Devastation (video game)

Devastation is a first-person shooter video game by American developer Digitalo Studios, released for Windows and Linux in 2003.

The game takes place in an impoverished, dystopian near-future Earth, pitting an underground group of rebels against an oppressive, all-powerful mega-corporation.

It is an action-oriented first person shooter based on the Unreal Engine, that focuses heavily on team-based gameplay in both single-player and multiplayer.

Instead of a bright and peaceful future, human civilization is in a state of polluted, dilapidated ruin akin to post-World War II Europe.

The game's protagonist is Flynn Haskell, the leader of a small band of terrorists/resistance-fighters determined to rid the world of Grathius and their evil schemes.

As the game progresses, the player travels from San Francisco to Taiwan to Japan, recruiting new characters into the resistance and capturing Grathius cloning devices for their own personal use.

[3] Artistically the game is inspired by authors like William Gibson, Ray Bradbury, and George Orwell,[4][5] as well as film directors such as Terry Gilliam, Jim Jarmusch, Tom Tykwer, Darren Aronofsky, Alex Proyas, David Fincher, and Christopher Nolan.

The game also takes inspiration from real locations and environments, with lead designer Barry L. Gibbs commenting that "I feel that I can be, and have often been, influenced by simply walking out my front door, or just by driving down the street.

Around the time of the game's release in Europe during April 2003, European publisher NovaLogic hosted a graffiti competition in a cross-promotion with the film 28 Days Later.