Another batch of the latest games demos try your hand at! Enjoy Orcs Must Die! 2, Quantum Conundrum, E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy, Big Bang Racing, Pro Evolution Soccer 2013, and Deponia.
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Orcs Must Die! 2 is more of the same Orc bashing action we loved before. As ever, its a finely balanced melange of third-person shooting and tower defense elements, requiring both strategy and a fast trigger finger. One without the other won’t do, you’ll be kept on your toes throughout each hectic level right to the very end. The game remains familiar in mechanics and visuals, plus some welcome new enemy types and many new traps, amulets and other upgrades. Skulls can now be refunded so you can buy and spend this limited currency on different builds to help tackle specific levels. Coop multiplayer is also a new feature here, so now you can team up with friends with half a chance to beat the game on Nightmare.
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Quantum Conundrum is a physics puzzler where the player can hop between dimensions to completely alter the physical properties of the environment. The fluffy dimension makes everything light as a feather. The heavy dimension does the opposite, and then there’s the slow, and finally the reverse gravity dimension. They all seem obvious enough from these labels, and progress is made by using your newly found powers in various combinations to manipulate objects to help you on your merry way. The brains behind the game is an ex-Valve employee who worked on Portal, so not only have you learnt about this game you have some trivia to tell your grandchildren too. Or not!
Check out the trailer and you’ll see some rather neat concepts, sadly it’s a bit let down in actual execution. E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy is rather over complex in many ways, as you soon discover when attempting to decipher the user interface. Its steep learning curve in what should be some basic controls is a sure fire turn off, and a big shame. Putting that bit aside, the gameplay itself is produced to an average level so Deux Ex beater it is not. With more investment and talent backing the production and it could have been something quite special.
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Console-land is Big Bang Racing’s natural environment, where you’ll find it strutting its feathers on your Xbox or PS3 as a digital download purchase. I can’t really throw any negative points in this games general direction as a PC title either, its rather enjoyable bombing around in the cartoon cars and twisty tracks. There’s only a single track in this demo, but that should be enough to decide either way.
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Needing no introduction, the institution that is PES returns once again with its annual refresh. Last year (’round’) was won by FIFA, so consider this Konami’s reply to reclaim the footy sim crown! Interestingly this demo comes to us well in advance of the retail release which is some weeks off. PES is hoping the newly tweaked controls, and updated visuals will appeal to the masses.
Point-and-click adventures don’t come around often so it’s always good to see a new one visit once in a while. What’s more. Deponia is a very solid game with crisp visuals with well written and professionally voiced acting throughout. Elsewhere, the game is packed with lovable characters, comedy moments and plenty of puzzles to keep you entertained as you wander your way through the charming story.
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