OK folks...the bad news is...THERE WAS NO PLAYABLE DEMO!"!!!!! Yup, ol Lorne had snuck it in for a hit and run with the journos at the start of the week but not the great unwashed (us). A bemused and partially retarded EA Crew member just looked vacantly into my eyes and said in her best Croydon accent "thats not an EA game is it?". I pointed to the 15 foot high poster sitting behind. She turned, looked up at the leering Stranger..."oh! I hadnt noticed that one". I introduced myself as being from Earth and asked if we had ever met before. She didnt think so. Sorry Ladles and Jellyspoons but the carrot is firmly outr of this donkeys reach and Lorne et al ain't bringing it any closer thanks to EA's fat wallet.
A member of Codemasters team had sneaked a peak and he said that he was still scratching his head as to how the PS2 was going to handle this (as well as adding that Stranger appeared finished on the Xbox). HE believes it will be quite severly cutback from the what he described as the "beautifully crafted" version he saw. Shame for the PS2 only fans but I guess at least you will get to play it!
Incidentally Gamestars was a great event and wiped the floor with both the desolate ECTS and the pathetically crassmarket playstation experience, well worth the effort.
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