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Back at E3 2006, I had a chance to sit down with Condemned 2: Bloodshot's producer, Conatantine Hantzopoulos, who showed me an early demo of the game. The focus was mostly on the game's enhanced forensics mode, the expanded and impressive combat system. Along with this, Hantzopoulos also demoed what he called "Hobo Fight Club."

In this sneak peek at tonight's X-Play hands-on of Condemned 2, Hantzopoulos goes into detail about this new mode, which is now been renamed "Bloodshot Fight Club." As not to upset the strong hobo gaming community, I'm sure. The object remains the same -- it's you versus a collection of the game's dirty, bloodthirsty hobos. Thrown in a room, you're left to not only defend yourself, but to bloody the crap out of as many opponents as possible. As you can see from the demo, the combat system has been markedly improved from the first game, with context sensitive actions, and nifty environmental brutality.

Tonight's X-Play will feature even more footage when the show airs on G4 at 8pm ET/PT. Also to make you insanely jealous, Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb will also go head-to-head in Smash Bros. Brawl on the Wii, further perpetuating the completely unwarranted and immature disdain some of your guys seem to have for the hosts.


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HarassmentPanda's Avatar
HarassmentPanda at 02/04/2008 13:58
I'm going to try and catch this episode. I'm excited for Condemned 2 and I'd like to see how it's coming along. What did you think of the early demo?
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Nick Chester at 02/04/2008 14:05
@ Harassment:

I was pretty impressed with the variety of the combat. There's some pretty great things you can do (pull arms out of sockets, smash people through televisions, light people on fire), and most of that was said to translate into the multiplayer experience, which is even more exciting. It was interesting to see a first-person game that wasn't necessarily a "shooter" per se, get an online mode I was interested in. Hopefully it'll come together.

The forensic stuff was also very cool. It was definitely more puzzle oriented, with the game asking you questions (is the subject male? female? old? young? did someone drag the body from another location?) that would help you "solve" crimes. Seems like a cool idea, and I was told they'd be (mostly) optional.
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brainderailment at 02/04/2008 14:05
What's the release date on that shit? I want to buy it now.
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AngelsDontBurn at 02/04/2008 14:14
God I seriously can't wait.
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VWGTI at 02/04/2008 14:21
That looks so incredible! Despite the first game being a sleeper, it looks like they've realized there is much potential in this series. My hats off to the developers. Very well done it seems.
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MechaMonkey at 02/04/2008 14:29
1) Kick baby.
2) Pick up baby, pull pin.
3) Throw baby.
4) ???
5) PROFIT!
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Holiday at 02/04/2008 14:32
The original Condemned wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. The first gameplay footage looked like Bum Fights with crowbars. But it turned out the game had a decent story and characters as well as a spooky atmosphere. The melee combat was a little overdone though and gave me a headache.

Condemned 2 looks like instead of building a better storyline, characters and overall game experience they just went the cheap route and just added to the melee combat and included some more macabre finishing moves. It's like Rambo-syndrome where each new installment they just make the body count higher and the kills more gruesome.
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Fuzzy at 02/04/2008 14:48
@brainderailment: It comes out March 12th. Check out www.familyvideo.com to get it on the cheap (no tax, $0.99 shipping).

I have high hopes for the story and gameplay in C2. The backstory that was unlocked by completing achievements in the first one was super creepy and I would love to have it expanded on.

*possible spoiler alert*
Did anyone else notice that the level with the babies in it looks a lot like the last house with Serial Killer X from the first Condemned? Maybe we'll be revisiting old haunts?
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Jonathan Kerr at 02/04/2008 14:48
Well that explains the exploding baby phenomenon.
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Dukeman330 at 02/04/2008 15:04
I think exploding babies would make any game better.
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Capn Birdseye at 02/04/2008 15:20
Condemned was awesome. At first i thought it looked like a generic fps, but since there wasn't much else out on 360 at launch, I gave it a go. It had atmosphere in spades and was really enjoyable overall.

I might give it another play through before 2 comes out...
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Necros at 02/04/2008 15:50
I'm missing this, but it looks like a good game.
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HarassmentPanda at 02/04/2008 16:13
I hope all that new melee combat translates well to a multiplayer game. In my experience, first person melee combat is infinitely frustrating online.
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Jetsetlemming at 02/04/2008 17:51
That looks pretty damn cool, but for most of it I couldn't help but be reminded by the character movements and looking around that it was a console game being controlled with a stick, and it kinda ruined it for me. Of course, it'll probably be a 360 exclusive anyway, so impressing me really isn't sometihng the devs probably care too much about. "Oh no the PC gamer who owns no later console than a PS2 is disturbed by our camera movements and console connection!? BWAHAHAHAHA"

:(
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Fading Star at 02/04/2008 20:31
Please don't suck.
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