Operation Darkness demo on XBL Marketplace

I just saw this. Looking forward to it.

I'm intrigued, Altus has put out some good games, and it's great to see them coming to the 360.

I'll have to download it as soon as my Elite comes back from Microsoft... it seems I have finally been struck by the RRoD. (My first console, a pro which I sold to a co-worker is still running fine though, what're the odds.)

Beware the fanboys on this one folks. The game is an obvious downgrade (Xbox 360 exclusive, cause they wouldn't subject the Japanese market to this). It's a walking advertisement for Japanese consoles and the Atlus fanboys (the weaboos that they are) are going to defend the crap out of this game. It's technically flawed, graphically horrible (and a vast departure from the over stylized look of all of Atlus other games), and has some real issues for a $60 game.

I'm not an RPG fan, but a co-op RPG and battling Hitler is always a good selling point. I'll try this out.

@itsburnsie Your elite red-ringed? this does not bode well for my Decision of which gtaiv to get..id like to get the 360 version..(we know the reasons)..but if i buy it and my elite red rings during play..PISSED..i will be!

I downloaded this last night. I was excited. I played it for about 5 minutes, laughed out loud. Stared at the screen in amazement for another 5 minutes then deleted it as fast as possible.

Umm I've always considered games that mock WWII or spin offs of WWII tasteless.

I'm downloading Universe at war demo instead.

The SMT games definitely have a similar style, but they're actually developed by Atlus's internal teams.

Atlus didn't develop this. They just localized it. In this case there's no real style for them to depart from.

I just finished downloading it. I already knew it wasn't the prettiest game ever, but who knows. Neither was EDF and that game's awesome.

If it sucks I think it's unlikely any Atlus fanboy is going to defend it. The people on the Atlus forums, probably the most diehard Atlus fans there are for obvious reasons, love to bitch about things. Half the threads on this game have been negative before it even came out due to the price tag.

@Tony

I will give this game a try to see if it is as bad as they say but I am surprised to see you mention EDF.

EDF is an amazing game that would own if it were online.

Did you get a 1000 out of it?

I only have a few inferno levels left.

Armor farm alot and get a friend to play with, it helps.

This sounds a bizarre videogaming spin on Godwin's Law.

I'll check it out this evening, if I can seperate the wife from her pinatas.

I'm kind of disappointed with this demo. It's a decent game from what I played... but it's actually fairly hard. I mean, if one of your three of eight - or was it 12? - characters die... game over. And it becomes way too unfair when the enemy can pull a rocket launcher out of his @$$ and blast you away. Anyway, it's kind of slow. I mean, I'm a S-RPG fan - Disgaea, Final Fantasy Tactics, Front Mission, all my favorite games - but this is even slower than I thought possible. I mean, when you have to go 5 turns before you can engage the enemy... you know something is wrong. In any case... this should really not be a full priced game. I'll buy it if I find it for $20 MAYBE $30.

For people complaining about how hard it is... go into your skills menu, and set each char up with skills. There is one that allows you to use an auto-potion everytime you take critical/killing damage.

With that, as long as you loot corpses for more potions, you're pretty much invincible, lol.

It makes the games camera angle issues a lot easier to deal with, since the feature is like a "band-aid" to the poorly implemented viewing system.

I've said it once, and I'll say it again: I wish Working Designs was still around! They would have made an effort to polish the game before American release, and then given us liner notes in the back of their full-color premium manual, telling us how much they went through, to give us the best version of the game possible!

...Oh, and I thought the Cover actions helped pick the games pacing up A LOT. And the fact that enemy turns can go by so fast because of them moving 3 or 4 at a time... I thought there were a lot of genuinely smart ideas at work in the game....

This demo absolutely sucks. I gave it more than my usual amount of patience to let it try and win me over. The camera was awful, the pacing and amount of time it took to just move was unbelievable. This thing couldn't leave my Xbox fast enough. Only fanboys need apply here.

i got RROD from playing this demo....maybe its not the demo's fault...i guess my xbox just had to give in some time.

Oh this is good news, good news indeed! Be grabbing the demo and keeping my eye on this one!