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Driver into Madden with new Xbox Live demos

by Justin McElroy on Aug 9th 2011 12:15PM

Disclaimer: The headline of this post in no way endorses the vehicular assault of one John Madden, professional sports announcer. It is instead intended to humorously present the fact that demos for both Driver: San Francisco and Madden NFL 12 have arrived on the Xbox Live service.

Though it's not necessarily our purview, the AOL legal team would also like to take a moment to apologize for the editorial quality of said headline. Not only is no mention made of the Madden NFL 12 demo appearing today on PSN, but the haphazard way in which the titles have been truncated are in no way representative of either AOL or the Huffington Post Media Group. Plus, Driver isn't even a verb.

Via: Major Nelson
Source: Madden NFL 12 demo, Driver: San Francisco demo

Tags: demos, driver-san-francisco, ea, madden-nfl-12, microsoft, ubisoft, xbox, xbox-live

Reader Comments (26)

that's nice

Yes, a Demo for Madden NFL 12 but Driver :l

Driver into Madden? I barely know her.

Loved the Madden demo. As someone with next to no knowledge of football, I think they've done a great job of adding features that allow new players to get into the game the past couple of years.

Driver demo was fun but I wasn't a fan of the handling. When I was trying to turn, the cars felt like they had no weight to them. I was crashing into stuff that I shouldn't have been hitting, simply because my car wasn't responsive enough.

I'm interested in the Driver multiplayer demo next week though. The previews I read from E3 sounded like they're really doing some interesting stuff with the multiplayer.

@Theneverendingsoda - A quality sports game should be fun & playable even for those who don't know a lot about the sport itself. If you have to have a deep knowledge of the sport to enjoy yourself with the game, it's a failure from my perspective (and I say that both about sports I do know about & ones I despise).

Yes, the game should also be fun, realistic (if it's a sim) & deep for the sport's hardcore fans but if they target that audience exclusively (as I feel Madden has up until last year), they're failing at a big part of what the game should be doing (creating new fans for the sport).

Before things get out of hand, the Driver demo is US only today and will be out in EU tomorrow.

@littlejay2o02 Thanks.

The Driver demo requires a constant internet connection to play.

I don't know about Driver I was playing the demo and the shift thing is really cool but thats it and also the cars handle terribly(which is in every driver game) unless you get a speed car but the madden demo was nice i like the presentation and will be picking it up.

i find it funny that in this lawsuit happy culture we live in that they have to put disclaimer's on a fair amount of the articles .

Damn McElroy, I love you, but everything written for this article is just weird and borderline sucks.

Driver demo was fun, but the handling is a big faux pas.

And I tried the Madden 12 demo, about 5 years ago.

@2Slick
so then they just redid the madden 08 demo. figures

Wait. They're going to let people play this game for free?! My god, think of all that lost revenue! I mean they could charge, say... $10 just to allow people early access to a small portion of their game. How on earth are they able to do this and still stay in business? Come on guys, support the devs!!

/death to online pass

Constant internet? Count me and my dail up out. Back to playing My Street online multiplayer on my ps2.

Why is online pass a big deal? Do that many people really rent games? Cause if u buy them nothing changes. I dont get it.

@SolidDuck
Well some of us don't have mommys that buy us every game we want. There is something called Gamefly, you know.

@The Commenter Formerly Known as

Right, you just have a mother who is only wiling to pay for a subscription.

News flash, people have jobs, I have a job, he probably has a job too. I understand your mother won't buy you games, but doesn't mean you have to assume everyone else is relying on their parents to buy them games.

@The Commenter Formerly Known as

So, by your logic, EVERY PERSON who buys games has a "mommy" that buys them? Flawless thinking.

@SolidDuck
The online pass is simply a bad idea because it takes rights away from the end consumer. If you BUY a product that product should be yours to do with as you please with the exception of illegal activities. Last I checked selling a game wasn't illegal and thus the penalty incurred by the function of the pass is irritating and feels like an intrusion. You want people to buy the game new? make better games that people wont want to either sell or wait 6 months to buy.

Madden?

Aeiou?

@Papytendo

JOHNMADDENJOHNMADDENJOHNMADDENJOHNMADDEN

Your joke meter must be off. He probably has a job as do I but the fact he doesn't believe people rent or buy used games is false. Last time my mother bought me a game you were probably drinking milk from yours.

@The Commenter Formerly Known as

I somehow doubt that. You didn't make a joke anyway, you made a snide comment.

I wasnt trying to offend anyone, and im not rich and my mom doesn't buy me games. I'm married and have a job. I also do have gamefly but I only rent sp games or games that I'm not sure is going to be good. The five or so games a year I know are going to be great I just buy, so the online pass thing has not effected me. I was just curious what the big deal was to people

@SolidDuck
It's a big deal. I rent the games I don't want to buy so a lot of the times I don't even bother with the online stuff. Point in case, Dead Space 2. Never even touched the online part.

slow clap @ article

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