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Sat, 04 February 2012 23:03

Flettner

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Registered:April 2006

For the last several weeks I've been trying to convince myself that P & G could be a decent system, that abandoning TBC wasn't necessarily a disastrous move, that the crap art, animation and countless reductions in tactical and strategic play wouldn't result in a horrible gaming experience. I was hoping for a mindless shooter that had some personality and mimicked JA2's RPG like qualities. I was horribly wrong on all counts.

I've spent about three hours of highly tedious and frustrating hours on the JA2: BIA demo and I've concluded that it's simply the worst squad level combat game I've ever seen. The controls and interface are bordering on unusable. I suppose that if I invested enough time I could eventually get proficient in using the interface but the endless camera diddling simply takes any joy out of the game. What JA2: BIA is about is over coming a badly designed interface and getting the camera work exactly right and that simply is tedious.

The P & G system is cumbersome to use and basically useless.

The lack of climbing options, terrain errors, LoS errors, cover errors and an unworkable melee system combined with the horrid controls makes for the single worst gaming experience I've ever had.

The animation work is worse then JA2 ever was and the graphics far inferior to 7.62/E5/E6/Hired Guns which wouldn't be an issue to me if everything else worked properly. More troubling is that the art is simply crap which totally kills the mood. The RPG elements are almost non-existent which is something I actually hoped would work out as I hadn't heard any bad news about that prior to the demo coming out.

To say that JA2: BIA isn't at all like JA2 is a bit like saying that having cancer may be less then edifying.

What this demo has shown is that JA2: BIA is not just too expensive at any price but that even if it was free it's not worth the space on my hard drive nor any of my time.

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		Demo review of JA2:BiA By: Finn on Fri, 03 February 2012 20:21
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA By: EXile 150 Abyss on Fri, 03 February 2012 23:27
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA By: Hanakin on Sat, 04 February 2012 00:09
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA By: Finn on Sat, 04 February 2012 00:37
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA By: DepressivesBrot on Sat, 04 February 2012 00:52
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA By: Finn on Sat, 04 February 2012 02:42
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA By: mrgray on Sat, 04 February 2012 09:17
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA By: Fozzie on Sat, 04 February 2012 10:54
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA By: mrgray on Sat, 04 February 2012 13:58
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA By: Finn on Sat, 04 February 2012 14:13
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA By: CptMoore on Sat, 04 February 2012 15:42
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA By: mrgray on Sat, 04 February 2012 17:36
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA By: Hanakin on Sat, 04 February 2012 20:35
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA By: Finn on Sat, 04 February 2012 21:53
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA By: Flettner on Sat, 04 February 2012 23:03
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA By: Fozzie on Sun, 05 February 2012 11:41
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA By: lamurt on Sun, 05 February 2012 15:41
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA By: Siresmithnj on Sun, 05 February 2012 20:26
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA By: Flettner on Sun, 05 February 2012 23:18
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA By: Finn on Mon, 06 February 2012 00:32
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA By: DepressivesBrot on Mon, 06 February 2012 00:35
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA By: 1Samildanach on Mon, 06 February 2012 13:08
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA By: MisterMoe on Mon, 06 February 2012 13:51
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA By: wasp on Mon, 06 February 2012 21:37
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA By: Omega on Mon, 06 February 2012 22:50
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA By: parachute on Tue, 07 February 2012 00:58
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA By: DepressivesBrot on Tue, 07 February 2012 01:09
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		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA By: Slax on Tue, 07 February 2012 03:43
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA By: wasp on Tue, 07 February 2012 12:02
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA By: Narva on Tue, 07 February 2012 15:18
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA By: Omega on Tue, 07 February 2012 18:57
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA (My pennies on the demo) By: Skinner on Tue, 07 February 2012 20:12
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA (My pennies on the demo) By: wasp on Tue, 07 February 2012 20:44
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA (My pennies on the demo) By: Burns on Wed, 08 February 2012 00:44
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA (My pennies on the demo) By: Finn on Wed, 08 February 2012 03:53
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA (My pennies on the demo) By: Fozzie on Wed, 08 February 2012 09:31
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA (My pennies on the demo) By: wasp on Wed, 08 February 2012 12:11
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA (My pennies on the demo) By: Dzsono on Wed, 08 February 2012 13:57
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA (My pennies on the demo) By: Fozzie on Wed, 08 February 2012 17:42
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA (My pennies on the demo) By: Flettner on Wed, 08 February 2012 22:42
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA (My pennies on the demo) By: Flettner on Wed, 08 February 2012 22:47
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA By: Finn on Mon, 13 February 2012 03:35
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA By: Sam Hotte on Mon, 13 February 2012 16:47
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA By: DepressivesBrot on Mon, 13 February 2012 17:06
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA By: Sam Hotte on Mon, 13 February 2012 17:21
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA By: judecca_hel on Mon, 13 February 2012 19:34
		Re: Demo review of JA2:BiA By: Finn on Tue, 14 February 2012 01:58

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