I was wondering, have any of you guys tried out the Battlefield 2142 demo yet? It was released not too long ago. Unfortunatly, I haven't been able to download it just yet since all available links to the demo download are hammered like mad. More likely I'll have to wait until after the weekend (or maybe even longer) to try downloading the demo. But have any of you downloaded the demo yet? If so, how is it? How does it run? Is it more demanding than Battlefield 2? And are there any bots to it?

I'll try to give a feedback of my own on the demo as soon as I download and try the demo. Oh, and for those of you who are interested I'll have to warn that the demo is quite large. It's around 1.09 Gigs big. Thank god almighty I just switched to DSL this year.

Haha, I never thought I'd see conversations about it here. I downloaded it with EA Downloader at 1 in the morning on Friday and it was done in an hour. It actually runs better than Battlefield 2, and I can run it on mostly medium settings, whereas I was forced to play it on all low in BF2. Loading times were rarely more than a minute, and verifying client data was also much faster. There is no singleplayer from what I can tell, and though the map they chose for the demo is not very good for conquest, Titan mode is a blast. The mechs are fun to use, and the drop pods in the transportaion vehicles are easy to navigate, and make for one of the coolest entrances you can have.

There is more emphasis on squad play, and playing as a lone wolf will get you killed very quickly. It is unfortunate that you only have the basic kits and no unlocks, so no C7 explosives, but it isn't unbearable for me. If there is more you want to know about, just ask! :E

Thanks for the heads up! Darn, though, that there are no bots. How are the new vehicles in the game? Especially the walkers?

The walkers are cool :E. You have the primary miniguns for infantry as well as short ranges rockets to take on vehicles. There is a secondary position on top that is primarily for anti air. They are very tough to take down for single units, but can be overwhelmed, or outsmarted by a good engineer. The tanks are an intersting blend. PAC gets a tank that doesn't have a moveable turret, but it is a hover tank that can move sideways. The EU gets more of a standard type tank. Infantry combat can be frustrating at times, since everyone beats me in 1 v 1 :p, and the the main thing that always got me mad in BF2: you start shooting at enemy, brilliant team mate runs in front of, you stop shooting to avoid the team kill, said enemy wastes your team mate and you.

Another unfortunate thing is that nobody seems to be able to fly the transport vehicle, or leaves before anyone can load up. I swear 1/2 my deaths must be from people crashing those thingsX|. You can spawn right in to trandport vehicles, but you never know when the pilot will crash the thing or bail out and leave everyone else to go down with the ship, even if it is full health. A big improvement though is that the enemy can not attack your hangar bay in Titan mode, so you avoid the constant carrier rapes fom BF2.

I've been hearing that this place has good download speeds for the demo, so here's a direct link if you want to try it: http://www.fangaming.com/download.php?fileid=288&gameid=61

i heard of that game...

the reviewers said that it is very good...

it's news to me.