~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~It's a hell of a spoiler so don't read if you don't want to get too far ahead~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~




First off there is a prequel to the game, apparently not very well known, and it is the official work of Monolith and made by the developers. It's sort of an interactive flash game from the perspective of Agent Mallory, a ramdom FBI SCU (Serial Crimes Unit) agent who is working on a case involving a string of murders.

The prequel is here :
http://www.condemnedthegame.com/en/prequel/flash.html


That being said, lets get down to the connections between the crime, bird deaths and metal. It's become obvious by now through the load screens that crime is up all over the city, and that there are massive amounts of dead birds falling from the sky in ironically the same areas of high crime. The addicts, homeless and whatever else are going even more crazy and it seems that there's some sort of sonic disturbance that's liquifying the bird's brains and causing them to die.

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The propaganda reports are unlocked by collecting all the metal pieces and begin to fill in the gaps that the storyline leaves open.
These are the reports :

First Propaganda Report
"TOP SECRET: BLACK CLEARANCE ONLY

FEDERAL BUREAU
Washington, DC

ABSTRACT: #BR314-ZRET
EVIDENCE: #314-23
LOCATION: File Box #B-314
ITEM: Photograph of unidentified markings made at crime scene (see
#CR46X-Special Reference-Serial Deaths Unit)

LINGUISTICS LAB REPORT
(Summary, see full at #B-314, LR/BR314-2, 3, 4):

CLUE ONE

The map to <?> leads to the center
Internalized in the <?> of the soul
One path in, one path out, a <?> that spans both
Center and frontier

SUMMARY: Mix of ancient and contemporaneous languages, both alphabetic and ideographic with a series of Arabic numerals. Significant portions of text are illegible, due to either: a) poor orthography b) intellectual diminishment of
writer or c) lack of skill in writing the "language". Odd features include presence of quite clear words in Mycenaean, Japanese characters, and the aforementioned Arabic numerals, matched with seemingly meaningless hieroglyphics.

Largest group of recognizable characters are representations of what seems to be Minoan Linear A or Linear B script, otherwise known as Mycenaean. Ventris has deciphered Linear B and Lab's best efforts at transliteration and analysis
appear below. Though innumerable attempts have been made to decipher Linear A, success has been minimal.

Since these images are imperfectly inscribed, Lab's confidence level in translation approaches only 60%. More samples need to be acquired for further study. Linguistics database inquiries have uncovered previous similar
linguistic variation symbols. Upon further inquiries through Command for access, FBI Black Ops Command has interceded and stopped all further translation work by Linguistics. Gag directive is currently in place. All
further inquiries have been denied.

ANALYSIS: Based on handwriting analysis, and use of multiple and obscure languages, writer has pretensions and delusions of grandeur. While great effort is made to conceal the meaning, it has been determined by Cryptography
that the piece is most likely double-coded and is not meaningless. Location of find of piece is significant due to crime's severity. Evidence exists that writer of piece may be severely mentally disturbed and extremely dangerous.

Further samples are needed to understand meaning of the translated components.
Further inquiries into Cryptography for support have been denied - FBI Black
Ops Command has terminated their further involvement in this project.
Inquiries require Double Black Clearance."

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Ok, so in case you didn't notice, the stange language the reports are referring to is found on the pieces of metal, hence the idea behind unlocking the reports by collecting the metal. And since the Linguistics lab needs more info, the Black Ops area of the FBI has withheld any more info and put a gag order on the whole thing. Pretty secret stuff...
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Second Propaganda Report
"Federal Bureau
Washington, D.C.

ABSTRACT: #BR329-ZRET
EVIDENCE: #314-46, 47, 48
LOCATION: File Box #B-314
Audio tape of incident at Linguistic Lab (#BRIA-339)
Medical Brain Scan of Dr. Edgar Strevor (employee #136548)

LINGUISTICS LAB REPORT
(Summary, see full at #B-329, LR/BR329-3,4,5): New samples of cryptic writing
have been used to further translate initial piece of evidence (#314-23).
Additional samples have been either unintelligible or so fragmentary as to be
meaningless. Below are all translated fragments so far found:

The revised translation of original piece now reads:

The map to righteousness leads to the center
Internalized in the hole of the soul
One path in, one path out, a thread that spans both
Center and frontier

CLUE TWO

The <?> become the force of darkness
And contain the force of <?> light

ANALYSIS: Dr. Edgar Strevor, before his unfortunate demise, had this to say about the creed: "It seems to be some kind of religious statement. The map is a path to somewhere. There are two separate paths and these paths are a thread that spans both the frontier and something else. In this language system, frontier is an amorphous word. It means other, outer, but from the original pictograph, it also seems to mean human. Very odd.

The two completely translated lines are of especial interest. Note that the recently discovered fragments work well within this interpretation."

NOTE: Linguistics Department will be understaffed until quarterly personnel review. Incident involving the death of two researchers is being investigated
(see Internal Affairs #BIA-339)."
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So..Dr. Strevor is the guy heading up the deciphering project and the "clues" are the inscriptions on the metal. The death of two researchers is referred to here and is explained in the next report.

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[b]Internal Affairs Report
"Agent Frank Szymanski (#241014)
Report:

I was called to the scene of the Linguistics Lab building at approximately 8:30pm Saturday, June 18. I witnessed the body of Edgar Strevor (#136548) on the ground by the front door. He had obviously fallen from a great height. A broken window on the seventh floor indicated his path. Strevor seemed to have died upon impact (confirmed by FB Coroner Report BRC-74X).

Upon gaining access to the seventh floor, I determined that the broken window was in the Linguistics Conference Rooms. I was met by Dr. Teodor Feldorski who reported the incident. Dr. Feldorski has been cleared in the matter. Lying within the Conference Room was the body of Doctor Joshua Hillman. He had been struck repeatedly on the head and neck with a blunt object, later determined to be a metal stool.

BRIA-339, Item 14, Security
Audiotape Transcript (Ling.Lab., F7, Rm 14, timecode: 8:05-8:20p)

* Hillman: Dr. Strevor, I need the whiteboard. Can I erase this stuff?
* Strevor: Mmmbbid [unintelligible]
* Hillman: I said, can I erase the whiteboard?
* Strevor: Mmmbkdkdl [unintelligible]. Muffled sound determined to be Dr.
Strevor dropping to his knees.
* Hillman: Good Lord man, pay attention. I need the whiteboard.
* Strevor: Sure, sure, whatever... What? What are you doing??!!
* Hillman: I'm erasing the whiteboard. You said I could. I need it for...
* Strevor: Idiot! No! NO!! Noooooooooo.....
* Hillman: Doctor Strevor, I'm sorry, but I did ask... Are you ok?
* Strevor: Weeks, weeks of work. I was so close to deciphering the directional
words, their pattern had indicated... um... Whyyyy?? Why did you erase the
board??!!
* Hillman: Because...ungh.

[The tape deteriorates into a series of blunt thumps followed by anguished screams and interspersed with howls of rage. Eventually, the beating stops, there are sudden running footsteps and we hear the crash of glass.]

Dr. Strevor evidently used a metal stool to beat Dr. Hillman to death. Upon Dr. Hillman's death, Dr. Strevor ran and jumped through the closest window and fell to his death. Doctor Edgar Strevor had had no previous incidence of
aberrant behavior.

Colleagues indicated he was under normal stress due to his caseload. Upon review of the audiotape, we have detected an odd unidentified sound heard in the background. I also requested an autopsy of Dr. Strevor. Its results and the tape have been classified by Black Ops Command. The penetration of central headquarters by an outside force is clearly a serious issue. Black Ops Command has deemed all further inquiries as classified."[/b]
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So Hillman accidentally erased the markerboard that contained the work of an obsessed Dr. Strevor, Strevor flips the hell out and whacks Hillman and then throws himself out the windo...pretty progressive stuff there. Notice that an "odd unidentified sound in the background" is present, as if the metal gives off some sort of audio frequency itself. and notice the sentence "by an outside force is clearly a serious issue", is the govt scared of the powers of the Cult?

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Third Propaganda Report
"Federal Bureau
Washington, D.C.

ABSTRACT: #BR381-ZRET
EVIDENCE: #314-81
LOCATION: File Box #B-315
ITEM(s): Analysis of metal piece unidentified markings made at crime scene
LINGUISTICS LAB REPORT
(Summary, see full at #B-381, LR/BR381)

Further developments have occurred in the linguistic analysis of the Creed previously referred to as (#BR314-23). Spectrographic analysis of Dr. Edgar von Strevor erased whiteboard enabled reconstruction of his linguistic worksheet. The severely understaffed Linguistics Lab has managed to decipher
directional words in the original piece. The revised translation of original piece now reads:

Section One
The map to righteousness leads to the center
Internalized in the hole of the soul
One path in, one path out, a thread that spans both
Center and frontier

Section Two
The righteous become the force of darkness
And contain the force of weakened light

Section Three
The <?> of truth brings the truth to dark
The <?> of truth will win the <?> conflict
though <?> <?> may <?> the tool

ANALYSIS: The first four lines are now complete, except for one word which is repeated in a different form in lines 1 and 5. There is a map that connects the center and the frontier (which could still mean the habitat of humanity).

There is one path in, one path out, but a thread that spans both, which sounds like it's really one path but you can go back and forth on that path between the two states. Becoming and containing is still difficult to ascertain, but this group use the power of sound as their strongest tool. Their goal is to drive out the humans (internal arguments state this could also mean they attack the frontier). The axe of the bull shall do something, separating one group from another but also enabling the groups to join.

This acknowledgement may imply that only the darkened have learned the audio capability to 'influence' humans. This analysis equates with no known religious technocratic or socialistic cult in Bureau files. Further inquiries through the Black Ops database regarding the linguistic elements discovered thus far have uncovered the following DUO report. Only the deemed relevant lines were cleared by Black Ops.
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So basically the metal contains writings of an ideological creed for a Cult that, presumably, Malcom VanHorne and X are part of. As seen in the final chapter's cutscene, VanHorn and his collegues got too close to the evil and X was one of them that couldn't take it, thus possibly validating the idea that they both are in fact cultists and part of some sort of movement whose idea is to somehow change the state of humanity and they also have some sort of audio powers. Big speakers perhaps?
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DUO Report
"FBI - Washington, D.C.

ABSTRACT: #BL451-ZEET
EVIDENCE: #398-81
LOCATION: File Box #B-752

Recent series of unsolved grisly killings in the South Central Downtown sections was the catalyst for DCU Involvement. Deep Undercover Operative Code Name Harp was assigned.

ADDENDUM: DUO 76RE Operative Report Conclusions

DUO 76 Restricted Extended Code-Name Harp was assigned to the Deep Crimes Task Force in January. His operational report began to deteriorate approximately 9 months later. Last operational report submitted was April 2nd. Harp was killed on July 14th in a gun battle with local police. Cultist evidence was found near the scene. Linguistics, Psychological and Black Ops reviewed all DCU Reports for information that may pertain to the cultists.

February 13th - "The local PD have begun to pull back from direct conflict with the local 'sickened' along 16h Ave and Crosstown St. There appears to be no organized leadership within the sickened. They seem to get crazier and crazier
with each passing day but there also seems to be growing purpose to their actions. They are watching closely...I'm watching...something else is watching?..."

25 Marz: "3 Kranke griffen heute eine 4. an. Die 4. lachte, wahrend sie an der
Verletzung starb.

Dem heute eingelieferten Zivilion konnte ich nicht helfen. Ich bekomme
regelmabig Kopfschmerzen. Die Kranken verspotten mich, greifen an und ziehen
sich wieder zuruck. Beim Angriff schreien sie, als wurde ihnen das Schmerzen
bereiten. Sagt ihnen jemand, dass sie das nicht tun sollen?


*25 March: "Today I seized 4 patients, protecting it they laughed at the injury
*died. I could not help the Zivilion in-supplied today. I get [a] headache. The
*patients scoff me, attack and pull themselves again zuruck. With the attack
*they cry, as if became them hurting prepare. Does someone say to them that
*they are not to do that?")

June 27th: "The sickened have broken down into groups - their structure is based upon psychosis rather than ethnic or crime preference. The ones who shout incessantly have fought off the scavengers. Neither group quiets down until the headache wave comes through or when fresh meat shows up.

I blacked out watching them - at least I think I blacked out. When I awoke, 3 dead birds were in my pockets, one of them missing their head. I am asking for recall asap."

September 3rd - "We fought off another scavenger push. Rebar is my friend.Rebar helps me keep my place, my head takes in the music, my headaches are gone, my head takes in the music - and I keep the beat with my Rebar. The Pounders are family."

December 12th - "It was there and then it wasn't. It was chattering, chittering, gleaming and was enveloped in nothing. I want to pound, it wants to pound with me."

April 2nd - "It isn't my fault, it isn't my reason, it isn't my blame, they
drive to what they want, what you want, what I want. The buzzing soothes, the
buzzing stays as I stay, I stay, I stay...
The bird knows best when roosting in its nest - the bird knows best when
roosting in its nest - the bird knows best when roosting in its nest - the
bird knows best when rossting in its nest..."

Conclusion: Upon inventory of DCU Harp's belongings, he was found to have the skulls of over 60 birds in his pockets.

Autospy showed brain degradation of pre-frontal lobe as detected in Cases BR-329 and BRD-231R. Cultists apparently show strong sonic control techniques that potentially influence any human being. Black Ops and R&D are doing archival research for any previous contacts.

NOTE: Remainder of this report has been deemed classified Double Black. All further inquiries into this report need to be made through Black Ops Command."
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This report is a side note, An Agent Harp is sent into the field as an undercover officer and is tasked with watching the developments between police forces and these new urban terrorists. Spending too much time in the field exposed him to the sonic "unidentifiable noise" and he lost his head and said to have heard "music" and we might also infer that Harp has seen one of the same demons that crawl sporadically around the back of Agent Ethan Thomas' head from time to time, as seen from his December 12th report. "Chittering" is the hallmark noise of these demons as can be seen from any point in the game where they pop up.
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Fourth Propaganda Report
"Federal Bureau
Washington, D.C.

ABSTRACT: #BR402-ZRET
EVIDENCE: #315 03
LOCATION: File Box #B-315
ITEM(s): Final Report on Creed
Photo of Cincinnati Torso Cutter
Photo of Providence Prowler

LINGUISTICS LAB REPORT: Final analysis has been completed on the Creed previously referred to as (#BR314-23)

CLUE ONE
The map to righteousness leads to the center
Internalized in the hole of the soul
One path in, one path out, a thread that spans both
Center and frontier

CLUE TWO
The righteous become the force of darkness
And contain the force of weakened light

CLUE THREE
The sound of truth is brings the truth to dark
The sound of truth will win the unending conflict
though the others may wield the tool

CLUE FOUR
It is only the darkened righteous that experience its worth
Showing the human fodder,
As those of true dark center,
Those of our being, of unbeing and undark, will fallow in loss of ending war

CLUE FIVE
We are the strongest
The axe of the bull
Shall cleave
Cleave the unholy from those that are righteous,
and yet
Cleave them again back to the one true way,
the center
In death they give, in death they take
Satori.

ANALYSIS: With the Creed now translated, our understaffed linguists have managed to cobble together a potential analysis. The Creed definitely seems to be the centerpiece of the cult, and we have found additional versions of it in different languages and even coding systems. The text indicates that the Cult believes there is an outer edge, or frontier, which is inhabited by normal humans (hence the confusion between frontier/human in previous Linguistic Lab reports). The center is occupied by the Cult.

Section 1 - A thread spans these two areas with one path in, one path out of the center. The righteous are identified with the Cult members. They identify with darkness and identify others with the light.

SECTION 2 - The righteous become the force of darkness
And contain the force of weakened light
The 'righteous' refer to those humans who are 'influenced' to commit the acts of savagery and seemingly go insane. The 'becomes the force of darkness' tells us that those who are influenced become part of the force. The description of
darkness to seems to have a triple meaning.
1. These cult members will use the darkened areas to hide.
2. The darkness is also a state of mind for the cultists and a state of mind
they influence those around them to achieve
3. The darkness implies a section of a greater whole.

'And contain the weakened light' is also a double-meaning passage. The weakened light is reference to both a sub-culture within the cult that opposes the philosophy of the f as well as the weakened state of the humans themselves.

Section 3 - The sound of truth is brings the truth to dark
The soun dof truth will win the unending conflict though the others may wield
the tool

The righteous (Cult) use their audio capability as their greatest force, their
singular tool. Again, the double-meaning exists. The 'truth' is a reference
to proving themselves to the 'undark, the light'. The 'truth' is also
reference ot the influence of the humans themselves. The audio 'influence' of
the DCB has strong brainwashing capabilities upon human s- therefore - the
sound of truth will help win the 'ending conflict' against the 'undark'. This
implies that from the ancient linguistic make-up of the Creed that this 'war'
between the light and darkened has been going on for probably thousands of
years.

From examination, this audio utilization is both humanoid and mechanization in
organization. They acknowledge that others, the undark, may possess this
power, but only the darkened may experience the truth. This acknowledgement
may imply that only the darkened have learned the audio capability to
'influence' humans.

Section 4 - It is only the darkened righteous that experience its worth
Showing the human fodder,
As those of true dark center,
'Those of our being, of unbeing and undark, will fallow in loss of ending war.'

The first line shows that this audio 'influence' is what shows humanity's true
nature; that humanity is as dark as those who seemingly want to prove this to
the 'undark'.

Section 5 - The axe of the bull will cleave the unholy from the righteous. Interestingly, cleave is the one English word that has two very distinct opposite meanings. It can mean 1) to cut apart to to separate; and 2) to join together. The use here is indicative. The axe of the bull shall cleave the unholy (humans) from the righteous (cultists) but shall also 'cleave them again back to the one true way' or that is, bring them back into the fold.

The fold is here identified as the center, which we have seen, is where the cultists identify as their habitat. This again identifies that those who are 'undark' are most likely of the same cult of the DCB. At some previous point in their timeline, these two factions split for an ideological reason based upon humanity itself. But the final two lines indicate how this bringing back into the fold is to be accomplished: through death. And through death, one
achieves satori or enlightenment or peace.

A search of all other extant Serial Deaths cases with similar elements to what has been found in the Creed has revealed several additional cases with strong
similarities. We found traces to grisly cases that went as far back as 1908, the year that the Federal Bureau of Investigations was founded. Black Ops Central Command has intervened and deemed information as Coded Double Black.
Futher inquiries through the Evidence did uncover 2 photographs.

ADDENDUM: RE: BR-117R

BRR-87R - January 18th, 1934 Cincinnati Torse Cleaver - Serial Killer. Never found. Targeted derelicts and homeless people in inner cities. Final count was 24 victims. Decapitated the bodies, removed the limbs and dropped off the torsos in public dumps. Crime Scene photo near phosphorus plant captured strange symbols etched in the cement wall.
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We can infer from the addendum that either the cult or the strange metal and language goes as far back as 1908. The "DCB" is perhaps the name of this cult? So by using this audio power they have they can prove themselves to the darkness, an entity all it's own, that they are worthy of whatever it's going to reward them with. So some have this audio power, including those outside the cult (the "undark) but only the cultists (the "darkened") can use it, as if it were some sort of buried genetic gift....like say some sort of power of speech or power of suggestion but maybe even more than that, maybe a special voicebox, like the one blacked out on Ethan's x-ray..perhaps? Note however that during the phone covo with Van Horn in chapter 2 Van Horne states that ethan's gifts are "well...perhaps not from God" which may point to the idea that he is not naturally born with his powers, or maybe it's just saying his abilities are unholy. Ethan's powers being genetic or his father doing something to him is unclear at best, but still important to the scheme of things, why else would the higher ups at the Black Ops agency block it all out, they obviously know and want Ethan within arm's reach. This "Axe of the Bull" seems to either be a device, or some sort of power that will separate humanity between the cultists and everyone else, or perhaps the pieces of metal. Either way, an interesting point is that in the 1934 case, the symbols are etched on the concrete wall...not a piece of metal, so perhaps the power is behind the symbols and not the medium upon which they are inscribed.

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Things to note:

Whenever Ethan gets an "odd feeling" where the screen goes black and white and things get wierd, hit start and look at your objectives, you'll be surprised to find that it's not the same.

Rosa mentions he has a hyperactive serotonergic system, wikipedia that if you want, but it is possible that this is the cause of Ethan's dillusional nature, or is the perfect pathway to open up the mind to the manifestations of The Hate (the common name given to the final boss) and his evil?

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~Theory~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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There are several theories circulating around, some of which I agree with, others I don't so much. I find them all interesting however.

The best collection in one place that I've seen can be viewed at:
http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/adventure/condemned/show_msgs.php?topic_id=m-1-28374704&pid=926309&page=2

My theory goes in several pieces that is in no way complete or flawless. If I'm wrong lets get a discussion going because I want to understand this vaguery as much as the next guy.

ETHAN THOMAS - Allow me to establish the protagonist first as Monolith has been so careful not to : We know Ethan is special (serotonergic hyperactivity, blacked out x-ray, dense bones), we know that he has dillusion/vision/black-outs, we know that he is connected to the Cult, we know that he is responsible for killing The Hate at the end, we know that his father was part of the cult.
I think that with Ethan being part of the cult or from some sort of lineage of the cult that that may have to do with his special physiological make up, and quite possibly that the serotonergic disorder (definition found here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serotonin_syndrome ). Ethan has the blacked out voice box, again tieing back into the sound pricipal, which may or may not be genetic/natural. So what role does he play in all of it?


Three ways to approach this : a) he is part of the cult unknowingly, maybe they slipped him a roofie and now he's forgotten everything except his father's involvement. b) the Cult and Black Ops are opposite sides of the game, with Ethan caught in the middle and wanted by both which is why perhaps the cops are always after him or c) Black Ops is in fact the very cult he's looking for, they black every damn thing out on the reports and have chronicalled the activity of insane killers as far back as 1908.

I think that multiple personality theory that others have posed, while well put together, doesn't account for several pertinent details including the times where X and Ethan co-exist in the same scenes and yet they don't share damage taken or where Rosa is kidnapped, which means the entire report on Ethan would be bogus if Rosa was just a figment of his psyche. I think Ethan is caught in the cross fire here, that the Black Ops isn't part of the Cult, maybe not part of it but just as evil, and that yes the serotonin hyperactivity is screwing with his head, this opens up his mind in both a spirtual sense, to see with the third eye, but also to energies of The Hate/Hate's demons and a physical sense, where it effects him and makes him puke a couple of times.

THE HATE- The Hate is the final boss of the game, the entity that Van Horn says is responsible for the madness and the "visage of evil" at which Ethan gazed.

While it would make sense that The Hate is a purely physical member of the Cult with the highest psychic powers,as some have theorized, I see it to be more plausible that The Hate is not that at all. The Hate functions as the game's physical manifestation and embodiment of not only the Cult's creed but also to the negativity that is the focus of the game. While he stands as a representation of the evil posed against all else, the fear that overtakes humanity, and the twisted and dark side of the human psyche, he is the symbol of the condemned, society's forgotten and shunned who brood hatred in thier hearts for reasons ranging from drug use to not being socially acceptable. It is the icon of the darkness of unacceptance, he is the keeper of the rejected and condemned. So we find ourselves toying with an allegory now rather than a person with a cooky psychic mind-control beam, and I see this as being more feesable and probably what the developers intended. I do think that this serves as the pure spiritual aspect of the game, the opposite of the science in the forensic and modern element of the game. Perhaps The Hate has been summoned as some demon, or perhaps possessed one of his followers. One thing that's interesting to note is that the Demons, the lesser hands of The Hate, cause thier own disturbances.


METAL AND SOUND : The metal pieces are found in the bad parts of the city, obviously or Ethan wouldn't be there. We've seen that there was an "odd unidentifiable sound in the background" at the recorded scene of the Strevor tape (where a piece of metal was present). We saw that agent Harp heard "music" before inevitably becoming crazed and getting shot by the cops and being found with the skulls of 60 birds , birds that are dying from sonic disturbances. We see that Ethan's voice box is blacked out on the x-ray and the voice box is the very emittor of the human sound. The cult is said to have either a sonic technology or super power that brainwashes people. We see that the metal is almost unspokenly assumed to emit a sonic frequency almost.

I propose that yes, the metal is part of the cult's plan for domination, or purification of the human race. That by using the sonic frequency from the metal they in turn upset the balance of good and evil or rather negative and positive energy and in turn feed the negativity/The Hate/darkness, being that they identify themselves as "darkened" they obviously have a bit to gain, at least according to thier own ideology, from the darkness growing and gaining power. I see the metal as being ritualistically enchanted by the Cultists, as one who studies the ritualistic tendancies of other cultures would find that engraving into a medium to be enchanted is common among Pagan practices. And perhaps this is where the evil "transmitts" from this spiritual approach. The metals come in sets of 3. A powerful and very spiritual number in itself.

Another point could be that the metal is radioactive and that the birds are sensative to this as well as people. I am unknowledgable about the crossover between radio waves and sound waves, I assume both move differently and while it is clearly stated in the game that there is a sonic disturbance, we can still play around with the idea slightly.

Again this is in no way a finalized document, I intend to continually update the manifesto of ideas. Keep in mind also that what may not be found out will be explained in Warner Bros. upcoming Condemned movie.

Very interesting theory you have. I myself would like to know the same things as you. It seems EXTREMELY complicated and confusing.

Umm... i dont see anything happening when pausing the game during a disturbance...

yea could someone give some examples of the objective changes when you pause the screen during a black and white moment?

This is all very interesting; Thank you for typing all of this up and finding the prequel.

Yeah i just read all that hidden files stuff. But like everyone else i would like to know what the hell it all means because when i read the clue's it just spin's me out. Is there anyone who tell what it means in a simple matter that we will all understand please.

quote SKX

yea could someone give some examples of the objective changes when you pause the screen during a black and white moment?

Like in the Library when you pause in the middle of a vision it will say: "...the...truth...will...break...you..." instead of saying "Find Information on the torturer's whereabouts"