Friday 13-Jul-2007 6:32 AM The Assassin's Creed conference demo was rushed because Bungie couldn't get a single-player Halo 3 demo ready in time, CVG hears
CVG has heard that there was a very good reason the live demo of Assassin's Creed didn't go exactly to plan at Microsoft E3 press conference.
Following the demo of Ubisoft's new IP at the Microsoft conference last Tuesday many people came away under-whelmed. Looking back at the CVG blog of the conference we said, "Dead bodies are floating in the air, this looks a bit buggy and the demo's not going to plan. Jade laughs it off though so we'll forgive her." And to be fair we did.
Apparently the reason Jade Raymond and her accomplice had a few issues with the live playable demo (that was a bit buggy in places) was that the Montreal development studio had to rush to get something ready for the show as the request of Microsoft. This apparently happened because Bungie couldn't get a playable demo of Halo 3's single-player campaign ready to show in time.
We thought it was strange that there wasn't a live demo of the single-player portion from Bungie, especially as two members of the team were demoing the title behind closed hotel room doors.
Bungie instead showed a montage of footage from both single and multiplayer parts of the game. Take a look at that here.
The Halo 3 single player demo we witnessed in a hotel was cut short because the person in charge of the pad kept dying and couldn't finished the section in time. Even that seemed to be a little bit rushed.
All fingers are pointing to Microsoft putting the pressure on to get a live playable demo of the platform's biggest games up and running for the conference.
As far as all those rumours that say Assassin's Creed won't actually be that good, forget them. We played it and loved it. Look out for first-hand impressions soon.
That's a bit worrying. Bungie only have 9 and a half weeks until the game is supposed to ship, and they couldn't put together a demonstration of the single player at all?
EDIT: actually, less than 9 and a half weeks since the final game disc has to be replicated, packaged and shipped worldwide everywhere from the USA to Europe to Australia.
I look forward to listening out for your screams of indignation when they release the game either buggy, or it's delayed for tweaking.
The fact that Microsoft are are bothering and pushing such an important studio such as Bungie is alarming to me. Just let them get on with the game. Suspense and little screenshots will do more for the game than a bugged and broken demo could ever possibly do. Same goes for Assassin's Creed. Let them do their thing, and finish the damn games, rather than running about pestering them to come up with something.
I still have faith in Assassin's Creed. Watching the E3 demo and noticing what people saw as huge weaknesses - multiple instances of the exact same basket carrying woman on screen at once, floating bodies... just minor flaws in an otherwise very polished package I thought. They still have a few months yet before they ship, and I think they'll deliver.
Hmm... Extremely worrying. Bungie admitted they were rushed with Halo 2, and thought it sucked as a result. I can't see any compelling reason why they'd've picked September, so they must've been confident it'd be ready by then.
I'd rather have it delayed and top-quality, than buggy and cut short *cough* Halo 2 *cough*.
Remember your Assassin's Creed history, and you'll also recall Jade standing on the stage at GDC following the demo there, explaining how they were looking forward to showing more "to you" (speaking to the assembled) in July. So, unless they pulled plans that were in place for a AC event demo (like Sony used for Killzone 2) at the last minute, then the argument CVG offers shouldn't hold much water.
I do look forward to reading their first-hand impressions, on the game from E3, though. I think this is still a good game, but it didn't come out of its public showing that good.
Though, I agree with the idea that Bungie were rushing about like crazy, because of the reaction I had to the Halo 3 montage. Underwhelming. It looked like random gameplay thrown together, with no flow or purpose - a view I held immediately after I saw it live.
Remember your Assassin's Creed history, and you'll also recall Jade standing on the stage at GDC following the demo there, explaining how they were looking forward to showing more "to you" (speaking to the assembled) in July. So, unless they pulled plans that were in place for a AC event demo (like Sony used for Killzone 2) at the last minute, then the argument CVG offers shouldn't hold much water.
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I was wondering who'd be the first to catch on to this flow of BS ...Ubidays wasn't so long ago when missy Jade was promising the gameratti they couldn't wait to show off their AC demo at E3?! same line on a few of her Diaries on xboxyde (now Gamersyde) so in any event they should av had a functional few minutes ready.
I'm already sold on the game but to outsource the blame to MS and Bungie is rather lame.
Remember your Assassin's Creed history, and you'll also recall Jade standing on the stage at GDC following the demo there, explaining how they were looking forward to showing more "to you" (speaking to the assembled) in July. So, unless they pulled plans that were in place for a AC event demo (like Sony used for Killzone 2) at the last minute, then the argument CVG offers shouldn't hold much water.
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I was wondering who'd be the first to catch on to this flow of BS ...Ubidays wasn't so long ago when missy Jade was promising the gameratti they couldn't wait to show off their AC demo at E3?! same line on a few of her Diaries on xboxyde (now Gamersyde) so in any event they should av had a functional few minutes ready.
I'm already sold on the game but to outsource the blame to MS and Bungie is rather lame.
But remember, this Jade girl's quite pretty, so if CVG blindly listen to what she says, she might sex them!
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So, unless they pulled plans that were in place for a AC event demo (like Sony used for Killzone 2) at the last minute, then the argument CVG offers shouldn't hold much water.
