No Far Cry 2 Demo [Jul 11, 2008, 9:24 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Eurogamer
has word from Ubisoft's Clint Hocking that we should not expect a demo version
of Far Cry 2, as this is another of those open-world style games the
won't readily scale to a sample version: "One reason is, even if we were to give
out what you played today - even if we put invisible walls around it and said,
here's the demo, you can go anywhere you like inside these walls and play it how
you want - that's potentially right there eight-to-ten hours of gameplay. I
don't know too many people who are willing to give away a 12-hour game for
free."
They're full of shit. They could easily make a small section of the game playable. There has never been a game where that couldn't be done.
While it is true that complex games can have complex action development, they could easily portion out an isolated taste of the gameplay.
It doesn't even have to be much, it could be a 5 minute portion involving, say, a scene where you're suddenly ambushed by a bunch of enemies (like on top of the split-in-half ship in Far Cry).
They could find something that would give us a taste but not be enough for anyone to burn out on it.
Demos are no longer popular and these piece of shit companies simply go where they've been told the money is.
This comment was edited on Jul 12, 06:46.
While it is true that complex games can have complex action development, they could easily portion out an isolated taste of the gameplay.
It doesn't even have to be much, it could be a 5 minute portion involving, say, a scene where you're suddenly ambushed by a bunch of enemies (like on top of the split-in-half ship in Far Cry).
They could find something that would give us a taste but not be enough for anyone to burn out on it.
Demos are no longer popular and these piece of shit companies simply go where they've been told the money is.
This comment was edited on Jul 12, 06:46.
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