News PC BioShock demo incoming

grabbing it now, thanks
getting about 80-100kbps atm
will try mirror it for yall
will repost when done.

 

I'm at 81% now with about half an hour left. Can't wait

 

gone down to 40kbps now, and says about 7hours left :/ was hoping id get to play it once home this evening from work, seams not

 

http://bioshock.unknownserv.net/BioShockPCDemo.zip

Pretty good mirror of the demo there

shame my pc isn't actually good enough to run it

 

Thanks for the link.
241.1KB/sec (my connection's max speed ) 2 hours to go.
Excellent mirror, I could only get about 20KB/sec from other sites.


Oh, and mad respect for the avatar.

 

Lol, thanks

I've actually just installed it and despite me worrying about my pc's specs, it runs admirably.

AMD64 3200+ Venice, 2Gb OCZ Platinum, XFX 7800GT OC and it runs fine, maybe not seamless, but definitely 20fps+.

I'm upgrading to a C2D with 8800 at the end of the month, will lap this game up then

 

Best way to greet a new member .

 

Very short demo, very short indeed. But is very impressive! Can't wait for the full game.

 

Getting rubbish speeds here, would love some more seeders on the torrents.

 

I'm just gonna wait for the newsgroup up. It's nearly there, and unlike the torrents it'll max out my connection.

 

44% complete here only getting about 40kbps now. Will keep hosted once done tho.

 

60% but stays between 20-200k.
VM has already capped me, *******s.

 

its up on usenet now for those of you with access btw, a.b.games

 

anyone know if the demo is going to come to steam today?

 

lol scratch that, the one thats complete is broken
the other is nearly done though :\

 

pirate bay has it with 400+ seeds

 

2 hours left!

 

The pirate bay demo is extremely slow for me. Downloading at 100% of my bandwidth from alt.binaries.games atm.

 

finished
i was getting about 40-50fps with an oc'd x1900xt and 4400+
1280 and everything on high
couldnt see any AA/AF settings so i assume they were off

 

Downloaded and played a bit.
Performance is fantastic, practically no slowdown at maximum settings, 1680x1050 on C2D E6600 (stock) and 2x 7900GTs in SLI.
The graphics aren't quite as good as I expected, though (some sharp polygonal edges to objects that should be rounded), which is the fair tradeoff, I guess - except for the water effects, which are stunning.
The foley/SFX, music and overall sound production of the game is some of the best I've heard in years from a game - very satisying SFX.

I'm undecided on the gameplay of it, though - It seems a little uninspiring and too action-oriented for my tastes.
Though I knew it wouldn't be a new System Shock, a little part of me is terribly disappointed that it doesn't seem to have the gameplay depth of SS2 (Inventory please) and it's a bit frustrating that things like hacking turrets and throwing objects are still being lauded as incredible gameplay innovations, but I'll hold back final judgement on the gameplay mechanics until I play the full game.

I just get the feeling that it's yet another "dumbed-down for the Xbox generation" game - Makes me think of Deus Ex: Invisible War, though it'd be insulting to liken BioShock to that atrocity.

'Streamlining' is what I think they call it..