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Demo-rama: Wanted, Wheelman, Legends of Wrestlemania

by Justin McElroy on Mar 5th 2009 9:59AM

Usually, we use that header as a cute way of making a story out of two demos you wouldn't necessarily care about on their own. But today, we literally have a feast of free gaming, a carnaval pour les thumbs, if you will. Wanted: Weapons of Fate, Wheelman and Legends of Wrestlemania samples have all landed on Xbox Live and (we're assuming) will be headed to PSN later in the day.

As noteworthy as the gaming cornucopia is, we feel like we have to point out the truly historic thing about this post. With the release of the Chronicles of Riddick demo yesterday, this marks the first time that two demos for two separate Vin Diesel games have been released within 24 hours of each other. May we suggest laminating your monitor and putting it in your memory box? You know, for the grandkids.

Update: As requested by Jonman:

Download -- Wheelman
Download -- Legends of Wrestlemania
Download -- Wanted: Weapons of Fate

[Thanks, Doug]

Tags: demo, demos, legends-of-wrestlemania, Microsoft, wanted, wheelman, xblm, Xbox-360, xbox-live

Reader Comments (23)

Wow! If I wasn't in the middle of 5 retail and 5 portable games, I would definitely try out Wheelman, Riddick, and Wanted.

I will try them, my thumbs need a break from street fighter.

Quick request to the Joystiq folks...

Can I request that for posts about content on XBLA, you post a link to the Xbox.com page for that content, so that I can add the items in question to my download queue.

I'd suggest the same for PSN stuff, but I don't have a PS3, and have no idea if there's a similar feature.

The X3F guys used to do that before the unification of Joystiq, and I really liked the feature.

Oops. An extraneous 'A' crept in there. I meant to say XBL...

Done.

Marvellous. You're a gentleman and a scholar.

Nice, double the VD this week!

VD for everyone!

uhh guys...

Awesome! Played the Riddick demo twice yesterday, love it. Maybe one of these will turn out to be the same. Granted, I am only grabbing Wanted and Wheelman.

So many demos this week, what a great thing it is!

There are 2 people in this world. People who play wrestling games, and people who dont.

Is anyone else annoyed by the four clicks it takes to add something to your download queue? Download Demo button, Game demo, confirm download, confirm 0 point purchase. Not that I care about the time it takes, just that the first time I said I wanted to download a free demo should have been enough, it's not like I'm going to suffer from 0 dollars buyers remorse, and I feel like I am making a call to the redundant department of redundancy.

I guess it's *slightly* excessive, but it sounds like you're knowingly just nitpicking. Personally, I wish most of my life tasks / work tasks could be completed by way of a simple lever I could have at the ready all the time, a la Conan and his Walker Texas Ranger. But if downloading a XBL demo still required 4 lever pulls? Deal breaker right there.

Very cool that they added the links so I could add to my queue via the internet. I'm a dummy and didn't know I could do that until yesterday (thanks vcize.) Pretty interested in Wanted since I liked the movie a great deal. Maybe I'd be allowed to see it again if my girlfriend allowed me to put anything into our Netflix queue other than Alias :P

With horror, I just realized it'd take perhaps even a couple of more button presses were you to actually do this from your own couch, on your 360. They're just really not making this convenient, like they don't even want me to try the demos.

Not nitpicking at all, as I said, the amount of clicks doesn't bother me, I don't care if it is 12 pages I have to go through, but when I click a button that says "Download" I expect it to do just that, not take me to another screen that also says download, and then another screen that says confirm download. It's like a nagging girlfriend "are you sure you really love me?"

Do these balloon pants make me look fatter than usual?

Well they at least need confirmation regardingn your HDD capacity. They don't show the filesize until you actually choose to download it. But I agree, it could definitely be more streamlined.

I know things are bad when even demos are piling way up. I still haven't gotten to the RE5 demo, for Pete's sake. Still, I will be downloading all these tonight. Yes, even Legends of Wrestlemania. Yes, even after being disappointed by Smackdown vs. Raw 09, Smackdown vs. Raw 07, and TNA Impact -- I'm going to keep playing wrestling games until someone makes a good one. Or maybe I just hate myself.

"...until someone makes a good one."

Heh, you're a funny guy.

WWF No Mercy.

Hey--You're welcome, Joystiq! :) Always nice to contribute once in a while.

Like I said, it's Diesel-Mania! lol

I just got done playing the Wanted demo, man that was fun. Can't wait for retail.

Also played the demo for Riddick yesterday, some sick gameplay, as expected.

I haven't enjoyed a demo in months (HAWX, RE5, KZ2, Halo Wars, etc.) but the Wanted game was pretty bad ass. I watched the "making of" on the BluRay from the movie, but I didn't expect it to be very good. It seems to stray from the movie and stay true to the comic book. Since you didn't get to the end of that demo level, I hope I get to jump out of or land that plane.

I was bored and tried Wrestlemania and Wheelman, but they were both horrendous. Wheelman was mildly entertaining, but both games feel last gen.

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