the time your in a pitch black room and can't see much. Also, they had the shiniest textures and it made it hard to look at most of time. This game is a Meh...

Tim @ Aug 22nd 2007 8:23PM

1 Was a terrific game, but the investigation stuff was soo tacked on, and by the sounds of it, it is like that once again. They should prob not even have it in as the fun combat system is really the main thing one plays it for.

Killer @ Aug 22nd 2007 9:56PM

@Myps3Killedmy360

"Dead Rising 2 anyone?"

That has something to do with this? How? :/ Ps. Capcom has stated (even though companies do lie alot) That there isn't even a Dead Rising 2 in development...

@apease

The game was great as a launch title. Just that the gameplay of killing the people, got extremely repetative (even on the demo). So that might have stopped people from buying it. It did me, anyway.

@x silence x

Agreed. That was another reason about the game that came into concideration.