Awhile Ago I downloaded the demo...I was impressed. Very realistic game (reminds me of a WWII version of raven shield or America's Army)
I downloaded the demo in about 7 minutes with my cable modem. I fired up the demo level thinking, well lets see-wonder if yet another Medal Of Honor wannabe will be good this time. Hopefully this time it will be more realistic than medal of honor-that game was kinda all "oh war is glory I just killed a entire regiment of nazis." Being the expert FPS player I am I put the game on veteran difficulty (to maximize that realistic 1-shot and you are dead effect that I love). Another pre-game preperation I make when playing war games is to put the speakers on full blast:cool:
Well anyway, I started up the demo to find myself stuck in a small trench with a squad of about 5 guys about to make a "stealthy" assault on the town of st. mari eglise. Well I have a squad. That's an improvement over Medal Of Honor. You weren't with a squad in medal of honor, only in the first level. Unlike Medal Of Honor, lets hope they don't all get wiped out by a scripted mg42 in the first 5 seconds of the first level.
So following the squad we crept into the town as quietly as we could. Everything was peaceful when suddenly, everything turned to hell. Machine guns, mortars, everything erupted around me. Right off the bat I thought "wow, they did a great job recreating the chaos of war!" I had the difficulty on hardest, so If i stood up, I was dead. With my speakers on full, it was awesome. Okay I will admit it...call me a loser but I actually started shivering I was so scared, this is the first time a game has so excellently captured the chaos, hell, and scariness of war. On my belly, I made my way past american bodies and mortar craters to a fence in front of a couple of buidings where the mg's were housed. I looked around me, watching men get mowed down, and watching a brave 101st airbourne soldier drag a fallen comrade through the line of fire. Well, time to fire back. I instantly noticed another lot more realistic thing over medal of honor: Ironsights, man. We have ironsights now!!!! well I tried to pop a few rounds at the germans in the windows, but my squad mates were making most of the kills. I tried to aim through a tiny hole in the fence to take out an mg gunner, and very realistically, as I had him in my ironsights a string of bullet holes appeared right in the fence and dust kicked up from the ground. I immediatly hid, got a grenade out, chucked it, and killed the gunner. Then frantically, some men limping, we advanced to a small church through the window. The way your AI squadmates move, use cover, and clear out buildings is very realistic.
Most of the time in medal of honor the combat was close range, but I noticed in call of duty most of the combat is everything blowing up around you, not knowing what the hell is going on, and popping aimless shots at a wall the enemy is hiding behind at very long range, hoping you make a hit.
Well I thought this game was very cool and realistic, and I am now counting down the days till it comes out. I don't want to spoil the rest of the level for you, go download the demo, its awesome-thats just the first 5 minutes of the level. Here are some screenshots I took of the game using printscreens:
