Devastation Preview And Q&A

Mad Max RW · Post by **Mad Max RW** » Wed Feb 19, 2003 4:28 pm

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<html><body>We have heard very little about this elusive FPS by Digitalo. Maybe a few more previews and Q&As will clear things up. Today starts us off with a preview at <A HREF=http://www.game-over.net/reviews.php?pa ... ameOver</A> that talks about the setting, storyline, and team based mechanics. This bit caught my eye:<blockquote>Devastation, however, is not merely a sterile team competition game. By now, I think we've seen enough Counterstrikes, Global Operations, Battlefield 1942s on the PC. Digitalo puts some meaning into these matches by instilling a storyline into the game itself. The first half of the game involves more traditional first person shooter mechanics. Youre asked to find mainframe computers and hack into them for security codes. Youre also asked by the resistance to destroy infrastructure crucial to the corporate syndicate. These might involve finding explosives and then arming them at the designated site. As simple as some of these objectives might sound, theyre pretty fun to tackle; only because theyre given some justification by the cinematic cutscenes that appear periodically to flesh out the story.</blockquote>Next up is an <A HREF=http://actionvault.ign.com/features/den ... tml>Action Vault Q&A</A> with Devastation Level Designer and Cutscene Director Ben Golus. He chats about the main storyline, what is going on in the game world, and cutscenes.<blockquote>Action Vault: What would you list as the main things - games, books, movies and whatever else - that influenced this part of Devastation?</blockquote><blockquote>Ben Golus: All the basic cyberpunk literature from the most notable authors certainly had influences over the events and settings in the story. If I had to name a few, Id say William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling, along with the visual stylings of Syd Mead, Terry Gilliam, and Jean 'Moebius' Giraud. Some of the less cyberpunk-styled, more political and somewhat still sci-fi authors would be George Orwell and Ray Bradbury. Usenet newsgroups like alt.cyberpunk.chatsubo provided us with a huge amount of amateur pulp inspiration. Comics and graphic novels like Transmetropolitan and Tank Girl were also influences to a certain degree, with the rampant grit and cynicism.</blockquote>Bring on the demo!</body></html>