One of the biggest demos last year was for Ubisoft's Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter. The publisher kept gamers on edge by announcing that a multiplayer demo was in the works, but it didn't release it on Xbox Live Marketplace until three weeks after the game's release. A single-player demo was released almost a month after that.
If recent reports on the Internet are true, Ubisoft is changing its tactics for the second go around for GRAW on the Xbox 360. The Web site for the UK version of Official Xbox Magazine claims that a demo for GRAW2, which is scheduled for release in the next few months, is expected by the end of January, according to "sources close to the production of the title." Other sites claim that Ubisoft has said that the "GRAW2 demo [will be] on your 360 via Marketplace. Very soon, very soon indeed." However, it is unclear how these other sites got the information, as no links to posts or the original source are cited.
Recent installments of the Tom Clancy games from Ubisoft have gotten demos out before the game's release. For instance, the demo for Splinter Cell Double Agent just beat its retail counterpart to release, whereas Rainbow Six Vegas was shooting up Xbox Live Marketplace almost three weeks before the full version hit stores.
Ubisoft is clearly embracing this whole Xbox 360-demo thing and appears to be approving of releasing a demo weeks in advance of a game's release. Combine that with the fact that GRAW2 appears to be in good shape and hasn't hit any delays like the original did, and the possibility of an early demo seems more likely. As for what's in the demo, gamers will just have to wait for official word from Ubisoft.
Of course, Ubisoft can also be keeping quiet to avoid the whole demo-announcement jinx that has plagued other games, like Prey and Crackdown.
If recent reports on the Internet are true, Ubisoft is changing its tactics for the second go around for GRAW on the Xbox 360. The Web site for the UK version of Official Xbox Magazine claims that a demo for GRAW2, which is scheduled for release in the next few months, is expected by the end of January, according to "sources close to the production of the title." Other sites claim that Ubisoft has said that the "GRAW2 demo [will be] on your 360 via Marketplace. Very soon, very soon indeed." However, it is unclear how these other sites got the information, as no links to posts or the original source are cited.
Recent installments of the Tom Clancy games from Ubisoft have gotten demos out before the game's release. For instance, the demo for Splinter Cell Double Agent just beat its retail counterpart to release, whereas Rainbow Six Vegas was shooting up Xbox Live Marketplace almost three weeks before the full version hit stores.
Ubisoft is clearly embracing this whole Xbox 360-demo thing and appears to be approving of releasing a demo weeks in advance of a game's release. Combine that with the fact that GRAW2 appears to be in good shape and hasn't hit any delays like the original did, and the possibility of an early demo seems more likely. As for what's in the demo, gamers will just have to wait for official word from Ubisoft.
Of course, Ubisoft can also be keeping quiet to avoid the whole demo-announcement jinx that has plagued other games, like Prey and Crackdown.
