Hmm, perhaps I judged the demo too quickly. Fair enough...

I just beat the game (for the 360) today. It's incredible and definitely worth playing. The last two levels were incredible tense, and actually had me scared.

Yeah, I agree that Condemned isn't an FPS, but I guess it could be if you were really, really, really good with your ammo.

I still need to get my last 5 achivements. 3 of them I got glitched out of. :(

I have the silver bird award for each level meaing that I found every darn bird in the game. But I didn't get the Gold Bird award.
Also, I found every single piece of metal in the game, and didn't get the 3rd or 4th reports. I got the 1st and 2nd much later then people stated they did as well.
I used the gun a few times, so I have to go through the game again to get the melee gold award. I got the other two melee awards.

I got thirty out of fifty achievements, during my first play through. I plan to play it again, in order to find all of the birds (I got bronze awards in every level, except for Chapter 7 - I found them all in that level) and the metal pieces (I found all of them in the second last level, but only one per level in any of the earlier ones.) I'm also going to try to go through with just using melee combat.

Yep. Not a glich, per se, but a poor programming choice. If you go back through a level and get 2 birds and 3 metal that is your new save game. It doesn't matter if you got all the birds on your previous attempt, your last save is now with 2 birds for that level. Once you reload a chapter the game doesn't see that 5 birds you already have, it sees/sets it to zero. It doesn't seem to know what your previous attempts had.

Kinda hard to explain, but the only way to know for sure is to go through every board and make sure you get EVERY bird and EVERY metal at the same time. That way it saves and sees you have them when you finish the game. No way around it. Same thing happened to me.

Ugh.. what a pain... The only thing I could think that happened then, if that is the case. Was dying in the middle of a chapter and continuing on from the last save point.

That's why I was looking for a save game that had them all to get those achivements. I don't think it can be done though. The one I had found had spotty achivements and didn't get everything.

I guess I should just work through the game again. Shouldn't be too bad since I beat it once. Though that was a couple months ago. Now it will be like playing for the first time all over.

What do you get if you get all the achievments? Are there extra scenes or something?

There are production stills and "propaganda" reports that give you more insight into the story.

Do they help explain the ending? I was pretty confused.

Nope but a sequel is already underway that might help understand the story a bit more.

I'm glad for it, but also annoyed. You should be able to understand each individual story in a series, not have to look at the whole thing to understand the pieces. The whole thing should just give you more insight into the individual pieces, not be necessary for their explanation... anyway... I guess it's all about marketing. What will the next one be called? Condemned: Criminal Future...