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The Best Game Demos Available on Xbox Live

Xboxist.com writes:

"To save you the work of doing it, we grabbed as many demos as we could on our super-fast connection and played through them looking for the best ones. Our criteria for determining whether or not a demo finds its way onto this list is as follows: the game should be easy to pick up and play, it should offer a good amount of content, and above all else, it should be fun. Here are some of the gems we discovered amongst the pile."

clinker5506d ago

I wish that more developers would release demos, but I tihnk many are scared that the public will find their game crappy and not buy it.

WildArmed5505d ago

kinda depressing..
either way, I can't believe they didnt mention Burnout Paradise..
Only the best demo out there (Even though they disabled online now :( )
On the bright side it made me buy the game thrice.
360/PS3/PSN lol I'm an idiot.

ShabzS5505d ago

honourary mentions: rainbow six vegas, wheelman and mirrors edge

Rockox5505d ago

I thought the demo for Pure was awesome. I don't typically like driving/racing games, but I downloaded the demo and loved it. I picked up the game as soon as I could. Without the demo, that never would have happened.

Socomer 19795505d ago

is this what bored people do?
Try to download as many demos as you can until your hdd fills up?
and then spend hours deleting them. Thats not fun.

Super fast connection ?
lol, yeah right.

PS360PCROCKS5505d ago

Oops I didn't mean to agree. But yes, sometimes when I get bored I just download a few demos I haven't tried and play them. It's something new, what's wrong with that?

Fox015505d ago

What's wrong with downloading demos, there're free? You need to step outside and breath some fresh air.

FragMnTagM5505d ago

I believe that is why is not on their list, because that should have definitely made it.

IdleLeeSiuLung5505d ago

Why is it no longer available?

caffman5505d ago

but the demo was the entire first level!

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The Argument for Battlefield: Bad Company Remakes

With the franchise’s mainline entries failing to find their footing in recent years, now is the perfect time for a Battlefield: Bad Company remake.

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thorstein114d ago

Of course there is no counter argument. This is what fans of the franchise have wanted for years. This and/or BF Bad Company 2.

When asked why there hasn't been another Bad Company:

“There's one thing that lingers with Bad Company that we've been asking ourselves: What is it that the people really liked about Bad Company?" DICE general manager Karl Magnus Troedsson told Eurogamer.

Troedsson says that he and his team can’t put their fingers on what it is that people loved about that branch of the brand. “It's hard for people to articulate what that is, which is actually hard for us,” he says. “It would be hard to remake something like that. Can we do it? Of course. We have our theories when it comes to the multiplayer."

(Source: Game Informer, June 24, 2014)

SonyStyled114d ago (Edited 114d ago )

I always activate the Black Weapon on BFV Solomon Islands for all the BC2 fans who hear/recognize it, thus starting the events of BC2 on BF5 :)

Derrrunnn. Derrrunnn.

Tody_ZA113d ago (Edited 113d ago )

What is so hard to understand for them?

Bad Company 2 is one of the best and most memorable games in the series because:
- It was class-based (duh)
- Heavy focus on squads
- Substance over map size or gimmicks
- Fantastic and realistic gun play
- Well designed maps
- Destructible environments (why has this been minimised so hard in the series? You could demolish buildings in bad company 2 with some well placed C4
- Great progression system and variety in play
- No stupid CoD imitations or focus on the store over the game
- It was *drumroll* incredibly good fun?
- It was unmistakably BATTLEFIELD

INMATEofARKHAM113d ago

Probably should add a fun campaign to the list.

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Skate playtests coming to PS5 and Xbox in 2024, EA confirms

The time to play the new Skate game on PS5 and Xbox is approaching, as Full Circle confirms console testing will be arriving next year.

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gold_drake124d ago

oh dear god, please let it be good.

Kosic123d ago (Edited 123d ago )

These guys are pretty cringe. Also the look of the new skate looks boring compared to games like Skater XL and Sessions. I'm not a fan of the arcade skate Sims

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Battlefield Legacy - Sunsetting Announcement

EA: "As we close in on 15 years since the release of Battlefield 1943, and Bad Company™ 1 & 2, we are announcing that their journey is coming to an end."

darthv72401d ago

This reminds me... I have ME on my PS3 hdd. Never really played it, but it was free.

XiNatsuDragnel401d ago

Digital future ppl is good they say nope imo

Eidolon401d ago

And it still says nothing about being able to downloaded even when it's off the storefront, that's a huge ouchie for some who somehow still have it in their backlog...

Shane Kim400d ago

Dont make it an issue when it's not. If you haven't played it in 15 years, chances are you'll never play it.

isarai401d ago

That all digital future sure looks great!

/s

zidane1341401d ago (Edited 401d ago )

Online game servers shut off eventually all the time. Doesn’t matter if you have the disc or not. Even if you have the disc, it’ll be just paperweight unless the game lets you connect directly to a friend or LAN play.

isarai401d ago (Edited 401d ago )

Read the article bro. They are delisting the games, including mirrors edge which is an offline game. Online servers i can understand, not being able to buy/download the games anymore? Completely separate issue, especially seeing as how some these games had lengthy sp campaigns and not just mp.

zidane1341401d ago

@israrai, you can still buy the disc for less then 10$. Hardly a loss.

TheEnigma313401d ago

You shouldn't have to buy the disc, that's the issue.

OhReginald400d ago (Edited 400d ago )

Some brilliant minds created servers to keep these old online games alive. A lot of ps2 and ps3 games that had there servers shut down a long time ago have been restored by fans to keep it going. Warhawk, killzone 2, socom 2/ confrontation, resident evil outbreak series, etc.

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DankSinatra400d ago

The disc still exist. I don’t understand the issue. You guys are upset about that “all digital future” yet these games are not “digital only”. Hell digital only is a minority in the gaming world and so far we haven’t moved into it, the only digital only games are games as a service or online only games, which end up failing in the end.

This is no different than a store that stops selling old games, just go and buy a copy somewhere else. So which is it, you hate all digital or you like it? Make up your mind.

isarai400d ago

Talk about missing the point entirely. I'm not going to sit here and explain it to you, figure it out.

DankSinatra400d ago

Talk about whining about something and not wanting to explain from an off handed sarcastic original comment.

I got the point just fine. You’re literally complaining about something that has an easy alternative to it.

ManMarmalade400d ago

I don't think you got the point

DankSinatra400d ago (Edited 400d ago )

@ManMarmalade

No I got it, it has to do with the push towards a future of all digital and reprocussions of losing games. Something I already stayed that hasn’t happened nor is it large enough right now to cause any issues as the games that are all digital are online only to begin with or make up the minority of games

So I’ll say it again, the disc still exists for these games that are over a decade old and can still be played easily. You guys are contradicting the whole “we don’t want a digital only future” crying when the dude I originally responded to stated:

“Read the article bro. They are delisting the games, including mirrors edge which is an offline game. Online servers i can understand, not being able to buy/download the games anymore? Completely separate issue, especially seeing as how some these games had lengthy sp campaigns and not just mp.“

So again, which is it? Do you hate all digital or do you want it?

Inverno401d ago

On PC I don't think it's much of a problem but I'm sad to see BF43 being shut down. I haven't played it in a while since it's stuck on PS3, but i preferred it way more over BF3. It was the lack of invisible barriers which made it better for me.

badz149401d ago

BFBC2 was still the best overall package offered by the franchise so far IMO

porkChop401d ago

Absolutely. BC2 was such a great game. It's a shame we never got BC3.

P_Bomb400d ago

I had a great run on Bad Company 2. Pound for pound, as solid a BF package as there’s been.

InUrFoxHole401d ago

Does anyone play the last BF anymore? I searched crossplay servers and it was 20 people the most on all the servers? Can never find a game

SonyStyled401d ago

The last BC you mean? I was still able to find 10v10 on ps3 2 years ago on NA servers during the evenings. I have all the free and paid dlc installed, but there want any matches in the Vietnam dlc.

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