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Demo on XBL and PSN

It’s been a while since the last time I was excited about a new game hitting – I think MGS4 was the last game I actually got all excited over.

Star Wars : The Force Unleashed is one that I’m really looking forward to. Not sure if I’m exactly excited about it or not, but I am really hoping to be.

Tonight I’ll be downloading the demo and giving it a spin – and, since it’s on both XBox Live and Playstation Network, I figure I’ll download them both, and compare the two. I did this once before with Burnout: Paradise, so I figure this might be a good chance to try that again.

As a bonus, and just because I’m a total dork, I’ll LiveBlog the whole thing right here.

So, stay tuned for the fun.

Let The LiveBlog Begin!

• 17:38 -
  Started downloading the demo on both XBL and PSN. Started the download on XBL before PSN, might have been a mistake. For some odd reason the demo weighs in at ~905MB on XBL and ~1350MB on PSN. That’s a strange ~400MB difference… Could the PSN Demo have higher resolution textures or is it just coded poorly?
  Last time a saw a strange difference in file size like this was with Spore, and it turned out EA had just wrapped the Windows version of spore in Wine before releasing it on the Mac.

  Maybe LA is wrapping the PS3 version of the game in an XBox emulator… YOU READ IT HERE FIRST!

• 17:50-
  Still downloading, I’m going to go take a short nap… I’ll post more when I get up.
• 19:25-
  Woke up from nap, demo was done downloading on XBox. Gave it a test drive.
  OMFG THIS IS NEAT
  Hard to control though.
• 18:05-
  At “boss” – Yeah, kinda hard – still awesome.
  Once you figure it out, it’s a little *less* awesome.
• 18:19-
  Gonna give the PS3 a go – “installing” the demo. Man, this is one area where the XBox gets it right.
  Weird. (more…)