The Club demo on PSN

By Tom Bramwell Published 2 January, 2008

Plus Snakeball, Stardust demos.

Did you get what you wanted for Christmas? That's a shame. But Sony was looking out for you - sneaking a 1.7GB-shaped demo of The Club under the celebratory bristles of the PlayStation Network tree with the sort of festive love and care glaringly absent from other elements of this boringly appointed sentence.

You lot have been getting your teeth into it already, with uiruki summing up Bizarre Creations' first attempt at a shoot-'em-up as "a driving game mixed in with Tony Hawk-style trickery" in feel. "Technically, it is excellent. The graphics are extremely solid and pretty, with the PS3 never missing a beat at 30fps. Perhaps a little jaggy, but very clear," he adds, saving me some work. "I not like this game at all," NatAttack offers in a cutting riposte.

The full version of The Club is due out on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC on 8th February, and there's a bundle of previews, videos and other assorted attention-grabbers on its gamepage.

Also on PlayStation Network over the only week off we ever get was a Super Stardust HD demo, giving you the opportunity to find out whether you agree with Rich Leadbetter that it's "an absolute star, the jewel in the crown of the PlayStation Store and quite possibly the best purists' shooter to appear on console since the legendary Geometry Wars". He was very cross that it didn't make it into the Top 50, you know.

Finally, the PSN update also included a demo of another downloadable game, Snakeball, which Dan Whitehead quite liked, revealing that yes it is a bit like the mobile phone game.

Seeing as tomorrow is Thursday, expect more PSN update news in the near future. Everyday Shooter plz.

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About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (14) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • Beano #1 4 years ago

    Please note that The Club demo is not available for all EU countries.

    I live in Denmark but had to download the demo using my UK PSN account.

  • [maven] #2 4 years ago

    Not available in the German PSN store either.

  • Arkeologen #3 4 years ago

    For all of you who already have Stardust. Erase it from your PS3 and download it again for a new patch, future multiplayer, direct online store in-game. custom soundtrack and more.

  • peteb #4 4 years ago

    will it even be released in germany? they have a problem with games including "points for kills".

  • MonkeyMagik #5 4 years ago

    i though if you downloaded the demo and upgrade then it would automatically upgrade the existing version. I downloaded the demo and it never appeared as a demo, it just updated the title...... if any of that makes sense

  • Steroyd #6 4 years ago

    I can't believe Sony has had a purchaseable Snakeball game hidden in the EU store for a week... what the hell?!

  • GamesConnoisseur #7 4 years ago

    Whilst The Club is a multi-platform title and I thought it was pretty interesting that Bizarre Creation (formerly virtually MS platform exclusive) is seeing the demo of their next new IP on Sony's PSN first?

    A scoop in a way as most of demos to date have appeared on XBL first, but expect to see far more balanced advantages for XBL and PSN this year!

    Had a good blast and can see the potential of this working as it do feel PGR in some bits, but yes potential for being repetitive. Its worked fine in racing games, where you try to trim the seconds off best lap or to do better kudos point.

    But in FPS where you know when the targets going to be, then just memorising your way as you blasting round? Will it still be fun? That is the question I m keen to explore and hope Bizarre Creation got the balance nailed.
    Edited by 1 at 02/01/08 @ 14:24

  • GamesProgrammer Verified Games Team Programmer, Eutechnyx Ltd. #8 4 years ago

    is it not just the snakeball demo?

  • foamy #9 4 years ago

    Isn't this on XBL? :(

  • GamesProgrammer Verified Games Team Programmer, Eutechnyx Ltd. #10 4 years ago

    i did enjoy the club demo tho, to me it seemed somewhat like stuntman but shooting through a scene instead of driving through one.

  • Artemis_Matsas #11 4 years ago

    This seems to have potential, although the controls need to be more tight.

    I'll wait for the review on this one.

  • Steroyd #12 4 years ago

    NO! >:(

    When I tried the demo, then clicked on buy me now £4.99 popped up and I could buy it through the store, the whole damn game got launched.

    I was sitting there in shock, how could Sony stealthly put up Snakeball like that after advertising it so much?

  • ChromeMud #13 4 years ago

    'The Club' is an arcadey fps.It seems like all the enemies are super-stupid while you gambole around everywhere trying to shoot heads for maximum points like a kudos system in a certain racer we all know.
    For me it doesn't work.It was a fun demo for 5 minutes,then feels ultra-repetetive.
    One for the bargain basement bin perhaps.

  • Big-Swiss #14 4 years ago

    yep, it seems as if the German Store gets everything when the rest of the world doesen't want it anymore. I'm really a little disapointed how the German store gets updated. No Snakeball, no Club Demos, no every day shooter, no PAIN. All we get are some Demos after the game is released for 40 days and already purchased.
    I mean I'm happy that they don't release everything at one time, imagine how to play it all, but a little more equal to other stores wouldn't hurt.