Taking the sequel into unexpected territory.

The original Condemned was a great game with a story that was more than a little vague. At the end of the game you were probably left scratching your head. The recent announcement of the movie based on the Condemned universe, The Unforgettable, may shed some light on the direction of the game's sequel.

The movie was actually first announced as Species X (no relation to the Natasha Henstridge films) before Condemned even hit the shelves and was always planned as a tie-in to the series, to be released alongside "a planned sequel to the game that will expand the universe of the original."

The weird thing is that the movie is apparently about a "war between good and evil aliens" which the first game certainly was not. Since they are still billing the film as a tie-in to the games it's looking like this alien war may feature prominently in Condemned 2: Bloodshot. While introducing aliens into a storyline that seemed to be more supernatural or psychological seems odd, at the very least this has been their plan all along.

Condemned 2 is currently scheduled to be released in February 2008 so a summer release for The Unforgettable isn't out of the question.

[Hollywood Reporter via Kotaku]