{"id":1127,"date":"2011-01-26T11:27:01","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T18:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/?p=1127"},"modified":"2011-01-26T12:00:02","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T19:00:02","slug":"demos-magicka-bulletstorm-crysis-2-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/demos-magicka-bulletstorm-crysis-2-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Demos: Magicka, Bulletstorm, Crysis 2 & Breach"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It is not very often that I play four different demos in the same day, but that is how Tuesday panned out.\u00a0 On the PC, Magicka<\/a> released and I’ve been looking forward to it for quite a while now. I promised myself after all the holiday Steam sales I would not by any new games until I finished at least a few of those so I just played the demo for now.\u00a0 So, if you don’t see on Xbox Live check Steam as I’m probably trying to finish stuff up there so I can get to Magicka.<\/p>\n

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A demo single player demo for Bulletstorm released today.\u00a0 It struck me as odd that a game that they keep talking about co-op for does not have any co-op in the demo. Then I started playing the demo. It has a very Gears of War feel to me.\u00a0 Not that feeling like Gears is bad thing but since the rest of the game was just not that fun I don’t see a reason to get it. I’m not a fan of playing the same levels over and over so I just can’s see enjoying it for any length of time.<\/p>\n

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I got a chance over the last week to demo Breach for XBLA Ratings.\u00a0 You can see my full review on the site (here<\/strong><\/a>), but I will say that the more I play it the more I’m enjoying it.\u00a0 It started a little slow and I almost wrote it off but I’m glad I did not because it has really grown on me. The Convoy game mode is really fun and the destructible environments never get old.<\/p>\n

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The final demo for the day was Crysis 2.\u00a0 I played a couple matches on my lunch break and it was pretty decent.\u00a0 Then, in the evening we got a full team of guys from AGErocks.com playing and it was a blast.\u00a0 It is fast paced but not so fast it is all twitchy. The matchmaking did a nice job of getting our squad on the same team when we joined a match already in process when the next round started and it lest you customize your loadouts while it searches for a match.\u00a0 These little touches are really nice and allow for more time playing and less time in the menus. There are quite a few customization options and upgrades for the weapons and armor abilities. It was nice that they start unlocking pretty quickly. Plus, as you use an ability it unlocks a stronger version of it.\u00a0 Like getting 25 air stops unlocks the advanced air stomp.\u00a0 It would be nice if there was a tutorial explaining all the armor abilities but after playing with them for a while they start to make sense.\u00a0 All of the armor abilities are tied to your energy bar so you can use them all at once but only for a short time. Or, use one at a time for much longer.\u00a0 I was not planning on picking up Crysis 2, but if there is a solid group of AGErs getting it I may as well because the demo is a lot of fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is not very often that I play four different demos in the same day, but that is how Tuesday panned out.\u00a0 On the PC, Magicka released and I’ve been looking forward to it for quite a while now. I promised myself after all the holiday Steam sales I would not by any new games […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,29],"tags":[195,196,97,197,7,5,30],"class_list":["post-1127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox-360","category-xbox-live-arcade","tag-breach","tag-crysis-2","tag-demo","tag-magicka","tag-review","tag-video-game","tag-xbla"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}