3 demo' s this week (all 3 demo' s up)

The Bourne Consipracy demo went upon XBL in the US and Australia yesterday... Europe to follow this week. I' m guessing there will be a PSN demo too.

The Haze demo will be up on PSN some time this week and will feature the full first mission of the game' s campaign mode.

Also, the Race Driver GRID demo will be up this week on XBL, PSN and teh WWW for PC users.

Pretty meh really...

I wanted haze to be a cool game. But I am sure it will be a big letdown. The game play looks sad very sad.

Pretty meh really...

You aren' t looking forward to Haze?

Haze looks like shit. It has since I first saw it at E3. Unless it gets some great reviews I don' t care much.

GRID looks f*cking awesome though. I' m really looking forward to it!

XBL Gamertag: Rampage99

" Basically, pollute the air all you want, your just speeding up the inevitable. Our future generations are f*cked as it is and there' s really nothing we can do about it. Have a nice day "

GRID looks good, but I wonder if they' ve fixed their whole cars-rotating-from-a-central-pivot problem that made DiRT so freakin weird to control.

ORIGINAL: Eddie_the_Hated

Pretty meh really...

You aren' t looking forward to Haze?

I love the TimeSplitters games... but Haze?

No.

GRID is the only one I' ve been itching to try. I think I' ll be disappointed with the physics and handling though.

Codies have a knack for making awesome looking trailers and screenshots and then not quite living up to them. DIRT looked pretty but handled like shit.

All the trailers I' ve seen of GRID showing cars rolling over, large fields of cars etc has me excited, but the last racing game I truly enjoyed from Codemasters was Race Driver 1 I guess, but mostly because that was my first experience with my MOMO steering wheel.

Looking forward to the demo though.

I loved DiRT. A nice mix of simulation and arcade like controls. GRID has me quite excited. DiRT was the last racing game I had any interest in.

I guess I am the only one looking forward to playing the Bourne demo. If the hand to hand combat is good, then I just might buy this one.

Most wanted games:

Mass Effect
Assasins Creed
Crysis
Little Big Planet
Drakes Fortune
UTIII
Kane and Lynch
Heavy Rain
Alan Wake

Haze demo is up on EU PSN.

They usually first come on Thursday but okay

ORIGINAL: Kelvinellenton

They usually first come on Thursday but okay

There was a Sony event today.

I know... Killzone 2 got pushed back and all that but I didn' t know they would update the PSN store

Nitro, Rampage, somebody. Go play the Bourne demo and tell me what you think. I' ve only played it once, but I' m rather impressed, at least compared to what I was expecting.

The driving is trash, the lock-on system is rather tired, cover is your standard Gears fare, but the hand-to-hand combat is brilliant. They weren' t kidding when they said that you used your environment in the hand-to-hand system. The only way I can describe it is visceral.

Bourne might be interesting.

I' ve already seen the Jenna Haze videos...wait it' s just Haze you are talking about. Right now i' ll stick to Jenna.

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

Can someone please tell me why HAZE doesnt look very appealing? or why it will be a letdown?

ORIGINAL: jeremiahh

Can someone please tell me why HAZE doesnt look very appealing? or why it will be a letdown?

Generic.

The driving is trash, the lock-on system is rather tired, cover is your standard Gears fare, but the hand-to-hand combat is brilliant. They weren' t kidding when they said that you used your environment in the hand-to-hand system. The only way I can describe it is visceral.

I am happy to hear this. I will download the demo tomorrow and give it a go. I was really hoping the hand to hand was good.

Most wanted games:

Mass Effect
Assasins Creed
Crysis
Little Big Planet
Drakes Fortune
UTIII
Kane and Lynch
Heavy Rain
Alan Wake

Haze, I was hoping this was going to good, unfortunately it is a pretty, but an altogether run of the mill FPS. The idea of being a drug induced soldier is ok, the fact that you can over ' medicate' is a good idea, however the demo doesn' t give you much to go on. It looks good though and I would probably rent it or borrow it off someone.

Looking forward to downloading Grid and Bourne.

Grid looked and felt quite good, when I played the demo back in March.

Bourne looked pretty good from what I saw on G4. They talked about how they want to make it really good so it can be a series. And how they didn' t have to tie it in with any movies so they didn' t have to rush it and make a crap game. I' m too lazy to download the demo though. Perhaps I' ll get around to it.

"If you knew how good I am you would think I'm modest."

Alijay:

Haze

So, was it broken, or just bland?

It' s boring.

Bummer.

It was such a great concept too.

I dont see any of the demos on US PSN so ill just try again later i guess. I found Echochrome. I tried the demo earlier and it was weird lol.

I guess I am the only one looking forward to playing the Bourne demo. If the hand to hand combat is good, then I just might buy this one.

Im looking forward to it too. Loved the combat in the movies and the game seems to deliver on that as well.

Race Driver GRID demo up on XBL.

So I checked out the Bourne demo yesterday, and for the most part I really enjoyed it. The hand to hand combat is fantastic, they have done a great job here. Movements are very nice, and the takedowns are as brutal as they should be. There' s nothing better than evading an incoming knife, and then grabbing the guy by the back of his head, feeding him a few punches and then slamming his head into a file cabinet!!!

I will, however, complain about the gun play. It is pretty aweful with the exception of the Weapon Takedowns which give a nice cinematic slow mo look to them. The cover system is good, but the gun play just seems to be a little too loose. After a while I just decided that the best way for my to play the demo was just to run in and go hand to hand with the baddies. Very nice to see that when you are in hand to hand with one guy while others are shooting at you that you not only get hit, but you can position yourself so that the baddie takes the bullets for you. You also get a nice takedown here in which you can spin the baddie around and use him as a human shield.

The driving section was fairly well done as well IMO. Don' t expect any realism here, as your can turn on a dime at any speed using the handbrake.

On the graphical side, Bourne is a very nice looking game. I wish the character models had a little more detail to them, but the environments in the demo all looked beautiful.

All in all I had a lot of fun with the demo because of how well they have implemented the hand to hand combat. That is what I was looking for in this game, and it looks like they have delivered. I will be picking this one up in June.

Most wanted games:

Mass Effect
Assasins Creed
Crysis
Little Big Planet
Drakes Fortune
UTIII
Kane and Lynch
Heavy Rain
Alan Wake

Loved DIRT so looking forward to GRID too.

I only had about 5 minutes for grid so only one race. The presentation is so cool even the startup of the race. The controls seem a bit different the Dirt tho I guess going from a BMW street car from a Rally car makes a lot of difference. Will find out about the overall thing. Hard to say right now.

GRID is badass, but Bourne is awful.

GRID' s presentation is outstanding! I' m having a little trouble getting used to how slippery the driving is (especially when you get pushed off the track... the way you spin out is overly exaggerated on the grass/sand...). Still, it' s pretty freaking sweet.

XBL Gamertag: Rampage99

" Basically, pollute the air all you want, your just speeding up the inevitable. Our future generations are f*cked as it is and there' s really nothing we can do about it. Have a nice day "

Does erm, anyone know when a Ninja Gaiden 2 demo is coming?

Been seeing some new gameplay videos and it all looks rather exciting doesn' t it?

" Who are you? And what have you done with Hermione?"

Anyway, so, any news on a demo would be a blessing to my ears.. Not long
now until the game comes out.

There are two rules to success:

1. Never tell all you know.

ORIGINAL: Tiz

Does erm, anyone know when a Ninja Gaiden 2 demo is coming?

Been seeing some new gameplay videos and it all looks rather exciting doesn' t it?

" Who are you? And what have you done with Hermione?"

Anyway, so, any news on a demo would be a blessing to my ears.. Not long
now until the game comes out.

Its going to come out in May thats all what was said .. Hopefully by next week ..

Ok, first Haze. Not good, not bad, just another shooter. The whole Nectar aspect seems interesting, but there wasn' t a whole much you could do with it in the demo.

As far as Bourne, not good. What I thought was cool is that its fast, which goes well with the tone the movies set. Bad thing is, they use the speed to make up the illusion that the game is actually good, which is not. The hand to hand, while fast, has no depth whatsoever. Sure, the takedowns are pretty sweet, but it all reduces to throwing quick jabs, blocking, wait for a takedown, rinse and repeat. There are no more than a handful of combos, which I can count in one hand and they' re are not very cool either. Very disappointed with the combat.

The shooting has been done ten times better in pretty much any other third person shooter, and don' t even get me started on the car chase, that was just awful.

I was waiting for the PC demo for GRID and I was all ready to piss and moan about it.....but its actually really good!

The graphics and presentation are of course superb, even on my now ageing PC, and runs smoothly. The motion blur is used really well. The replays are very dramatic, even if you' re driving in a straight line.

The damage modelling is brilliant, best I' ve seen I think. Bits of bumper hang off and flop about realistically, the scratches down the side of your car look brutal, you can tell exactly where you' ve crashed the car. Its cool it effects the handling too.

The other nice bit is the environmental effects like dust being pulled onto the track, smoke effects etc.

I quite like the radio buddy guy, edging you on and telling you when you' ve set a personal best etc.

I was waiting for the PC demo mainly to try it with my wheel - and with a bit of tweaking of the dead zones, linearity, traction and stability control, it started to feel natural. Even the force feedback was nice and punchy, with rumble strip effects etc.

The only thing I didnt like as much was how hyperactive the game' s designed to be, from the handling of the cars (you can brake and turn too well), to the AI taking each other off, to the replays on amphetamines. Its clearly how Codemasters wanted to do things, but you dont need cars flipping about all the time to make the race exciting.

Shaping up to be very fun. I like.

I actually liked the driving controls of Bourne more than Grid. Now that' s how I like my cars to grip the road!

Terry Bogard - currently the most Unhelpful member of the Kikizo forums.

So I checked out the Bourne demo yesterday, and for the most part I really enjoyed it. The hand to hand combat is fantastic, they have done a great job here. Movements are very nice, and the takedowns are as brutal as they should be. There' s nothing better than evading an incoming knife, and then grabbing the guy by the back of his head, feeding him a few punches and then slamming his head into a file cabinet!!!

I will, however, complain about the gun play. It is pretty aweful with the exception of the Weapon Takedowns which give a nice cinematic slow mo look to them. The cover system is good, but the gun play just seems to be a little too loose. After a while I just decided that the best way for my to play the demo was just to run in and go hand to hand with the baddies. Very nice to see that when you are in hand to hand with one guy while others are shooting at you that you not only get hit, but you can position yourself so that the baddie takes the bullets for you. You also get a nice takedown here in which you can spin the baddie around and use him as a human shield.

The driving section was fairly well done as well IMO. Don' t expect any realism here, as your can turn on a dime at any speed using the handbrake.

On the graphical side, Bourne is a very nice looking game. I wish the character models had a little more detail to them, but the environments in the demo all looked beautiful.

All in all I had a lot of fun with the demo because of how well they have implemented the hand to hand combat. That is what I was looking for in this game, and it looks like they have delivered. I will be picking this one up in June.

I liked the hand to hand combat too. While it wasn' t super deep, it was fun. Hopefully in the full game you' ll be able to acquire more moves as you proceed through the game, if not, that' s ok too.. I enjoyed it enough to where I kept losing against the final dude on the plane just so I could keep fighting him for a while . I must' ve fought him about 9 times before I decided to finally put him out of his misery and complete the demo the second time around.

The shooting portions sucked to me partly because movement was a bit slow and I couldn' t auto aim. So I always liked it when enemies would approach me so we could drop our weapons and throw hands!

The driving portion was ok. I like the way the car handles but there wasn' t enough going on in that level to make me care about it.

I' ll be picking it up in June too!

Terry Bogard - currently the most Unhelpful member of the Kikizo forums.

I liked the hand to hand combat too. While it wasn' t super deep, it was fun. Hopefully in the full game you' ll be able to acquire more moves as you proceed through the game, if not, that' s ok too.. I enjoyed it enough to where I kept losing against the final dude on the plane just so I could keep fighting him for a while . I must' ve fought him about 9 times before I decided to finally put him out of his misery and complete the demo the second time around.

The shooting portions sucked to me partly because movement was a bit slow and I couldn' t auto aim. So I always liked it when enemies would approach me so we could drop our weapons and throw hands!

The driving portion was ok. I like the way the car handles but there wasn' t enough going on in that level to make me care about it.

I' ll be picking it up in June too!

I was starting to think that I was the only one to enjoy the Bourne demo.

I understand that it' s not going to be a AAA game, but I did enjoy the demo quite a bit. What I forgot to mention in my previous post is that I really liked the high pace of the demo.

Most wanted games:

Mass Effect
Assasins Creed
Crysis
Little Big Planet
Drakes Fortune
UTIII
Kane and Lynch
Heavy Rain
Alan Wake

The hand to hand is... ok... but only because the takedowns look brutal. It could have been a lot better.

The shooting is fuc.king terrible. It' s not even remotely fun and it highlights the fuc.k awful AI.

The driving is just as bad as the shooting.

It' s not fun... it' s rubbish.

I was starting to think that I was the only one to enjoy the Bourne demo.

I understand that it' s not going to be a AAA game, but I did enjoy the demo quite a bit. What I forgot to mention in my previous post is that I really liked the high pace of the demo.

To tell you the truth, being a movie-based game didn' t bode well for Bourne at all to me because I tend to shy away from that stuff. But I took a chance on the demo and was pleasantly surprised by it. The game definitely has its faults, but I enjoyed the action (non-shooting) portions enough to want to experience the full game. Hopefully the shooting portions only take up a small portion of the game.

Terry Bogard - currently the most Unhelpful member of the Kikizo forums.

Grids great fun but i was expecting abit more from it to be honest, presentation is good especially the damage but i dont feel as though its a dramatic improvement from dirt. Talking of the visuals, its either gametrailers being realy biased of its a simple cock up, but found this on the old interweb and thought you may all be interested
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFF-vCGahmU
I think the person who made the video is exagerating quite a bit anyway but hey. If you do abit of searching you can still find the original gt video and ther mistake is quite blatent.

Also just thought hey to you all, ive been perving and spyin on all you guys for about a year and thought it was finally time to contribute