Japan Gaming Guide

As we mentioned in an earlier post, there are plenty of demos doing the rounds on Xbox live at the moment, so we thought we’d post a very quick round up of them.

Bioshock
See the post below. This is one of the best demos we’ve seen in a long, long time and we can’t recommend it highly enough.

Fatal Intertia
Like Wipeout with really small tracks. Seriously. It doesn’t feel anywhere near as good as Wipeout though, although to be fair a demo may not be long enough to get to grips with the subtleties of the control system (or find out if there are any subtleties to the control system.)

John Woo’s Stranglehold
A nice surprise. This could very easily have been generic movie based shooting game number 5489, and it might still be, but jumping around and shooting people in slow motion mode is a hell of a lot of fun here. We know it’s been done before, but from what’s on show in the demo we reckon Stranglehold will merit a rental at the very least, if only to blast through quickly on easy mode.

Ace Combat 6
Weeell, the Demo level is fun for the first five minutes, and then gets pretty dull. Point at aircraft, fire missile, point at next one, fire missile. We were hoping this game would be good, and it seems okay, but if we wanted to fly around shooting stuff we’d prefer Project Sylpheed.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
A very brief demo lets you run around for a few minutes and cast a few spells. Most reviews are saying that the game gets repetitive very fast, so maybe that’s why the demo is so short. It seemed nice enough, but we reckon the next game in the series will be the one to buy. They’ve laid the technological foundations with this game, now they’ll be able to focus on content for the next one.

Beautiful Katamari
We can’t play this as it’s not available outside North America but we’ve heard Katamari fans complain that the demo doesn’t convey how much fun the game actually is, so if you’ve downloaded this and found it a bit disappointing, remember, the final game may be better.

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