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Prince of Persia: Warrior Within Demo Released

Posted by Zonk on from the best-use-of-sand-evar dept.

OneHungLo writes "Today, Ubisoft released an international demo for Prince of Persia 2: The Warrior Within. The demo is around 470MB. For those of you who would like to use the /. effect to help others get the file, get the .torrent here."

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  1. Re:Torrents by TheSHAD0W · · Score: 3, Informative

    With modern clients, by approximately 4 orders of magnitude.

  2. Look at the size! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm sorry, but I HATE large demos. As people start using broadband and forgetting about us poor dialup users (who can't even download a torrent as we only have 5KB total, nothing to share.)

    Seriously, christ! My fully installed copy of Quake 2 is 350 MB! Have people completely forgotten about good compression and not putting in things you don't need?

    Sorry for going on a rant here, I'm just really pissed.

    1. Re:Look at the size! by Propagandhi · · Score: 3, Insightful

      There really is no way around large demos, aside from scaling back content a ton. High res textures, complex level geometry, high quality sound, all of this adds to the demo's size.

      Heck, most demo's (not all, but many) are pretty short already, making them any smaller would defeat the purpose of even having a demo.

      My advice, if you don't have broadband subscribe to the CD-Rom (or DVD or whatever it is now) version of PC Gamer and get your demos and trailers that way. Yeah, it sucks to essentially pay for demos, but such is life..

    2. Re:Look at the size! by 88NoSoup4U88 · · Score: 2, Interesting
      " There really is no way around large demos, aside from scaling back content a ton. High res textures, complex level geometry, high quality sound, all of this adds to the demo's size."

      Tell that to these guys : http://www.theproduct.de/

    3. Re:Look at the size! by moonbender · · Score: 2, Informative

      I'm sorry for nitpicking but this is a really common and equally annoying error: the game's name is Baldur's Gate.

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  3. Is this a good direction? by JensR · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm not really convinced the new style is the right way to go. I really enjoyed Sands of Time, but I only bought it after seeing a friend play it. All the trailers and screenshots were comparably boring.
    SoT was T rated, and the violence was on a level that I wouldn't be terribly worried if younger kids played it. Now explain to me, how do they expect to gain bigger sales by limiting their audience to "M"ature gamers?
    Don't give me the "average gamer is 28 years" shit, that's were most people stop playing games, and start worrying about families and mortgages.

  4. Where are the puzzles? by Ian_Bailey · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I personally loved the puzzles best in Sands of Time, and was relatively bored/tired of the button mashing battles. I knew one person who just played the puzzles, and gave the controller to someone else when enemies appeared.

    The fact that they're pushing the gorier battles means to me that they're leaving behind what made the last game so much fun. So I'm probably going to pass on this one.

    To add to your comment, though, I think something I read at Insert Credit put what seems to be the main difference so eloquently:

    In Sands of Time, the Prince spends almost the entire game fretting about a servant girl he could just order to do whatever he said. After all, he's a prince.

    In The Warrior Within, he calls a woman a bitch.

    1. Re:Where are the puzzles? by nicksthings · · Score: 2, Informative

      Based on everything I've seen and read (previews, developer interviews), the puzzle aspects have not been tossed. An emphasis has been put on the fighting, however, since that's what did need the most work - the plan, I believe, is to mesh both the fighting and the puzzle in a more seamless fashion, as opposed to Sands of Time's "fight...puzzle...fight...puzzle" formula.

  5. The official site... by Lust · · Score: 2, Informative

    is here

    1. Re:The official site... by Doomstalk · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Note to publishers: gigantic oversized pages made entirely of Flash piss me off, especially when they have loud sound/music I can't turn off.

    2. Re:The official site... by johannesg · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Why, oh why must movie and game websites always be un-navigable flash monsters with bad soundtracks that loop every 8 seconds, stuff jumping all over the screen, stamp-sized images, and hard to read text? Is this some sort of conspiracy? Who makes these sites?