Kingdom Under Fire demo on Live

By Tom Bramwell Published 18 January, 2008

Play through two stages.

Microsoft has released a European 1.2GB demo of Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom onto Xbox Live.

In it, you can battle through two stages of Act 1 as Kendal or Leinhart.

Developed by Blueside, Circle of Doom is a mixture of action and role-playing genres, where players take up the roles of various heroes on randomly generated maps, developing their abilities and weaponry with experience.

There's also a four-player co-op mode which Microsoft seems to be very excited about.

It's already out in the US, and if you have somehow come to import it since its arrival then you might like to know that the developers will be playing online tomorrow night from 6pm to midnight ET, with details on Xbox.com.

Otherwise, you might like to know that the full game's due out on 1st February. Watch out for our review closer to then.

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Comments (9) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • IAmBatman #1 4 years ago

    I'm not sure calling an Xbox title "Circle of Doom" is a good thing.

  • Weezer #2 4 years ago

    The PS3 version is going to be Kingdom Under Fire: Expensive Movie Player

  • Darren #3 4 years ago

    This game has been getting average reviews anyway so it's been crossed off my "To Buy" list. Still a demo *is* free so at least I can find out for myself why it ain't much cop...

  • groovychainsaw #4 4 years ago

    Indeed Bloodkult, I'm with you there, if it gives me 4 player on-sofa co-op loot whoring, I'm already sold, been too few of those recently (and its one of few genres the missus ejoys...)

  • Shanucore #5 4 years ago

    I'm disappointed that it's not an action-strategy game like the Xbox KUF games. Or is this a spinoff, and they're still doing the strategy games alongside this?

  • kangarootoo #6 4 years ago

    The KuF series has never reallyhad mass appeal, but they have all been pretty good games. This one seems to be trying to appeal to a wider audience, which may be a hinderance rather than a help if it ends up failing to attract new players and losing some of the old ones at the same.

  • Milbe #7 4 years ago

    120 hours in the game i have to tell it is an exteremly mixed bag.

    some would say 2/10 some 10/10.

    It took me 20 hours to realise how this game was meant to be played. Then i went online, and again, a different game.

    what ever the review score will be, give it some time to see if _you_ like it.
    Edited by 1 at 18/01/08 @ 13:43

  • bearfield #8 4 years ago

    hey guys. a yank (is that term still around?) with a retail version of kuf: cod here

    the game is not-quite-good when playing solo and a blast when playing co-op. i'd describe it as a mixture of dynasty warriors (or more accurately n3) and everquest: champions of norrath or any other mmorpg loot/item synthesis-fest

    @ groovychainsaw: afaik co-op is limited to xbl. this is *the* 360 game for co-op loot whoring though. you just have to do it over xbl

  • SomaticSense #9 4 years ago

    It's been a while since I played a game that has managed to induce me into some sort of comatose state. I know I played through the whole demo, but I barely remember any of it as while my hands were controlling it, my mind just switched off and started thinking about anything else other than actually playing the game.

    Like 99 Nights, but without the scale, the graphical competency, and with some bog standard RPG-lite elements thrown in. I found it literally mind-numbingly boring.