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Hands on: Shadows of the Damned
Mike Bantick
Tuesday, 31 May 2011 21:14
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Suda51 and his development team of cool individuals from Grasshopper Manufacturer are crafting a survival horror game aiming to transcend the traditional Western view of Eastern developed games of this nature. Certainly you should prepare yourself for a lot of genitalia jokes after installing Shadows of the Damned.Like Orpheus seeking his wife - Eurydice, Garcia Hotspur is seeking to retrieve his wife from the clutches of Satan himself.
Whereas EA's Dante's Inferno from 2010 had players moving through the nine circles of hell as depicted in the famous poem, Suda51 and his team from Grasshopper Manufacturer are taking a more modern and irreverent approach to taking on the demons of the underworld.
As the games title suggests, light and darkness play a big part in the game-play, where adversaries must be fought in well-lit areas, in the darkness not only are the lumbering demons stronger, but Garcia himself is weakened and in pain.
Luckily he has a few tricks up his well-leathered sleeves in the form of Johnson. Johnson (and the dick jokes don't end here) is Garcia Hotspur's wise-cracking spiritual companion. Usually in the form of a floating skull, but luckily blessed with the ability to transform into a motorbike, handy flaming torch or even handier upgradable gun.
iTWire was able to play through the first few hours of the game, and came away with a definitive impression of a game straight from the Resident Evil mould, except, thankfully, with the ability to move whilst aiming weapons. This is obviously attributable to the collaboration between Suda51 and Shinji Mikami, director of Resident Evil.
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