Condemned PC trial

Fruity, psycho detective FPS Condemned: Criminal Origins is due out on the PC in a fortnight's time, and to get you in the mood SEGA and developer Monolith have put together a demo.

Available now, it's 455MB and features the first level, which introduces the player to some of his forensic tools at a murder scene and then turns into a nasty chase through a building.

As you quite probably remember, Condemned was one of the Xbox 360's launch titles, and we thought it was pretty respectable, even if some of us never quite got past laughing at the effects you could get by playing with the shadows and melee attacks - this writer's favourite being the "Hitler foot salute".

I probably shouldn't write things like that really.