So the demo features neither the campaign nor co-op? Blast. I was really hoping it'd help me decide whether I want to play it.

it features levels from co-op in Echo mode

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Cubninja, your writing is always identifiable and enjoyable.

@macrocephalus I believe echoes mode is basically just a score attack mode on a campaign level. So imagine just blasting through 'Level 1' again and again, trying to beat the high score.

@St.Penguin Thanks! If I can make one person smile while bringing them co-op news about their favorite games, I feel I've done my job. I just hope that person has their pants on.

The demo can be cued up here: http://marketplace.xbox.com/games/offer ... 00454188f0 for anyone that is interested.

Tried the demo over lunch, and man, it sucked.

Cruddy graphics, physics that make it seem like I'm not actually there and nothing's really real, and boring, repetitive enemies. Oh, and the instructions on the controls came in the form of a video in the beginning of the demo that kept making it seem like I was supposed to do as I was being told but kept proving to just be a frickin video. Maybe picking a different level for the demo would've helped by giving some more context, but as it stands, I was extremely uninvolved and unimpressed, and Bulletstorm is getting yanked right the **** out of my Gamefly queue.

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have you ever played a demo that had the same tutorial as the delivered product? don't fret the small things. i'm sure there were several reasons for replacing the full game's tutorial with a simple video.

i agree about the physics. they are a bit odd. i didn't think the graphics were too bad though, perhaps that's a difference between PS3 & xbox. honestly though, knowing your taste, i wasn't expecting you to like it

i thought it was pretty amusing. there are obviously things that need tweaking and i'm sure they've already been fixed (demos are typically based on builds that are several months old). with the absence of co-op campaign and split screen, i'm afraid i have to pass on this one until the price drops.

Fair point. I think by the time I wrote my post I was just so irritated at the game that every little thing stuck in my craw. Presumably in the full game, the parts of the video where they tell you to do things will actually involve you doing things. It's still sloppy, but not very important.



I guess I'd be curious to see if it does in fact look better on the XBox, but I had the impression that that no longer really happened with Unreal Engine games. AFAIK, Mass Effect 2 and Dead Space 2 look pretty much identical on the two platforms, for example.

How come you thought I wouldn't like it, though? Just curious. I wasn't too optimistic, but I'm always up for stupid humor if it works. I love playing PAIN with friends, for example.

But with Bulletstorm, I actually felt like after I got past the intro stuff and into the gameplay, there wasn't any more personality. I was just shooting a bunch of generic psychos and trying to find different combos and attacks to score points. I didn't feel like the NPCs were, well, people, at all, and I didn't find the environment interesting.

Don't get me wrong, I wanted to like it, but no dice.

I was also not very impressed with this demo. The campaign might be fun for a once through but that echoes mode did nothing for me. I played it on PS3 and I thought the graphics were fine, although I can really see hints of Gears in the styling.
I will say I did like it better than Crysis 2.



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