#9 Condemned
What’s better than a regular brawl? Right! Bum fights! This is what Condemned delivered. All bums, all the time. Also some crazy junkies. And maybe aliens! A lot of (virtual) people got their faces realigned during the course of this game. One of the few successful first person melee games, Condemned let you literally throw everything and the kitchen sink at its transient enemies.
Also, true to form, the game ended with hero Ethan Thomas beating the crap out of some weird alien dude. Also not forgotten are the regular deluges of teeth and eyeballs that flew across the screen whenever a particularly nasty punch connected. Yeah, Condemned featured some gratuitous beatings all right. And there hasn’t been anything like it since.
