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"Official Magazine"

The official Xbox Magazine is out on 28th Febrauary with 4 playable demos and 10 video trailers, hurrah !

At least it would be if the makers, Future Publishing, didnt live in an alternative universe to the rest of us. Why ? "Try Before You Buy" claims the magazine about its Game demos. Problem - I doubt any of us will buy this then dash home to try out the demo's on our non existent Xboxes. Second problem - many of us have already worn out the local demo pods and know pretty well what we're going to buy anyway.

Still, at least we've got an official mag with demos, which wil be better once the consoles actually out !

The first OPSM2 only came with 3 playable demos and about 5 vids. In comparison X-Box's disc is larger and with a longer content (i.e Wild Wild West, Dynasty Warriors 2 and some other C-grade title).

Outlaw.

savatt1668 wrote:
Obviously playable Demos are great, but
> sometimes its nice to just let the DVD run with loads of footage while you eat
> your dinner and stuff. ;-)

For £5.99 I would only buy the mag once they started to put on extras for games. The American version of the mag will be having the DOA3 update on the disc, but we already get it in the game.

But from this months playable demos they do seem to offer more than the PS2 demos. But I dont really care about all the playable demos, I only want to play on some, if I am in any doubt about buying a game.

I get PSW as it offers about 80 mins of footage of upcoming games. I rarely buy the offical magazine as its videos are old, aswell as alot of the demos repeat themselves.

Maybe once the X-Box is out we'll see a new mag that does a similar DVD to PSW. I like that idea myself too.
Obviously playable Demos are great, but sometimes its nice to just let the DVD run with loads of footage while you eat your dinner and stuff. ;-)

Belldandy wrote:
lol
> plus we all have a free drinks mat :) I mean what else can we all do with the
> demo disc ! They should have made the first one a DVD disc with movies on, like
> they did for the PS2 before its launch.

I think your thinking of PSW. They had a DVD, like they do every month but the Offical PS2 mag came with a game disc, I bought the first issue and then the next issue I bought was the Feb 2002 issue as that had a MGS2 demo on it.

The Offical X-Box mag seems good, the reviews are very good for Halo, Rally sport, PGR, DOA3 and Amped. Also the demo disc seems good. As PGR has 4 levels with 2 unlockable cars, one being the F50 which takes along time to earn in the full game(about 20+ hours of in game time).

I am going to get next months mag as it should have a Wreckless playable demo.

Anyway the X-box demo disc can be used in your DVD player. But you only get the small intro movie and then it comes up with "Please insert the disc into an X-box".

savatt1668 wrote:
> Mine cost £5:50. Ha, there you go Belldandy, we bought the mag and still
> had enough left for a doughnut or 2. ;-))

lol plus we all have a free drinks mat :) I mean what else can we all do with the demo disc ! They should have made the first one a DVD disc with movies on, like they did for the PS2 before its launch.

Mine will cost £5.39 as I will get it from WhSmiths and use my NUS card, which gives me 10% off everything :)

Mine cost £5:50. Ha, there you go Belldandy, we bought the mag and still had enough left for a doughnut or 2. ;-))

£5.99 here in Southampton aswell - just Microsoft trying to get all of your money!!

Outlaw.

£5.49 at Game, the guy at the till stared very strangely at the total thing but whatever he did, and he tried, it still came up at £5.49 !

I took a fiver today to try and buy it and what happens? It costs £5.99, ruined my day that did...