Bioshock: demo overnight

crunchman · 13 Aug 2007 at 02:57

Slyvester said:
Just for the 360? I hope not.

http://www.2kgames.com/cultofrapture/home.html

Later this month apparently.

Gerard said:
Wow this is bs, the demos just crawling along. stgill on 1% people on the official forums have around 15% some of em.

Same, wish it'd actually show the download speed.

Widget · 13 Aug 2007 at 02:58

Just watched the trailer, pretty good and the music just fits nicely.

Edit. DL stuck at 1% here aswell.

mr.sly · 13 Aug 2007 at 02:59

crunchman said:
http://www.2kgames.com/cultofrapture/home.html

Later this month apparently.

Same, wish it'd actually show the download speed.

Bah!

Demos after the release date are useless. I shouldn't of put off getting a 360 all this time.

loco · 13 Aug 2007 at 03:00

yeh its a demo and there is also the HD trailer.
get it dloaded and checking it out NOW!!

Gerard · 13 Aug 2007 at 03:00

I would have preferred a pc demo just for curiositys sake on the dx10 performance, wonder how much ms chucked 2k games to have the demo exclusive for the 360 for the time being.....exclusive demos...christ what next. :rolleyes:

Margaret · 13 Aug 2007 at 03:03

Gerard said:
I would have preferred a pc demo just for curiositys sake on the dx10 performance, wonder how much ms chucked 2k games to have the demo exclusive for the 360 for the time being.....exclusive demos...christ what next.

Demo isn't exclusive, 2K website says;

The BioShock demo, announced after the world premiere of the BioShock launch trailer on Spike TV, has just now gone live on Marketplace. Boot up your 360s and get downloading. Rapture awaits.

For those of you who are looking for a BioShock demo on the PC, it is in the works and will be out later this month. I'll give you more details about it tomorrow.

- 2K Elizabeth

Just hope by later this month they mean within a few days.

Will have fun with the 360 version for now though, and measure performance when the demo is out on PC, if it's out before the game is.

Things change I've changed · 13 Aug 2007 at 03:04

omg omg omg, downloading now

, do agree though that a PC demo would have been better but still.

bingham67 · 13 Aug 2007 at 03:05

Stranglehold demo coming later this month for PC so not the only one.

Gerard · 13 Aug 2007 at 03:06

Jihad said:
Demo isn't exclusive, 2K website says;

- 2K Elizabeth

Just hope by later this month they mean within a few days.

Just smells fishy to me, for this big planned announcement you would have thought that both formats would be ready. :mad:

Widget · 13 Aug 2007 at 03:06

Just hit 2%, time for bed I think. Hopefully it will have finished by morning!

Gerard · 13 Aug 2007 at 03:07

And this dload speed is amazingly pathetic, just watching my modem its like burst of activity then nothing for maybe 15 secs or so, then activity then nothing.

crunchman · 13 Aug 2007 at 03:10

Just hit 3%

RuMp3l4$k1n · 13 Aug 2007 at 03:11

I had just plugged into the **** SD tv downstairs as im trying to sort out network issues(router is downstairs :rolleyes:

) then I check new arrivals and this demo is there........perfect SD Bioshock :mad:

flew to 3% now its stuck there lol.

Time for a cuppa.

Alex_L · 13 Aug 2007 at 03:18

downloaded 6% here, seems to be going quite slowly, although not sure if that's the servers or my terrible adsl connection.

Gerard · 13 Aug 2007 at 03:20

BUSH said:
downloaded 6% here, seems to be going quite slowly, although not sure if that's the servers or my terrible adsl connection.

Believe me its the servers, it seems ms couldn't allocate more servers\bandwidth even though this games been hyped to hell and back.

V1nny · 13 Aug 2007 at 03:20

mine went quickly to 5% and now it looks like its stuck there

Things change I've changed · 13 Aug 2007 at 03:24

Gerard said:
Believe me its the servers, it seems ms couldn't allocate more servers\bandwidth even though this games been hyped to hell and back.

I think for the amount of people that are proberbly hammering the server/s atm I think it's understandable really, even when a really popular PC demo is released sometimes it's hard to find a decent server with a respectable download rate.

Gerard · 13 Aug 2007 at 03:25

Now to see major nelson with a post saying "yes folks we yet again screwed up this demo release, youd think by now we would be clued in but that aint gonna happen, please check back tomorrow and try again". :rolleyes:

Gerard · 13 Aug 2007 at 03:26

lowrider007 said:
I think for the amount of people that are proberbly hammering the server/s atm I think it's understandable really, even when a really popular PC demo is released sometimes it's hard to find a decent server with a respectable download rate.

I usually find one pretty fast, problem with live is its the only place to get the demo so when a big name demo does hit it gets hammered right away.

Alex_L · 13 Aug 2007 at 03:27

I always wonder why MS don't implement bittorrent on the 360 for massive releases like this, would seem an easy way to overcome the bandwidth problems they seem to have for every major demo release.