{"id":173,"date":"2007-11-15T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T18:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/plenty-of-demos-yesterday\/"},"modified":"2009-11-16T17:37:53","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T00:37:53","slug":"plenty-of-demos-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/plenty-of-demos-yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"Plenty of Demos Yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"

I played a lot of the demos I’ve downloaded and not gotten around to until now. The first one I tried was America’s Army: True Soldiers<\/span>. What a bunch of crap. The game use based on GRAW2 but with a few changes. The game looks like crap. If you were thinking of playing this one just play GRAW2 instead. GARw2 is more refined and looks better than this garbage.<\/p>\n

After promptly deleting America’s Army I tried out the Scene it?<\/span> demo. I can see where it would be a lot of fun to play with friends. By myself it was not really that challenging since no one was competing against me, but I really like the setup and the big button controllers would be cool. If I can find a good deal on it I’ll pick it up for when friends come over. I really like that the game keeps track o the questions it has asked so you don’t get the same ones all the time. That should help me beat my friends who own the original Scene it and have all of the questions memorized. If you’re looking for a good party game then give Scene it? a look.<\/p>\n

I next checked out the Timeshift<\/span> multiplayer demo. I was not overly impressed. It was ok, but the control felt very mechanical like I was controlling a robot and not a person. I thought it was lag at first, but I tried a few matches and they were all like that. I never did figure out the control layout for things beyond the basics. I still plan to rent the game for the single player, bu I’m not planning on spending a lot of time with the multiplayer.<\/p>\n

The final demo I checked out was MX vs. ATV Unleashed<\/span>. If you’ve read my blog for very long you know I’m not good at racing games. I play the occasional race\/shooter (like Full Auto) but racing sims are not my thing. That said, I had a lot of fun with MX vs. ATV Unleashed. I had no trouble controlling the vehicles, which is normally my issue, and there are four different vehicle types to play with. There are also a lot of different race an competition modes. I tried all the ones the demo had available and I enjoyed them all. Each of the vehicles and modes handle a little differently, but I was able to place in first or second in all of them. There are also a lot of little things I really like. First as the level loads they out you in a little free style arena so you can drive around and throw some tricks. I really like this because you don’t have to sit at a load screen. The other little thing I really like is that you can throw tricks over any jump in any race type. Even if you;re just doing a normal race you can throw a trick over the jump to rub you’re opponents faces in th fat you’re winning. I’m thinking I’ll rent MX vs. ATV Unleashed if my GameFly queue gets down to a few games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I played a lot of the demos I’ve downloaded and not gotten around to until now. The first one I tried was America’s Army: True Soldiers. What a bunch of crap. The game use based on GRAW2 but with a few changes. The game looks like crap. If you were thinking of playing this one […]<\/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],"tags":[97,7,5],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox-360","tag-demo","tag-review","tag-video-game"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","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=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}