Raven Shield Demo Released

Impressions!

The look of the game is very nice. The models are well detailed, the world maps look nice and the guns seem pretty sweet to me. There is a very cool physics engine in the game. When you shoot someone on the stairs, they fall all the way down, when you shoot someone in the gut, the topple over. Its pretty darn cool.

The sounds are also moderately well done. When a person is far off and using a sniped gun, you just fall over dead without hearing anything. I think they need to make more zings and pops from bullet holes though.

The movement seems very realistic, but its TOO realistic. When you sidestep and walk backwards, its feels jittery but only because each step is registering movement. Picture, step, stop, step, stop. It can be very annoying. You can also crouch, lay prone (which only seemed to work sometimes) and run endlessly. There is no stamina meter or anything...

There are lots of guns to choose from in the game and lots of grenades as well. I messed with the MP5, P90 and M16 but theres many more in this demo. You can change your guns burst rate which I seemed to have always selected single fire. The recoil seems a bit insane on a lot of guns, like an old woman is handling them. The flashbang and gas grenade have very interesting effects that I haven't seen before.

The UI of the game seems pretty nice too. Its set up in a Ghost Recon fashion where you select guns before the round and hit ready when you are all set, and then the round starts. Map change times seem non-existant and I'm not really sure why that is. One minute we'll be playing a map, and then the round changes and we are in a different map with no load times.

All in all, this is a pretty well done demo and made me a bit more excited for the real game.