New Condemned could happen if indies take the lead

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Are you still waiting for a third Condemned game almost seven years later? It looks like franchise co-creator Jace Hall, who owns the rights, doesn't intend to pick the series back up any time soon… so he wants to give it to someone else to work on, instead.

The Condemned series stars Ethan Thomas, a crime scene investigator with a penchant for bare-knuckle brawling and stumbling upon the chilling plots of criminally insane sociopaths. Hall said people regularly ask him if and when a follow-up to 2008's Condemned 2: Bloodshot will happen, so the new development team would have a ready built audience.

He didn't mention how it would also need to manage years worth of expectations, but that sounds like a worthwhile tradeoff when getting people to acknowledge your existence is one of the toughest parts of independent development.

According to the post, Hall is still mulling the idea over - if you feel strongly one way or the other, hop on the comments and let him know what you think. And while we're at it, who would you like to see pick up the rusty pipe and get Condemned?

Connor Sheridan
Connor Sheridan

I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar.