The Resident Evil Showcase finally revealed the details for Resident Evil Village's upcoming Xbox demo, and it's pretty confusing. Operating as a time limited demo, you'll be able to play an hour of the game between two specific dates.
During the hour, you can explore either the village or castle areas of the game - or split the difference and spend half an hour in both. Depending on your time zone, it will be available to play on these specific dates.
- North America: May 1, 5pm - May 2, 5pm PDT
- Europe: May 2, 2am - May 3, 2am CEST
- Asia: May 2, 8am - May 3, 8am HKT
Once the time limit is up - that's it - no more Resident Evil Village demo for you. PlayStation owners will get an early access window, with the ability to preload the demo ahead of launch, but as of yet, we've heard nothing on whether that's the case for Xbox users.
It's a pretty strange way to have players demo the game, and to be honest, gate keeps a lot of players who may not have the opportunity to play within the time frame. Either way, if you're wanting to get a taste before release, you'll be able to a week before the launch, or you can wait till May 7 when the full game drops.
Are you going to try out the Resident Evil Village demo? Let us know in the comments below.
[source youtube.com]
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Not a chance. The first time I experience the village and the castle, I want to be able to spend as much time as necessary to take in all the sights.
@Olliemar28 Honestly, same. Such a short time between the demo and its full release, too. I wanna soak in this world!
Ya I don't get it. It's not just a demo type game. Also... seems a bit over the top(?) with the structure of it. Pick this place or the other, or both, but only an hour! Hurry up! And early access and a pre download, for a little 1 hour demo?
I'm sure it'll be a fine game but a bit of overhyping or something there.
Probably to keep the game off the youtubes. To keep people from scouring the stages and code. Hate it when people go into the codes to see what's coming up. An hour is enough time, to know if you wanna buy it day one, wait for a sale or just not at all.
Like I posted over at Push Square, this has to be the dumbest way of doing a demo of all time. A definite pass and I'll just wait for the full game.
@PhhhCough that's a good point. Wish people would just enjoy it. I'll for sure wait for a sale, I'm sure Capcom will throw up a discount a few weeks later during E3. Have such a big backlog there are very few games I buy at launch anymore for full price
I agree with @Flurbdurb and @Olliemar28.
This is fairly common to have time slots in the beta process, bit weird to be happening for a demo.
@Kilamanjaro right?? Backlog is huge, gotta start chipping away at it. And spot on about buying games, day one. They go on sale so quickly, now.
@PhhhCough yeah especially with Capcom games! I absolutely love Capcom because not only do they make outstanding games but they put them on sale pretty quickly too hehe
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