Jericho demo up on XBL

koneko

Well, the title pretty much sums it up, but the demo for Clive Barker's Jericho is on the XBL marketplace now. I'm in work so I can't try it out, it's around 850 megs.

Riesen_Meal

If its anything like Nightbreed on the C64 im steering clear!!!

Zapp Brannigan

I'll download it, I've liked the look of the vids I've seen.

monomaniac

Thanks for the reminder - forgot that was out today what with all the halo'ing. Downloading now - you can't beat working from home!

grizzly

Is'nt there a way of using your mobile to text your 360 to download demos? or was that just a very geeky dream I once had :eek::o

monomaniac

Not that I've heard of - unless you're a prophet from the future and you bring us news of this year's Autumn Dashboard Update!!

johnny_ultimate

Pfft... texting is such a 2006 technology.
Everyone knows that the only way to get your Xbox to do anything is to contact it using ESP. Like, duh.

grizzly

monomaniac wrote:

Not that I've heard of - unless you're a prophet from the future and you bring us news of this year's Autumn Dashboard Update!!

I'd love to be a prophet from the future – imagine how smug you could be on internet boards! Sadly I'm more like a guy whose played too much Halo into the wee hours.

grizzly

johnny_ultimate wrote:

Pfft... texting is such a 2006 technology.
Everyone knows that the only way to get your Xbox to do anything is to contact it using ESP. Like, duh.

pfft, yeah I know all about that, just didn't want to freak out people who were still using text based technology.

sweetie

Fieldog wrote:

If its anything like Nightbreed on the C64 im steering clear!!!

god, that game sucked. what were they thinking?

Scruff

sweetie wrote:

god, that game sucked. what were they thinking?

it was just as bad on the 128k speccy.

sweetie

Scruff wrote:

it was just as bad on the 128k speccy.

well, i believe, the c64 version was a speccy port. Awful graphics and non-existing gameplay iirc. It's taken a long time (20years?) for Clive to come back to gaming!

McDermotX

Had a go of the PC demo earlier in the week..
If its the same (more than likely), its a very short demo...especially for a <900meg (1.1gb on PC) download..
May have something going for it,and it may not.....its far too little to tell with the limited playtime you get..
3 people in your squad.....some QTE events....some magic/telekinesis ability..
Simple lever puzzle action....Swapping between squad members is akin to just changing weapons..

Looks nice enough (on PC anyway), but it'll have to distinguish itself a bit more with the full game to be worthy of wasting anymore time on another FPS..

jester77

Stupid German regulators :mad:... hope I'm able to download this later and they are not blocking by IP!

koneko

If your account isn't signed up as a German account you should be okay, I think.

jester77

koneko wrote:

If your account isn't signed up as a German account you should be okay, I think.

It's an irish account but sometimes the stuff that's not available for Germany throws up the error "Not available in your region" when I try to download it and sometimes it's ok and downloads. Eg I can't download the Dead Rising or Blacksite demo's but other demos that were banned are ok to download. What a silly country when it comes to games

ntlbell

just waiting on the download now

I think i was about 7 when knghtbreed was out and don't remeber a whole lot about it but I'm pretty sure I liked it hehe I'll get my coat!

NunianVonFuch

He did the brilliant Undying in 2001 as well. On PC. A scary shooter.
Nightbreed was cack but then I saw the film and simply had to play through it. With cheats of course cos man that gameplay sucked! I'm going to blame my youth and point to the success of the Transformers game to paper over the cracks of that shameful incident.

Fnz

johnny_ultimate wrote:

Everyone knows that the only way to get your Xbox to do anything is to contact it using ESP. Like, duh.

Sounds like plasmid abuse to me!

Vic Vinegar

Like the demo a lot. Seems nice and violent + some interesting game play touches. Will more than likely be grabbing the game upon release.... oh and Nightbreed did suck ass (movie and game) the book was pretty good however! (It's called Cabal if anyone's wondering)

super_furry

The Nightbreed film was ****ing classic, and still stands up today. The game was crap alright, but what about Barker's other game? The abso-****ing-lutly brilliant Undying on the PC? Now that was great game.

NunianVonFuch

I reckon Clive's next game should be some kind of fantastical RPG, something like the Imagika book. Because with Mass Effect starting the androgynous alien trend, we need a hero in love with a man/woman shapeshifting being from another dimension so they can become snakes and consume each other
I read it a year or so ago and may have fudged some of the facts

Vic Vinegar

super_furry wrote:

The Nightbreed film was ****ing classic, and still stands up today.

Ha LOL! ya think? it's muck, it's like a gay soap with unscary monsters!