In case you could not tell I was in the mood to try out all the demos I’ve been downloading last night. I remember reading a preview for The Club and it sounded pretty interesting. I played through the demo last night and I was pleasantly surprised. The Club is a third person shooter with a very arcadey style feel to it. Instead of a story line to play through you have a set of levels to go through killing all the enemies as fast as you can. The whole point of the being in “The Club” is to go through these arenas that have been setup for club memebrs and try to get th highest score. You score is based on keeping your multiplier and combo streak going. After each kill your multiplier goes up and you have a few seconds to get another kill before your combo breaks and you have to start your multiplier over again. The level in the demo had a predesignated rout to get through that you run along trying to kill everyone as fast as you can. The game has a sprint option to help you get from one area to the next without loosing your combo that I found very helpful. Without that my combo would have run out many times before I could get to the next person. As you go through the level you pick up the weapons that are dropped by enemies. I quickly learned that it is important to use the right weapon for each enemy. Most of the time you can use a shotgun for close range and a machine gun for medium range, but once in a while the throw in someone really far away that you’ll need to take out. Some of th guns do zoom for this, but I chose to use the rocket launcher to take out enemies really far away so I would not have to be as accurate with my shots and thus save time. The weapons in the game had a pretty good feel to them. The pistol felt like I was barely getting the job done and the mini-gun was ripping through everything in site. There are also different characters to choose from when you start the game; each with its own characteristics. The guy in the demo seemed average in all the stat categories. Personally, I think I’d rather play as someone who runs a little faster and has a little less health (assuming that is an option) because I kept getting low in the multiplier meter because I was moving to the next area. I guess if I replayed the level a few times I would know the layout better and maybe I would not need a faster moving character, but it seemed like I had way more health than I needed and more speed would have been nice.

After trying the demo I think I’ll rent The Club and give it a try. It was a nice change to have a shooter that doesn’t pretend to have you saving the world (not that those are bad) and instead just says go in and kill everyone. I got just a little over 300,000 on my run through the demo. What did everyone else get for their high score. I’m curious if the score I got is good, bad, or average.