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Monday, January 30, 2006
Painkiller, Half-Life 2 (Xbox demos)
In the February Official Xbox Magazine, the Xbox demos portion of the list includes Painkiller and Half-Life 2.I was seriously stoked, because I'm a big fan of what the Painkiller guys did with Painkiller on the PC (frenetic action with a fantastic, oft-missed summary of heaven/hell/purgatory legends), and Half-Life 2 is arguably one of the greatest recent PC games.
So, how were the demos?
They sucked. And blew, while we're at it.
Graphics on both were abysmal, and the Painkiller demo didn't have Y-axis invert (lesson for all demo creators: I understand locking controller configurations for a demo, but if "invert" is germane to your genre, f***ing include it!).
I'm really hoping this is just indicative of pre-release demo concessions; but I don't know that I'm motivated enough to buy the full versions, with the bad taste the previews left in my mouth.
I need to ping some Xbox buddies who have the games and see if they suck as much in the retail versions (Painkiller releases next month).
FYI, though TeamXbox and GameSpot gave high ratings to Half-Life 2 (9.5 and 8.3, respectively), I believe OXM gave it a sub-par rating for ridiculously frequent and slow load times.
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posted by Adam @ 3:30 PM
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