Damnation

by Codemasters

Product Features

• Take up a rough fight against the PSI in a world inspired by American history and steampunk aesthetics
• Explore huge, detailed environments that maximize the impact of vertical space and levels that each include up to three hours of game play
• Cling to ledges, hang from scaffolding, slide down ropes and climb up them, all while taking part in firefights
• Use your unique Spirit Vision ability to see friends and enemies through walls or from far away
• Experience four distinct multiplayer modes and support for up to eight players on each map

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001CBW19Y
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches ; 3.7 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: May 26, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,355 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #90 in Video Games > Xbox 360 > Action > Shooter
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: Xbox 360

Amazon.com Product Description

Bringing dramatic third-person shooter action to huge, steampunk-inspired environments, Damnation for Xbox 360 puts a range of unique weapons in your hands and lets you test the limits of the human body by performing acrobatic stunts to move through vertical levels. Set in an early 20th century world where the Civil War never ended, this game will have you climbing walls, commanding killer vehicles, and seeking out ways to stop industrialists with a thirst for totalitarian power.

Make use of ten distinctive steampunk weapons and take control of any situation. View larger.

Learn to take aim while sliding and climbing in vertical worlds. View larger.

Otherworldly aesthetics add to the imposing nature of your enemies. View larger.

An Alternate History: the Peacemakers and the PSI
You'll follow an ensemble cast including the hero Rourke -- a veteran of the war that ripped the country into pieces and member of a guerilla army called the Peacemakers. These rough fighters are up against the PSI led by William Dean Prescott, a powerful and manipulative man angling to become the dictator of an industrialized empire. As the complicated, multi-faceted story unfolds around Rourke and his cohort, you'll find that he is still looking for his son and fiancee, who went MIA during the war.

The cast of characters includes native healers and seers with unique abilities. And fighters can employ a special spirit vision ability to see enemies through walls or from far away, making it impossible for anyone to stay hidden for long.

Rich, Innovative Vertical Environments
Featuring rugged, detailed environments that have been designed to maximize the impact of vertical space, Damnation follows the action as it moves though deep canyons, up shear cliff faces, into secret caverns, around towering skyscrapers, and toward PSI's factory fortress, which sprawls across the tundra. Each location offers miles of horizontal ground and thousands of vertical feet for players to explore and exploit.

This means you're movement isn't just limited to running, ducking, and driving a burly motorbike. If you want to survive, you'll have to master shooting while in the middle of climbing scaffolding, sliding down ropes, and using vehicles to jump huge chasms. And, of course, the developer's emphasis on vertical movement adds a whole new dimension to the concept of holding the high ground in a firefight, since attacks really can come from just about anywhere.

Rounding out your experience, a combination of dynamic 3D graphics and tough, steampunk aesthetics brings an iconic look and feel to the game's ten distinctive weapons, edgy playable vehicles, and bold industrial structures.

Epic Single-Player Missions and Multiplayer Modes
Damnation offers options to keep play interesting, from campaigning on your own through a series of levels that each offer up to three hours of playing time to competing with friends in four distinct multiplayer modes and support for up to eight players on each map. Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, King of the Hill, and Capture the Flag each offer distinct possibilities for you and your friends to battle each other and compete for superiority.

Product Description

For more than 20 years, the Coalition and the Nationalists fought their bloody war. With war comes technology, and it developed at an astonishing pace. The two armies fought each other with ever more powerful weapons, yet neither side gained the advantage.  Ultimately, the two sides ran out of funds, willpower, and men. As the armies collapsed leaving the country in anarchy, a new power rose.  Sweeping down on the exhausted country, PSI's forces obliterated the remaining armies and began its conquest of the East. Now, the Western territories, mostly unaffected by the civil war, find themselves suddenly defenseless against a new and quickly growing east coast power.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Damnation...is what this game deserves., June 14, 2009

By 

Pa4d (Jacksonville, FL USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Damnation (Video Game)

There was a lot of hype surrounding Damnation, but I didn't really pay attention because I was too busy working and waiting gleefully for Batman: Arkam Asylam. But sadly, it got pushed back to Fall, and my local Blockbuster was fresh out of copies of Red Faction: Guerrila and Protoype. So here we are, Damnation. A game I played for about fours until I realised there was something far more interesting and enertaining in the cubbard underneath my kitchen sink. It's sad becasue this game had a lot going for it. Giant steam-powered motor cycles, platforming/parkour elements, giant steam-powered motor cycles, a ruthlessly steampunk art deco, and of course, giant steam-powered motor cycles. On paper, all of these elements sound to make one heck of a shooter. However, Damnation does the impossible and falls completely flat on it's overhyped face.

For starters, the story doesn't make a lick of sence. It approaches the player like we're supposed to know the basic story and all of the characters and their ambitions without even playing it. Like I said, I didn't follow Damnation through the hype train, so if something was exlpained in an article or video, then I guess I didn't here it, but it still won't earn any points in my book. I mean, I didn't follow the first Gears of War on the hype train either, but I still understood the basic story just fine. And that plot was bananas! The charcters range from eye-rollingly cliche(mainly the lead protagonist) to painfully annoying (mainly everyone). For a game that looks like it's all about the story and narritive, it all feels like an after thought.

Before I go on, let me say this. Developers. You want to make a steam-punk video game? Great! But before you do, watch "Steamboy" or just about any movie from Hayao Miyazaki. That is what steampunk is and what it should be. I mention this because the whole steampunk direction of Damnation was royally screwed over. The whole point of steampunk is to merge old world design/technology with modern design/technology and give it a flare of fantasy. In Damnation, steampunk means having some steam powered guns and vehicals, painting everthing gun-metal grey and depressing-uninteresting brown, and include so much grit it would make a shellshocked war veteran with no eyes break into tears. I know steampunk has a lot of different styles, but this is definetly not a good look. While some games can look good with all of the colors of the dirt spectrum, like Gears of War, "depressing grit" does not belong in steampunk.

It appears that I've compared Damnation to Gears of War twice in this review. Why? Because Damnation has a lot things that seem they were taken from Gears. The atmosphere, the narrative, the awful vehical sections, heck, I'm even gonna go on a limb and say that Damnation is trying to be Gears of War. The guns look and sound almost like the ones in Gears, the laughable "gore system" is very remenicent of the one in Gears, the friendly and enemy AI has the same (low) IQ of the AI in Gears, all that it's missing is a cover system. Which is ironic, because that's one of main things this game needs. Enemies spam almost all the time and you'll die after a few shots. Crouching behind walls will only block your aiming, and sure you can fire over ledges you hang from, but you can only use your pistol and you'll rarley find ammo for it. Speaking of which...

The only thing that I mostly enjoyed was the parkour mechanics. While they weren't as intuitive or as fluid as say the Prince of Persia series or Assassin's Creed, they're simple and get the job done say for a few problems. While games like Assassin's Creed allow you to free run all over the place, Damnation's parkour follws moslty a linear path. Also, the camera isn't much of a team player as sometimes it will be facing a direction that seriously hinders your veiw of a ledge or platform, even the ocasional bottomless pit. Most of the time moving it will help, but there will be certain cases where the camera will get caught in the geometry of the level.

I moslty blame the bad camera for the level design. The levels are a mess of buildings and structures, and it's never clear which ones you can climb or which one leads to your objective. Add the fact that there is no in-game map, and you can bet that you'll be running around a level trying to figure out where to go more than once. There are also moments where the level will kill you even if you're a tad off on your precision. There were many times were I barley miss or even see a ledge and I'd fall into a pit. This annoyance occurs both in the on foot sections and vehical sections. The game makes up for this by have a lot of checkpoints. But still, nobody likes dying over stupid reasons.

There is a word that describes Damnation, and that word is "Rushed",and the game reeks of it. An unimaginative story (if you can even follow it), bland graphics and animations, and there are bugs glitches at almost every corner. If the developers took less time on the art direction, and spent most of their time and moeny on fine tuning the gameplay, Damnation would've made a fantastic shooter. As I've said in my Turning Point review, focusing on art and art alone while making shooter is a very bad tactic that'll only end in horrid mechanics and bad AI.

While Damnation isn't a bad game neccassarily , it's faaar from a good one

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great game, ignore the bad reviews!, November 28, 2009

By 

Drare Keer - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Damnation (Video Game)

This is an awsome game despite what I have been reading around the net. I have almost beaten the game on the hardcore setting and, though the game can get a little repetitive, it is in no way a bad game.

Once you get used to the controls, they are fluid and responsive. The settings are varied and the graphics are good but not great.

The gameplay is awsome and this is the game that got me to play something other then COD MW2 for a change.

Though there is no built in cover system, you still can take cover and whatnot, but it requires you to choose the location and lean down or back, just like the old days when we actually played games, instead of letting them play themselves (like Assasins creed and Gears).

I got this for $20 new at my local game store and am very happy that I did. Give it a try with an open mind and you won't be dissapointed, unless you are just looking for flashy graphics. This is gameplay at its finest! You get co-op and Vs. multiplayer, online or splitscreen, for a steal! Get this game and show a friend how good a badly reviewed game can be!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars awful, August 30, 2010

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shawn gorsuch - See all my reviews

= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Damnation (Video Game)

this has gotta be one of the worst games on the xbox360 along with turning point. first of all the graphics are really bad. you think the gameplay would make up for it but it doesnt. you get lost a lot dont know where to go,enemies are really stupid most of the time just stand around. the levels arent even cool looking there all bland and look the same. the aiming in this is bad, no cover system. the story and voice acting are terrible. the only positive things about the game i could say is the platforming is usally good. riding in the motorcycle is kinda cool. but stay away from this i wouldnt even recomend renting it. trust me your not missing out on anything.

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