No Unreal 2 Demo

Fuck you Legend! I knew something was wrong with U2 when the final screenshots were show. It looked rushed in terms of quality.

Wtf is so hard about making a BETA demo? Do u expect us to just warez the fucking thing to see if we want to purchase this product? I want to play a few levels to really see if this is more than a point and shoot FPS game and actually has some substance to it. You idiots should have canceled the game while your at it. :(

guys, please dont resort to piracy just because they're not releasing a demo. there WILL BE reviews from many sites, and individual reviews for you to see if it's a good game or not. piracy is the exact cause for the lame ass CD protection that pisses us all off and possibly high prices. and its also supporting the death of PC gaming.

so PLEASE, im FUCKING BEGGING YOU to not steal it..there are other ways to see if its good or not. you'll have many shackers posting reviews about it the day it hits stores

The Game is going to be shit
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Like anyone on the shack actually "buys" games. With all the time you spent critiquing graphics I'd be amazed if you guys even bought half life. HA!

Aren't Legend the folks who ruined an awesome franchise and a potentially awesome franchise?
Namely Star Control, ruining it with 3, and I never heard anything good about wheel of time.

Hm, somehow I'm not too confident!

What do they mean by already moved to another project ? Does that mean U2is perfect in every way and there won't be any bug fixes ?!?! What a load of crap.

I won't be buying any game without trying it first, maybe my computer won't even run the game.

I bought the original Unreal when it came out, because I heard so much buzz about the graphics. And they were right - I drooled all over my keyboard.

However, I never did finish the game because I got bored with it after several levels. I'm kinda worried that this'll happen again in Unreal 2. If only they were releasing a demo to prove me wrong... *sniff*

Terrible PR move. All they had to do was shut up and not say anything and It would follow in the tradition of it's predesessosp?]g{.}g

eh, I use demos to see if a game will run on my PC. I don't like paying $90.00+ for something that may run like crud. This must be a first, makes you think if they will take the same approach when it comes to future support (patches and so on).

Sorry, but I don't like paying for something I can't play, and I refuse to warez it.

they said months ago that there was not expected to be a demo. And last time I checked doom3 was not planning a demo/test either.

Is it fair to say that I can get a good idea of the gameplay from watching those 4 german Unreal 2 videos from GamersHell.com?

I would consider myself an Unreal fanboy, in so much as I was floored by the first Unreal (bought it for Mac and PC), I enjoyed playing UT (thought never puchased it), bought UT2K3 (not bad, don't play it that often, but every once in a while) and I was excited about the prospects of Unreal 2.

However, after watching those GamersHell videos, the game just looked soooooo boring. I did crank the sound down because I don't understand german speak -- so I can't rate that part of the game -- but here are my observations:

(1) There's a lot of walking around, that seems to just show off the scenery. That worked with the first Unreal: it was so much better than anything else at the time, and we'd never seen big environments like that. I personally *like* the shiny/bright/over colorful levels in the Unreal series. But walking around for 10 minutes just to get to a switch I can hit on an elevator, then walking around for 10 minutes more just doesn't cut it for unique gameplay anymore.


(2) I *think* that the videos showed gameplay from the first few levels of the game, so I would expect the monsters/enemies to be fairly easy to kill at first. The enemies in this video were pushovers. Even the skaarj went down in a few seconds. <sigh>


(3) Crappy framerates. I'd be curious to know what kind of machine ze Germanz were playing this game on. I saw a lot of bad framerates, even in close-quarter situations with only one enemy. That doesn't bode well for my 1.7ghz Athlon.

So I am still on the fence about buying this game. I am an impulse shopper. I can drop down $70-$80 Cdn. for a game on a whim, if I just happen to want a new game that day for something to try out.

But I am hoping it gets much, much better than what I have seen so far.

I remember starting up unreal for the first time and getting off the ship over looking the cliff, I was pretty amazed. then I tried mp=/

but I'm looking foward to this

Don't worry about making the demo guys....I'm not interested in this game anymore since having seen the latest batch of screenies and movies. Oh, and the final nail in the coffin of this game was the lack of even basic multiplayer. Good luck on your next project...

No demo => no Unreal 2 for me.
Maybe DNF / Doom 3 don't need a demo, but Unreal doesn't play in the same league, so it needs a demo.

Yeah, lets look past the demo. If they dont have the time and effort to make a demo, will they have time and effort to make a patch if its buggy?

Isn't that nice. They have enough people to work on a video, showing on the good parts. But not enought people to put together a demo showing how good the game is. Very Curious

Possible Causes:

1) Runs Like Shit
2) Plays Like Shit

Well I won't be buying this now.

It upsets me that companies think they can and should avoid creating a demo despite the fact that the demo would tell people if the game would run on their system AND if the game is worth buying. To me it shows a lack of faith in the product. While that may not be the case I can't help but shake the feeling that somethings not right when EVERYONE does it but a very few and all of those up till now have been pretty shitty IMHO. Its unfortunate that I won't be buying it as I was kinda looking forward to a good single player game and the first one was interesting but <shrug> gotta stick by your principles.

No demo??

AYE MATEY!!!!!

bottom line is if releasing a demo was that important to Legend, they would allot the resources. It's not so they didn't.

oh hey, would you like to buy this 20,000k car without test driving it or even being able to sit in it?

-1 Redundent but in case developers are watching

No demo? Lost a sell...

if compusa, bestbuy, or circuit city has a $35 sale i'm picking it up, anything above i need reviews.

I'm always suspicious of a game which doesn't release a demo. Yes, it costs time and money to produce one, even from a finished point of view.

From a developer's point of view, I would rather never do another demo in my life. It is very distracting (if you are still making the game) and just gets in the way. From a gamer's perspective, I can appreciate a demo, but I don't think there has been a demo in recent history which has convinced me to buy / not to buy. I've had my mind made up for most games recently.

Who the fucks needs a demo of this. It's Unreal. TWO. You know how it's going to look and play. This was already bought the moment i heard about it.

I was not going to buy this game anyway, but a demo could have surely changed my mind. At least id software will have a DOOM III test.

Last game I bought without a demo was Black & White.

Never again.

fuck this game

I was pretty meh about unreal and the ut's, preorder'd this from walmart but that order got canceled

don't think I want to spend more than 20 bux without a demo....oh well

Well, I played the first 5 levels or so at the Winter CPl. I'd have to say that it'll be a fun game, but unfortunately not really a AAA title. It's really just half-life wiht much better graphics. Scripted events out the wazoo and a lot of varied environments to explore. Unfortunately the levels weren't as detailed (read: overrun) with all that fancy extra polygon decorations like UT2003 is. I don't know why people are saying it will take a more powerful rig to run U2, I just don't see it in the graphics. I'lll get it, casue I loved Unreal, but having Aida yapping in yor ear will remove that lost on a planet/isolation/it's all up to you feeling I got from U1 that I liked so much.

I'll have to try the "full-demo" then before buying it.

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You guys are forgetting about installer and localizations. That plus QA costs a pretty penny.
For a AAA title like this though, I think they should do it.

No demo = me no buying

punishment for the that leaked alpha from last year

FUCK!!! :(

Hmm.. I guess I gotta get my full "demo" from DC then. I'm not blind buying anything

Still buying it.

First they failed to deliver coop, which was my #1 reason for liking Unreal 1. Then people tell me to try the demo, in case there is something different, and now there is not going to be a demo. This is stupid. Screw it. More money in my pocket is fine by me.

At least they came clean. Anybody remember the tales of a demo for the original Unreal?