Battlefield 2 demo out

[HangFire]

http://www.filerush.com/download.php...eld_2_Demo.exe

Torrent file, has several thousand peers, so expect decent speed.



Anywho, I just tried it, so heres my observations and opinions.

The Installer went OK, aside from it wanting me install Gamespy and the fact that its DX9 installer wanted to use the internet and phone home. Also it for some stupid reason throws an Nvidia driver installer into the game's folder.


The usual unskippable corporate logos before game, then it wants you to either go SP of MP game. I clicked SP, threw me right in.

In short, its fun and probably what most people are expecting. Game runs badly when the map first starts, but 30 seconds in and it smooths out. A whole pile of classes, for both playable teams in the demo (Americans and generic evil arabs). Theres a bonus weapon for each class that must be unlocked, probably can only be done in the full version.

Graphics are so-so, expecially because it won't let me save any of my video or control configs in the menu, so I was stuck with 800x600 and no anti-aliasing.

Gameplay is for the mostpart identical to BF1942, with some changes such as the commander (can fire airstrikes and drop ammo boxes). AI is much improved, it uses all the radio commands and doesn't act quite as retarded in BF1942.

They're still dumb as usual, they fight by running forward blasting. They use vehicles a bit better than before. They won't play as commander. So, basically, they're the old 1942 bots but marginally improved. Considering the budget for this game, as usual the AI dissapoints.

I didn't try online play, as I have a fairly good opinion of the game and I don't want that ruined yet.



So.. Bottom line, go download the nicely bloated 500 meg installer and try it out. Its going to be a good 20 minute addition to my LAN next weekend.

[Exilibur]

I'm downloading... But I doubt i can run on my machine... it's more than a year old now... I'll probably throw it out again in a couple of minutes if the bots suck... I can't play online anyway because of firewall...

[TruB]

have it.. but this comp only has a crappy geforce2 card.. got to get home..