Condemned: Criminal Origins

Condemned: Criminal Origins is a classic first person horror game that still holds up today. Its gameplay is fun, if a bit repetitive and a bit challenging. The graphics have aged a bit, but not so much as to make the game unplayable. The horror aspects are still effective and the story is interesting to follow along. My only real complaint is that the sequel, Condemned 2: Bloodshot, is not listed on Steam for purchase. Hopefully one day that changes as I much preferred its combat system.

Sadly, I cannot recommend it to people on modern hardware. While the game itself is a classic, I'll have to give this version, specifically, a thumbs down. This is going to be hardware specific, but on modern machines, it's completely unplayable in its current state - at least it was for me. When I first booted up the game, I was getting around 250-ish fps (which in of itself seems pretty low, considering its age), but it would then gradually get lower and lower until it would hover around 30-40 fps, and when moving around, it would drop even lower. I also experienced visual and auditory glitches.

Game is good, shame it runs pretty crappy on modern hardware :(

The game is fairly dated and could benefit from a remake/remaster. Still enjoyed it more than most modern slop games. Make sure you check PC Gaming Wiki for a link to install an upscaled texture pack and fixes. Also read on the Nexus page for the texture mod to delete some problematic files.

Really amazing horror game, pretty unacceptable PC port, however this helps with frame rate and there are other mods to make it very enjoyable on modern hardware. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYpVEXYcs_Y

refunded, its really hard to work on modern machine

Played through the first two chapters and got bored. The game is very generic. There's not a lot that makes it stand out from other action horror games. The taser was a cool function, ill give it that, but otherwise it didnt have anything unique or special.

average hunter line commute past 10 pm

Still holds up

if only it wasn't mass fps dropping this game would be fucking spectacular edit: all fixed game is good :)