Save Ferris

I couldnt find frogger because it wasnt under the 'newly released game demos' panel. I had to go to arcade games first then look for it. thats kinda messed up.

DJ_Longfellow

Frogger seemed to be ok to me also. The controls seemed a bit better with the "Classic" graphics.

I like the NCAA 07 demo also, but it's taking a bashing by most (CAG.com)

Blitz6Speed

NCAA plays well, but the graphics look ps2-ish to me. Nothing even remotely next gen. So in that sence, its a disapointment.

ceeece

Where did you find them on the site. I looked through all the 360 stuff and come up empty on MS points.

Flay

That deal is over, bub. We bought them all for 12 bucks a pop.

1998Nole

LOTR:BFME demo is up it is around 800mb, and multiplayer. I am downloading it right now, hopefully it goes quick.

Gromit

I looked at around the time you posted and I couldn't find it. I guess I'll look again...

SteelgearX

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/...artyinabox.htm


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Blitz6Speed

Just got done trying out the LOTR demo. I dont know whats up with MS's servers but they're freakin slow as heck now. I used to download demos in less then an hour (1000+k/sec downloads here), but now they take 5-6 hours! They need to bump up the bandwidth or something. But about the game, i played the tutorial and thought it was a tad complicated but i learned pretty quick. The last RTS game i ever played was Warcraft 2 on my 486DX/2, so its been a while.

I then went online and tried my first online game with it. Took 3 trys to actually get into a game, id end up going in a game to only have the other guy drop out, but finally got going. After a super long online match, i realised i suck at this because i didnt know a lot of the rules (like how to keep making more troops, it'd say i ran out of the ability?) and i didnt even know about the trees and so on. Also, the enemy had some insanely wicked monsters like spiders, and dragons and even a huge worm! I probably just didnt know what i was doing but i enjoyed it a lot. I will probably try it again, not sure if id buy it, but its really well done. Controls are pretty tight too. Maybe once its quite a bit cheaper, i might make the jump. But a fantastic demo otherwise. Probably the best one so far.

DJ_Longfellow

I played the LOTR single player demo....I thought it was ok. I never really played a RTS game, but this seemed ok.

The Mass Effect Trailer looked mighty good though too.

Michael Corvin

Thank you. This is indeed the case. The controls are nice and tight with the original version. I started breezing through the levels once I switched.

DJ_Longfellow

It appears some stores are giving out SAINT'S ROW demos with pre-order. I have it pre-ordered at GameRush, so I will have to check. I know the demo hits the marketplace August 1st I THINK.

Liver&Onions

Hey guys. Here's a snippet of an email I just exchanged with a PR guy from MSFT. He's been brutally honest with me in the past on quality of titles, and said I chould share his words.

"Lumines Live! doesn’t have a public release date, but tell your guys that it will be coming soon and is awesome. Cloning Clyde, up next week is a really funny, strange game."

Canis Firebrand

I've been waiting for Lumines. Hopefully beginning August. That would be quite nice.

edstein

Lumines is high on my wishlist and Poker as well. Moreso than SFII and Galaga.

gr8vette

Is it me or is the Frogger screen TINY??? I have a 60" Sony HD and Frogger takes maybe 1/6th of the screen right in the middle... Looks STUPID!!!

Please tell me that you can change this in the full version!

1998Nole

Under help/options you can strecth the screen both vertically and horizontally. you can do this in the demo aslo.

mrpayroll

http://news.punchjump.com/article.php?id=2705


Chris

Liver&Onions

Congrats are in order for our very own Flay. Coming in at the #21 OVERALL gamerscore in the world! And only 10 points behind #20.

http://www.360voice.com/leader-gs.asp

The Bus

Hey, give me props, I'm also on that list too.

http://www.360voice.com/leader-gs.asp?start=2230

UncleGramps

Damn, Flay! That's a whole lotta points. Congrats!

Here's me (currently #11862):

http://www.360voice.com/leader-gs.asp?start=11850

Flay

Thanks for the props, but I'm actually around #60 in the world according to MyGamerCard and Top360Tag. I'll never get to the top, but I'll try to hang around in the top 100 as long as I keep at it.

Liver&Onions

Ah, ok... then #21 for people who use the blogs

Looks like in order to keep up you'd need to import the games from Japan to get those points too.

DJ_Longfellow

Why doesn't FROGGER allow 2-player SPLIT-SCREEN on the same console. I hope they have a patch for this

Flay

Ha, if I could actually afford it. I'm just waiting until Vista rolls out and the "Games for Windows" start giving points.