Your 2008 Wish List - Post them and compare

I downloaded the demo tonight.

I spent 10 minutes with the MP demo tonight and I wasn't really impressed.  I measure all of these types of games against Battlefield 2 on the PC.  This seems to be trying to be a lot like that one.  I'm up for some more on Friday night if you guys want to.

I some some lagging/warping issues with guys and I couldn't figure out why my well aimed shots weren't hitting or killing guys.  For example I snuck up on a sniper with my sniper and was right behind him at less than 10 feet through the scope.  It took 7 or 8 shots before he finally died.  All the shots were right on his head.  I have a hard enough time aiming in this game.  If there are going to be issues like that I'll be taking a quick pass.

I spent a good amount of time on the game last night.

The lag issues are more prevalent in the demo than in the final version.  That being said, I have a fairly crappy connection but started a room last night.  A couple of guys had some lag issues at first, but they worked their way out.  We then got someone with FIOS to start the room and it ran sweet.

Some observations:

- Yes, it is the poor cousin for Battlefield.  I never played BF on the PC because I haven't been able to afford a PC upgrade to play some newer generation games.  I did, however, play BF2 on the 360 and loved it.  My only complaint was that you were stuck with EA's servers and could rarely coordinate matches with just people you know.

- We played nine matches last night on three different maps.  Unfortunately the first one was on a huge map and we had not many playing at first.  Once it filled up it got crazy.  The vehicles are great, and yes, you can even fly the Jet.  At one point we had both jets on this map dogfighting each other while we were on the ground with AA guns trying to take down the right one.  My favorite moment - sitting in a tank and looking up to see the enemy jet being blow apart halfway across the map.  Suddenly I noticed the wing spinning like crazy and coming right at me.  It didn't destroy my tank but it was so realistic my adrenaline was pumping.

- The second map we played was smaller and really showed how good the drones can be.  It was a map which has one team at the bottom of the hill while the other attacks from the top.  Our team's communication sucked so I didn't enjoy the map as much.

- The third map was one from the demo - oil field.  By then we were down to 5v5 and since squads were limited to four for talking, one person was left without communication, which sucked.  And yes, I was that guy.  However, I found it to be challenging and actually was able to anticipate my teammates moves and join in, so it wasn't that bad.  And OMG, that one sniping tower is badass!  It felt like it took 15 seconds just to climb the ladder!

Going to play some more tonight if the spousehammer allows me.  She has been sick all week so I have a feeling my gaming time is going to suffer this weekend ...... which is just as well as I need to bank some favors for next week when I get four new games to play (two preorders, plus two gamefly).

Oh, and I finished the single player today.  Way below average and often frustrating, but not difficult.  I will probably play through again on casual to get the "finish each mission without dying" achievements, being the achievement whore that I am.