Vivisector Demos

I really wanted to like this game. The opening logo and such looked really nice, so I thought the art would be exceptional, turns out everything looked bad, played bad, and just felt wrong.

I'm not a big fan of cancelling games that are far along, but this one should probably cut it's losses and the team should start on something new.

Played the first demo and had a lot of texture problems. Some wouldn't appear and that meant i couldent really get any further. But it does seem to be a bit behind the times

Will not work one bit.. graphic problems like mad :(
I've really been wanting to try this too.

Well, despite the screenshot on the Fileshack download page looking like total ass, I decided to give this game a go.

Initial impressions were pretty good. You start out on this helicopter that's just landed on a helipad. Walk out, pick up a few guns (shotgun, pistol, assault rifle - m4a1 style), and head to the first door.

Inside are 3 alien type dudes who actually take quite a beating before they actually die. But nothing too difficult. Maybe it's one of the later levels, I don't know.

Anyway, at this point the game broke for me. I got this weird graphics error. Check it out:

Looking through the door:
http://img436.imageshack.us/img436/1008/image15yf.jpg

I take 1 step forward and this happens:
http://img370.imageshack.us/my.php?image=image21ct.jpg

So that pretty much ended my demo.

Anyway what I can tell you is that from the 30 seconds of actual gameplay I got to experience, it seemed like a total Serious Sam style of game. There's no reloading, the enemies are a little bit cartoony, as are the guns. It does seem like it could be pretty fun though, if they do more serious sam style gameplay with massive battles and a huge view distance. We'll see.

I tried Demo #2 (the one in a zip file). It's definitely a debug build; the r key stops rendering level geometry, the f key turns on noclip, and e toggles some kind of player lighting. The only system requirements I could find mention of listed a P3 800, 256 MB RAM, and a 64 MB video card; I first tried it on my beater system (2.2 Celeron, 512 MB RAM, 64 MB Geforce4 MX 460) and it really wants pixel shaders. The demo was incredibly short, obviously unfinished, and a little buggy, but if the final game is actually in decent shape it could be a fun $20 throwaway.

not very good at all imo... no reloading weapons, animations are awful, can't seem to pick up guns the baddies drop, levels look like somthing out of quake 1

It looks interesting. I'll definitely check it out.

I just tried the second demo and I didn't really like it. The weapons sounded very weak.

Both demos are in German....