Gaming

This is not a review as I haven't played any of the other recent FIFA titles or played any Pro Evolution Soccer either.  This is more of my nightmare playing FIFA 08.

The list pretty much grows everytime I play it, and I guess I should stop playing it but I played for it so I should play it and enjoy not that that has ever happened in my 5 hours or so of playing FIFA 08 since receiving the game.

I will start off with actual in game problems that I have constantly. 

Well EA know how to screw with people don't they.

The long awaited demo for Crysis was set to be released today with no information saying otherwise.

Many are aware that the demo was due out on the 26th September but was held back a month, with no reason given.  There were beta releases through EA and FilePlanet during that time, so they were either trying to get the game up to demo standard as they were still running behind or they wanted to squeeze money out of gamers by using hype to get them to sign up to FilePlanet.

But that was a month ago.  EA announced that gamers would see the Crysis demo on the 26th October.  It turns out that this was purely for those that pre-ordered the game through the EA Store.  If you bought the game through the EA Store you get to play the demo 24 hours before everyone else.  The price in the EA Store in the UK is £34.99.

It seems to me that a lot of Developers/Publishers are releasing beta's of their games before the demo to the public. For Publishers like EA this seems very strange as most of the games they release are buggy as hell anyway and that is after private beta and demo release.

It would seem as though certain companies are either trying to improve their new games to remove as many bugs as possible by doing a public beta or saving money by skipping private beta testing.