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Still no Project 8 demo, what gives?


The hours keep ticking by and the promised Project 8 demo is still a no show. Plenty of companies have gotten into hot water (here's looking at you 3D Realms) for missing promised demos, but this one had its own press release and everything. We would have figured that all the certification and whatnot was already taken care of, especially if someone authorized a press release. Still, there are many hours left in the day. Keep the faith, fanboys.

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BklynKid1

10-20-2006 @ 6:05PM

BklynKid said...

I was kinda looking forward to trying this tonight. Oh wells.

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Meliv2

10-20-2006 @ 6:24PM

Meliv said...

Shame, I was all excited for this =(

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WhatTheGeek3

10-20-2006 @ 6:26PM

WhatTheGeek said...

yea, I was actually really excited to try that game out, it looks like the first game in the tony hawk franchise in a long while that will be worth playing.

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Bennyishere4

10-20-2006 @ 7:08PM

Bennyishere said...

It's Saturday already in Norway....

I'm sure it'll come soon. Maybe they just forgot...?

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Ayo Jube5

10-20-2006 @ 7:10PM

Ayo Jube said...

Im with you richard, I really need to play this. This is the most excited Ive been about a THPS release since THPS2 when they released the amazing Marsielles Demo that had the point contest.

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360us Maxuimus6

10-20-2006 @ 7:17PM

360us Maxuimus said...

You think we got our leg pulled here? Seems nobody else is reporting a Tony Hawk demo on XBL today.

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Richard Mitchell7

10-20-2006 @ 7:27PM

Richard Mitchell said...

"You think we got our leg pulled here? Seems nobody else is reporting a Tony Hawk demo on XBL today."

Nope, it was an honest to god press release from the publisher's PR firm. I'm surprised you haven't seen it anywhere else. A quick google got me the news from TeamXbox, too.

It's not like this hasn't happened before.

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Neoxkc8

10-20-2006 @ 7:28PM

Neoxkc said...

@ 360us Maxuimus

This whole thing is kinda weird.

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Zach9

10-20-2006 @ 7:29PM

Zach said...

it was also announced on IGN....so yeah, it was a real press release.

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Ninegauger10

10-20-2006 @ 7:38PM

Ninegauger said...

Just not a real demo apparently...

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Neoxkc11

10-20-2006 @ 8:04PM

Neoxkc said...

@ Ninegauger

Nice one.

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TxdoHawk12

10-20-2006 @ 8:10PM

TxdoHawk said...

Yeah, this blows, but it gave me the chance to clear my demo backlog. I got so far behind on downloaded but unplayed demos...

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DA36013

10-20-2006 @ 8:20PM

DA360 said...

I was expecting to play this demo today, and surprised it wasn't on Live Marketplace. Apparently Activision hit a snag or possibly even got the timing wrong on the press release. Either way, they made a mistake and now they have a ton of upset people that were eagerly awaiting to play this demo.

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Mike14

10-20-2006 @ 11:27PM

Mike said...

the chimps working at microsoft accidently released mortal kombat 3 for live arcade when they meant to release the tony hawk demo. Now they need to spend a bunch of time to correct things internally (like scould the monkeys and take away their bananas).

Then the THPS 8 demo will come.

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John15

10-21-2006 @ 3:25AM

John said...

Who cares its not like you haven't played the same game tons of times by now. Give me a real demo!!

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KineticOnline16

10-21-2006 @ 5:01AM

KineticOnline said...

Actually MK3 has been put back up online, confirmed by the Nelson himself

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Saocom17

10-21-2006 @ 7:57AM

Saocom said...

Demo is up , search in Games , All Game Downloads.

The demo is 342MB

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/6493/dscn0698rn1.jpg

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DA36018

10-21-2006 @ 8:51AM

DA360 said...

Well, its apparent that they pulled both of them from the Live server. There's a ad for Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 but it doesn't have any downloads and I DIDN'T find Tony Hawk Project 8 in All Downloads like Saocom did. I wonder what the heck is going on.

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BJ19

10-21-2006 @ 8:59AM

BJ said...

I got the demo, only took me about 10 minutes to download. I havent played a tony hawk game in a couple years and I keep falling all the time. I cant even come close to landing one of those "nail the trick" moves.

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BJ20

10-21-2006 @ 9:06AM

BJ said...

lol, after finding the tutorial it is easy to land the nail the trick stuff. Game plays just like any other tony hawk I remember, I just wish the 360 dpad was better.

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