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Being homeless you thought that life couldn't get any worse. That was until your squat was raided by two meat-heads brandishing the marks of Harry Porchello; Staffordshire's answer to the Mexico Gulf Cartel. The bruts remind you how two years ago you borrowed money from the mobster without knowing about his connections to crime. You should have done your homework on him first! Your original debt has amassed a huge amount of interest and Porchello demands repayment...imediately. Porchello has it all mapped out for you. He wants you to pull off a complicated heist in three days; failure to comply leaves your sister and niece in mortal peril. So, what do you do? Do you choose to run or fight, squeal or steal? Will you live or die? As the reader you will make all the decisions. Choose wisely!
308 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 28, 2014
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July 25, 2025
Never actually read it.
Just so everyone knows. The cover is cropped from the cover of the Xbox 360 launch title Condemned: Criminal Origins.
It was a decent game. From Monolith, the same people that made F.E.A.R. Condemned: Criminal Origins is that game where you’re an FBI agent, except instead of doing cool CSI stuff or arresting bad guys, you mostly wander through buildings that look like they were condemned during the Civil War, hitting deranged hobos with rusty pipes. You play as Ethan Thomas, a guy who constantly looks like he just woke up on a bus bench. The game throws you into these dark, rotting environments filled with creepy mannequins and guys who seem like they’ve been waiting their whole lives to jump out of a closet and beat you to death with a broken 2x4
The combat system is raw and clumsy, but in kind of a perfect way. You just grab whatever’s around, every fight feels like a prison brawl, with enemies snarling and charging at you like they haven’t eaten in days and think your face is food. Sometimes you get a taser, which is basically “God Mode” for five seconds, but most of the time it’s just block, swing, pray. You have to check it out on YouTube.
There’s a story somewhere, buried beneath all the drywall dust and blood spatter. You’re chasing a serial killer, or maybe a bunch of them, but it goes off the rails fast. The deeper you go, the more people talk about voices and visions and birds, and by the time you’re fighting a shirtless man in a meat locker while hallucinating your own mental breakdown, you’ve sort of accepted that none of this is going to make sense.
It’s janky, repetitive, and deeply unsettling and… I kinda love it. No game has ever made me this scared of a guy with no shirt and a pipe. It’s not refined horror.
It’d be crazy if this book was related. But nope! Hope you read this and can go watch some videos about Condemned! Considering they took the time to steal its assets.
Just so everyone knows. The cover is cropped from the cover of the Xbox 360 launch title Condemned: Criminal Origins.
It was a decent game. From Monolith, the same people that made F.E.A.R. Condemned: Criminal Origins is that game where you’re an FBI agent, except instead of doing cool CSI stuff or arresting bad guys, you mostly wander through buildings that look like they were condemned during the Civil War, hitting deranged hobos with rusty pipes. You play as Ethan Thomas, a guy who constantly looks like he just woke up on a bus bench. The game throws you into these dark, rotting environments filled with creepy mannequins and guys who seem like they’ve been waiting their whole lives to jump out of a closet and beat you to death with a broken 2x4
The combat system is raw and clumsy, but in kind of a perfect way. You just grab whatever’s around, every fight feels like a prison brawl, with enemies snarling and charging at you like they haven’t eaten in days and think your face is food. Sometimes you get a taser, which is basically “God Mode” for five seconds, but most of the time it’s just block, swing, pray. You have to check it out on YouTube.
There’s a story somewhere, buried beneath all the drywall dust and blood spatter. You’re chasing a serial killer, or maybe a bunch of them, but it goes off the rails fast. The deeper you go, the more people talk about voices and visions and birds, and by the time you’re fighting a shirtless man in a meat locker while hallucinating your own mental breakdown, you’ve sort of accepted that none of this is going to make sense.
It’s janky, repetitive, and deeply unsettling and… I kinda love it. No game has ever made me this scared of a guy with no shirt and a pipe. It’s not refined horror.
It’d be crazy if this book was related. But nope! Hope you read this and can go watch some videos about Condemned! Considering they took the time to steal its assets.
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