The odds are definitely in the bums' favor, then, but we should point out that the SCU players have far more health and are the only ones who get firearms. There's a free-for-all deathmatch, there's a team deathmatch that pits SCU (Serial Crimes Unit) operatives against "influenced" bums and bad guys, and then there are two more imaginative modes titled "bum rush" and "crime scene." Bum rush pits two SCU players with only one life each against up to six influenced players who can respawn as many times as it takes them to kill the SCU pair. There are firearms in Condemned 2 as well, of course, but nothing says "I have respect for your work and hope that it's mutual" quite like an up-close-and-personal melee kill.Ĭondemned 2: Bloodshot will offer four quite varied multiplayer modes that support up to eight players online, three of which are team-based. What ensued was one of the more memorable press events that we've attended in recent months, as editors from rival publications went after each other armed with bricks, toilet seats, meat hooks, taxidermy knives, sledgehammers, batons, drive shafts, pipes, and anything else that came to hand.
Earlier this month, during a visit to the San Francisco headquarters of Sega of America, we were invited to join an eight-player Condemned 2: Bloodshot multiplayer session alongside other members of the media.