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Prince of Persia: Warrior Within Demo Released
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."
With modern clients, by approximately 4 orders of magnitude.
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.
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..
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?