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On paper, Damnation for 360 has some great ideas for story and gameplay. Unfortunately the game itself bungles all of these strong ideas with incompetent and uninspired execution, resulting in muddled tedium.

Cowboys battling across an alternative 19th century America, fighting steam-powered robots. Great mechanisms of brass and iron must be mastered or destroyed. Turbo-charged motorbikes take the place of horses, tearing across the plains of the old west. Majestic airships glide over cities that expand the aesthetic of the west to a Science Fiction scale. Put like that, the story of Damnation sounds great.
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Damnation is a disastrous game that suffers from a multitude of technical issues. Its grim premise of an American Civil War that never ended piqued my interest for a Steampunk Western experience, but the story is told with appalling voice acting and gameplay that was better left back in the 90's. With grotty visuals and awkward shooting mechanics that turned the combat into a joke, every level of this game was a torturous experience I wish I'd left back at the game store.

From the outset I was intrigued by this game. Alternative history books, movies and games have always held a certain mystique over me with their interesting suggestions of how the world might have turned out differently had world events gone differently. Damnation's premise of an American Civil War, extended after an advanced arms manufacturer became involved in the conflict, was certainly enough to get my Western/Steampunk itch scratching again. Initially I was slightly disappointed that it had gone a bit too far towards the Steampunk side things with a conflict that looked more like man versus machine rather than just a straight north/south conflict.
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