Three brand new demos on Xbox Live

By Dan Pearson Published 5 March, 2009

Wanted! Wheelman! Wrestlemania! Wow.

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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Comments (24) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • bad09 #1 3 years ago

    Nice I've been keen to try Wheelman It's Vin week on Live \o/

    May even download that WWF demo for a giggle, I actually watched wrestling back then I'm ashamed to say :)

  • asphaltcowboy #2 3 years ago

    /pedant mode on

    These demos have hit XBL, not XBLA ;P

    /pedant mode off

  • DUFFMAN5 #3 3 years ago

    Look forward to Wheelman, hopefully it plays like it looks... FUN.

  • dazrichards #4 3 years ago

    Gold members only I imagine. At least for a week and then my interest will be elsewhere

  • Kiigan #5 3 years ago

    GRIN aren't "behind" games like GRAW and GRAW2. They handled the PC ports.

  • Wastelander #6 3 years ago

    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.

  • schnide #7 3 years ago

    Hopefully Wanted The Game will be better than Wanted The Movie.

    My girlfriend suggested we see that as the first movie we ever went to watch, and I still take the piss out of her for it now.

  • speed182 #8 3 years ago

    Don't think much of WWE Legends tbh, the modes are pretty cool, but gameplay not so.

    I liked Wanted, it's a love or hate game though.

    Haven't tried Wheelman yet.
    Edited by 1 at 05/03/09 @ 18:03

  • dustrat #9 3 years ago

    Yeah, Wanted the Movie was kinda lame.

  • MyPointIs #10 3 years ago

    I agree about 'lame'. Not so sure about 'kinda'.

  • Derblington #11 3 years ago

    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.

  • Pastici #12 3 years ago

    I really liked the Wheelman demo, it was good silly fun. Airjacking is a right laugh.

  • Fightclubber #13 3 years ago

    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

  • spudsbuckley #14 3 years ago

    These things are on the PSN as well.

    Great job with the news EG. Suppose you'll report it next week sometime.

  • Mattb90 #15 3 years ago

    /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.

  • Res #16 3 years ago

    "GRIN aren't "behind" games like GRAW and GRAW2. They handled the PC ports. "

    They are behind games like GRAW and GRAW2 on the PC, the PC version was not a port.

  • Olemak #17 3 years ago

    To extend the W madness further, there's also the Watchmen game on PSN to concider, released last night I think?

  • muscleblade #18 3 years ago

    Only tried Wanted and it was ok for what it was i guess. I predict a metacritic rating of 70%+ average.
    Edited by 1 at 06/03/09 @ 08:40

  • ryohazuki1983 #19 3 years ago

    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.

  • chicknstu #20 3 years ago

    The wheelman demo was great!

    Imagine if the missions in GTA played anything like that!

  • VicViper #21 3 years ago

    Seems i didn't play the same wheelman demo as everyone else, I thought it was horrible.

    The insanly bad take down animations and cut sences, ok the car handling was fun but well....

  • tinners #22 3 years ago

    I thought Wanted was shit until i managed to bend a bullet into some guys head which goes into this very cool bullet time mode.

    *interest peaked a little* reminds me of the Bourne game in some ways.

  • bad09 #23 3 years ago

    "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/

  • Bongo #24 3 years ago

    I agree on the Wheelman demo front. I love the melee feature, I just love smashing innocent traffic cars in the face and them exploding.