Just in case you didn't know, the SINGLE PLAYER demo is out now...
www.demonews.com

Thanks for info, Burr

Durrr, I presume that's for the PC then?

Cheers for the link

Yeah, PC, although I'd imagine there'll be a PS2 version attached to some magazine in the next couple of months.

Finished playing this last night. Looks and sounds great, but is the gameplay there? I found the AI pretty cool too.

Cem

I'd download it but the site is down to due some SQL errors. Has anyone got a URL for a direct download?

TIA.

i think this is the single player version but as english is only language im a bit limited :-

*link removed just to be on the safe side, as most of the gaming sites are pulling it left right and centre at the request of EA, so not prudent to link it here methinks.

saying that though, its worth noting that this single player demo is not official.....
apparently its a press demo for them to try and take screenshots etc, but its been leaked out. Not sure where we stand with any potential legal issues so please feel free to remove chrisb if you are concerned.


[Edited by ptholt - 03/01/2002 12:16:31]

[Edited by ptholt - 03/01/2002 12:33:42]

Hmm, good point Pete. Not sure we stand on that?

Maybe it's best to wait for DemoNews to come back up rather than link to it directly?

Just been checking around, EA has been requesting gaming sites not to offer the demo, so I've removed the above link.

There is an 'official' single player demo coming out on Jan 8th apparently.

Thanks Pete :)

no probs chris,

btw have just sent you an email that you need to read NOW and act upon quickly :)

The issue is this. The single player demo was provided as an exclusive for a german computing magazine and also was marketed to be sold at $4.99 at Amazon. When a reader uploaded the demo to his server, it spread like wildfire. The online games newsgroups then decided to also host it because it seemed like everybody had hosted it.

Apparently, EA had not asked anyone yet to NOT host it, even though distribution rights had been broken.

It's available at many places now, I'll post some links up.

Cem

Have to say in finally got round to playing the single player game and was fairly impressed.
Have played online a bit as well now (had problems with gamespy arcade and zone alarm) and thats not bad either.

Tiz on the cover disk of PCZone.

P.

Good article on CNN that covers the whole 'leaked demo' story...

http://money.cnn.com/2002/01/04/tech...column_gaming/


-DV

[Edited by DazV - 1/4/2002 11:56:53 PM]