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TL,DR Review

This game was part of the last significant wave of bad games that came to market in the console space, playing it now is taking a trip down memory lane in the wrong direction.

Full Review

Do you remember when stores would sell bad, unknown movies for next to nothing in a giant discount bin? If you go further back, do you remember one of the many weird VHS tapes you would see when walking through the shelves of Blockbuster in the 90s? Damnation is a bit of throwback akin to one of those experiences.

You play as a gruff cowboy and/or bounty hunter cosplayer and are accompanied by his comrades-at-arms including a native american woman who is a healer that dresses as a stripper, a rival Spanish cowboy/bounty hunter cosplayer and a generic British scientist. You're there to takeout the evil Lord Prescott and his PSI forces before he takes over the world....basically. The entire cast could have easily starred in a direct-to-DVD ripoff of 1999's Wild Wild West except somehow more terrible or perhaps campier in a low budget, non-English speaking way. It does remind me of the sort of awkward dialogue that you run into with Central\Eastern European game with English put in. (I'm looking at you, Risen.)

2009 was a time when bad games were a bit more commonplace and when game developers were still figuring out how to take advantage of the PS3\360 hardware, and oh boy does Damnation reflect this. The character models are...decent for the time but everything else is really ugly. Like the entire game was targeted for the PlayStation 2 and they just decided to release it on the next generation with little more than a resolution bump. The game world looks like a cross between Red Faction 2 & Gun, with a low geometry count and the same building types throughout.

Gameplay is basically a cross between Uncharted without a cover system and the most bare-bones imitation of Prince of Persia platforming. Even on the lowest difficulty, the enemies in this game deal out ridiculous amounts of damage, have crazy accuracy, and are fairly aggressive. However, the enemy & weapon variety are very low. There are about 4 different enemies, with the generic guys using the same weapons that you do. Sniper Rifles, Shotguns, Grenade Launchers, basic stuff. In between the combat, is the A M A Z I N G platforming with no direction as to where you should go. Usually this is ok but often times you can only hope that your NPC companions start to navigate before you do in order to see where to go, otherwise it's a reload to the last checkpoint or find a guide online. You also have driving sequences that are equally as terrible, with your vehicles handling like someone watched the driving segments in the 1st Gears of War but they've only played Big Rigs.

Damnation was not a good game when it came out and is also a bad game now. The only difference being is that it's over 10 years old at the time of this review. This game isn't total garbage, there is a campy experience to check out but you have to really be into that sort of experience to tolerate everything terrible around it. For the .50 cents I payed for this, I guess you could technically do worse. However, I would not suggest to play Damnation unless you are the type of person that likes to watch bad movies or to remember why games like this don't come out anymore.

[quote]If you would like to read more of my reviews, check out and follow the [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/27264611/] 𝓕𝓾𝓷𝓴𝔂 𝓙𝓪𝓵𝓪𝓹𝓮𝓷𝓸𝓼 curation page [/url] as well as [url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/FunkyJalapenos] joining the Steam group[/url], feel free to say Hello to the community on the Discord server! [/quote] [h1] ▀▄▀▄▀▄ Damnation ▄▀▄▀▄▀ [/h1] [u][b]TL,DR Review[/b][/u] This game was part of the last significant wave of bad games that came to market in the console space, playing it now is taking a trip down memory lane in the wrong direction. [u][b]Full Review[/b][/u] Do you remember when stores would sell bad, unknown movies for next to nothing in a giant discount bin? If you go further back, do you remember one of the many weird VHS tapes you would see when walking through the shelves of Blockbuster in the 90s? Damnation is a bit of throwback akin to one of those experiences. You play as a gruff cowboy and/or bounty hunter cosplayer and are accompanied by his comrades-at-arms including a native american woman who is a healer that dresses as a stripper, a rival Spanish cowboy/bounty hunter cosplayer and a generic British scientist. You're there to takeout the evil Lord Prescott and his PSI forces before he takes over the world....basically. The entire cast could have easily starred in a direct-to-DVD ripoff of 1999's Wild Wild West except somehow more terrible or perhaps campier in a low budget, non-English speaking way. It does remind me of the sort of awkward dialogue that you run into with Central\Eastern European game with English put in. (I'm looking at you, Risen.) 2009 was a time when bad games were a bit more commonplace and when game developers were still figuring out how to take advantage of the PS3\360 hardware, and oh boy does Damnation reflect this. The character models are...decent for the time but everything else is really ugly. Like the entire game was targeted for the PlayStation 2 and they just decided to release it on the next generation with little more than a resolution bump. The game world looks like a cross between Red Faction 2 & Gun, with a low geometry count and the same building types throughout. Gameplay is basically a cross between Uncharted without a cover system and the most bare-bones imitation of Prince of Persia platforming. Even on the lowest difficulty, the enemies in this game deal out ridiculous amounts of damage, have crazy accuracy, and are fairly aggressive. However, the enemy & weapon variety are very low. There are about 4 different enemies, with the generic guys using the same weapons that you do. Sniper Rifles, Shotguns, Grenade Launchers, basic stuff. In between the combat, is the A M A Z I N G platforming with no direction as to where you should go. Usually this is ok but often times you can only hope that your NPC companions start to navigate before you do in order to see where to go, otherwise it's a reload to the last checkpoint or find a guide online. You also have driving sequences that are equally as terrible, with your vehicles handling like someone watched the driving segments in the 1st Gears of War but they've only played Big Rigs. Damnation was not a good game when it came out and is also a bad game now. The only difference being is that it's over 10 years old at the time of this review. This game isn't total garbage, there is a campy experience to check out but you have to really be into that sort of experience to tolerate everything terrible around it. For the .50 cents I payed for this, I guess you could technically do worse. However, I would not suggest to play Damnation unless you are the type of person that likes to watch bad movies or to remember why games like this don't come out anymore.