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   #20. Posted at 06:32 AM on Aug 29th 2007 Edit   Reply

Brilliant move.

Release a huge demo of a PC game that wont run on most systems on the day Halo 3 comes and breaks all records for media of any form in the first 24 hours.

So you pick up Halo 3 and you go home to play. You go over to your PC and try and find a place that has some kind of bandwidth (for free) that you can download this demo from. Its huge and it trickles. So you go over to your 360 and play Halo3.

14 hours later you check the dowloand before you got to bed after playing Halo3 and its still going or stalled out. In either case you hit the rack.

The next day its down to your PC. It takes 10min to install and after 3min of playing on your Vista boot (of your dual boot) you realize you will need a video card that cost more than your 360 and that graphics alone does not make a good game. Back to Halo3.

Perhaps they could have picked a worse day to release a demo so as not to be noticed or be lost in the exitment of something else....um the day of the second coming of christ?
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   #14. Posted at 04:49 PM on Aug 28th 2007 Edit   Reply

Hopefully it runs better than Bioshock does. EA's demo of Medal of Honor: Airborne uses the Unreal 3 engine too, but unlike Bioshock it actually runs at decent framerates on my 7800GT.
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   #5. Posted at 12:12 PM on Aug 28th 2007 Edit   Reply

A "huge surprise" included in the demo? Hope it's not a DRM rootkit. XD
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   #2. Posted at 11:02 AM on Aug 28th 2007 Edit   Reply

I'm looking forward to the demo.

Cyril - Sept 25 to Nov 16 is a little more than 3 weeks... do you mean october?
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   #1. Posted at 11:01 AM on Aug 28th 2007 Edit   Reply

I wish September 25 to November 16 was three weeks, it would make the waiting that much easier.

It's just over 7 weeks, which seems sooo far away.
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   #9. Posted at 01:38 PM on Aug 28th 2007 Edit   Reply

Isn't that the same date as the Halo 3 launch?
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   #8. Posted at 01:01 PM on Aug 28th 2007 Edit   Reply

At least they are giving us a full level to play. 1.8 GB for Bioshock was disappointing for what little you see of the game. They should have called it an interactive trailer. I'm hoping AMD has another price cut before mid Nov.
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