Trial and Error – FEAR 2 Demo

By OD

(Fear Alma again. Or as I like to call it! Falma!)

Presents

Oh yes! FEAR 2 is almost ready to hit store shelves, and the super sleek slow-mo has never lo-…….well never mind that. We’ve already seen Slow-mo in mostly every game out there to date.  Anyway, I just recently decided to play the FEAR 2 demo and see what all the rave was about it. In the last FEAR you played as a mute, slow-mo using, gun wielding, soldier who is trying to uncover the secret of Alma and the corporation behind her creation. So is the demo gonna make you go out to the nearest game store and buy FEAR 2? Let’s find out.

Trial and Error – Left 4 Dead Demo

By OD

( HOLY SHIT IT’S A TANK! GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY! )

Presents

While Left 4 Dead won’t ship out until November 18th, VALVe have decided to treat Pre-orders to a free early access demo of L4D. So if you didn’t pre-order the game yet and didn’t get the early access, don’t worry! The demo is now available at the Steam Store and on Xbox Live market place! So let’s go over what will make you shit your pants while playing this game!

Left 4 Dead is quite possibly one of the biggest Triple A titles that will coming out for the Xbox and PC, but does the demo show how much it lives up to the hype? Well when there are games in Co-op mode, it’s usually very repetitive and nothing ever really changes. Left 4 Dead has no dull or same old same moments. The A.I. Director pulls the strings in the game to make your experience different every time! So one time there could be an ammo stache, and then another game bam! It’s gone! And instead your left with a swarm of zombies around you! Speaking of the zombies, the A.I. to them is unbelievable!

The zombies are some of the best enemies you’ll come across! They will grab you from afar, corner you, jump on you, climb obstacles to get to you, and even trample you to death! There is no such thing as “Boundries” with these zombies! But, a good shotgun blast will kill them instantly! And are zombies the only thing your gonna go up against? Hell no. You got over 5 different types of zombies to go agianst! The Boomer, The Tank, The Witch, The Hunter, and the one I hate the most out of them all. The Smokers.

EXTREME Trial & Error: Tales of Vesperia demo

by OtakuDad
(feel free to tell me I love dongs if you disagree)

So hey, I feel like explaining why the Tales of Vesperia demo is total trash, and why the game will be shit, and why even though the “Tales of” series sucks shit anyway they still fucked it up even worse than usual for this one.

Trial and Error: Star Wars The Force Unleashed

By Kaiserhawk

(Bang! Zoom! Straight to the moon)

While the dead horse that is the Star Wars franchise is still being healthily beaten what with a new movie, forth coming TV shows, Comics, novels, and of course video games. However the Force Unleashed has been an interesting title I’ve been somewhat looking forward to. For one it’s set in a time we know relatively little about in the Star Wars universe as it’s set in-between the two film trilogies but also looked fun to play as well. So I was pleasantly surprised that a playable demo was released, so I downloaded it and here is what I have to say.

Outpatient Article: Trial and Error – Flash Focus

By MrMean

(There are too many letters in the alphabet)

OK. Today we are going to look at the demo of Flash Focus. You can download it from the not-so-exciting Nintendo channel. If you don’t have a Wii with internet capabilities a friend that has the game can send you a demo of it via DS download play.

Flash Focus is a game designed to find out the age of your eyes. It tests for it by challenging your hand eye co-ordination. Well it is basically Brain Age. Except the mini games are FUN!!!!! In the demo you get to choose between two activities. Baseball and a flash memory game. In baseball you are the batter. Your goal is to hit as many home runs as possible. To accomplish that you have to hit the ball at the right time in the center of the ball. To help you you have a orange box to show you where the ball will be thrown. Scoring is counted by miss (if you really suck), single, double, triple, and home run! This game is pretty entertaining until you have done it a large amount of times.

OK. The second game is a flash memory game. 12 boxes will appear on the across the top and touch screen. Then three c shapes will appear in these boxes in different directions (opening pointing down, up, left, and right). You have to memorize what order and direction they were in. You do this a number of times. Each time the c shapes appear and disappear faster and faster. After both games it tells you the age of your eyes. Same age system as Brain Age. The lowest age you can get is 20 and it tells you to compare that age to your real age.

I think two mini games wasn’t enough for the demo but I didn’t want to wait any longer to get the demo because it took long enough to transfer to my DS. Other then that I don’t think anything else was missing. In the full version of the game you will get daily training and practice and testing. Just like Brain Age without Sudokus. Well HassMD told me to give it a BUY, RENT or PASS. Well I want to say RENT but places like Blockbuster you can’t rent DS games. So I’m going to say BORROW. Yeah, thats right, borrow it from a friend until you get bored with it and then give it back. Or you can keep it and say it’s yours. Your friend will forget about it. Eventually.

Trial & Error: The Club

By Samurai (Jane, stop this crazy thing!)

I like Sega. Sure, they’ve sucked now and sucked back then, but the important thing is, they’re trying. I mean, they made SONIC for crying out loud! Sure, some of you will say “Samurai, you’re an idiotic asshole, Sonic is almost 20 years old.” And I will say back “Listen anonymous voice, Mario is WAAAY older. Nintendo still shells out great games for him and same goes with Sonic in some perspective.”

Even I’ll be the first to admit that Mario has greater games than Sonic. But now that both of them are practically in the same games, you can’t really blame Sega anymore. I’m sure they’re doing a great job putting Sonic into Brawl. Anyway, onto the topic at hand.

So, The Club. Sucks. /review.

I could just leave it at there, but I’m sure some people would totally abandon this site altogether without a second thought. So, let me rant on a little more for your sick enjoyment. The Club is a 3rd person shooter that is set in a rural underground facility where people shoot at each other.

There’s your story right there, and Sega would rather die than go deeper into facts. You have to understand that there is no story mode. God help me, I looked, but I could not find any mode that didn’t feature the words “Kill”, “Fight”, “Tournament” and “Guns”. The demo itself is only giving you 2 missions in 1 level, with only 1 character. The slow black guy called Renwick (stupid name). The missions were nothing special. One of them had you shooting your way out of the prison blocks and the other had you running LAPS around the prison blocks. That’s right. Laps. As if this game wasn’t deep enough. I had expected more from the demo, seeing as though it took me hours to download it, but I bet it was that short CG intro movie that took up the most time. Friggin idiots. It wasn’t even that good, it just has each character and a tiny back story that no-one can make sense of, especially the sadistic assholes who would love a game where there is just senseless violence and explosions.

Sega are probably trying to make a game that is LIKE unreal tournament, but disguise it entirely. Unreal Tournament had that super sexy Unreal Engine to draw us in, while The Club has….nothing really. The graphics are awesome though. Even on my 12″ TV, they look very realistic. And when your sprinting through the prison blocks, it looks really fast-paced.

I guess Sega wants to have that motto “The online play will be awesome.” Of course, no online play was to be had in the Demo and I have better online FPS games to play, all of which feature:

1. A storyline
2. Gamers who have taste
3. Gamers who have taste!

The Club was just a real bore for me, really. The whole “combos” and “points” thing are safe and secure in other genres, not FPS’s. Stop fucking up the universe Sega. (For COD4 fans, you gain experience in COD4, not points. There is no other word for experience, please die.)

Buy it if you want, but I will be buying it on the 32nd of never. If you really want to know something good about the game, there are a LOT of challenges to play and a LOT of levels. But, in my opinion, quality is just so much better than quantity. Of course, nothing I say can really change your mind. It’s your money you’re wasting spending.

Trial and Error: Dark Messiah

by Panteraftw (His music is acoustic rock!)

Welcome to the first Trial and Error, HealingTouch’s demo review line. Here, we DO judge games by their covers, to some extent. Take that, political/social correctness! Just keep in mind, we haven’t played the whole game; we are reviewing an unfinished version of the game, with only a small portion of it to go by.

Demo: Dark Messiah

Platform: Xbox 360

Modes: Single Player, Multiplayer in full game

With every star title, there is at least one imitator. In this case, there are two, but I will only be talking about one: Dark Messiah. This is another first-person fantasy world action/adventure game in the same style as The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. However, much like Two Worlds, Dark Messiah takes a good game and takes a shit on it.

Here on Trial and Error, we only go by what’s given to us. The game advertisements boast multiplayer action, yet there is none in the demo, so I can’t review it. But what I can talk about, however, is the single player….

When you start the demo up, you’ll hear some horrid voice acting, which will actually last throughout the entire journey. You play as Sareth, a young warrior who apparently has some stuff to take from some place. Whatever, I honestly don’t care in the least about his agenda, I just want to play.

The level we’re given looks like crap. Everything looks poorly textured and grainy. This would be excusable if the game controlled well and played well, but it really doesn’t. You can never really get into a comfort zone while playing this game; everything feels stiff at times and loose at other times.

Besides, it’s your standard Oblivion-clone fare, anyway. You walk around, you attack something, you do a simple non-combat task like climbing a rope or grabbing something, and you’re done. Does this game have anything going for it?

Well, I actually like the combat more than Oblivion’s combat, mostly because it didn’t feel tacked on as much. It felt more like an actual game, believe it or not. However, even this aspect of the game is marred with poor animations and clunky controls, and the enemies will drop fairly easily in this level.

There’s not much more to say for this demo. I didn’t enjoy it very much. I am curious to see how the multiplayer co-op plays in this game, but somehow I know I’d rather be playing 4-player Gauntlet anyway. So the final word? I say Pass on Dark Messiah. There are plenty other games in this genre and setting that surpass this game leaps and bounds.