Battleangel | Personal

I finally got my beta code the other day. I had a nagging suspicion this wasn’t my cup of tea exactly but I nevertheless took the opportunity to play for free.

Verdict: Not my cup of tea (surprise!).

Too realistic, frantic and messy. Plus you basically need teamplay to survive. Plus the demo "assault" type map puts even more emphasis on teamplay. I should probably put more time into the game seeing as I was admittedly overwhelmed by the sheer complexity of the gameplay. I’m more of an Unreal Tournament or Battlefield Heroes kind of guy. Where everything makes sense and you can cut down the entire opposing team without any help from your so called teammates.

Another thing that greatly irked me was the lack of a proper HUD. Sure you have a minimap, ammo counter etc. But no health bar. The relationship between mud and blood on your screen and how much health you had left wasn’t exactly self-explanatory to say the least. I greatly prefer games that give health statistics as a bar or a number. And where you actually see how much you’ve damaged someone in exact numbers. Bad Company 2 has far too much of shooting blindly (until your ammo runs out anyway) into thick vegetation for my liking. Plus there is a whole cryptic department of upgrades and stuff in-game. From what I can tell they’ll all be free (paid DLC?) with character experience, but even so I’m not fond of the un-even gameplay they create. Jumping into a game I found myself facing high ranking players with who knows what kind of abilities. Plus there looks to be some nasty copy protection on this game. And there is punkbuster of course.

Having said that, if teamplay is your thing you’ll probably be thrilled. The graphics where also pretty impressive and I do enjoy the destructible environments greatly. Walls, building and trees get blown to smithereens in a way what reminds me a lot of Crysis.