Codename: Outbreak Demo

Rawk!

This is one cool demo. Quick observations:

-- Looks better and plays more smoothly than Operation Flashpoint
-- Seriously fun
-- Neato team control
-- Great models/textures
-- Creepy aliens
-- Fun scope/sound-enhancement
-- Probably the best outdoor engine on the market at the moment

Ch-ching! That's a sale.

Hey guys...I just got through playing this demo...here's a few pointers if you're interested:

+ The game still has lots of the cool things that the Venom demo had and...
+ The sound seems much improved
+ Theere are fewer graphic bugs, but I still get quite a few video 'glitches' during play.
+ The graphics (other than the glitches and bugs) look amazing.
+ The concept of having a 2-person team that you can command at will is quite fun.
+ The HUD is quite cool in that it isn't just numbers pasted on the screen but LCD readouts attached to your suit.

- It's next to impossible to find out where you're getting shot from. This is SUCH a major deal. Half-Life never had this problem. Quake III never had this problem...why does this game have this problem? I don't know, but it simply does. This is extra-important in this game since it deals with quite a bit of sniping to succeed in the single player missions. It's very irritating and made me quit the game frustrated. I'm not gonna load it back up for awhile and try to cool down.
- The Main Menu looks pretty cheesy
- The fact that you have to adjust video and sound controls outside of the game isn't very good either.

If the developers are reading this, you've got a LOT of great stuff here, but you're missing out on a few key elements before you've got a GREAT, FUN game.

If you don't wanna mess with fileplanet, blues has it now, along with mirrors...

http://bluesnews.com/files/venom/demo_codenameoutbreak_new.shtml

Hmm, there's enough games I know about not to have to go through the utter pain in the arse that is FilePlanet to find out if another one I've never heard of is cool or not.

I'll pass on this one, unless anyone knows of a non-FilePlanet mirror.

The seconded Venom demo worked pretty good for me, the first had memory leaks. I liked it, can't wait to check this one out this evening.

I hope the mines are still in it, fun to trap a building.
Plus the outdoor areas were huge!

I tried the venom demo, I have to assume it was an alpha or something cause it was pretty wretched. As I recall it was hard to even get to work at all. But who knows, maybe the updated version will fail to suck in some degree.