Okay so I bought this game yesterday not in the hype as a Modern Warfare 2 killer (I love modern warfare and will compare it multiple times)but hopefully as another battlefield 2.
I must say I'm pretty dissapointed....for one the single player is trying desperately to be the game it vowed to slay and fell flat on its face.
I was promised humor and destructible environments above all else. The humor was hardly there with the exception of a few Ha-has. Instead I got a badly told version of a Sean Connery movie it had everything from dying main characters to betraying Russians as well as betraying Americans and a doomsday weapon..... I feel like I've played this before... except it was better.
The destructible environments were kind of fun but ultimately felt like it fell short of its hype. Turns out not every structure can be blown to high fuckery and for some reason you can knife through fences and doors with a simple swipe. Though I must admit chipping away cover and mowing down trees was a very nice touch.
Now onto one of my biggest complaints because I would not have coughed up all that money on a game primarily for its single player (FUCK NO not after I learned my lesson with F.E.A.R. 2). The graphics (on the PC anyway). .......WTF. I have it running with PS2 style graphics on a ridiculously low resolution that would computer would smack me for ever disrespecting it by using it and it still manages to have a shitty frame rate.
This is inexcusable. Modern Warfare 2 runs amazingly on my laptop with a very decent resolution and various other visual effects. I feel like this is the second consecutive insult to the Battlefield franchises PC fan base. The first being that the first Bad Company wasn't on PC. The second being releasing this game with visuals of the last generation.
The main point of my post was the single player and its visuals so fan boys don't piss yourselves as you furiously type flames. I have yet to play multiplayer and I'll complain about that if I see anything wrong with it but I'm already trying to sell it over Craigslist in large part due to the visuals and choppy frame rate.
And one final nitpick
The grenade throwing and knifing visuals are incredibly awkward looking
I must say I'm pretty dissapointed....for one the single player is trying desperately to be the game it vowed to slay and fell flat on its face.
I was promised humor and destructible environments above all else. The humor was hardly there with the exception of a few Ha-has. Instead I got a badly told version of a Sean Connery movie it had everything from dying main characters to betraying Russians as well as betraying Americans and a doomsday weapon..... I feel like I've played this before... except it was better.
The destructible environments were kind of fun but ultimately felt like it fell short of its hype. Turns out not every structure can be blown to high fuckery and for some reason you can knife through fences and doors with a simple swipe. Though I must admit chipping away cover and mowing down trees was a very nice touch.
Now onto one of my biggest complaints because I would not have coughed up all that money on a game primarily for its single player (FUCK NO not after I learned my lesson with F.E.A.R. 2). The graphics (on the PC anyway). .......WTF. I have it running with PS2 style graphics on a ridiculously low resolution that would computer would smack me for ever disrespecting it by using it and it still manages to have a shitty frame rate.
This is inexcusable. Modern Warfare 2 runs amazingly on my laptop with a very decent resolution and various other visual effects. I feel like this is the second consecutive insult to the Battlefield franchises PC fan base. The first being that the first Bad Company wasn't on PC. The second being releasing this game with visuals of the last generation.
The main point of my post was the single player and its visuals so fan boys don't piss yourselves as you furiously type flames. I have yet to play multiplayer and I'll complain about that if I see anything wrong with it but I'm already trying to sell it over Craigslist in large part due to the visuals and choppy frame rate.
And one final nitpick
The grenade throwing and knifing visuals are incredibly awkward looking
), but it doesn't make a lot of sense to complain about dated visuals while the game runs at minimum settings. Hell, Crysis looked like an N64 game on my old 7600GT.
