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Too Human demo on Live now

Play the entire first level.

The Too Human demo is now available from Xbox Live.

It offers the entire first level (about 1GB) of the vikings-in-space adventure for you to wade through, where you can batter waves of goblin robots with big mallets.

The demo should also give you your first taste of the Norse pantomime plot, where you, as Odin's son Baldur, refuse to give your humanity to the machines, and get caught in love triangles and soap opera bickering along the way.

Too Human is an action role-playing game from Silicon Knights. It features online co-operative play, plus menus upon menus of equipment tweaking to do - some of the names given to the randomly generated loot are wonderful.

Tom had a chance to bash his way through it recently. Pop over to his hands-on impressions of Too Human to see what he thought.

Too Human is due out on 29th August, exclusively on Xbox 360.