Condemned: Criminal Origins
Investigate crime scenes, collect evidence, and bring to light the murderers terrorizing the city as Detective Ethan Thomas. With danger lurking around every corner, you’ll need whatever weapons you can find…
Condemned: Criminal Origins is an adventure developed by Monolith Productions, released 16 November 2005 on Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 8 hrs to finish.
What Condemned: Criminal Origins is
Condemned: Criminal Origins is an adventure game developed by Monolith Productions and released in 2005. It was published by Sega. It is available on Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on LithTech Jupiter EX.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Condemned: Criminal Origins is a 2005 first-person action and survival horror video game for Xbox 360 and Windows. Developed by Monolith Productions and jointly published by Sega and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, it was an Xbox 360 launch title and was released in North America in November 2005, in Europe in December, and in Australia in March 2006. The Windows version was released worldwide in April 2006. Monolith also released an online episodic flash game prequel, and there were plans for a film to expand the Condemned universe, with at least three additional games already mapped out by 2005. However, the film was never made, and the only addition to the franchise was Condemned…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror, mystery and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Condemned: Criminal Origins holds a critic score of 74 out of 100. That places it above 47% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 7 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 77, across 193 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 8 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 11.3 hrs, roughly 1.4 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.0 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon equivalent (2.4 GHz recommended), 512 MB RAM and DirectX 9.0 compatible video card with at least 128 MB video RAM. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 8GB.
What it launched against
Condemned: Criminal Origins launched on 16 November 2005, within three weeks of Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Mario Kart DS, Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005) and Star Wars: Battlefront II. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Mario Kart DS, Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005), Star Wars: Battlefront II.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Condemned: Criminal Origins yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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