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I played a bit of Sonic last night, and I have to agree with just about everything else that was said. It's just so disappointing. I tried really hard to like it. It feels like a whole different team developed it (notice how it didn't say "Developed by Sonic Team" (or else I missed it)). I don't agree with the comments about Sonic sticking to the 2D realm, because I really enjoyed Sonic Adventure on the DC. I was expecting to be wowed just like I was when I played that game. Instead, I was utterly disappointed. The game still has potential, but the control problems must be fixed.

I thought the Sonic Demo was pretty fun. The camera controls blow horribly, but it didn't seem like the camera was being a pain very much. I might think about getting that one, having not played a Sonic game since 2D times.

-Spenser

Hmm. The fact that you could very easily fall off, due to the speed thing, also annoyed me.

Maybe it'll take some getting used to, but this demo has convinced me to scratch this off my Most Wanted list.

Marketplace Content

It's my first day back in the office, so let's get things back to normal with a Marketplace post.

The following free content is now available on the Xbox Live Marketplace:

Eurogamer TV presents "Xbox conference from Leipzig" - Only available in the U.K.

Eurogamer TV presents "Great new Xbox 360 games at Leipzig" - Only available in the U.K

Eurogamer TV presents an interview with Peter Molyneux - Only available in the U.K

Just Cause Extreme Stunts Trailer (480p/720p) - Not available in Korea, Singapore or Taiwan.

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I haven't played a WWE game since the Nintendo 64 days of THQ (wwf), but I must say, I love this demo.

I was going to buy a Wii when it came out, but it looks like I'm going to have to use that money on more xbox 360 games instead. Oh well :D

To many loading screens for me to enjoy it.

To many loading screens for me to enjoy it.

I had a lot of fun with it. But yea, way too many loading screens... here's how it went down:

- Open Demo ... Loading ...

- Press Start ... Loading ...

- Select Controllers ... short loading ...

- Select Players and confirm ... Loading ...

- 'Play Now' ... Loading ...

- Triple H Intro ... Loading ...

- Kane Intro ... Loading ...

- Play Match

- Pinfall ... Loading ...

- End Match Celebration ... Loading ...

- Exit to Main Menu and do it all over again

Really ridiculous. Reminds me of the

. :laugh:

Looks like they really need to hire someone that knows how to use caching and fix this mess!

why didn't i listen to you guys.. sonic the hedgehog was a HUGE disappointment.. i think sonic should of stopped at Dreamcast.. now THAT game was amazing.. raising your own little hedgehogs.. that was such a cool idea..

why didn't i listen to you guys.. sonic the hedgehog was a HUGE disappointment.. i think sonic should of stopped at Dreamcast.. now THAT game was amazing.. raising your own little hedgehogs.. that was such a cool idea..

Yeah loved that game, must go and dust off my Dreamcast and get some batteries for my VMU! :cool:

I am not all that sure about NFS Carbon. It really appears to run like ass IMO. I have seen noticeable slow down and huge dips in frames per second. While the graphics are a step up from Wanted, I really cannot see how a racing game could have such performance issues. Hopefully it is just the demo.

I am not all that sure about NFS Carbon. It really appears to run like ass IMO. I have seen noticeable slow down and huge dips in frames per second. While the graphics are a step up from Wanted, I really cannot see how a racing game could have such performance issues. Hopefully it is just the demo.

nah its gunna lag, too many fancy effects, it shows as AA and AF are clearly lacking, but it is a nice game and im definately buying it for the PC on arrival, i just need a PC demo now :)

Need for Speed Carbon Demo on Marketplace now. Majornelson says it is 1GB

Lylesback2, are you talking about the little Chao's? i remember i used to have one on my VMU :p

hahaha, yes the chaos! i remember you have to find the eggs and help feed them and stuff, such a cool idea.. too bad you can only hold so many. it was cool how they transfered them to the VMU.. he picks them up and drops them into a giant VMU in the game :)

chao.jpg

I am not all that sure about NFS Carbon. It really appears to run like ass IMO. I have seen noticeable slow down and huge dips in frames per second. While the graphics are a step up from Wanted, I really cannot see how a racing game could have such performance issues. Hopefully it is just the demo.

runs perfect on mine.. very smooth, great graphics, fun game

runs perfect on mine.. very smooth, great graphics, fun game

The weird thing is it ran better the second time I tried it. Although I still saw some slow down in the Drifting section, in particular the same section on the same curve (I played it through like 3 times just to see if i was crazy), everything else did run better... although I still did see some slow down overall, it was not as bad.

Just curious, what do you have your X Box output to? 480p, 720p, or 1080i? I am wondering if that has something to do with it, although I would like to think it would not have anything to do with it, I am curious.

It seems whenever I download something, and choose Play Now, when the download is done, it does not run good at all. Actually, I never had it happen with Demos really that I can remember, but I have always had the issue with Videos. If I stop it, manually go to Videos and choose Play, it runs fine. So when I tried the NFS Demo I just chose Play Now originally, and it ran poorly. Then when I manually went to Demos and chose it, it seemed to run much, much better. Not sure what the is all about, but I may be calling MS really soon to find out.

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