Quick Look: Bodycount

Part of the reason (if not all of it) that Ryan's controller use is so loud during QLs isn't  that he hammers on the buttons, but rather because he holds the controller against his chest, rather than on his lap, which brings it within practically point-blank distance of the microphone. I don't think he's that violent a man...
 
Well... Okay, yeah, I do, actually. But I don't think it's noticable from his use of video game controllers...

Also this game's combo system is the stupidest goddamn thing I've ever seen. 
 
You have a timer ticking down, shooting dudes lengthens the timer, shooting dudes in the head or using grenades adds to the multiplier! There! Simple! 
 
This stupid nonsense of regular kills resetting the multiplier and having no timer just encourages the kind of boring, tedious, unexciting gameplay that Jeff has experienced. How did this happen? Did no one care? 
 
Well. At least the guns sound good and the intel sounds like a slot machine. Wish other games would do that.

The music in this game is super annoying.

You are Protagonist.  Your goal is to defeat Antagonist.
 
Who could ever want or need more than that?  :p

My favorite part is the little Call of Duty style ticker, except instead of saying a gazillion dudes killed it says like five dudes killed.

Jeff sucks when he isn't aiming for the body...

Tried the demo of this last week and it couldn't have been more boring. The 'arcade' word in the description keeps fooling me to think that this is some downloadable title, which would make it's existance maybe *somewhat* reasonable...

This game looks bad, shame because I really enjoyed Black but that guy leaving clearly had a effect on this game

Game was ass from the demo.  They really just threw it together. 

Imagine how good this game would have looked in 2000

So this is a $60 title? If it is, then fuck you, Codemasters.

Might rent this, when I can for free on my employee account. God I love working in a video store.

im interested.... it is the spiritual successor to black a game from last gen i loved i wish black had more to it though thats about it

They sure have some balls to sell this for 60$

Holy shit, I was floooored when jeff said 60$ I thought it was a downloadable game..

I don't think this looks nearly as bad as Jeff makes it out to be. The combo system seems dumb though, skillshots made Bulletstorm better but it seems to work to this game's detriment. I'll check this out when it's on sale for sure though.

@the_r0n1n_named_47 said:

im interested.... it is the spiritual successor to black a game from last gen i loved i wish black had more to it though thats about it

I remember Black more as a proto-Modern Warfare style game than anything like this. The level desing in Black was crazy linear, where you would rarely be able to even climb a staircase after you had walked down a floor, as they had a bad habit of removing the last few steps of it to make sure you'd never accidentally walk in the wrong direction, where this seems to go wrong in the opposite direction - open levels with no directions other than mission markers.

ASSET EXPIRED

Codemasters should make Menus the game. The entire game consist of navigating cool looking menus.

this game looks like booty

The demo wouldn't let me change controls on the PS3...so uh...that was that.

It's got that aqua/turquoise orange tinge that Brink had.

Yep, 5 minutes of even the quicklook was too much of this game

Unfortunate, the devs appeared to have something interesting with a changing color pallete as the game gets darker, and destructible environments, but yeah this game doesn't appear too promising.
 
Though I don't think it's as bad as the QL'ers seem to think.
 
For example, the setting your feet mechanic seems superfluous and definitely clunky, but might be intended to be more integral. Given the repeated deaths, it's clear that while the AI isn't top notch, running and gunning isn't exactly the winning strategy, allowing for distraction in trying to talk while play of course. Perhaps that mechanic and others might have worked better, though again the polish needed to make those conceits come together is definitely lacking.

Yep, this game looks totally boring. And maybe it would be different if I was playing it, but there doesn't seem to be enough indication when you're about to die.

Whenever Black comes up they seem to talk about it somewhat negatively, but I've got to say I really liked that game. I thought it was a lot of fun. I guess it was wrong of me to expect Bodycount to be a Black 2 for me though. It's a shame that it seems to suck.

Looks like a shooter.

@Vito_Raliffe said:

Yep, this game looks totally boring. And maybe it would be different if I was playing it, but there doesn't seem to be enough indication when you're about to die.

Yeah, tried the demo, the gameplay in general doesn't seem worse than other military shooters released in the past few years, but there's barely any indication at all that you're about to die except for the very last moment, and that does get pretty damn annoying. At least they're not repeating the horrible stuff they did in Black where not only the level had to be loaded again after each death (which sadly is pretty damn common these days), but you also had to watch the entire unskippable cutscene every time you died.

@SavageM2 said:

Whenever Black comes up they seem to talk about it somewhat negatively, but I've got to say I really liked that game. I thought it was a lot of fun. I guess it was wrong of me to expect Bodycount to be a Black 2 for me though. It's a shame that it seems to suck.

There are some great things about Black, and it does some of the worst things modern linear military shooters do and turn that up to 11 - ridiculously linear maps where you constantly are pushed forward by the game as it blocks the path behind you making it impossible to go back the way you came, instead of giving you the chance to occasionally explore the environment.

Then there's the odd omission of some kind of multiplayer, in a game where it certainly wouldn't have felt tacked on (rather it's noticeably missing, as it's not all that long, and was a full price release).

Still, it looks great even 6 years later, it's got a great soundtrack, and pretty varied maps, some well directed cutscenes (which you can't skip, resulting in some really annoying repeats when you have to replay a level) and over all a pretty good atmosphere.

Amazing that a company thinks this should cost $60 in 2011.

@tenemyharris said:

I know its easy to hate Call of Duty but they did create the best control scheme for a pad. As we see with this cacky game.

Didn't CoD just use Halo's scheme?

Jeff is all intel'd up! weird game.

Flabbergasted when the $60 pricetag was announced. I totally thought this was a downloadable game. Wow.

These quick looks help me make decisions on the games I spend my hard earned money on. After playing the demo and seeing this game more first hand, I know this is not worth the purchase.

Aww, they quit before they got to the retarded sci-fi sections. I wanted to see their "whaaaaat?!" as they find laser guns and Alice in Wonderland-esque guards in a whole bunch of way-too-shiny corridors.