Tachyon: I agree... People will be people, you just have to see for yourself... People should learn that. For example, if I had never gone to a movie that a critic didn't like, I would have missed a lot of movies I liked.
barondekalb: There is a 1st/3rd person View Toggle, but there are no struts... but like Tachyon has said, it's just a demo... In the little leaflet, theres a note that states "Because this is a Preview Beta, we ask you to consider the following: The game is nearly finished. It is in the final stage of polish / balance / and bug fixing." There are a few known issues listed in the handout:
1. There is a known issue with Mission 10. You will not be able to progress in the story past this point.
2. Difficulty balance is still in progress.
3. Crackles and pops can occasionally be heard in the sound mix (haven't heard it yet)
4. And ATI Radeon Text display issue. I can confirm this. I loaded the game on my laptop (P3-850 w/ 32 MB ATI Mobility M4), and the text was all f****ed up. It was unplayeable. There is a note to drop the hardware acceleration, which I did not try. On my home machine (AMD Athlon 900, w/ 128 MB Nvidia Geforce4 4400), it works GREAT.
I've played the first 3 missions... GREAT game...and the mouse/joystick thing is a non-issue... I didn't think I'd like the non-joystick aspect, but it passes in about 10 minutes
HTH
Al