Description of Damage Incorporated
Damage Incorporated is a fun but little-known first-person shooter based on the Marathon 2 engine that Paranoid Productions licensed from Bungie.
The brief description at MobyGames goes as follows: "...[Damage Incorporated] incorporates a number of real-time strategy game mechanics to create an interesting hybrid game. The game takes place in modern day, and the player is cast as a sergeant in the Marine Corps. in charge of a team of thirteen Marines. The player is sent on a long sequence of covert missions fighting various rogue militia and paramilitary organizations based in assorted locations around the United States.
The player takes up to four squad members on each mission, and though he is not always required to use them, the missions become significantly easier if he does. Squad members are extremely chatty and each have well defined personalities. The squad members can die during combat, resulting in the player potentially being short on men for the later missions. The game also includes a separate multi-player game where players can each have their own squad, resulting in some chaotic battles."
The game is perhaps best described as a primitive version of Rainbow Six: it has real-world weapons (e.g. the MP5, M-16, and more) with different kinds of bullets, actual locations, and interesting "what-if" scenarios. The levels are huge, each with many different kinds of enemies. What I like most about Damage Incorporated is that you can command specific Marines, each with his own personality and skills. For instance, a soldier codenamed Carnage is very strong, but mentally unstable. Choosing the right Marines for each mission is crucial to your success.
On the downside, the graphics look more like DOOM than a 1998 game. People and texture-mapped scenery get pixelated when you run close to them, and the Marines sometime get 'stuck' between walls or run into invisible barriers. But excellent sound effects make up for this letdown: you will hear your teammates talk over the helmet headphones, as well as authentic sounds of weapons and explosions. The game also has excellent multiplayer support, and Deathmatch mode over the Internet is especially well-designed.
If you enjoy "realistic" FPS like Rainbow Six that offers more than typical kill-everything-in-sight gameplay, and you are not already spoiled by 3D-accelerated graphics of 21st century games, check out Damage Incorporated. It is easy to get into, has plenty of levels and fun weapons to use, and has more than enough replayability to keep you coming back.
Highly recommended.
Review By HOTUD
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How to play Damage Incorporated Windows
From the contributor : Here is the ISO for the windows version, it works on windows 10 flawlessly as it runs on the marathon engine. I've had no issues playing it, actually uses a 32 bit installer aswell so its just mount and play.
Love the website and hope this makes people happy, as it's a great but difficult shooter built on the marathon engine!
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MacWrap 2022-10-04 0 point Mac version
If any of you Mac users want to play Damage Incorporated, a FPS game made in the late 90s, I figured out a wrapper that works. First, download the Windows version of Damage Inc above. With Unarchiver, unzip the zip file, then unzip the ISO file. Then, make a new wrapper using version Wine11 20.0.4, set renderer to gdi in winetricks, make sure the wrapper plays DAMAGE.EXE file & play! Easy peasy!
Ghost 2021-06-25 -1 point Windows version
Stutter when turning right or left. Playing on a high end PC doesn't seem to work lol
Ruru 2020-11-11 6 points Windows version
Hello, thank you very much for making this game available, I spent an incredible number of hours on it during my childhood!
The windows version works fine but I have some problem with the map display: it does not indicate the position of the enemies, and I have problems using the zoom. Is there any manipulation to do beforehand to solve this problem?
Thank you in advance for your reply !
soc2001 2020-11-01 0 point Windows version
Doesn't seem to work. Mounted it and ran setup nothing happens.
stecklow 2020-06-23 2 points
I really appreciate you hosting the updater patch.
This was one of my favorite games in high school. I even made some levels that I distributed on the net at the time for network play, and intended to make a WW2 conversion but never finished it. I recently downloaded an emulator so I could play it and have since had fun rediscovering it. Thank you, I'd hate for all the good software and games from that time to disappear.
LOC117 2020-01-23 0 point Windows version
Can we get a windows version of Orion as well as the source code for all platforms? I want the jumping and crouching controls to be implemented into the Aleph One engine for Marathon, given that this game runs on a branch of Vulcan 2, which is what A1 is based on.
admin 2019-07-15 1 point
@HoldUp did not find anything for Win on the old official website. Unpacked the Map Pack and uploaded a zip for Win users.
HoldUp 2019-07-13 0 point
Why the heck are the extras only for the MAC version? The windows version never got anything or did it come out with everything from the MAC version?
Mizakit 2019-07-12 1 point Windows version
The chitchat between your soldiers and voice acting is fully working aswell, running on Windows 10 64 bit no issues launching or installing :)
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Mac Version
- Year: 1997
- Publisher: MacSoft
- Developer: Paranoid Productions
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