Damnation Is At Hand

[Dark Pulse]

AJ Glasser of Kotaku gives a preview of the upcoming UE3 title, Damnation. In it, he delves into how much has changed since the demo he saw at the Penny Arcade Expo - among them, that the game didn't turn out to be the crashfest he played earlier:

First impressions can be rather damning (lol, pun). When I first saw the game back in August, there was only one firefight that you could actually beat without crashing the demo. Based on that, I assumed the entire game was a third person shooter with a space western premise (only without the space).

Turns out, Damnation is actually a different game altogether than what I first thought. Sure, the shooting is a part of gameplay - but there's much more to it that wasn't there seven months ago.

Damnation will sin your Xbox 360, PS3 and PC on March 3, 2009.

 

[Ordagon]

the old ut2004 rocked the hell out. i will check this game as soon as possible

 

[Saist]

hate to sound like an idiot here... but is this seriously the continuation of the UT2k4 mod?

 

[hal]

No, it's a new UE3 game based loosely upon some of the ideas presented in the mod.

 

[Angel_Mapper]

Yep. It couldn't be a continuation of the mod, because it's hard to get ideas out of people you fire.

 

[hal]

 

[Saist]

Yep. It couldn't be a continuation of the mod, because it's hard to get ideas out of people you fire.

Okay. playing the part of idiot here again... but I didn't really follow the Damnation mod after the initial release, mostly because it was buggy as all get out on my systems. Is there a quick background on what happened with the mod? The "people you fire" line indicates I missed some drama or something of the sort.

 

[Angel_Mapper]

From what I remember FBMachine telling me, the entire mod team (or most of them) were kicked off of the project after the MSUC.

 

[Deapblade]

First impressions can be rather damning (lol, pun).

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=puns

 

[evilmrfrank]

I know at least 5 of the guys who worked on the mod worked on the actual game afterwards.