Any tips on beating him on normal difficulty? He's got tons of health and heat seeking missiles that seem to make hiding behind cover impossible.

OK, I managed to beat him. I emptied a full magazine on him using the chain gun, and that barely got him reduced by 1/5th of his health. I tried the tesla cannon, but then a weird thing happened. The boss jumped on top of me, but then he couldn't reach me with his attacks so from under his belly I could safely first empty all my shotgun shells into him, then slowly finish him off with the knife. I kept hacking even when his health was at 0, till I gibbed him.

So my question is, how on earth can you beat him normally? Even if you could evade all his attacks, where do you get the ammo from? And I was careful in conserving ammo. But even if I killed all the freakin enemies up to that point with the knife, I don't see how I could have enough ammo given the health he has. Not to mention his attacks are terribly difficult to evade.

Seriously, did anyone test this? Even once. Because even having 10 players test this for several hours should have caught the fact that (a) you need more ammo and (b) he can get stuck on top of you.

I liked Blood 2. Liked its story, setting, weapons. Didn't mind its graphics and polygonal 3D engine with funny blood, because that was the norm at the time. I didn't even get many crashes compared to what I've heard. But it does seem the levels were rushed and unbalanced. The first boss was a prime example of just frustrating gameplay. There were other points that were annoyingly meaninglessly hard (in a bad way; I don't mind a hard game in general) only to be followed by too easy areas. It just seemed like the levels were not ironed out and shipped too early before proper testing was done.

Then the Nightmare Levels came. Excellent story, funny, with a nice change of setting and scenery (sorority house, ice level with old Blood enemies plus their sounds, Jojo's circus...) And the same balance issues. Come on, this was only 6 extra levels, no reason to rush without doing properly.

And the AI... either too easy with enemies stuck behind corners, to be taken off at your leisure. Or you kill one and after a messy loud fight it turns out his buddy was standing just next to him but wouldn't turn a finger while you slaughtered his friend. Or too hard, with enemies killing you with a sub machine gun from a great distance before you even have the chance to aim.
Oh yes, and a sniper rifle with which it seems it doesn't matter if you hit the head or torso. Damage is random. God knows hot their hitboxes worked.

Anyway, overall I'm happy that I bought and played the game. And I'm also happy that I finally finished it.