These codes will allow the hacking of enemy laser fences, making it possible to destroy the enemy spawn point, effectively defeating the enemy team. The objective in the Territories mode is to retrieve security codes from a machine. The Resistance and Conformists teams go head-to-head to take each other's flag and return them, more than one flag per team can be added to a map. All levels from this point on are based on a capture the flag style of gameplay, with the rebel and Grathius teams starting on opposite sides of a non-linear level, each one tasked with capturing the other's cloning device.ĭevastation also features 28 different weapons, divided into 8 categories: melee, pistols, sub-machine guns, assault rifles, sniper rifles, squad support weapons, and miscellaneous weapons.Ī deathmatch game type, the aim of which is to kill as many enemies as possible in the time limit or reach the kill limit before anyone else. At this point, the only way to "lose" the game is to allow the enemy to capture and destroy the player's cloning machine. About 1/3 of the way into the game, the player acquires a cloning machine that allows them and their squad members to respawn from death an infinite number of times. The first 1/3 of the game features linear levels, with the player's goal being to make it from the start of the level to the end. In the game's initial levels, the game ends if any NPC squadmate is killed, but squadmate health regenerates fairly quickly to prevent this aspect of gameplay from being too frustrating. NPCs ordered to attack can independently make their way from the beginning to the end of the level without any guidance from the player, although they will stop moving and wait for the player to catch up if they get too far ahead of the player. Each NPC can be issued one of 4 orders: attack, defend, follow, or stop. The player can have a squad of up to several NPCs following them at any given time. The single-player game focuses heavily on team-based gameplay. Arcade mode features fast-paced action similar to that of many first person shooters, while tactical mode features slower gameplay more akin to tactical shooters such as Counter-Strike. Notably, the game can be played in either "arcade" or "tactical" mode. 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.ĭevastation features standard first-person shooter gameplay, comparable to that of Unreal 2, as the game is based on Unreal 2's game engine. The game's main plot revolves around a new technology developed by Grathius, nano-machinery based cloning, that allows the corporation to clone its fallen troops and gives them an unstoppable immortal army. Flynn, while exploring once, is captured and put into jail but successfully escapes with another resistance member named Duffy who also helps him in his next destination Urbia, as she is familiar with their resistance leader Tara.
Later the player meets up with a female scientist Eve whom Flynn regards as the best helper he could get.
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. A corrupt mega-corporation, Grathius Inc., controls the world by force, using pacification squads to kill any who oppose them. Instead of a bright and peaceful future, human civilization is in a state of polluted, dilapidated ruin akin to post-World War II Europe.