Posts tagged Demos
D.E.M.O. for H.A.W.X.
Mar 2nd
Tom Clancy's High Altitude Warfare eXperimental squadron are getting a shakedown in the form of a Dynamic Example of Moderated interactiOn (see what I did there?).
Available for Xbox 360 & Playstation 3 via their respective networks and PC from one of your favourite download repositories, the 1.2GB demo features 2 missions, 2 game modes, co-op play and a good chance to get to grips with the air-to-air & air-to-ground combat in the game.
Bench those Remnants – Square release Last Remnant Demo & Benchmark tools
Feb 26th
To celebrate the release of The Last Remnant on PC, Square Enix have given everyone the opportunity to see if they like it before having it locked to their Steam account for ever and a day (the game uses Steamworks for save games, possibly giving SteamCloud more too do that just store L4D & TF2 control sets) but putting out a demo that weighs in at approximately 1GB.
Alongside the demo comes a benchmarking utility to prove that the hyper-optimised Unreal 3 engine is, well, hyper-optimised. For the record, my aging Core 2 machine (going on 2 years old now) managed a average 65fps, only once dropping below 30fps for a fraction of a second. Eat that Xbox 360!
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin – Demo Impressions
Jan 23rd
The more astute out there may have noticed that Monolith and WBIE have put out demos of F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin for all 3 launch formats.
The Xbox 360 & PS3 versions are available over their respective networks, whilst the PC demo is available at all good download repositories.
Impressions after the cut...
Resi 5 Demo to Finally Hit the West
Jan 14th
Capcom sent word that the highly anticipated demo of Resident Evil 5 (which has been out on the Japanese Marketplace for god knows how long now) will finally hit XBL worldwide on January 26th.
It will be exclusive to the 360 for one Week at which point PS3 owners will be able to get in on the action too.
The demo contains two levels and is a fairly good representation of what to expect (Resi 4 in HD basically).
We'll have more on Resident Evil 5 as we move closer to it's March 13th (Friday the 13th) release date.
F.E.A.R 2 Demo to hit 22nd Jan, PC System Requirements Released
Jan 12th
Warner Bros have released the PC System Requirements for F.E.A.R 2:
Minimal specification:
- CPU: P4 2.8GHz (3.2GHz Vista)/Athlon 64 3000+ (3200+ Vista)
- GPU: Fully DX9-compliant graphics card with 256MB (SM 2.0b). NVidia 6800 or ATI X700.
- Memory: 1GB (1.5GB Vista)
- HDD: 12GB
- OS: Windows XP SP2/Vista SP1
- DirectX: 9.0c
- Sound: DX9.0c compliant
- Optical drive: DVD (boxed only)
- Internet: Broadband
Recommended specification:
- CPU: Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz processor family/Athlon 64 X2 4400+ (required for MP host)
- GPU: Fully DX9-compliant graphics card with 512MB (SM 3.0). NVidia 8600 GTS or ATI HD 2900 XT.
- Memory: 1.5GB
- HDD: 12GB
- OS: Windows XP SP3/Vista SP1
- DirectX: 9.0c
- Sound: DX9.0c compliant
- Optical drive: DVD (boxed only)
- Internet: Broadband (768kbit/sec upstream required to host 16 players)
So all in all, not too bad, most gaming PC's will be able to run this.
The XBOX 360 and PS3 demos are currently scheduled to hit on the 22nd of January with a PC demo following a couple of days later.
We'll have more on F.E.A.R 2 over the coming weeks.
*UPDATE*
The PC demo has been cofirmed as arriving on the 22nd, the same day as the console releases.
