Those of you who pre-ordered the demo via Steam were blessed with early access to the demo. Now, the rest of us peasants have the chance to try this game out. PC owners head over to your Steam clients. Xbox Live! Gold members will find the demo in the Marketplace. PS3 owners? Valve doesn’t love you.
Left4Dead launches on November 18th, 2008.
Electronic Arts & DICE’s Mirror’s Edge isn’t an easy game to grasp by watching trailers or gameplay footage. I know it is a first person parkour game, however how does it control? How easy it for the player to control Faith and pull off all those acrobatic moves? You certainly can’t get all that info from a piece of game footage. Thank goodness for demos. If there was any game which needed a demo this holiday season, Mirror’s Edge takes the cake. Now the question is: Did the demo help or hinder Mirror’s Edge?
So while I was trying out Pure, PlayStation 3 owners willing to pay for Qore were testing out an old build of Evolution Studio’s MotorStorm: Pacific Rift. A month later, Sony released the very same build to the masses. I finally get to try it. Does this demo amaze me like the original MotorStorm’s demo did? Or was I mistakened for putting so much faith in this sequel? Well, I wasn’t as starry eyed as before, but it was plenty of fun.
Remember that Sonic HD tech demo from last month? Well, the folks behind the project have released a second tech demo featuring a new area to run around in and Knuckles.
Progress is being made! Below you’ll find two screengrabs which they’ve included and the required files to test this high definition Sonic for yourselves.
Sonic 2 HD Tech Demo 2 (16.9 MiB, 13 hits)
Yesterday, I read bits of info about exclusive downloadable content for the Xbox 360 version of Tomb Raider: Underworld. I didn’t think anything of it. I mean, GTAIV has come and mostly gone and who out there is itching for more of it?
Exclusive downloadable content is one thing, but exclusive demos? That’s what I don’t understand. Eidos and their almighty wisdom decided that only Xbox 360 owners will be the only ones getting a playable demo.
I wasn’t planning on picking up Lara’s latest escapade, but I was interested in trying it for the PS3. I guess I will have to wait out the Xbox Live! Gold demo exclusivity window before I get to try it.
In 2007, Xbox 360 owners received a few games which PS3 only gamers were not invited to. Two them included 2K Games’ BioShock and Namco Bandai’s Eternal Sonata. A year later, those two games are no longer exclusive. I’ve already taken a look at BioShock’s PS3 demo and now it’s Eternal Sonata’s turn. Will the PS3 demo finally convince me to pick up this JRPG?
LucasArts has two internally developed games for “next-gen” consoles in 2008. There was Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, which I wasn’t very fond of, and Fracture. I’m sure this isn’t earth shattering, but I’m not fond of Fracture either. Today, the 700+ MB demo debuted on both PlayStation Network and Xbox Live! Marketplace today and I spent some time checking out the game’s terrain deformation. My findings? Both The Force Unleashed and Fracture share very similar faults.
A bunch of hardcore and talented Sonic fans have created this:
It’s Sonic The Hedgehog 2, but in HD. It’s supposed to be as accurate as possible, but in higher resolution. I like how they left the low resolution floating platform for comparison’s sake. You can try the tech demo yourselves from their site or here:
Sonic 2 HD Tech Demo (8.2 MiB, 19 hits)
I suggest trying the 4X version of the executable first.
I caught gameplay videos of Pure earlier this year and I was very impressed. Seemingly out of nowhere comes an off road racer brimming with style and flash. It looked great, it sounded great, but does it play as good? Definitely. After installing the 1.2 gigabyte demo and spending forty minutes with the one available level, I’m left incredibly impressed. However, I’m not going to pick this title up this Fall. Why? The answer and more follows.
I have not yet bought this game, nor do I know if I even will. However, I have been having fun lately perusing the bountiful free ps3 Demo collection available on the Playstation Network Store. Yeah yeah, everyones going on about how great Bionic Commando: Rearmed is and I wont offer my thoughts on it because we already have a review of the full game here.
