PSA: Resident Evil 5 demo now available on Xbox Live [update]

I Just finished playing the demo single player only.
You have a choice of The Public Area or Shanty Town.
The demo offers single player or online/offline (split screen) co-op.
The graphics are actually beautiful. Very nice shadow detail. The controls will take some getting used to. It goes from a tank to semi-tank feel. The active menu plain sucks. I was changing weapons and got hammered in the head by this.....you'll see him when you play. Of course ammo is still very limited while tons of red eyed crazies are trying to kill you. The AI chick was very helpful. She shoots well and will heal you if you get critically wounded. I still need to play co-op to get a good feel for how to really play the game. The demo is short with you basically running around killing enemies until reinforcements show up.

Default Controller settings are:
L= Strafe Y= Open Inventory
L+A= Run R= Rotate
LB+RT= Swing Knife RB= Map
LT+RT= Fire/Throw RT= Locate Partner
LT+A= Reload B= Partner Actions

Thank God for the Pacific Standard Time Zone. I just played through both levels on Solo. Pretty much exactly what I expected, RE4 as a co-op game. GOTY? So far, yes!

Are the Tank Controls(TM) still intact? Hooray!

You just contradicted yourself there buddy,if your off why aren't they?

By 'Tank Controls' are you guys referring to RE 4's standard control setup or the secondary and optional one found in the demo?

More Zombie online co-op fun! Itchy...tasty!

-shrug-

Played this when it was released in Japan, and it seems decent at best.

The demo, at least, is poor. It's two levels featuring basically identical enemies, with identical play styles.

That's not to say that it isn't fun, but it feels EXACTLY like Resident Evil 4.

Heres to hoping the rest of the game will hold up.

i'm downloading it now... once my lil tyke takes her nap then i will try it. i tried RE4 on PS2 & hated the controls. last week i got RE4 Wii edition with a trade & I AM LOVIN' IT. the control make a BIG difference!!! still gonna try RE5 but i am definitely spoiled with the Wii ver. *(to reload feels so good on the Wii; like using a zippo instead of a regular lighter). Still feels good to actually be excited for a demo on XBL

3pm - when I get off work - can't come soon enough!

Also, props to Capcom for bringing out a meaty demo featuring as much as it does. Too often nowadays, demo's are so brief, you barely get a true taste of the game.

Who remembers the days of "shareware" where a demo (for a game like Doom, or Duke Nukem 3D) featured an entire 8-10 level "chapter" from the full game. Now those were demos!

Having played the demo for about an hour now, I can say that the controls are great. Type A controls are exactly like RE4, with the left stick controlling all movement and the right stick used only for looking. All other button combos are essentially just transcribed from the GC's controller to the 360's.

I'm not a big fan of Type D, the default method, but I'm sure I could get used to it. Honestly, I don't see how anyone could complain about the controls UNLESS they have never played through a Resident Evil before. Sure, if you are used to only FPS games you might have a problem, but these controls are vastly improved over previous REs and are a perfect fit for the game.

Downloaded the whole demo at the moment I woke up, and am currently playing it. So far, I am enjoying every aspect in the game and trying out each of the controls, but I feel better with Type D rather than the Tank controls I enjoyed using with RE4. Oh, and I love the maniacal laughter of the new Dr. Salvador.

My gamertag is Sieged Eagle, in case anyone wants to play with me, as long as we can have a chance to talk (with the occasional and unavoidable swear) so we can help each other in the co-op... or discuss random stuff. Out.

Speaking as someone who's never played a RE game before, I've got to say these are some of the WORST controls ever committed to gamepad. I can live without firing while moving, I get that they want it to be different than other FPS. But the inventory system sucks monkey balls, and the inability to easily switch between guns without going into it is complete horse radish.

Picking up ammo also could have been smoothed out, and why the hell can't I run and look around at the same time? It's like they wanted to make ever aspect of this game other than the graphics completely and totally bass ackwards and infuriating. Did they just put all the functions on a board and then throw darts at them to see where to map them?

From the moving while aiming (and now moving while accessing inventory) issue to even that extra button press down to use an item in your inventory, RE5 seems to be trying too hard to artificially add tension by handicapping player controls. The argument that it's tradition and "RE is always like that" just seems less compelling after playing Dead Space.

Maybe if I didn't play Dead Space earlier this year but the RE5 demo just made me appreciate the design decisions EA Redmond made for their game all the much more.

Am I the only dude on Joystiq with a Silver account? The demo isn't available to us for another few days. What a drag, dude.

Doesn't really matter to me that much. This is an instant buy for me when the full game comes out.