They have a countdown on their main page http://www.nzone.com/page/home.html|||Awesome :)|||I doubt it.|||No way, imo.|||Countdown is over and no demo yet...
|||Col. Jessep|||DeadMG|||7.5 hours for me 
|||infinity - 1 hours for me|||"EXCLUSIVE DEMO IN T-MINUS - DOWNLOAD NOW!""Space Siege—Downloads
COMING SOON"
Fail.|||Hehe. I remembered hearing around the interwebs Monday was going to be the day.
Seems the interwebs were wrong, but a count down to "coming soon" is always a joy. :)|||Welcome back Madboris! :)
Aparently there's about 1 or 2 hours left for some US users.
The nZONE banner is using the windows clock, and isn't correct for EU ppl.
Should be out tomorrow.|||IT LIKE HAS A GOD FUCKIN DEMO IM DOWNLOADING AT LIKE 20KBS SITE OVERUSED OMFG 957MB AT 20KBS
Oops, forgot to quit BitTorrent.
Still, got a Demogasm.|||Try this link then, I have max DL speed here (650kb/s):
http://download.nvidia.com/downloads/nZ ... esiege.exe|||Col. Jessep|||wow... i totally missed this...
|||In one of the more peculiar problems to grace a computer, the demo won't install for me. The problem?It tries to install Battlefield 2142: Northern Strike instead.
"HALP" seems a bit redundant, but still.|||hehe I had a similar problem just another game, put the file in a folder where there isn't a setup.exe of some other application already.|||Yeah, I had the FRAPS setup.exe in the same folder and had to move it.|||Is the demo any good? Good enough to merit the 9 hundred and whatever MB download?|||It doesn't take that long to download. Go for it.|||I hear it has an unusual control setup. Unusual, that is, when compared to almost every FPS/RPG nowadays. It's not a question of how long it takes downloads, I usually get at least 800KB/s (when the internet is working at all,) more of a question of whether I can fit it into my already clogged hard-disk.|||Cheers for the help TBO and Gnat3. Just renaming the problem-file did the trick.
The controls are... alright. Maybe it was my computer (or more specifically, my graphics card), but the whole thing seemed a tad... clunky. The animations stuttered a fair bit (with no evidential slowdown of the game), and it sometimes felt unresponsive.
None the less, it was interesting to play.|||The only problem I had with the demo was that it was too short. I had a blast playing it and can't wait for the release of the full game :)
Having said that there were a couple of areas that might have improved game play.
1. Having a mini - map. Whilst not a game breaker, having to pause, bring up the full game map, and then restart was a little bit jarring.
2. Having the camera controls move with the player. My wife pointed out this issue to me when she finished the demo. She said at times she would enter a room and be attacked from the side. In order to respond she would have to move the camera to face the attacks, and then open fire on them. Again this isn't game breaking just a minor annoyance.|||Having been a fan of the Dungeon Siege series I was looking forward to Space Siege, and the game has so far met and exceeded my expectations in certain ways. However I feel a few minor things should be addressed.
Pros:
Earth Blows Up - Not a anarchist or anything, just not a lot of Science Fiction where your truly alone. No longer having a Homeworld makes a story interesting, desperation can make many do interesting things...
CGI - The CGI movies that are included in the demo are pretty amazing.
Ethical Dilemma - Now this one is more of a shot in the dark until we can play the full game, but I like how Cybernetics or no-Cybernetics will influence gameplay and story. And how this regulates the difficulty of the gameplay. Easier if full cyborg, Harder if Human, Somewhere in between if Somewhere in between.
Scalability - Even on an old comp I can play the game decent in 800 x 600 windowed mode with bells and whistles. But obviously can't wait to play it on my new comp in a couple months.
Co-Op Multiplayer - I know another shot in the dark seeing as the full game is not released yet but being a console fan first I really do enjoy co-op campaigns. And it is good that PC users are getting the same treatment.
Cons:
Ageia Physics - Not a fan of the physics emulator, but I can live with it.
Short Demo - I know its only a demo, but I do hope the demo does not represent the shortness of stages. That is unless their are tons of them.
Indifferent:
Controls - Their not horrible, but not the best. I love how you have to hold down the right mouse button to continue attacking ala Diablo Style, but I can see how people would want an auto attack option. Maybe a toggle in the options menu. I also really like the free attack option while holding down the Shift key. Though I wish their was a key for roll right/roll left or dodge right/dodge left. Because being stuck with just the E key for dodging can make a fight a lot more difficult to manage.
All in all I really did enjoy the demo and look forward to picking up the game and playing both the single player campaign and blasting aliens with friends in online co-op.
No comments:
Post a Comment