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Dark Messiah 360 demo News

Xbox 360 News by Tom Bramwell

21 December, 2007

Ubisoft and Microsoft have stopped getting off under the mistletoe (sorry, money hat) long enough to upload an Xbox 360 demo of Dark Messiah of Might & Magic: Elements - or DMoMaME, as everyone calls it.

Major Nelson's blog, which we're forced to rely on because unlike yesterday we're not sitting on the floor of the lounge waiting for DFS sofa tech support men, rather ambiguously says it has "Single Player and Multiplayer campaigns", leaving off whether that means the demo does or the game itself.

Elements, which is due out in January, is the Xbox 360 version of the jolly good PC game from 2006, which won Kieron's heart with various things I can't be bothered to summarise from his review.

It begins with the words "I have a busty woman in my head," so you could always go read it. You know you're bored.

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bengray66
21/12/07 @ 09:47
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Talking of Major Nelson, any news on the state of SWOS?
Der_tolle_Emil
21/12/07 @ 09:51
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DMoMaME

Sounds like another acronym for on of the hundreds MAME Ports.
BBIAJ
21/12/07 @ 09:51
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Cool beans, off to grab it now that my download of The Zodiac has finished after 12 flippin' hours!
Bloodkult
21/12/07 @ 09:58
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Excellent!
News has been quiet on this for yonks. I thought it may have been canned after the massive delay.
BBIAJ
21/12/07 @ 09:59
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Erm, it's not up yet much?
squarejawhero
21/12/07 @ 10:00
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It's not there.
asphaltcowboy
21/12/07 @ 10:01
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"Get a Handel on it."

Absolute. Genius.
Darren
21/12/07 @ 10:04
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Dark Messiah was well good on the PC, really enjoyed it. It's not the best game ever or anything but then it only cost me £12 via Steam. I'm interested in seeing how it fares on the 360, particularly as I believe it's the kind of game that will suit the controller very well.
Machiavel
21/12/07 @ 10:05
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Could we have a Eurogamer+1 Channel where this news is repeated for Silver Live Members? :)
Dizzy
21/12/07 @ 10:18
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O_o

Nice.. gonna try this weekend :)
Codework
21/12/07 @ 10:19
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Sounds like you're losing the will the live. C-

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UGhost
21/12/07 @ 10:50
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Losing maybe, loosing no.
BBIAJ
21/12/07 @ 11:06
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It's there now, at 688 .89 MB.
Jonesie2k
21/12/07 @ 11:25
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very surprising, i quite enjoyed it. will be tempted when release rolls around
dllord
21/12/07 @ 11:58
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@Machiavel, No because you're a cheapskate ;)
alpha-0ne
21/12/07 @ 12:02
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Darren ive heard they have made numerous improvements im going to check out the demo later
Jheronimus
21/12/07 @ 12:39
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I'll be giving this a try. Looking at this for PC for the last couple of months, but wasn't sure if the ol' system could pull it of...
JohnDonson
21/12/07 @ 13:25
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Is it just me or is there no invert sight?
Besides its fun.
Don't like the classes, PC was more free with that.
Whizzo
21/12/07 @ 13:29
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Which button has "kick" mapped to it? You'll use it so often it's quite important...
JohnDonson
21/12/07 @ 13:39
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LT is for Blocking and RT is Attack. Press both and you kick the enemies asses.
DrDamn
21/12/07 @ 14:30
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It picked up my invert look from my profile fine - didn't look in the options.

I thought the engine was shonky though. Kicked guard off ledge and he plummeted in a very stuttery fashion. Not impressed sorry. Damn CoD4 and it's 60fps loveliness!
GamesConnoisseur
21/12/07 @ 14:59
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Not to be overtly negative but the visual doesnt have lots of oomphs, indeed its could as well as have been running on Xbox! Its smooth enough for me and after having played it on PC and wasnt really sure that its translated that well across to X360.

Still that was just a small proportion of the game, they did map to controller reasonably well enough but still think in the thick of things would want to use pause/menu often rather than just let quick select which only give you 8 slots especially if playing as Mage (variety of spells you did want to fire off).
Bloodkult
21/12/07 @ 15:56
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It looks ancient! Not sure what happened in the transfer to the 360 but they've managed to make a lovely Source powered game really low res and ropey looking.
Was really looking forward to this, but the demo's made me think this will be a pretty shonky port.
BBIAJ
22/12/07 @ 15:08
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Why would be getting it on a Monday!?

*confused face*
DUFFMAN5
24/12/07 @ 13:30
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I enjoyed the brief demo. Will be looking to buy/trade, now to complete Bioshock and Lego SW complete saga, actully would make sense to start them first!
DAL9000
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Whoever said that this demo looks ancient was right, but I'd go a bit farther -- or rather I'd be a little more precise.

This game doesn't so much look ancient as look, ohhhhhh... approximately 8,000 years old. IT CONSISTS OF CAVE PAINTINGS.

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