Players will assume the identity of Ethan Thomas, former Serial Crimes Unit investigator, who has been called back to duty to track down his missing partner. The disturbing events from Ethan’s past have left him a broken man – a desperate burnout drifting aimlessly through society in an inexplicable decline. Fighting inner demons throughout his one-man investigation into a sinister conspiracy, Ethan will need to use anything and everything in the environment to survive as he unravels the mysteries shrouding the city in darkness.

As Ethan, players will engage in visceral combat using a variety of firearms, blunt instruments and an all-new fighting system complete with defensive and offensive combo chains, as well as grapples and holds. To help track the killer and solve the mysteries behind Condemned 2: Bloodshot, players will crack open an all-new set of high-tech forensic tools. Using wits and brute strength, murders can be solved a number of different ways to keep players guessing throughout each suspenseful investigation.

The lead character from Condemned: Criminal Origins was Ethan Thomas - who will carry his role forward with Condemned 2. Ethan Thomas was an investigator, one of the best in fact, in the Serial Crimes Unit - referred to as the SCU. But lately his cases kept coming up cold. It wasn't until his fateful meeting with a stranger called Malcolm Vanhorn that he realized that there were events happening outside of his control. He also realized that there was something different, something special, about him when he found himself thrown out of a fourth-floor window - and survived.

Achievement Description Points Anger Management Complete 10 emotional responses 10 Beat Cop Complete a mission 10 Big-Game Hunter Take out 10 enemies with the antler 10 Self Medicated (Bleeding Gums Murphy) Need to heal yourself for 1000 points of health - Renamed 'Self Medicated' for legal reasons. 25 Can You Hear Me Now? All oro speakers destroyed 30 Chain Gang Successfully execute each attack chain 5 times 30 Chief Investigator Complete All Missions (Hard difficulty) 50 Decisive Restraint Don't Kill a Single Museum Guard 25 Detective Complete Mission (fps mode) 30 Detective - First Grade Complete All Missions (fps mode) 50 EPA (Environmental Pwnage Area) Successfully execute 25 environmental finishing moves 25 Bloodshot Complete missions 2,3,4,6,8 to unlock each new FC - Unlock all for Achievement 25 Final Word Complete first environmental finishing move 10 Flambe Take out 10 enemies with the flask/taser fire attack 25 Gold-Plated Get the GOLD BADGE for every mission in any difficulty level 50 GOOOAAAALLLL! Take out 5 enemies with the fooseball piece 10 Investigator Complete Mission (Hard difficulty) 25 Master Investigator Earn the maximum amount of investigator points for all forensic sequences 30 Sleuth Get a PERFECT score in an Forensic Event 10 The Plumber Take out 50 enemies with the pipe 25 Trooper Complete All Missions (any difficulty) 30 Tune In Tokyo Collect all TVs in each Mission 30 Single-Player Total 565 Ala Mode Play 5 games in all MP modes 25 Brick Wall Complete 5 Successful Blocks 10 Bum King Survive Bumrush match without firing a single shot as SCU 5 times 30 Collector Successfully collect the evidence (as SCU) 5 times in Crime Scene mode 25 Cut-Throat Perform 25 finishing moves 30 Defender Successfully defend the evidence (as Infected) 10 times in Crime Scene mode 25 Just The Facts Crime Scene: Collect the Evidence 10 Times 10 Magellin Play each MP map 5 times 25 MP Overachiever Win a DM match (with at least 15 kills) without dying 50 Punch-Drunk Kill 10 Players with fists only 10 Restraint - Not Win as SCU without firing a shot 10 times 30 Rush Champ Bum Rush: Eliminate the SCU 5 Times 25 Serial Killer Kill 1000 players in MP 50 Sidekick Assist in scanning evidence in Crime-Scene Mode 10 SKX Kill 9 unique players with the Serial Killer 50 Survivor King Bum Rush: Survivor (SCU) 5 Times 30 Multiplayer Total 435 OVERALL TOTAL 1000

Condemned 2's going to pick up Ethan's life about a year later - now totally down on his luck. He is angry, bitter, and struggling to drown out the memories that keep replaying in his head. He has lost his direction, focus, and has been holding the world to blame - and still not quite able to figure out what had happened and who, or what, had brought him down. All he knows is that someone is going to pay as he tries to figure out what is going on.

There will be some familiar faces for fans of Condemned: Criminal Origins. Rosa, Ethan's stable sidekick, is coming back as well as a few others. Monolith made some stronger visual statements with their haracters, including Ethan himself, a greater range of characters as well as AI go with them this time around.

Condemned 2 offers a more straightforward story that will grab the player from the moment they pick up the controls and carry them to the end - and leave them with a satisfied grin on their face. The story works on a multitude of levels: there are the 'inner-demons' that plague Ethan, Ethan's reputation with the SCU, the ominous presence that seems to still haunt him, the reason for the pervasive violence throughout the city and the struggle to not only understand it but to end it while coming to terms with his own true self.

Taking the Condemned universe to a new level, Condemned 2: Bloodshot introduces a variety of thrilling online multiplayer modes, including deathmatch, that promise to deliver the most brutal hand-to-hand combat experience the first person genre has ever seen.

Multiplayer Modes:

• Crime Scene is an innovative round-based competition to find and protect valuable evidence within the Condemned universe. One team will use their forensic tools to track and scan the evidence while the opposing team will do everything in their power to keep the evidence hidden and protected.
• Bum Rush is a team-based race against time. With three minutes before one team can safely be evacuated, players must hold off an onslaught of attacks by the other team until the timer runs out in order to stand a chance of survival.
• Deathmatch is the classic free-for-all mode. Players can use every weapon they can find to dispatch enemies as quickly as possible in this melee battle royale. The player with the highest score at the end of the time limit wins.
• Team Deathmatch is the team-based version of the classic free-for-all mode. Working together, players pick up weapons from the environment and fight off as many enemies as possible before the clock runs down. The team with the highest score after the time limit wins.

Condemned 2: Bloodshot will launch on PS3 and Xbox 360, March 11, 2008

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