Our demonstrator then began picking off soldiers from behind the ironsight, giving us a chance to check out the new Frostbite engine improvements--the "Destruction 2.0" features. DICE has primarily added "micro-destruction," allowing players to chip away at pieces of cover, bullet by bullet. Big booms have also been improved, with entire buildings thunderously collapsing into highly detailed piles of rubble. The larger-scale explosives have some new flare, with bombs and other detonations boasting impressive secondary air-burst effects.

After the gun battle, the player's squad jumped into the back of a truck and began a hasty retreat through a mountainous pass. Russians riding on ATVs followed in hot pursuit, triggering a setpiece that will be familiar ground for Gears or Resident Evil 5 fans--shooting at mobile attackers from the relative safety of a scripted vehicle.

Following the demise of the ATVs, the Russians set an attack helicopter on the truck. At one point the truck entered a covered mountain overpass, the helicopter hovering just beyond a series of concrete columns that were too thick to fire through. Then the chopper simply flew inside the tunnel to chase the truck, the demo ending there, on a moment of pure over-the-top battle fantasy.