Thread: Damnation pc game

Damnation is one of those third-person shooters that captures the imagination in all the pre-release PR and then manages to disappoint expectant gamers by overloading the hype too far. What's most annoying about it is that it's nowhere near as bad a game as a lot of early news had suggested, yet it fails mostly because it feels incomplete on so many levels.



The storyline sounds quite promising. It's an ‘alternative reality' scenario with the American Civil War continuing well into the twentieth century thanks to the arrival of steampunk arms dealer William Dean Prescott, who's armed both sides with advanced weaponry and let them virtually grind each other into the dust. Now Prescott's own PSI robotic army has taken over the East and is marching on the West with total domination in mind.

You play Captain Hamilton Rourke, a soldier with a dark past, looking for his lost fiancée and hooking up with the Peacekeepers resistant movement to somehow defeat Prescott's ambitions. In reality your guerrilla compatriots are a small band that includes a talkative Spaniard, a tough Native American babe in a leather bikini, another Native American seer plus an English professor and his prosthetically enhanced daughter.