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PSA: Brutal Legend demo now on Xbox Live; PSN must wait

by Randy Nelson on Sep 24th 2009 1:19PM

Rocktober has come a little early to Xbox 360, as EA and Double Fine have made the Brütal Legend demo available for Xbox Live Gold members today. Weighing in at 1.57GB, the playable sneak peek is the same demo made available exclusively for pre-orders earlier this month.

While a PS3 version of the demo also already hit PSN for folks who reserved the game, the same can't be said for a "public" demo. According to a source close to the game's development, a demo is definitely planned for all PSN users -- it just won't be available right away. Given that the game takes the stage at retailers on ~~October~~ Rocktober 13, we'd hope EA intends to get the PS3 trial on the PlayStation Store within a few weeks.

Tags: brutal-legend, demo, double-fine, ea, ea-partners, electronic-arts, Microsoft, tim-schafer, xblm, Xbox-360, xbox-live

Reader Comments (92)

Lame I actually wanted to try the demo out

Here's a link for you kids to add to your download queue - http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/games/media/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d802454108c5/?p=1&of=1&bt=0&sb=1#offers

Whoo hoo!

Thanks, I can't believe joystiq doesn't include these in their posts.

Thank you kind sir.

You need a code :( I thought this was the public release. Oh well at least the Forza 3 demo is out now.

Thank the lord for being able to start xblm downloads from work!

Thank you very much! I was wondering how come they didn't put it in the post this time.

if only I could turn on my Xbox from work

Its a link to dl it while away from your xbox pops - not a code to allow you to dl it. Many of us are at work and remote queue game demos.

I heard the PSN demo comes out October 1st along with the Xbox Live Silver demo.

Could be wrong though.

In a Major's Minute segment on the demo, Major Nelson mentions that it is exclusive to 360 gold members until October 1st.

Unclear whether that means it comes to PSN and silver members on that date, or just silver members.

Silver members almost always get the demo at the same time as PSN members, which is 1 week after Gold.

I been avoiding the hype, now lets see this game with a fresh pair of eyes....

You had surgery for a game?

You didn't? This is fucking Brutal Legend man!

It wasn't for me.... I had seen the hype but not really read into anything and I downloaded it this morning and wasn't really impressed at all with the gameplay. The story might be funny/worthwhile but the gameplay just wasn't all there for me.

Not saying its a bad game, just that I probably won't be buying it. Hope you like it more than I did.

Well, I just avoided the trailers and those gushing Tim Shafer interviews...I wanna judge the game on it's own merits, not just because everyone tells me it's great.

From a guy who played the demo I can say it's fucking awesome! Tim's sense of humor comes through almost instantly.

Sweet! Just queued it up for download from the Xbox site.

Downloaded it this morning. Will give it a try tonight.

Joystiq, have any of you guys even played this yet? I don't remember seeing a hands on article. Looking through 2 pages of posts tagged Brutal Legend all I see is a hands on of the multiplayer...I didn't even know this had multiplayer. For all the hype you give this game you make it sound like it's an instant classic that you've beat a couple hundred times.

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/09/hands-on-brutal-legend-the-umlaut-breaks-our-rss-feed-sorry/

Here comes Broketober.

http://instantrimshot.com/

I know. Between this, Borderlands and Forza 3, I need a 2nd job.

Yeah this is like...

Tucktober + Rocktober = Broketober

isn't uncharted 2 being release on the oct 13 also???

Yup fantastic isn't it? Well I'm going to be a broke-ass for a while.

i got a voucher code for the demo from Brutallegends twitter account for sending em "

Demadred: @Brutallegend this and i go to bed: i need the brutal code demo to save all the starving children #Brutallegend PS3. think of the children

then i got back

brutallegend: RBCI-DFBD-CPPT FOR THE CHILDREN

totally epic :P

(the code is already used if you were wondering)

A classic example of "Ask and you shall receive. Receive and you will use. Use and you will be grateful."

The Uncharted 2 multiplayer demo and the Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 demo are out today. I'm not worried. :)

Having played the early access demo already I can safely say I'm eagerly counting down the days til Rocktober 13th. It's a solid typical beatemup but the Metal is what makes the game.

Wow, that's not Metal.

How is this not metal? You must be a emo fan.

Kabbage Boy fan?

Not lame if you have a 360. =D

Gamestop (in my country at least) has a pre-order offer right now where you can trade two old games for either Uncharted 2, AC2, Bayonetta, Brutal Legend, Dragon Age and some others. Full list here: http://www.gamestop.no/pdf/q3_july_no.pdf

So i traded Jericho and Conan for U2, and Stuntman Ignition and Motorstorm (first one) for AC2. Pretty good deal I'd say. :) I want to get Brutal Legend, Dragon Age and Bayonetta too but the list of games I can sacrifice is getting smaller.

You have this deal in other countries too?

It's not letting me download! It keeps asking for my prepaid code!

It's only available to Xbox Live member in the US, nice to see the other 95% of the planets population being left out as usual.

I live in Canaduh eh, and I like totally downloaded it eh.

Well it’s only available in the US and Canada then, its not available in Europe or other PAL regions like Australia.

Sorry. Live in a better country next time.

Shut up you pathetic biggot, the US is one of the last first world countries I'd want to live in.

Well then, that's the tradeoff, innit?

Maybe you should just be happy that you live in the 10% of the planet's population that can actually *afford* to play these games at all.

What the hell, weren't both demos supposed to come today?
This is not double fine.

M-I-C-R-O-S-O-F-T

Good luck downloading either on your S-O-N-Y machine today then :/

BL demo is out for PS3 on Oct 1st, welcome to the club.

Still lame if you have a 360 and it is in Texas being repaired.

boooooooooooooooooo that's brutal...I was looking forward to playing this today : (

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