Talk:Devastation (video game)

This article is a joke

This needs to be changed, its a mix of advertising, a sad attempt at a FAQ, and a vanity page for some clan. Windsock 11:25, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Yeah I don't get it out of all the articles I've seen that are said to be "baised" this one seems like the most prominent yet it is simply said to need a "cleanup". lol and :S

Needs to be brought down and started from scratch

Unbeliveable. This article is the worst one I've ever seen in Wikipedia. Tried to fix it, but none of the content makes sense. The mods are all "scheduled" and there is nothing concrete in that article. I think it should be deleted and rebuilt from the ground up.Dread Specter 04:34, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Ask and ye shall receive

Done and done. Joylock 04:57, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Wow thanks. It was about time someone goes through this article, it was a shame for wikipedia. Awsome work. This looks much more like an encylopedia artcile now ! Dread Specter 17:44, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

poorly written

If possible, someone with knowledge of the game and coherent writing skills should redo the storyline section. 74.76.55.231 (talk) 23:50, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

As far as I remember, the first level had the player break into some hospital like facility to retrieve some samples and find out what happened to some of the protagonists friends. Of course the facility was not what it was on the surface and the player had to find a way through a bunch of underground laboratories which were researching the respawn generator technology.

The second level had you rescue some friends from a warehouse and the third was another rescue mission.

The player had to rescue a friend from an asylum (which started them without weapons), had to cross through an old subway line (which was rather linear) in another level, there was a night market level (which was rather open), one level had the player retrieve a code from a grathius outpost in the middle of a city and another level which had the player fight through the empty pipes and waterways of a dam under construction. The final level had the player fight their way up a skyscraper and ended with a boss fight on the roof top.

Overall, the story could be summed up as: The protagonist tries to find out what happened to some of their friends, who were taken by grathius. They save their friends and rescue other people imprisoned by grathius. Stealing the respawn generator technology and using it for themselves, they form a movement against grathius. Subduing multiple grathius facilities, the player finally attacks the headquarter of grathius, where they confront the big bad.

If it hadn't been so long since I last played the game, I would be able to go into more detail.

2003:C3:470F:53AF:DC68:6255:3E9A:1301 (talk) 21:08, 15 March 2019 (UTC)

no mention of bomb rats?

Devastation had one weapon which was rather innovative for its time (not many games would enable the player to directly control another entity at this time): player controlled bomb rats - literally, rodents carrying explosives controlled from the perspective of the rodent. The player character would bob a rat on the head to activate their electonics and set them down before the perspective changed to the view of the rat and control was transferred to the rat. Turning around, one could get a look at the model of the player from a rather low angle. Being entities of small size, one could squeeze through small holes, take some shortcuts a player was usually unable to take and give enemies a nasty surprise. Upon running into enemies, said bad guys would sqeal in fear for a bit before stomping on the rat. Bomb rats were usefull to take out the enemy respawn generators without running into tight groups of freshly respawned enemies. One of their great weaknesses was that the player was frozen in place while the rat was active - making them unable to defend against enemy attacks. 2003:C3:470F:53AF:DC68:6255:3E9A:1301 (talk) 21:08, 15 March 2019 (UTC)