Three brand new demos on Xbox Live News
Xbox 360 News by Dan Pearson
Three tantalising new demos have hit XBLA this afternoon, namely The Wheelman, Wanted: Weapons of Fate and Legends of Wrestlemania.
The Wheelman is Vin Diesel's second demo of the week, what with all the Riddick, but couldn't be more different to the stealthy prison-breaking of Dark Athena. It's all about an on-the-run getaway driver larking about in Barcelona, where we're pretty sure he meets up with Scarlett Johansson and Penelope Cruz for a wild threesome in the back of a Austin Allegro on a major motorway at rush hour. There are guns and stunt driving as well, but it's the hot lady-on-lady action we're looking forward to rendered as quicktime events.
Wanted is another movie tie-in, all about bullet curving assassins as well as honour, death and betrayal. Probably. It's been done by GRIN, the studio behind GRAW and GRAW 2 as well as Bionic Commando, both regular and rearmed, so don't dismiss is just yet. That's what the demo's for.
Lastly, Legends of Wrestlemania lets players recreate"classic" "fights" from 80s and 90s. What this means in practice is being able to rub Hulk Hogan and Andre the giant up against each other while doing hilarious squeaky voiceovers which suggest they're pleasuring each other. For us, at least.
All three are available now, go get 'em.
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asphaltcowboy
05/03/09 @ 17:18
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/pedant mode on
These demos have hit XBL, not XBLA ;P /pedant mode off |
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dazrichards
05/03/09 @ 17:27
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Gold members only I imagine. At least for a week and then my interest will be elsewhere
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Wastelander
05/03/09 @ 17:36
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What's the Wrestlmania Legends demo like?
It's meant to be a bit more 'Back to basics' than the SvR games. I like the look of it. |
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Derblington
05/03/09 @ 18:55
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Pffft, Wanted was a decent, stylish action film. I can understand disappointment if you were expecting something else but it's based on a violent comic and directed by the guy that did Night Watch...
The game's ok, nothing spectacular but solid. I suspect the demo level isn't a high point of the game as it's so enclosed, and I think the game will get better the more you play it (it wants to be fast paced and stylish, rather than slow and tactical), similar to the mechanics of Mirror's Edge, though obviously very different. And The Wheelman... It's kinda ugly, very Outrun (but in a bad way) and kinda stupid. The tornado (or whatever it's called) special is cool though. |
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Fightclubber
05/03/09 @ 20:24
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I thought wanted was a big pile of class, the cover system worked insanely welll, im sorry but it shits over gears of wars slow lumpy dull cover system. Gears was the 1st game to really use cover well but gears 2 did shit all to improve on it, i felt wanted's cover system flowed alot more and was just cool as fuck to use.
Wheelman seemed like a cheap shit Chanel 5 movie turned into a cheap shit game |
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spudsbuckley
05/03/09 @ 20:51
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These things are on the PSN as well.
Great job with the news EG. Suppose you'll report it next week sometime. |
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/pedant mode on
These demos have hit XBL, not XBLA ;P /pedant mode off Agreed, it's confusing to see "XBLA" banded about when things are on the Marketplace, and clearly nothing to do with the Arcade. "Marketplace" or even "XBLM" would be better. When referring to the Prince of Persia DLC in the new releases pack the use of "XBLA" actually gave the impression it was a full release rather than additional content for the retail game. |
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CountFapula
06/03/09 @ 00:53
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Bad, why be ashamed of something you used to watch?
I just think it's sad when people think they need the approval of others to watch something or else they feel ashamed. |
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muscleblade
06/03/09 @ 08:40
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Only tried Wanted and it was ok for what it was i guess. I predict a metacritic rating of 70%+ average.
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ryohazuki1983
06/03/09 @ 09:10
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Played Wheelman and Wanted last night, not fussed on Wanted, I found it boring and didn't even finish the demo, to much cover shoot cover shoot over and over again; not really my cup of tea which is a shame because I was looking forward to it!
Wheelman is great though, will be buying it on release, I like the focus attacks (doing 180 degree turn then shooting things in slow-mo) etc, great game. Fairly large demo as well 3 missions to play. |
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"Bad, why be ashamed of something you used to watch?
I just think it's sad when people think they need the approval of others to watch something or else they feel ashamed. " Dude it's wrestling! Anyone who watches that crap SHOULD be ashamed! Anyway tried the demo (much to the amusement of Mrs bad09!) and it was pretty damn fun playing as the hulkster against Andre, I can't believe at 33 I'm saying this but if the roster is full of golden oldies I may actually buy it :) Oh, and Wheelman was wicked fun, it's like if GTA had knocked up burnout \o/ |
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