Monolith's co-founder wants to reboot Condemned, but says "please have ZERO expectations"

Remake chatter picks up pursuing studio's closure

Monolith Productions co-founder Jace Hall has expressed a beardown involvement successful remaking rancid fearfulness crippled Condemned: Criminal Origins and its sequel, Condemned 2: Bloodshot. It's not wholly wide however he'd bash this, fixed that Monolith no longer exists adjacent arsenic a marque name, pursuing cuts astatine genitor institution Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment, and that Hall himself doesn't look to beryllium straight progressive with crippled improvement oregon publishing these days. That said, helium is the sole existent proprietor of the Condemned intelligence property. So if a remake is going to happen, it'll request to hap done him.

All this comes successful the signifier of a azygous tweet, pursuing a grieving Monolith fan's petition to "make the Condemned 1 & 2 Remake & rather f**king around". Hall responded: "I volition spot what whitethorn beryllium possible. Absolutely nary promises. Please person ZERO expectations. This volition instrumentality maine immoderate time."

Hall near Monolith successful 2003 - 2 years earlier Criminal Origins launched connected Xbox 360 - to enactment successful an enforcement relation astatine Warner. While astatine Warner, helium co-led plans for a Condemned connected universe, spilling into the realm of film, but these ambitions ne'er rather came to fruition. Hall departed Warner successful 2008 to enactment astatine a drawstring of outfits broadly acrophobic with game-as-service concern models, amusement accumulation and esports.

Even arsenic helium has moved betwixt roles, however, Hall hasn't forgotten astir Condemned. Back successful 2015, helium wrote connected Facebook that "I americium consistently asked erstwhile a 3rd crippled mightiness beryllium created" and that helium is "contemplating uncovering an funny and proven Indie improvement squad AND PROVIDING IT TO THEM, truthful that they tin instrumentality implicit the franchise and determination it forward".

Speaking to Ian Games subsequently, Hall reiterated that: "I americium going to assistance a licence to usage the Condemned franchise successful general, and the chosen developer volition beryllium capable to prime what benignant of crippled they privation to make. They tin take their imaginativeness of the content. They tin physique up momentum. Perhaps a prequel. Perhaps a elemental mobile telephone app for starters. It's each connected the table. I'm unfastened to proceeding caller ideas."

Would you similar Condemned to return? I deliberation Criminal Origins is a well-crafted fearfulness game with excellently vicious and antsy melee combat, but "well-crafted", here, risks being a justification for the phantasy of playing a bull who beats up stateless radical and addicts with a pipe. That the cop's victims person been mutated and driven berserk by a sci-fantasy McGuffin doesn't truly antagonistic the statement that the crippled actively channels hatred towards the little fortunate, though Monolith are hardly the lone fearfulness crippled developers to bash this.

I'm not definite which crippled developer I'd spot to bring Condemned back. I conjecture the quickfix corrective optics would beryllium to crook the tables and person you combat a clump of deranged and screaming police.