No Demo for Assassins Creed
By Steve on Friday, October 5th, 2007 at 7:36 PM PST In Game Companies, Game Consoles, Microsoft, Ubisoft
Here’s a seemingly new video interview with the very delectable Jade Raymond. I have no idea why those conducting the interview went with a voyeur style-cam, but after watching that, I couldn’t help but feel guilty. Anyway, Jade covers a dizzying number of topics. She even throws a little inside joke about Jesus in there. The most important item of news mentioned was that there will be no demo made available for Assassin’s Creed. Jade’s response as to why? The game’s sandbox gameplay could never be properly represented through a demo.
The video interview spans 12 minutes or so, but Jade certainly makes that time go by quick. Jade’s near fluent in French and no telling how many other languages. She also seems to be a big history buff, judging by her many interviews to date. Jade Raymond has got to be Ubisoft’s greatest asset right now (and I mean that in the nicest way). Ubi could be developing the biggest turd in gaming history and I would still soak up every syllable Jade Raymond has to say about it. If Ubisoft ever decides to make a Beyond Good & Evil 2, it’s obvious who their first choice for voicing the protagonist should be.
*sigh* I think I’m in love.
Or… is the game poor.. like some of the tech demo’s and they have something worth hideing.. (Cough cough lair cough cough)
No Demo = NO Buy. I buy very few games and always try the game first.
Utter bullshit. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and plenty of other games stand as proof that videos rarely fully represent what you’re buying. That, and a demo – in the PC’s case – gives you a good idea of how well you can run it and whether or not it’s your sort of game.
At least give us a tech demo.
There is lots of games.. that end up being REALLY bad.. but had lots of hype.. but magicly didnt get a demo…..
Well, any suggestions on how a demo for a sandbox-type game would work? Like she said, there’s no single missions that you can just give the public. The only way I see a demo happening is if they time it (lets say 5 mins…that wouldnt work well because you’d have to download a full city) or a custom made demo; a mini city of some sorts, but thats just more work for them.
No Demo = NO Buy. I buy very few games and always try the game first.
Ever heard of renting?
This game and its producer look way too good to be true… and the timed demo is the route to go, look at the new Harry Potter OOTP, its very sandbox in nature and has a timed demo (for ps3 at least) with certain areas that are out of bounds… while out of bounds wouldn’t work great here, a time limit would have been nice.
i no i can just look on google bt i cant b bothered