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Whats the most impressive demo you have played?

GHG said:
As were the next 48 hours attempting to download the damn thing off XBL...
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Who cares, it was an awesome experience to be there for the release and all that surrounded it. It just came out of nowhere and then..magic
 
MGS and MGS2.

Also the demo i got with my ps2 had ssx on it and i enjoyed it enough to buy it and every subsequent game.
 
The Operation Flashpoint demo!

I remember unofficial map editors being made for the demo, in order to produce unofficial missions, long before the official game had even shipped.
 
Wow, so many people liked the demo of MGS2 huh? I'm kinda late to the party (I know, it's sad) and I'm near the end of MGS (well, I think so). The out-of-the-box thinking stuff is awesome :) Love the long cutscenes. Now I can't wait to start MGS2. Really looking forward to it.

The demo of BioShock really impressed me. I played through that numerous times. Also God of War 2. Man I love that game. And of courseCarmageddon. I couldn't get the full game back then so I played the crap out of the demo. And once there was a hack out to remove the time limit I was a happy boy :)
 
opkal said:
Same, I played that demo for years, hell I still think there's people playing the Wake Island demo today.
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Yeah, most of my Battlefield hours were spent in that demo.


It saved a lanparty of ours back in 2002 once. Would have been Counter-Strike only otherwise. Instead we had a wonderful three days on wake island.
 
The Far Cry demo single handedly made me upgrade every facet of my PC so I could run it like it was meant to when it came out.

Bioshock demo was awesome, I already knew I was going to buy it but it just confirmed what I knew would be an amazing game, played the demo many times.

Skate demo sold me on the game. Played that over and over again.

Motorstorm demo made me buy a PS3. Didn't play the actual game much after that though, ironically.
 
Man, there's quite a few demos I've played, and was blown away by.

ICO: I was hooked the second it started.

FNR3: I had zero expectation for this game, until the demo came out. I played the hell out of it.

Crackdown: This is how you make a demo. Just enough power giving to you that you see the game's potential.

Lost Planet: I was blown away by the demo. Both of the sp run thru's. Retail game lost the magic that the demo had unfortunately.

SotC: Epic.
 
dogmaan said:
Half-life uplink was probably the best demo I have played, it is one of the only demo's I have seen that has it's own storyline separate from the main game, It left a lasting impression even in software mode on my Cyrix 150mhz 6x86.

I played through the whole thing using just the keyboard, at about 10-15fps at a resolution of 320x240, and I loved every second

this game made me scavenge 32mb of RAM and a voodoo rush together, so when I bought the full game, I could play it in 640x480 with hardware acceleration

I wish more developers would make demo's like this:

Half-Life Uplink Wiki

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nice! i didn't know it was still available (wish it was on steam), going to check it out, thanks!!!

but for me in recent memory, I would say Crackdown :)
 
I see a lot of MGS2 responses, but has everyone forgotten the original MGS demo? How about FFVII?

I'd say more recently, the best demos I've played were Viva Pinata (it sold me on the game), Sega Rally Revo and God of War: Chains of Olympus.
 
recently i really liked GoW: CoO on PSP...and i'm no fan of GoW...but that's really good.

what about Halo3 online beta? is that "demo"? 'cause if it is, that was gooood :D

also, as "madmook" sad, RE4 GC disc demo was awesome!
 
In recent memory... Dead Rising. (Keep in mind, I may have played other full games and not their demos, such as Crackdown etc)
 
Wollan said:
MGS2 demo.

Really. The game was the biggest leap I've ever seen and probably ever will see.
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This is me... I would hands down say it was best demo EVER.

The reason why I bought Z.O.E three times... as my other MGS Demoes went "missing" and +32 sales for konami Z.O.E.
 
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First Amped game on xbox, I could play it for hours. Probably played it more than the actual game.
Other demos maybe were more effective at getting me to buy the product (Marathon and Quake, for example ), but the demo for Amped lasted on its own far longer than any other I've tried.
Only Cortex Command and maybe Lugaru comes close. Those being indie games kind of forces the dev to load them with generous content, more so than a published dev. That's arguable but at least they deserve a mention.

MorisUkunRasik said:
I never played teh MGS2 demo, what part of teh game was it?
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Teh ~10% where you actually got to play... :lol
 
Jazzem said:
Skies of Arcadia, which came with Official Dreamcast magazine here in the UK. It was very generous in what it gave you (Up until the end of the dungeon with the first moon crystal I believe), though it could afford to be with the game being so long. Still, completely sold me and my brother on the game.

I miss the Dreamcast days :(
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YES!! Best rpg demo ever
 
Bioshock's demo totally sold me on that game.

Also, the demo for Battlefield 1942 because it had all the stuff that the full game had and had probably my favorite level from the full game as well. Unreal Tournament 2004 had a similarly awesome demo.
 
RE4- wasn't overly hyped about RE4 before playing this. the village scene was super-tense before I learned exactly where I had to go and what to do. I played it so many times. "where's everyone going? bingo?"

Bioshock - jaw dropped as soon as I surfaced in the water and the demo was very fun. (btw, if you think the plane crash scene looks nice on the 360, check it out on a PC running at 1080p, 60fps, everything maxed.) Sold me on the game when I previously knew little about it.

Ninja Gaiden (Xbox) - I was in shock at how awesome it was. I wasn't such a discerning gamer before playing this...but it made everything else look like shit!

Ninja Gaiden Sigma (PS3) - just because it had leaderboards

God of War I - one of the best demos out there, got me so hyped for the game (then was disappointed by the game...) Supposedly the level in the demo was one of the last they developed and it shows. It's GoW at it's most concentrated and awesome, imo.

Lost Planet - yet another case where I like the demo better than the game :lol
 
No demo has really touched what MGS2 did. The visuals were beyond anything I ever played. I have yet to regain such excitement over a demo since then.
 
MGS2. Probaly played it a million times.Good thing about MGS demos is that they're quite long, and also how they are packed with tons of little details so you can replay them over again.Crackdown was a long demo and fun as was the latest Flatout game.Theif gold and the first level on Deus Ex! which you can finish in a number of differnt ways.
 
dogmaan said:
Half-life uplink was probably the best demo I have played, it is one of the only demo's I have seen that has it's own storyline separate from the main game, It left a lasting impression even in software mode on my Cyrix 150mhz 6x86.

I played through the whole thing using just the keyboard, at about 10-15fps at a resolution of 320x240, and I loved every second

this game made me scavenge 32mb of RAM and a voodoo rush together, so when I bought the full game, I could play it in 640x480 with hardware acceleration

I wish more developers would make demo's like this:

Half-Life Uplink Wiki

4qkme0.jpg
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It's no fun when the OP has the right answer
 
I'm going to go with the System Shock demo. I fired up that demo, and my entire perspective on what a video game could be was restructured.

My first and freshest memory comes from the moment I ran the sound configuration test, as it's the first time you hear the menacing awesome that is the voice of SHODAN: "L-l-l-look at you hacker, a p-p-p-pathetic creature of meat and bones, panting and sweating as you r-run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?" I got chills.

You can hear the sound file here on the SHODAN wiki.

Also, all of the games voice files are available for download here
 
The Devil May Cry demo included with CVX does it for me. Back when I got a PS2, nothing struck me as particularly impressive, or as something that was truly next-gen. I played the DMC demo so many times, and my jaw was dropped each and every time. This was the game that convinced me that next-gen had arrived.
 
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