Get it!

yup, checked the mp when I got home from work like I always do, nice surprise

Initial impressions from the demo???? Thanks

DAMMIT! I JUST SENT MY 360 FOR REPAIRS AND THEN OBLIVION, BA and BF2 demo on friday!! FARCRY NEXT WEEK TOO!! WHY GOD WHY?!

I love when they just drop stuff on us without warning. You never get let down!

Going to get it now.

i'm glad that this demo hit, I am on the edge of buying another game, but I don't know if i can afford it, and this one has really gotten my attention, so i'm glad to be able to play it before I buy it without having to try to get it at a rental place since that's hit and miss now because they give the freaking ship date in most places instead of the date it'll be in stores......here's hoping it's a good one

yeah i agree first impressions of playing the demo is good

Excellent. I've got to get it now. Graphically, what are we talking?

Here is the TeamXbox review. They give the graphics 8.8 and a 8.5 overall. Only bad thing I read was lack of some multiplayer options, but it does have co op.

Does anyone else notice that this demo has some major screen tearing going on when you rotate the screen when doing full 360's with the plane? What is with most of the 360 games and the screen tearing anyways?

The 360 doesn't have enough system memory so they cut back on certain graphical mem hogs.

What do you mean by the 360 doesnt have enough system memory? 512 MB isnt enough lol

the game is pretty intense, as are all air combat games to me... it was pretty fun, even if kinda simple.... however getting used to the flying in the game is pretty cool and could easily be entertaining for a while... its not straight simulation or straight arcade, a good mix with a lean on the arcade side in terms of controls/leiniency... oh yea and joe's pretty cool the game makes u feel like hes ur little kid that envies you, haha

It's great.

Some devs have stated that they won't do certain games on the consoles(360/ps3) because they don't have enough memory. 512mb is enough for some games but for games like graphic intensive mmo's 1 gb would have been the sweet spot. I think oblivion would have benefited alot from 1gb too. It's the only way you can explain the graphical problems some games are having.

Not good, but then I didn't like Crimson Skies either.

Oh well, back to Oblivion

You have to think, though, how much ram did Xbox 1 have? This sounds like a tired Dev excuse. Look at a game like "Riddick, Escape from Butcher Bay (maybe the best graphics on Xbox 1)" and tell me that 64 mb of ram isn't enough.
Now tell me that 64 mb isn't enough. Now tell me that 512 isn't enough.

Yea and isn't there something special about some of the ram? Faster than all of it or something. I can't remember what it is exactly.

well I have played the demo and I was impressed with how much playing time you actually got with it....I've played the roughly 2-4 minute madden demo, which was lame, Full Auto's one race, and the outfit's multiplayer and of all of them Blazing Angels has been the best because you get a good idea of what the game is like. The outfit will soon be deleted off my hard drive because it's kinda wasting space now that I've got GRAW for multiplayer.

As far as the demo of Blazing Angels goes I really was impressed with the game. I wasn't sure about the game initially because I really haven't played any flight games since, well actually probably Star Fox 64 on the N64....and it was not really the same sort of deal, but hopefully you all follow my line of thinking. So I gave Blazing Angels a try and thought it was alright then got to the actual parts where you are dealing with lots of enemies and in dogfights and I really enjoyed it. Now I'm trying to decide if I should just go out and buy it, or just wait and rent it to see if I enjoy it enough to warrant a purchase, also it will be interesting to see how long the game is because even though I have live I don't play on it as much as I should because I get tired of being attacked from behind when I'm fighting with someone already and things like spawn camping....but that's another subject. Anyways, I suggest people try out the demo, afterall it's free (but takes forever to download).

any cockpit view? or -outside of plane- only like Crimson?

so far it seems that it is only an outside of the plane view, but maybe you can change views in the actual game...not sure...but the demo is only outside the plane

no cockpit view, but the graphics in the later levels are better then the training mission, thousands of buildings on the screen at one time. really sweet game! graphics are pretty awsome

It's GREAT

yeah, was one of the first things i noticed

any of you guys experienced problem downloading the demo. dont have problems when i downloaded mine. but have seen guys from forums and they were asking like they been waiting for the download to finish but when it reaches 50% system suddenly freeze.

This demo is fuckin awesome. Nothin beats blowin the Luftwaffe outta the sky to the tuneskes of Trivium And A7X . This is deffinatly a game i wanna maybe get and continue playing. Just hope the screan tearing issue is fixed, cause its not something plesant.

wasted my bandwidth

im not getting it in my demo list? why? im not even getting bf2 trailors either...i have 32 games in the list. i know a lot of other people with 35-40..why is mine so low

this demo made me dizzy and a lil queezy. but thats just me

I feel it is actually pretty sub par considering it is from Ubisoft, to me the graphics are pretty bad it looked exactly like Heros of the Pacific for xbox1 but in a slightly higher resolution. Far from Next Gen.

I definitly wouldnt buy this game, after playing the demo its barly a rent.

When your in the XBL Marketplace menu, it's under Featured Downloads.

Yeah have it too, alot of 360 games have it like graw, that should not may be!! . And the graphx on this one blows. Ive seen better grapx on xbox1. Is this next gen?

Those explosions 4 example, what a joke.. c'mon

Thinking about the 10 mb of embedded DRAM, are we?

http://gamestop.com/product.asp?product_id=200150

Check one of the pictures its a cockpit view.

*sigh* Blazing Angels the full game released today got a bad review, 69%, from gamespot.

Taken from the IGN review of Blazing Angels:

"Also, Ubi scrapped a cockpit cam that would have added another layer of gritty realism, so we're stuck with the basic, behind-the-plane cam."

UBI sucks a$$. I can't believe they are releasing another freaking 360 game without freakin vsync enabled. this game tears as bad or worse than aything I've ever seen. It is a piece of sh*t.

We have a qudrillion polygons, 32 bit color, dynamic lighting and shadows, HDR lighting, soft shadows, 4x anti aliasing, dynamic model complexity, 3d surround sound, 16 player online multiplayer....


But for some reason we can't figure out a freakin way to wait until a whole damn frame is rendered before we start to display it on screen!!!! This is a BIG FREAKIN DEAL all you developers.

Call of Duty 2 figured it out...PGR3 figured it out...NHL 2K6 figured it out...Kong and even Burnout figured it out!!!!

What the fu*k happened with PD0, NFSMW, Madden, Ghost Recon, and now this piece of sh*t???!!!

The 360 is really starting to puzzle me. Let's build a 600hp race car and put lawnmower tires on it....nobody will notice. After all, gamer's are too stupid to notice...right???

ENABLE VSYNC IN ALL GAMES!!!! THIS IS NOT THE NES (which BTW never had vsync disbaled) it is a $400 next gen machine with PLENTY of horsepower to animate 3d properly.

You suck UBI.

I was just about to say that. What is up with Ubi and screen tearing? It's literally ruining my GRAW experience for me, and now that I know that this is an Ubi related problem, I won't buy another one of their games until they fix the issue.

ya, i noticed LOTS of screen tearing on this demo too. it's pretty distracting

Kinda makes you worried about Splinter Cell: Double Agent, doesn't it? But then again King Kong turned out okay so here's hoping.

yea, there are a lot of tearing issues with this demo. i had fun playing it but it was just like damn, did it just tear again? ;p

Definatly worried. I'm also worried about FarCry: Predator that comes out Tuesday, which I have pre-ordered. I don't think I'm going to pick it up until I hear someone else comment on the vsync. You don't think EBGames would let me return a game for cash if I was pissed about the tearing, do you?

The 360 has major tear problems in a lot of games. It's not just UBISOFT. Have you played Madden? PD Zero? Even Call of Duty had minor tearing.

Either way, I played this demo on my 27inch SDTV first and thought it looked like an old XBOX title. When I hooked it up to my 56 inch HDTV and started the second mission, IT CAME ALIVE. This game truely needs and HDTV. The first level looks okay at best, but after that...

i purchased the game since i like theese kinds of games. and i think it a great game. i wish it did have the pit viw thou .

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How's the multiplayer dogfights on live?

Did the same. I just like these type of games. IGN complained that there wasn't a story. I don't care. RPGs should have stories, who give a crap about an arcade flight game not having a story. That's like bitching because Crazy Taxi didn't have a story. And how about these sports games that now feel the need to include a story mode.

I MEAN, SHIT, KABOOM DIDN"T A FREAKIN" STORY AND I STILL LOVE THAT GAME!

Played the dogfight (deathmatch) on LIVE with a large group of people last night. It was a blast. Ran without a hiccup.

The demo sucks