[milovan]

It is the year 2075, and all of the Libertarian party's dreams have come true. Governments are long gone and only huge corporations have survived to make laws and impose their will upon the people. As Spider-Man once taught us, "With great power comes great responsibility". Unfortunately, someone forgot to tell the corporations who have run amuck, growing richer and more corrupt. Small pockets of resistance have sprouted up around the globe, but have been powerless to make any large-scale changes until now.
This is the world of Devastation, a new first-person shooter from developer Digitalo Studios. A bit clichéd? Maybe, but with some interesting level and game design Devastation had the potential to set itself apart from the current crop of shooters. Unfortunately, poor AI and numerous bugs reduce it to a merely mediocre experience.
Devastation is loaded with weapons, around 35 in all. You can use everything from broken beer bottles to dual-wielded pistols, Uzis, sniper rifles, harpoon guns, and my personal favorite, the rat bomb. Prime your rat, set him down, and the camera switches to mouse-eye view. Use the normal keyboard controls to move him to a pack of enemies, then sit back and watch the fireworks. Another fan favorite is sure to be the laser rifle, which fires a tight, railgun-type beam. When the beam hits someone, it immediately blasts them into wisps of crispy, carbonized flakes.
For those not satisfied with just one type of run-and-gun action, Devastation offers two different modes of play: arcade and simulation. Arcade mode features faster-paced play with no weight limits, and your character picks up just about anything you run over. Simulation mode requires a bit more thought (not too much, though) -- you will become encumbered if you pick up too many weapons, you have to stop and physically pick up any items you might want to grab, and thus the game slows down a bit overall. The differences are slight, however, and whenever I felt myself getting a bit bloated with hardware I would just get rid of a bunch of seldom-used weapons.







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