7 minutes of Beta Heaven

So I run home at lunch - the hubby dutifully meets me there.  After a scrumptious Bacon/Egg on toast sandwich, the Beta is downloaded.  So I try to log in - ERROR: BETA IS NOW CLOSED....

WTF!?!?!?!

I tried the boards, IGN, Inifinty Ward, COD4 - nothing to help me.

So i texted from my phone to the cod4beta@infinityward.com email address.  Within 5 mins I had a reply......SWEET!  The code IS tag specific, so we migrated my hubby's account over with the little memory card - and BAM dialed up the BETA.

He let me play first, cause he is AWESOME!!!  My impressions in a moment.  I just want to reiterate how quickly they answered my question once I sent it to the right place. 

Game launches - no TIMMIES! - and my map exploration is cut short by a knife to the back.  I grumbled for five minutes then moved on tossing nades into doorways and firing blindly.  The reload was very realistic - aka slow.  The maps are beautiful with lots of great cover.  By the 2nd map I was ready to stop getting pwnd.  I had a four kill streak and then switched to my pistol.  With the assault class I picked I had the " Pistol of Hellfire +5".  Headshot, duck, headshot, cover, doorway, sneak, sprint, body shot down in three, body shot down in two - out of pistol ammo.

Gameplay was seamless, no lag, no funny glitches.  Moving around was very easy - like GRAW2 but I didn't get the feeling that I was hunched over.  The airstrike and helicopter call ins are really worth it and a great addition to the gameplay. 

Sorry ATC - didn't use the shotty yet, but as of now I am seriously considering a GT change to PistolPwner. 

WOOT WOOT!!!