The demo for Monster Madness has been available on Xbox Live's Gold Members since this past Friday, but come this Thursday, Silver Members will be able to grab it, too. Normally, folks with Silver Memberships can't avail themselves of Marketplace items, but SouthPeak Games is making an exception in this case. Neat, but if this sort of thing becomes a trend I'm going to feel like a real jackass for paying for Gold, know what I'm sayin'?
The demo gives players a fair taste of what the game has to offer: there's your solo play, your co-op play, and then your multiplayer via deathmatches and capture-the-flag. You'll only get to see three maps, but you'll get to try out a decent cross section of the weapons, so by the time you've wrung the last bit of entertainment out of the demo, you should have a pretty darn good idea whether or not you think Monster Madness is worth the full asking price or is just a weekend rental.
Personally, I adore Gauntlet/Champions of Norrath/Hunter-style games, but I usually end up confusing my character with my friend's, and furiously attacking a wall while bad guys beat the snot out of me. "Oh, crap, I'm looking at you, thinking it's me! And now I'm dead."
There's a release, if you're interested.
Silver Members Get Madness __SouthPeak Games' Monster Madness: Battle For Suburbia Demo To Be Available Via Xbox Live Marketplace To Silver Members ______SouthPeak
Games has announced that the demo of Monster Madness: Battle For
Suburbia will be made available to Silver Xbox Live® members. The demo has been available via Xbox Live® Marketplace for Gold members since
Friday 13th April and features a mix of solo, co-operative and online multiplayer play. Silver members will be getting their taste of Monster
Madness’ unique brand of horror comedy mayhem on Thursday 19th April.
Developed by Artificial Studios, Monster Madness sees a group of teenagers pitted against an onslaught of supernatural enemies in a typical slice of small-town American suburbia. Making good use of the Unreal 3 graphics engine for a top-down viewing perspective, Monster Madness’ world is brought to life with advanced physics middleware from Ageia, making sure that the action is suitably dynamic.
The 434-megabyte demo features three maps and multiplayer functionality for up to 12 players.
The solo and co-operative play takes place on a single map from the game’s story mode. Here, players will get a feel for Monster Madness’
melee arsenal and a selection of secondary weapons, as they fight for survival within a suburban home. A deathmatch level set in a Gym is included for four-player action on a single Xbox 360 or across Xbox
Live, giving combatants access to a large portion of the game’s primary weapons. Rounding off the map content is a Capture The Flag map, set in a cemetery, that allows up to 12 players to compete in this classic multiplayer game type, along with a huge amount of weapons and even a few of the full game’s vehicles.
Melanie Mroz, Executive Vice
President, SouthPeak Games comments “We’re overjoyed that Monster
Madness: Battle For Suburbia is available through Xbox Live Marketplace to all members. The only unlucky gamers will be the ones who miss out on downloading our small slice of comedy horror action.”
The
Monster Madness demo is available to Gold members via Xbox Live
Marketplace now and to Silver members on Thursday 19th April. The full game will be released on Xbox 360 in late May 2007.
