Following yesterday’s announcement that Ubisoft would release a demo version of the forthcoming Driver: San Francisco, the publisher has now launched the taster software on both the Xbox LIVE Marketplace and PlayStation Network throughout Europe. Kicking off the countdown to the game's release next month, the single-player demo feature three missions set in the iconic city of San Francisco.
Immersed Gamer writes: "Ubisoft came out with the announcement that some of their classic titles are shutting down their servers. While this is not entirely surprising, the next bit is quite shocking. As Ubisoft states in regard to many of said classic games, “additionally, the installation and access to DLC will be unavailable”.
The wording is a little vague, so the actual paid DLC could be safe. But it doesn’t change the fact that multiplayer modes of Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, Rayman Legends, and Driver San Francisco will surely be missed. Especially since no alternative exists in many of those cases. This happens to unveil right next to our story where I essentially beg Atlus to port SMT to modern consoles alongside Persona.
Seems like videogame preservation is on the down-low…"
And you want us to go all digital? This is the bull sh*t that makes me apprehensive to an all digital future. You corpo guys don’t understand game preservation or it’s importance.
Companies who withdraw support should be legally made to patch games to enable the 'owner' to create and host their own MP lobbies. This is theft
From VG247: "When cars slide, they leave tyre marks. In a game like Driver, they’re an aesthetic touch, part of the inherent cool of a handbrake turn. But those dark shadows in the road also tell a story. From tyre marks, you can determine the speed of a vehicle, when it started to skid, and its ultimate direction of travel – long after the car itself has vanished into the distance."
Why did they stop making some of the best games ever? Driver was one of them.
A story driven game with pure driving gameplay. I'd love to see a new Driver game or a remake of the first one.
Player 2's Matt Hewson looks at five games from his past that seem to have been forgotten by the masses and perhaps deserve a second look.
The demo does not work in the UK (on Xbox 360) at the moment despite the Live ads.
Status code 800700E8
Edit - working now
Downloading now on my Xbox ;)
Has the EU Store already updated then?
Edit - Probably not.
I live in the UK but I made a US Xbox Live account & grabbed it from the US Xbox Live Marketplace yesterday.. 'cause I didn't want to wait. :)
The demo was kind of short but, it was fun.
Thanks for the dick move, Ubi.
No PC demo, and horrendous DRM; Ubisoft seems to hate PC gamers.
I do hope the game turns out well, though. I was a big fan of the original, though I never played the sequels.
Now if Ubisoft removes/changes the DRM issue, I'll forgive the lack of demo and even consider purchasing the game.