Damnation

Publisher: Codemasters

Developer: Blue Omega Entertainment

Category: Action

Release Dates

N Amer - 03/26/2009

Intl - 05/22/2009

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    Also available on:
  • PC
  • PS3


GameZone's Review

3.0

GZ Rating

Gameplay5
Graphics4
Sound3.8
DifficultyHard
Concept3.5
Multiplayer2
Overall3.0

Reviewer: Mike David

Review Date: 06/19/2009


An honest-to-goodness disappointment

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Damnation Q&A: GameZone Learns Why They Call It The "Shooter Gone Vertical"
“One of our goals from the very start was to make sure that the player was never in the same sort of environment for more than one hour at a time and that a major thematic change occurred every three hours.”

News

Prepare to take Damnation Online as Vertical Shooter hits Retail
Developed by Blue Omega Entertainment in Annapolis, MD, Damnation is available on the Xbox 360, the PLAYSTATION 3 and PC

Codemasters Reveal New Damnation™ Developer Insight Video
‘Verticality’ trailer’s new footage and developer commentary demonstrate scale and ambition of Damnation

The action/shooter goes vertical, as Codemasters announces Damnation!
Codemastersand Blue Omega Entertainment today announced Damnation

Description

In Damnation players assume the role of hero Captain Hamilton Rourke as he embarks on an epic journey to reveal the sinister truth behind Prescott Standard Industries, led by industrialist magnate W.D. Prescott. Together with his fellow Peacemakers, Rourke will engage in high-octane gun battles against hordes of drug-enhanced soldiers and steam-powered mechanical monsters to save the country from Damnation.

Damnation’s single player mode also features split-screen, drop-in-drop-out co-operative gameplay through all of its large-scale levels with magnificent landscapes, each with up to three hours of streaming gameplay and thousands of vertical feet to explore. These stunning open environments provide the backdrop for the frenetic combat, daredevil acrobatics and vehicle based stunts that power Damnation’s exhilarating, fresh and revolutionary gameplay.

Features

  • Huge Scale - With vast, streaming environments, Damnation’s levels are truly organic 3D spaces that cover miles of horizontal distance and thousands of vertical feet. Players choose from multiple paths and tactics in gigantic landscapes that unfold in all three dimensions. Using exhilarating combinations of swift, flowing movement and combat, players will be faced with frenetic all-action attacks that can come from any direction.
  • Player Choice and Freedom - It could take up to three hours in real-time travel to get from one end to the other and another three hours to climb to the top. But with acrobatics and vehicles, players are able to get their own routes, as they look at the massive map ahead, above and below them.
  • “Spirit Vision” - Players can activate the hero’s “Spirit Vision” power to see through walls and anticipate the enemy’s movements.
  • Daredevil Stunts – Players perform stunning moves at the limits of human ability to jump between ledges, swing on ropes and chains, and traverse vertical surfaces. Zip, slide, vault, shinny, swing and jump through the environment with intelligent AI attacking from all sides, above and below.
  • Multiplayer – Play through the entire singleplayer campaign in co-op or take it to the next level online with multiplayer. Experience action and tactics in vertical environments with fully enabled “Spirit Vision.”



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Violence

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