Nice Demos Guys
I don't have a PS3, so I haven't been able to try out all the "great games" coming to the platform this holiday season. I did get to play the Heavenly Sword demo at Best Buy last night. I know the demo was extremely short and probably not representative of the final game (or maybe it completely is), but holy crap it wasn't very fun. I mashed the hell out of buttons. Mashed until my fingers actually hurt -- no overstatement there. I also found the harder enemies incredibly frustrating. They blocked everything. When I got past the part on top of the pillar it was me vs. 15 guys with helmets. And all of them blocked everything. What a crappy way to show off your game. Even worse, what a boring way to make a game.
I also tried out the Quake Wars demo. I find that the game locks up whenever I try to apply filters to the server sort. Great job, there. I got too frustrated to even load a game. Stuff like that shouldn't happen. I'll go back and try it later if Bioshock somehow, strangely, fails to keep me entirely enthralled.
(posted by grant at 9/15/2007)
