Battleangel

So, it’s out and it’s a clone so far. But not in english? Supposedly works with the Anti-Blaxx and Daemon Tools emulators though. Keygen is out also. A cracked exe will surely arrive momentarily as another group takes a stab at this.

1.91GB all in all. I’ll stand by what I said about BF2 for the time being.

RELEASE DATE: 18.06.2005
RETAIL DATE : 23.06.2005
TYPE……..: PC/Games
GENRE…….: MP Shooter
DEVELOPER…: Electronic Arts
PROTECTiON..: Safedisc 4
LANGUAGES…: Chinese Dutch French German Italian Japanese Korean Polish Spanish Swedish Thai

Update: Of course the game was in english. Now I see that Battlefield.2-RELOADED is out also. Nice and cracked. But as always, the clone version is just as good with the reloaded crack applied. Now we’re just waiting for public and private server patches. I reckon we’ll see them within a day or so.

The game is getting rave reviews btw.

Gripes: I’m still not happy with the limited SP mode. Slow menus and long loading times remain the biggest snag though. Even though I have 1GB RAM to throw around. Kind of miss more large and open tank battle maps also. Like El Alamein from BF1942. Planes and helicopters were also surprisingly difficult compared to say Desert Combat. I kind of miss some of DC’s vehicles.

For anyone interested in it, the single-player game is as weak as ever, and we can only scratch our head over claims that the bots had been “rewritten from the ground up.” It’s not that we expect people to buy this game for single-player action, but the options are ridiculously limited, and the bots just as useless. You can only play the 16-player versions of the maps with bots, so you can’t practice the bigger levels. You can play as commander and give the bots orders, but they can never get it together to obey. And, despite their uselessness, it’s a shame that you can’t pre-populate a server with a handful of bots to help jump-start a game. (We’re expecting this to be one of the first mods out of the gate.)

But the biggest complaint that we have with the game is the steep hardware requirements. You’ll need a beefy video card: the minimum is a GeForce FX 5700 or a Radeon 8500. If you don’t have the proper card, or the proper driver, the game dumps you unceremoniously to desktop without as much as an error message. We’ve got machines here at GameSpy with GeForce Ti 4600s that are capable of running Half-Life 2 or DOOM 3 with solid framerates, but Battlefield 2 won’t even run on these systems. It seems that a huge audience could find themselves shut out of this game, which is a shame; if you’ve been looking for a good excuse to pick up a new video card, this might be it.

Source: Gamespy

Gamespy’s rating is still 100% though.