Demo Roundup - 28th Jan to 4th Feb News
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Robert Purchese
It's been another bare week for demos. But I stood up on a surfboard in the freezing cold waters of Cornwall. That made me happy, at least until I fell off and hit my back on a rock and tried not to cry. You could say I had a bit of conflict with the water, which is interesting, as Conflict: Denied Ops is one of the new samplers to tell you about.
It's up on Live Marketplace and in the US PlayStation Store (available last week on PC), and lets you creep around in a tactical shooting manner on your own or co-operatively with a friend. But alas, initial reactions show you lot to be rather unimpressed with Pivotal and its new casual direction for the series.
Also on Live is the European Beautiful Katamari demo, which lets you roll the world up in high definition for the first time. We were less charmed with the full offering than usual.
The only other demo on Live was the US Turok sampler, which is already available here. Should pop up this Thursday on PAL PS3 too, or you can pop onto the US Store and grab it now.
Elsewhere, you in the Sony camp will finally get your hands on the Devil May Cry 4 taster (again, if you haven't already got it from the US Store). Expect our review of the gull game very soon indeed.
Also up for PS3 grabs is a demo for MX vs. ATV: Untamed, the dirty racer from THQ with new generation mud and stones and wobbly wheels. It's the same demo 360 owners had back in November.
And that's all the weather.
Xbox Live Marketplace
Everybody (not German or Japanese)!
- Conflict: Denied Ops
- Beautiful Katamari
US
- Turok
PlayStation Store
Europe
- MX vs. ATV: Untamed
- Devil May Cry 4
US
- Conflict: Denied Ops
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monkie_king
04/02/08 @ 12:11
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"Expect our review of the gull game very soon indeed."
A radical cormorant-centric new direction for the DMC franchise? edit: also, jonarob, Katamari is timed? I nabbed the demo from the US marketplace and there's no timeout on that.
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Turok is indeed not very good. There's nothing wrong with the game - if it had been released a few years back, but it just feels like every other FPS you've seen before.
And am I the only one who doesn't 'get' Katamari? You roll around picking things up. Whoopee! It would be a good XBLA game, but a full priced? not really. |
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kangarootoo
04/02/08 @ 13:17
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Is it just me? Am I not getting something? I played the Devil may Cry demo and found it utterly uninspiring. Bad camera, though not debilitatingly so I suppose. Uninteresting enemies (fighting something that barely moves is surely not what fun has turned into). By the numbers "swing here and punch here" puzzles (I use the term puzzles in the loosest sense).
I've heard great things about the series, so I windoer what went wrong. Is it just the demo not being a good represenation of the core gameplay? Was I just missing the fun inherrent in repeatedly pounding what appeared to be pensioners tied up in colourful sacks? |
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QPRHOOPS81
04/02/08 @ 15:08
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got to say im with Kangerootoo, wasnt taken by dmc4 either. I was looking forward to having a go on it but it was just a bit meh.
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