Console/PC Games

[the_dead_man]

warhead is not even worth the download. i had to delete fallout3 for that

6gb for 2.5 hours of play

im getting Condemned - Criminal Origins. should be good with a new mouse

you should be ashamed, deleting fallout3
what's condemned - criminal origins about?

[Noxide]

what's condemned - criminal origins about?

It's quite an old game.
Anyway, this should give you a good idea what it's about



Raw, savage beatings are the order of the day in Condemned: Criminal Origins, an original first-person action game from the makers of F.E.A.R. The game was originally released for the Xbox 360, but has now been faithfully adapted to the PC. You play as an investigator who's struggling to keep his own sanity while tailing a serial killer and facing off against what seems like an army of depraved sociopaths. Condemned's impressive graphics and bone-crushing hand-to-hand combat sequences make for a visceral, highly atmospheric experience that's quite unlike anything you've ever played before. But as great as that may sound, Condemned is something of a one-trick pony, whose monotonous gameplay doesn't quite live up to the quality of the presentation and underlying concept. Don't you dare let that stop you from taking the plunge if the concept intrigues you, though.


If you're familiar with the Xbox 360 version of the game, you'll find a virtually identical game in Condemned for the PC. There are some very slight cosmetic differences in a couple of spots (you're no longer finding Xbox 360s hidden away, and there's a different effect when you die), the default mouse-and-keyboard controls work just fine, and this version is less expensive. Other than that, this is the same fairly brief-but-engaging single-player action game as what Xbox 360 owners got in late 2005.

Condemned is about FBI agent Ethan Thomas, a sullen man who's part of the Serial Crimes Unit, so it's little wonder he isn't more cheerful. The game begins with agent Thomas on a routine assignment: Someone's been brutally murdered in a bad part of town, and he's there with the police to figure out what happened and to clean up any remaining mess. Without spoiling anything, let's just say that things don't quite go according to plan. Thomas winds up implicated in some serious crimes, but not before he has a run-in with some sort of a madman who spares his life--just barely. But why? Bent on finding the truth, his assailant, and his missing pistol, Thomas goes off on his own, with nothing but a cell phone, a Taser-style stun gun, and his forensic tools to aid him. The only other person he can depend on, save himself, seems to be a colleague of his who's willing to stay in touch by phone, helping Thomas to analyze evidence so he can slowly connect the dots that lead to some disturbing discoveries. The dark, engrossing story of Condemned starts out strong and has its moments along the way, but unfortunately, it doesn't take center stage during what's mostly a straight-up action game with an intriguing premise. As Thomas begins to question his own sanity when faced with unbelievable evidence, the narrative purposely takes some incoherent turns, causing you to wonder if there's any hope of a satisfying resolution.

It's too bad the story hadn't been more developed. As it stands, answers to some of the most important questions raised by the game (for example, what the hell is wrong with everybody?) are relegated to loading screens in between chapters rather than to contextual exposition. So instead, what Condemned boils down to is cautiously exploring dark, dilapidated buildings--they're condemned, get it?--while confronting and ruthlessly beating down violent thugs bent on smashing your face in. Except it's not quite as great as that makes it sound, because the dark, dilapidated buildings and, somehow, even the ruthless beatings start to get old some time before the eight or nine hours it takes to finish the game. And optionally collecting bird carcasses and metal pieces hidden throughout each level (don't ask) doesn't add much intrigue. You'll keep waiting for Condemned to throw you a major curveball, since it feels like that sort of game. And it sure comes close, but it never quite goes beyond a threat, merely teasing you with potential while inundating you with repetition.

Condemned is kind of like a first-person shooter, except instead of shooting, there's mostly just a lot of pure, bloody brawling. For some strange reason, there's no real bare-handed combat, but improvised weapons are everywhere. You've got everything from metal pipes to nail-covered two-by-fours to fire axes to sledgehammers to signposts. Each weapon is rated differently for speed, range, power, and defense, though the differences can be pretty subtle. So it'll often come down to a subjective choice: How does that metal conduit strike you? How about that nice concrete-crusted rebar over there? Take your pick and hang on to it, because you can only carry one weapon at a time.


You'll get the impression that the vast majority of effort that went into this game was invested in the interaction between you and your deranged enemies. There's some striking artificial intelligence at work, combined with some amazingly frightening lifelike animations that will make you wince as if in pain or in anticipation of it. Your foes cannot be reasoned with, as they're lunatics with a thirst for blood who'll rush out at you from the shadows, flailing anything they can get their hands on while trying to kill you. They'll scream obscenities and smash things in freakish anger. They'll lie in ambush, and they'll gladly hurt one another--as well as you--just as long as somebody gets hurt. And they won't just stand there and take it as you lash out at them with weapons of your own. As they recoil in pain from your attacks, they'll lurch forward for their next strikes, as if guided by momentum and adrenaline. The best thing to be said about Condemned is that it captures hand-to-hand combat with intense, lifelike brutality like no other game before it.

[the_dead_man]

Take your pick and hang on to it, because you can only carry one weapon at a time.

[the_dead_man]

Rage Impressions - First Look at Shooting, Driving, and Story

By Andrew Park, GameSpot

Over the years, Doom and Quake have been the first-person shooter games that people associate with developer id Software. But the studio has shifted gears to work on Rage, its first all-new property since Quake and a postapocalyptic action game. We finally got the chance to see the game in motion, including the on-foot shooting gameplay, the behind-the-wheel driving, and the story and quest elements.

Rage takes place in an alternate future where the world is recovering from an asteroid hit. You play as the sole survivor of an "Ark," one of several subterranean structures outfitted for about a dozen inhabitants and built by the government to survive the calamity. Though not all of the story details have been made clear, id has revealed that because of his background, your character's body is full of wondrous nanotechnology that will let his body automatically heal itself from injuries over time, as well as defibrillate itself should you fall in battle.

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our character has emerged wearing an "Ark suit," the distinctive clothing that you and your comrades wear, which will also draw unwanted attention from a mysterious and powerful entity in the wasteland known as the Authority. You emerge from the Ark to find a world much different from the one described to you because more people have survived than the government anticipated--cagey, rugged survivors scraping out a living in the deserts of the wasteland and fighting off encroachments from desert bandit groups and armies of angry mutants. You come under fire from bandits the moment you step out into the sun, but you're rescued by a trader named Dan Hagar and pressed into service to help the local settlements conduct trade with Wellspring, the largest hub city in the wasteland.

We began our demonstration with an area that comes up fairly early on--about two hours or so--in the game. Things started with a ride in our four-wheel buggy, which was apparently supplied to us by Dan. After a quick drive through the wilderness, we discovered a shack off the beaten path inhabited by Crazy Joe, a rambling nutcase wearing stained clothes and an enlarged foam novelty hat in the shape of a floppy alien monster. Joe will be one of a number of eccentric characters that id hopes players will find memorable, along with Dan and the other characters that give you odd jobs (and end up at odds with). We took two steps outside Joe's shack and found an ugly mutant skulking on the hill so we dispatched it with a toss of a "wingstick," a player-crafted boomerang that swiftly and effectively knocked out the brute before returning home. Apparently, Rage will have items you can craft and automatically build once you have both the formula and the parts, though designer Matt Hooper explains that the game won't have a giant list of junk. Rather, there will be a handful of useful and powerful items that will come in handy throughout the entire game.

After our brief conversation, we hopped into our buggy to head to Wellspring, but we were sidetracked by bandits driving similar buggies and witnessed our first onboard battle. The car combat in Rage looks fast and brutal, and because the buggies were extremely nimble and could make very sharp turns, the battle we watched was less of a back-and-forth joust and more of a demolition-derby-style smashup. All buggies were equipped with nitrous to grant instant bursts of speed, as well as onboard machine guns that chewed each other up part by part, sending fenders and headlights (and at one point, one of the buggies) flying through clouds of dust.

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We dispatched our foes and made our way to Wellspring--a neutral zone where guns aren't allowed--to visit key locations, such as item shops and the local watering hole where you can take bounties to slay bandits. Wellspring is the location of your personal car garage, which will grow over time as you recover or purchase new vehicles. All vehicles will have four basic statistics: acceleration, suspension, traction, and armor--but you can swap out more or less any major part of your car to enhance its performance. These include stickier tires, a faster engine, and many different types of weapons. The town is also the place to meet key characters, including the mayor, a crotchety old Teddy Roosevelt-esque codger; the sheriff, a lean, tough-talking codger; and the race track manager, who is less of a codger and more of a race jockey. These key contacts are meant to be memorably quirky, but they will also give you a variety of missions that are kept on file in your character's journal. The next mission we took was to hunt down a tribe of bandits to the north known as the Shrouded Clan that was terrorizing the area with remote control cars armed with C4 explosives.

We skipped ahead to the tribe's base of operations, an abandoned military base with a network of tiny tunnels for remote control cars. Fortunately, the sheriff will hand you the plans to craft these cars yourself, and you can send out a few of your own RC bombers to sniff out the gang's stockpile of explosives. Although most of the game is entirely seamless with no loading screens, there will be very brief loads as you transition across areas, such as into towns and missions, but fortunately, bandits won't steal your car while you're on foot.

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The military base was full of twists and turns, as well as orange-hooded bandits who first sent out a small squadron of exploding cars before hopping over the railing and attacking us. Creative director Tim Willits suggests that different bandit clans will not only have different colors and signage to mark their territories, but they will also have different combat behavior. The Shrouded Clan, being holed up in a military base, has a more-organized approach and fights in groups and uses cover intelligently, which would have provided a stiff challenge for a single foot soldier armed with shotguns and pistols. But even the Shrouded Clan bandits had trouble when we reached into our inventory and pulled out crafted "engineering items." We had personal stationary turrets, which sprayed withering fire on any nearby enemies, as well as four-legged sentry bots that not only have mounted machine guns, but can also walk right up to enemies and smack them in the face with a melee attack. With the help of these aids, we took down the installation full of bandits, even the heavy-duty bandits in full body armor, which flew off in pieces with concentrated fire.

After eliminating the bandits, we skipped back to town to visit the track, where we competed for "racing certificates," which are notes that can be won through various race events and exchanged for vehicle upgrades. Among others, Rage will offer time trials, head-to-head races, and bandit-hunting car events. Fortunately, none of the damage your vehicle suffers in a racing event will be permanent or carry over outside of the track, so when you put the pedal to the metal, you can go all-out. We took part in a time-trial-with-bandits race that moved at a brisk pace on a desert track covered with power-up items to boost our ammo and nitrous levels, and we took first place in the race to walk away with the prize money.

We then skipped ahead to a later part of the game, where our goal was to acquire a more-powerful vehicle only accessible in sponsored races. In order to get into a sponsored race, we of course needed a sponsor, whom we found in J.K. Stiles, a fat-faced, grinning media mogul and head of "Mutant Bash TV." This station broadcasts a Running Man-esque TV series that pits contestants against four waves of angry mutants armed with clubs, throwing knives, and fire-flinging jai alai paddles. This challenge is done on foot and takes place in a colorful warehouse-turned-funhouse, with various environmental hazards, such as floor spikes and a gigantic, rotating, blade-armed gorilla (yes, really). The challenge culminated at the fourth wave with a gigantic mutant that had a harpoonlike tentacle for an arm, which we brought down with about a bushel of grenades and a few bushels of shotgun shells.

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Rage looks like it'll have a lot to offer--a heavy-duty on-foot shooting experience with lots of variety; an extremely fast arcade-style racer and car combat game; a graphical showpiece that uses the megatexture feature of the idtech5 engine to virtually stream a huge variety of textures into the game with very few performance demands; a story-driven single-player experience; and a multiplayer experience...to be determined in the future. Id describes the single-player game as "open but directed"--a game that won't necessarily require you to complete every single mission immediately and gives you the freedom to wander while keeping you along the path to completing the story. We'd describe it as an action game worth following.

[apoteka]

It's quite an old game.
Anyway, this should give you a good idea what it's about

i know its old and there is a sequel (but not for pc) but i can play it at high detail and to be honest, it sounds like it will last longer than cod4 or crysis warhead

i need a long fps like fallout3

[the_dead_man]

i know its old and there is a sequel (but not for pc) but i can play it at high detail and to be honest, it sounds like it will last longer than cod4 or crysis warhead

i need a long fps like fallout3

Wait for Rage or play FarCry 2 if you haven't played it yet

[apoteka]

far cry2 it is
i dont think ill be able to play rage

[Noxide]

Assassin's Creed two Screens...

Might have to get this.

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[Ghost]

Assassin's Creed two Screens...

Might have to get this.

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do you know the requirements for this one?

[apoteka]

i dont think these are the screens from the game, but the game is impressive (the couple of minutes i played it)