My 360 Demos, They Don't Exist
April 04, 2008

Just to show that I'm an equal opportunity bitcher I wanted to bring up the fact that the 360 hasn't had any demos released for it in a long time. I actually went back to see if Two Worlds was as bad as I remembered the demo to be, and found out that I was right. I've even contemplated purchasing a few of the Xbox Originals just for some new downloadable content. Alas, I am cheap and won't fork over my money that easily.

Imagine my surprise when I checked Xbox Live last night before going to bed. There it was, a shiny new jewel of a demo. To make matters better, it was a demo for a game that I was actually interested in - Army of Two. Damn right, I started downloading that mofo faster than Babbles sits in James' chair.

I got home today eager to try it out to see if it was as cool as the footage would lead me to believe. I was left with two take-away points; A) EA wants you to create an account and B) it's unfortunately a multiplayer only demo. I was completely baffled by point A since I already have a Live GOLD account and really don't want to sign up for yet another service to play on top of the service that's supposed to let me play play games over it. Point B was simply irritating, because I want my first experience with a game to be at my own pace enjoying and savoring things.

Oh well. There's a busy weekend ahead, what with Code Camp happening on Caturday.

OnyxRaven 2008/04/04

EA is known to suck at multiplayer - this has been well documented over the years with their sports franchises - they all suck, and they refuse to work into the provided xboxlive framework.

phantomdata 2008/04/04

I guess. I may just have never tried to play an EA game online. EA does tend to suck at most things. It shouldn't be so surprising.

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