Ninja Gaiden 2 “demo” a disappointment |
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BY Rain Anderson February 23rd, 2008 |
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Microsoft has got to learn that when a “demo” is promised, people do expect an actual demo they can play themselves and not some silly video. Yet this is exactly what’s happened with Ninja Gaiden 2.
Two days ago, a grayed out soon-to-be downloadable item named “Ninja Gaiden 2 Demo - Coming Soon” appeared on the US Marketplace. Naturally the word spread, everyone got excited and expected an actual demo of the game to be released shortly. After all, Tomonobu Itagaki himself was flown overseas to show the game to the GDC crowd and announce the release date (June 3rd by the way).
And now that the “demo” is available for download, it turns out it’s simply a video showing the game being played. A nice preview, granted, but it’s no demo. How about a collective “Boo!” towards Microsoft for this misleading no-no?
[See also: Ninja Gaiden 2 gallery]
February 23rd, 2008
at 1:47 am
Damn, I was actually looking forward to this. Boo!
February 23rd, 2008
at 2:15 am
yeah, that sucks. i was looking forward to being able to play it too. oh well, guess we’ll have to friggin wait to play it.
May 4th, 2008
at 8:30 pm
What M$ bull! I’ve been looking forward to this for a while now. Just have to wait till it hits stores.
May 5th, 2008
at 4:37 pm
Im not all the way certain that the demo was a video, if you look on the xbox site that they have created for ninja gaiden 2 youll find that it says demo to be released in may, its only may 5, we got a whole month where it could be released within, theres still hope, settle down.
May 5th, 2008
at 4:45 pm
This happened way back in February. It’s since been confirmed that a real demo will indeed arrive in May: http://www.thatvideogameblog.com/2008/03/28/ninja-gaiden-2-demo-coming-in-may-to-xbox-live/