It fails at being a worthwhile title on all fronts. The gameplay isn't fun, the levels are too long, the sound is bad, and the story isn't interesting. There are more problems, but I'll leave my written flogging at that.
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Secret Invasion Adele Ankers Lots of steampunk trappings litter the levels, including giant airships, powerful sci-fi weapons, robot soldiers, and creepy enemies that look like a combination of WWI trench grunts and the Combine storm troopers from Half-Life 2. But these elements are never formed into a coherent whole. The background story behind these fantastic events remains a mystery. All you get are a few flashes of strange newspaper articles and photos, along with some quick cutscenes that depict Prescott as a bad, bad man.
But you won't care much about the story behind Damnation for very long. The gameplay is so trite and repetitive that you quickly go from curiosity to get-me-the-hell-out-of-here boredom. Instead of the fluidity that characterizes the best shooters, the pace here is choppy and awkward. Most of the time, you simply race along unopposed, with the main source of interest being the ability to leap up or down the faces of buildings and shimmy up flagpoles.
This can be intriguing in spots. Intuitive controls make it easy to pull off some amazing leaps and backflips. With just a quick two-button combo, you can fly through the air backward and flip around to grab hold of a ledge or bounce off one wall to leap up to a ledge. Many levels are structured like erector-set puzzles, with you having to figure out how to vault and climb your way to the top of teetering towers. Still, it's all absolutely absurd.
Many buildings are so gutted and wrecked that they would collapse long before you got perform your Cirque du Soleil stunts in them, while others simply couldn't stand up because of the way they were designed even while totally intact. All you can really say for the ability to leap around and the odd architecture is that, at least, the developers tried to move beyond the generic linear shooter.
But in the end, it doesn't work. All of the mildly entertaining derring-do is constantly interrupted. It's as if the designers realized at the last minute that they were supposed to be making a shooter, so they brought all the leaping and gallivanting to a crashing halt by stocking the levels with dumb ambushes. As a result, one moment you're dancing about like an acrobat in buckskins, then the next moment, you're hunkered down behind cover for three or four minutes, only peeking out every so often to rip off a couple of shots at the dozen bad guys who have suddenly popped up in front of you.
None of these shooting sequences are the least bit enjoyable. Enemies simply stand in one spot blasting away at you or move mindlessly in and out of shelter like targets in shooting galleries.
Baddies also take a stupid amount of punishment, leaving you to blast away a dozen rounds with the game's small selection of wimpy weapons before they finally bite the dust. The only challenge is to your patience.
You can easily get so annoyed with constantly taking cover from the barrage of enemy bullets that you jump out into the open to try to get things over with quickly When you shoot one of the exploding barrels in Damnation, it instantly turns any bad guy in the generous blast area into chunks of meat -- and I'm talking about it awkwardly and instantaneously going from person to chunks. At one point after killing a guy like this, I walked over to find his dismembered arm freaking out on the ground.
If you put a gun to my head and demanded that I say something somewhat positive about this game, I'd tell you that the jumping gameplay can be all right sometimes… but not often.
See, when you reach a new part of a level, the camera will pan through the entire place -- and I mean the entire place -- showing you a general direction to go. This means you'll need to leap at walls, spring off them, grab ledges, and keep moving.
You can shoot with your weak and worthless pistol while hanging, you can pull yourself up from one handhold to another in a wacky somersault kind of motion, and you can make big old leaps by getting a running start.
I dug that I had to hold a button to jump away from a wall so that I wasn't accidentally killing myself left and right, but that was about it. The whole mechanic is clunky thanks to poor animations Rourke can climb a motionless rope without using his legs -- his appendages just hang there lifelessly.
As if everything I just told you didn't completely turn you off to this title, you need to know that multiplayer is worthless here. Yes, you can play co-op online and via LAN, but there's no voicechat so don't even think about discussing attack plans. Yes, there are online versus matches, but they run worse on the PC than they did on the PS3 and Yes, very few people are playing this game, but the maps don't adjust to the number of players; enjoy running around a huge map with one other person!
Verdict There's no reason for you to play Damnation. It fails at being a worthwhile title on all fronts. The gameplay isn't fun, the levels are too long, the sound is bad, and the story isn't interesting. There are more problems, but I'll leave my written flogging at that.
YES NO. In This Article. Evolving the shooter genre with its unique and exhilarating combination of fluid action and combat, Damnation features huge, open environments, frenetic combat, and high-octane vehicle-based stunts.
Language, Blood and Gore, Violence. Release Date. Damnation Review.
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