Quick Look: Bodycount

this game just looks bad

Oh man, I thought this game was supposed to be like a $15 downloadable game. Then I found out that this was a retail release at the full $60 and that's a hilarious shame. Truth be told though, I don't think that I would buy this game at $15.

I really can't tell the difference between this shitty shooter and shitty shooters the staff love. Maybe they should act like Hard Reset and call this "classic gameplay" so people overlook its shittiness.

Yeah, it is a little hard to tell if you are really dying or not.

Yes finally someone mentions Ryan loud ass playing.

Jeff's continued hatred of Black is ridiculous!  There are only like 3-4 good FPS games on the PS2.  

That general jacked ALL the intel!

The game looked boring when I first saw it last year and my opinion on it still hasn't changed.

This game looks bad.

@MiniPato said:

Yeah, I"m not even color blind and I have a real hard time finding out how close to death Jeff was. Looks like a real rush job this one.

Yeah, I'm glad he asked that question because it did seem really sudden when he died.

I'd love to know what went wrong during the development of this turd.

well from what i've seen this game doesn't appeal to me it looks bad

Don't think anyone's particularly enthralled by this game, but it doesn't seem as bad...or well, the analog leaning is neat, and assigning it to a pressure-sensitive press of the left trigger is clever. It's less restrictive than a standard cover system as you can plant yourself wherever, not just behind concrete slabs. And you've got full analog control over the peeking and ducking. Liked it in MoH AIrborne, felt more dynamic and involved.

But if you can't switch those actions around, and have to try to erase the muscle memory of pressing down the trigger all the way to aim, then that's bad.

Laughed when Jeff made a remark about Ryan and his loud controller use! =p

Brad: "We should just mic all of our controllers from now on."
Jeff: "We'll just have Ryan play everything."
 
 
LOL

This is the opposite of "arcade-style."

The problem with this game is not that it's bad, it's just that it has nothing that really sets it apart from the pack.

Guys, just pop up the controll screen in game for one sec: press L2 halfway down=aim and move.. 
 
anyways, demo turned me of it, which is a shame. I prefer bulletstorm any day^^

The half-trigger pull iron sight mechanic is kind of interesting, but shouldn't it be the other way around? In an action-oriented FPS, I would think you'd always want the ability to move and quickly and easily pop in and out of iron sights. A full pull on a trigger is easier than a half-pull, so the full pull should be mapped to regular iron sights and the half pull should be mapped to lean. Am I crazy for thinking this?
 
That's all moot though, since backwards controls seem the to be the least of this game's problems.

Hm. Watching this, I feel like I have a bit more clarity on how this game plays. Unfortunately, I was basing most of what I heard/saw on periphery information, so it was hard to have a concrete visualization of this game. 
 
The game doesn't seem awful, but it does seem like it lost a lot of what made Black fun. The set piece moments and nonstop "never stop shooting" mentality are a few of the things lost in translation. Also, I skipped around a bit in the video, but can you shoot your grenades in midair? I loved doing that in Black.

This gave me serious Perfect Dark Zero flashbacks.

hahaha I did notice too how loud Ryan's button pressing is during QL's!

Yuuuuck.

So it would be better for them to not let you join a lobby with a match in progress so you can never find a game because the only two games going are already in progress?

Thats the most unintense FPS i've ever seen.

@MattClassic said:

The half-trigger pull iron sight mechanic is kind of interesting, but shouldn't it be the other way around? In an action-oriented FPS, I would think you'd always want the ability to move and quickly and easily pop in and out of iron sights. A full pull on a trigger is easier than a half-pull, so the full pull should be mapped to regular iron sights and the half pull should be mapped to lean. Am I crazy for thinking this? That's all moot though, since backwards controls seem the to be the least of this game's problems.

That's a good point; I think the half-trigger stuff would work fine if it was the other way around.

What is that thing in the menu? Is it a spaceship?

If nothing else, I do like the design of the title treatment for this game.

Also, the graphical bells & whistles of the menu interface are lifted straight from 007: Blood Stone intel cutscenes.

The box has a gun on it.

Finally someone else acknowledges Ryan hitting the buttons on a controller harder than normal. I thought I was the only one.

@virtorio: @virtorio said:

What is that thing in the menu? Is it a spaceship?

Looks like an exploded rifle.

Games like this were made on an assembly line in Depression-era America. Most people don't know that.

Codemasters should stick to only making racing games. I remember getting Turning Point: Fall of Liberty from Gamefly a couple years back, and putting it back in the mail after playing it for about 20 minutes.

Hmmm, wasn't this made by the same people who made Black? 
 
Doesn't look too good, wasn't really excited about this and I am still not.

Jeff is right, headshots are ruining games.

Instant respawn: cool.
Everything else: Bleh

Looks like a pass.

Definition of mediocre

I feel like I'm tipping over watching this. The gun is too low on the hud and your upper vision is too high, if that makes any sense.

Glad I'm not the only one who thinks Ryan's controller use is really loud.

@Kratch said:

The problem with this game is not that it's bad, it's just that it has nothing that really sets it apart from the pack.

It looks pretty bad.

edit: Wait, this is a full price game? I thought this was just another downloadable release. Wow.

You know it's really bad when Jeff would rather play DNF than this.

I'll think about this the same way I think about all mediocre looking shooters.

How are the achievements?

Watching 7mins of this is enough for me.

So it would be better for them to not let you join a lobby with a match in progress so you can never find a game because the only two games going are already in progress?

I'll think about this the same way I think about all mediocre looking shooters.

How are the achievements?

Guys is the reticle not centered in the middle of the screen, or is it just me? 
 
It is driving me crazy and I can't figure out if it is the video player, the video game, or something else.

@outerabiz said:

@cday130 said:

So it would be better for them to not let you join a lobby with a match in progress so you can never find a game because the only two games going are already in progress?

no. It would be better for them to let you straight up join the game.

Thanks for the update Captain Obvious.

Yo this game is BAD!