too much bother, im just going to wait untill its up on our servers.

Those fuckers... they region locked the demo... I punched in my 48 hour trial, Courtesy of Dan, and I still got a little red X over the download area. I'm gonna pick up a one-month tomorrow, but it looks like they've caught on.

Well didaly-dayum. I was about to ask if anyone else wanted one, I have 4 more.

Nope, no dice...

Ah well. Writeup the day after the demo launches then. ;)

I want to try the demo but I'm not going to get a japanese account.
I've heard that you can download the demo on a PC and burn it to a DVD and it will work on any 360.
Here's a link explaining the stuff
http://digiex.net/games-downloads/768-resident-evil-5-demo-download-xbox-360-a.aspx
Does anyone here know if it works or if it's just a prank?
Meh, I'll just try it out... waste a precious DVD on nothing perhaps...

UPDATE:
Hey! It actually works!!!
I'm playing the  Resident Evil 5 demo.
On a European Xbox 360.
Without any mods whatsoever.
This is great!

Thanks for that! gonna try it out.. how you finding it anyhow?

EDit:

found the demo VIA megaupload here, for a much faster Download:

http://www.megauploadforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=13795&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&view=print

Hmm, short demo.
The inventory doesn't pause the game. Just like in Dead Space.
That's good for the scare but not so if you're clumpsy with the inventory.
But it lets you map four items/weapons to the d-pad so at least you can do some fast switching.
Aiming is not as accurate as in the old GCN versions. If that's because of the right thumbstick being used for aiming, or the design of the 360 thumbstick or because of the developers, I don't know.
Graphics are nice but disappointing considering the level of RE4's graphics on the GCN.
RE5 just isn't pushing the hardware in the same way.
Weapons are disappointing. Not the right feel.
Enemies are stupid and easy to kill, except for the tougher ones like the chainsaw guy.
Camera control doesn't feel very fluid. I much prefer to old RE4 design where you turned with the
left stick. Now you have to use the right stick for that like a normal 3rd person shooter.
Pace feels slow and the great panic feeling from RE4 never appears.
Feels much more like a normal 3rd person shooter than a survival horror game.
Overall disappointment.
Goodbye for some time.

The aiming would have to be a dev shortcoming, not the thumbstick. All of your control complaints sound like improvements to me, maybe its b/c of your fond memories of RE4. I guess Im going to have to give this a try.

Goodbye for some time? Youre leaving again?