Once again, you play the role of Ethan Thomas, a member of a special FBI unit sent into investigate the mass insanity and violence among the homeless in Metro City. You actually start off as one of those people, although without the madness. The special unit recruits you back to help find your mentor. You'll also discover that the Serial Killer X, which you thought you killed in the first game, is alive and you'll have to hunt him down again.

Let's start off by saying this game feature plenty of blood and pagan-like scenes of ritual human sacrifice. And since there's ritual sacrifice, there is a cult you'll have to uncover. You do this by beating the crap out of everything you find with your fists, melee weapons, or guns. Although just like the first game, guns and ammo come in short supply so get ready to fight with your hands or whatever.

You'll have to "investigate" scenes, which provide you with upgrades if you did the investigation correctly. The upgrades tend to improve your health or armor since you'll need as much of them as possible in this game. You can perform combos, but you still have a few powers you can use to take out the tough enemies, which come in all shapes and disguises. Almost all of them have been affected by the madness.

Graphicwise, the game is good, with solid textures. The characters do show a lack of complexity compared to other games and the environment is lacking in that same complexity. You can use some attacks based on the environment like shoving a person into a burning fire. One thing should be noted, the game is very dark with everything happening at night or in abandoned buildings. The game is also very quiet in the sound department.

The Condemned 2 features multiplayer with deathmatch and two unique modes that are forgettable. The online mode is average with a few maps and supporting only eight players. The game is mainly single player. We think it's a good game if you like melee combat and ridiculous amounts of gore with just crazy looking people to beat to death.