Damnation Comments by Dan Whitehead

Well that's disappointing. Not unexpected, but disappointing.

@fightman9d -> dev/null (waves)

Hear hear Reihn, and Royal Fool. Fightman is an idiot, and I've ignored him too.

Anyway, I was really disappointed. This could have been so good, and as far as it sounds, it's entirely blown in. Ah, well.

I'll get Red Faction: Guerrilla instead.

+1 vote for the hi-res Chaos Engine remake

When I came to the last part of the review I knew it would be a 3. Not a total desaster and not close to average either. Great comments on this one.

I've been playing the game and it really is as bad as this review states.
I cannot stand the melodramatic acting it really is teeth grating! The poor controls are unacceptable too, you feel like you're sprinting and jumping around on ice where one attempt to correct yourself as approach a jumpy will 7 times out of 10 lead to disaster, the same could be said for the aiming, it doesn't have a meaty sense of axis working with it, you literaly have to tap the analogue stick to get the damn thing to respond it's ridiculous.

The acrobatics aren't all that bad though nothing new that's for sure, but I find it responsive onnce once you start scaling buildings.

But the script is hilarious, really, in one even as you're making your way through mines the Spanish guy attempts to compliment the girl, and she gets all sarcy and replies with "Oh well if that's a compliment then your aiming is bad, aswell as your choice of words" then he says something like, "I will shoot you in the face"..."But you are a tough one!" Written by 13 year olds and voiced by their parents for sure.
It's just so random, and the way the scenes are cut? lol No fading no nesassary pauses, hell the characters even talk over each other sometimes because the scenes switch so damn fast.

If you really must play this game then only play it if you can get hold of it for Free. I've been playing it because my line of work enables this, I was also playing it on Co-op, my friend and I had many chuckles at this game...thing...

Wow, far too many words wasted on this lol.

The following line:

"A fruity English professor with an evil cyborg daughter. A flamboyant, vengeful Spaniard. A feisty Native American squaw who, somewhat inevitably, uses blue glowing magic while struggling to contain her heaving norks in a tiny leather bikini top."

really makes me want to pick up the game when it goes cheap :P.

@Reihn: Oh come on.. i have the tw@ on ignore so i dont have to read that stuff.. then you come along and copy & paste it so i can!

Bah!

*smile*

Ouch.

I was interested in this game too.

Dan,

Just so you know, the term "squaw" is considered really offensive by First Nations in North America. Calling someone a squaw is like calling them a negress or a Jewess. I don't mean to be overly PC, and I'm sure you didn't intend to cause offense, but I think a better choice of words would be advisable.

Thanks

No, I realise that the word "squaw" is now considered offensive, but the character is firmly in the realms of the barely-clothed, highly sexualised portrayal of Native American women that spawned the phrase.