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God of War 3 Demo Has Anger Management Problems

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I recently played through the first taste of Sony’s forthcoming, highly-anticipated Olympian brawler.  Like anyone else who’s sucked up the joy of dismembering mythological creatures in the previous God of War installments, I’ve been jacked for this third, next-gen tale of Kratos and his seemingly unquenchable desire to impale bystanders. 

So what would the demo hold?  Is this merely a high-def enhanced version of the formula or has Sony cooked up something totally new for the big PS3 debut?

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Bayonetta Demo Impressions, Climax-a-Riffic!

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Any action gamer worth his button mashing has probably had Sega’s Bayonetta on the radar screen for some time.  There’s a high-end pedigree behind Platinum Games’ eyeball-spanking hack and slasher and I’ve been following its slow march to a January release date for some time.  The demo made its way to Live this week and I dutifully–and excitedly–took it for a spin.  My reaction?

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Demo Impressions: The Warriors Street Brawl (XBLA)

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The side-scrolling beat’em up is one of my all-time favorite video game genres.  My nauseating love for Streets of Rage 2 has been well-documented, but really, any of the classics appeal to me: Final Fight, Golden Axe, TMNT, Guardian Heroes and, most recently, Castle Crashers.

So any time a new installment is announced I get excited.  Is it possible for developers to recapture the magic those old-school brawlers had?  The latest entry is The Warriors: Street Brawl.  I took the demo out for a jaunt.  My reactions after the jump.

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Batman: Arkham Asylum Demo Impressions

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Took the 1.5 GB demo of Eidos’s much-anticipated take on the Caped Crusader for a spin over the weekend.  I really liked it, but I’m not totally sold.

I’m all about Batman, and have been longing for any kind of sweet Dark Knight video gaming that I’ve embraced such iffy stuff as The Rise of Sin TzuArkham Asylum, when it was first revealed, showed big promise, and judging from the brief time I had with the demo, it looks like it might live up to the expectations.

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Free Trial: Age of Conan

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Hey, who wants to play Age Of Conan, Funcom’s MMORPG set in the mystical world of the Hyborian kingdoms? Yeah, me either. Or anyone else for that matter. Going has been tough for the beleaguered online PC game, with audiences rapidly dwindling from the game after a few promising months of sales, even going so far as to close down nearly thirty of its servers because no one was using them.

Well, if you’re curious to check the game out without making a capital venture investment, Funcom has announced they are offering a free trial of the game. Download it, register yourself and you get seven days to futz about chasing around scantily-clad women in a mystical land of barbarians and warlords. Actually, that doesn’t sound… terrible… does it? Maybe I’ll be checking this out after all.

Funcom hopes this will drum up renewed interest in their MMORPG, and it just might. After all, giving away 14-day trials of World of Warcraft helped secure the current king its tens of millions of monthly subscribers. Age of Conan is more like hundreds of thousands at best. Still, free is free!

Demo Reel: Rhythm Heaven (DS)

rhythmheavenlogo Nintendo’s DSi handheld comes out on Sunday, April 5, and alongside it will be the North American release of a Japanese game that’s been on many an import-lover’s list since it came out last fall: Rhythm Tengoku Gold—or, as it’s being called in the States, Rhythm Heaven. I haven’t gotten my mitts on the final game yet, but I plugged in my Wii earlier in the week to download the demo via the DS demo functionality of the otherwise-lackluster Nintendo Channel. I knew hardly anything about Rhythm Heaven before Satoru Iwata handed out free copies to those who attended his GDC keynote. Heck, I thought it was a drumming simulator. I was way off.

Rhythm Heaven is (as you’d expect) a rhythm game, but not like the popular Rock Band and Guitar Hero franchises. Heaven has more in common with a tap-to-the-beat game like Elite Beat Agents. But even that’s not quite right. With its simple graphics and bite-sized objectives, the game series it most reminds me of is WarioWare—and that’s a compliment.

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