If you would put both the new and old watchdogs around for me to shoot, I wouldn't notice the difference between them. They are small. Too weak to be a threat and too annoying to be ingnored. They will be destroyed quickly once targeted. All in all you never see them closely, at least not longer than a second when the thing bumbs on your windshiled and then blows up. Those barrels really are quite high poly enought. And Ace Pace is correct, you only see them in groups. So close those golden eyes of yours if this thing is too meager for them. If you want a performance hog out of it, the I'd prefer flashing ligths and glows over perfectly round barrels.