I bet you've heard a lot about Codemaster's Damnation. I bet you've heard it's bad... really bad. And you of course know that you shouldn't always listen to the masses and give this game a chance, right? It certainly can't be as bad as everyone says it is, right?
Wrong.
Damnation is a bad game. They're not lying. A friend and I rented it just to see if it was really that bad. I'll give you my unedited notes, right after playing this game:
1. The shooting system is awful and clunky.
2. Melee attacks are almost useless. You swing your arms clumsily, barely damaging anything. I feel like I'm attacking with Edward in FFIV...
3. There's plenty of dropped frames.
4. The environments are confusing, and you're given no waypoints of any kind that I could discern. This wouldn't be a problem if the environments weren't so fucking bland and boring.
5. The AI enemies are ridiculously powerful and they will obliterate you... or you'll just tear through them because they're also very stupid. Where is the balance?
6. The voice-acting is very bad. I gurantee you'll often you'll spend a lot of time simply laughing at the things these characters say. For example... wait until you meet the quasi-hispanic sounding character dressed in red...
7. You can press a button (Circle) to crouch. You can crouch behind cover to avoid damage... however, don't try to fire from cover because you can't do that. You'll simply blow the shit out of the object in front of you.
8. There's platforming elements that are anything but elegant. Once again, they're clunky and just not fun to look at after the first few backflips.
9. Your characters move so awkwardly it is often hilarious. For example, try shimming on a ledge...
10. If you're playing co-op one of the early game hints on the second players screen will not disappear... I'm not kidding.
Seriously, I was able to write that in about five minutes. 10 complaints in 5 minutes. That is unacceptable. Blue Omega Entertainment, the developer, was fired shortly after this games release. (http://ps3.ign.com/articles/100/1000397p1.html) The quality of the game may or may not be completely responsible for all those people losing their jobs, but I can't feel very sorry for them. They'll find work again and, hopefully, develop some better games.
It wasn't completely bad. Maybe like 97% bad. The opening cutscene was interesting and I think steampunk is just awesome and--it seems--tragically under-used. So, just for that, Damnation can be appreciated.
Nah, I'm kidding. This game is horrible. (null)
Wrong.
Damnation is a bad game. They're not lying. A friend and I rented it just to see if it was really that bad. I'll give you my unedited notes, right after playing this game:
1. The shooting system is awful and clunky.
2. Melee attacks are almost useless. You swing your arms clumsily, barely damaging anything. I feel like I'm attacking with Edward in FFIV...
3. There's plenty of dropped frames.
4. The environments are confusing, and you're given no waypoints of any kind that I could discern. This wouldn't be a problem if the environments weren't so fucking bland and boring.
5. The AI enemies are ridiculously powerful and they will obliterate you... or you'll just tear through them because they're also very stupid. Where is the balance?
6. The voice-acting is very bad. I gurantee you'll often you'll spend a lot of time simply laughing at the things these characters say. For example... wait until you meet the quasi-hispanic sounding character dressed in red...
7. You can press a button (Circle) to crouch. You can crouch behind cover to avoid damage... however, don't try to fire from cover because you can't do that. You'll simply blow the shit out of the object in front of you.
8. There's platforming elements that are anything but elegant. Once again, they're clunky and just not fun to look at after the first few backflips.
9. Your characters move so awkwardly it is often hilarious. For example, try shimming on a ledge...
10. If you're playing co-op one of the early game hints on the second players screen will not disappear... I'm not kidding.
Seriously, I was able to write that in about five minutes. 10 complaints in 5 minutes. That is unacceptable. Blue Omega Entertainment, the developer, was fired shortly after this games release. (http://ps3.ign.com/articles/100/1000397p1.html) The quality of the game may or may not be completely responsible for all those people losing their jobs, but I can't feel very sorry for them. They'll find work again and, hopefully, develop some better games.
It wasn't completely bad. Maybe like 97% bad. The opening cutscene was interesting and I think steampunk is just awesome and--it seems--tragically under-used. So, just for that, Damnation can be appreciated.
Nah, I'm kidding. This game is horrible. (null)
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