According to Codemasters, a demo for their upcoming first-person shooter Turning Point: Fall of Liberty has hit Xbox LIVE. At 1.4 GB, the demo puts players in the shoes of Dan Carson, a New York City construction engineer who is thrust into battle when an undefeated Third Reich launches an attack on the city. Alternate 1953 history sucks.
Xbox LIVE has also decided to suck, as well. This Spark Unlimited developed shooter sounds promising, and I'd love to check it out this morning. Instead, I get some nice reading material from Microsoft:
Can't retrieve information from XBOX LIVE. Please try again later. Status code: 8015000a
Oh well. Anyone care to let us know how the demo is, and let me know if I'm missing anything?
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8:08 AM on 01.23.2008
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I feel bad for the 360 Users...
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I hope I can download this game and servers don't prevent it, or they'll have to give us a present for the present failing.
Was looking forward to this on the PC
Also I am getting worried by some of the other comments here, because I had high, high hopes for this. :-/
The graphics are indeed pretty weak in Turning Point but the game is not that bad, it has some pretty cool scripted moments. The fact that I even finished the demo is impressive to me. The Dark Messiah demo I shut off after like 3 minutes it was so bad.
There's no way I'm shelling out $60 for Turning Point but I'll probably GameFly it if nothing better comes out around then. It's one of those games I'll finish in 2 days and send back.
Actually scratch that, Lost comes out the same day(I know, I know, but I'm a big fan of the show). Then Bully and Army of Two the next week, then Condemned 2 the next week. This game needed to come out 2 weeks ago. Then I'd play it.
It would have been alright on the PS2.
Yeah, it looks a little bit like Freedom Fighters knock-off, except with Nazis instead of commies. What else did Codemasters do?
Turning Resistance War: Fall of Max Payne's Gears
But you forgot the Halo reference! *chuckles*
What else did Codemasters do?
Why other great hits like Dirty Dancing - The Video Game, Jericho, Hospital Tycoon, Heatseeker, Maelstrom, Archlord, and other great titles.
But, seriously, they are (and have) published some good games (just don't let them develop, IMHO): Overlord, Dragonology (and I think Wizardology and something-else-ology if that does well), Flashpoint 2, Rise of the Argonauts, and Grid are all TBA 2008 or 2009 titles.
Don't feel bad for us. The fact that we put up with all the negative shit shows how unbelievably awesome the positive aspects of the 360 are. I love the 360, warts and all.
I will be purchasing a PS3 though, mostly to play Blu-Rays since it appears their victory is imminent. *sigh*
I can finally log in and now I get error messages, fan fucking tastic, I can't play Street Fighter online either for some reason.
I hope I like the demo, I was one of the 10 or so people who enjoyed Jericho quite a bit, moreso that many of the overhyped shooters of last year.
i wanted this game so bad! i remember reading about it in a magazine and getting excited about it.
now i play the demo and im like..... what? this has to be like 20 percent done or something, i mean the people and the buildings in it look really really bad, like ps2 launch game bad.
what happened?
Turok might be shallow, but she sure is pretty. Also, Dinosaurs make everything better. Example:
Cadillacs. Not so great of a game.
Cadillacs & Dinosaurs, on the other hand, improves on cadillacs at a rate of OVER NINE THOUSAND!!!
Turok might be mediocre at best, but it's mediocre at best with dinosaurs.
The only things worse than the graphics in this game are the game play and AIDS.
PS. I know my english sucks, it's not my first language...
demo has been downloaded, but not played yet. looking at the reactions of people here, i don't think i'll much like it.
the Club demo, on the other hand, was rather refreshing. if i didn't have a pile of 20+ games waiting for me to play them, i'd pick it up.
weak controls, poor graphics, shitty AI
interesting storyline..nazi's invade USA
developers better do a whole lot more on final product cuz this is PS one quality stuff right now
did get the DL for the Club demo found that much more find in a mindless shootem up kinda way
Too bad to hear that the demo isn't too good though, since I was sorta keeping an eye on this one.
unbelievable... M$ has to get their shit together!
The Club demo, pretty cool though.