Condemned - Xbox 360

The game begins with the protagonist, SCU agent Ethan Thomas, arriving at the scene of a murder. He and his fellow officers go into an abandoned building that is surrounded by psychopaths and criminals. The crime scene they investigate is one of a young woman. She is on the floor with strangulation wounds, sitting across a table from a male mannequin. Ethan, along with his colleagues, agree that the murder was most likely committed by the Match Maker, a serial killer that Ethan has been investigating. After they collect evidence from the scene, one of the officers smells cigarettes smoke. Believing that the smoke must be coming from their suspect, they decide to split up and go after him. While searching for the suspect, Ethan tries to restore power from an electrical box. Due to an electrical surge, Ethan is shocked, and drops to the floor, causing his equipment to be thrown from his hand. A man hiding in the shadows takes it and flees. Ethan manages to chase the man into a small, dead-end room, where the man holds Ethan at gunpoint and tells him they have similar goals. Ethan's colleagues enter the room and tell the man to drop his equipment, and are promptly shot by the man with Ethan's gun, who then shoves Ethan out a window onto the street.

• Although the game is played entirely from a first-person perspective (only broken for ), it is not a traditional .
• Unlike many other games from a first-person perspective, though, are especially deadly, often killing enemies with a single shot.
• The equipment's that can be found, or taken from enemies, are only good for as long as the current ammo in the magazine lasts; once this is depleted, the butt of the equipment can be used as a equipment
• The focus of the experience is on improvised , allowing players and enemies to collect, or even pull, equipment from their surrounding environments, such as pipes, locker doors, shovels, and .