PSN, XBLA: Age Of Booty Demo Is Awesome, Allows Online Play
Capcom and Certain Affinity are releasing Age of Booty next week. Thing is, it's really an online title. So how will they get players into the groove? Allow you to play online without paying for it. For a limited time, of course.
The trial of Age Of Booty for Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network will both allow users to play online using a new 'credits' system. Both kinds of players will be abel to activate online play twice. Once activated, you can play as much online as you want for 24 hours. After both credits are used up you will not be able to play online anymore.
They're going all out too - online can be played on all 25 maps available to players. You will also be able to use the games split screen multiplayer under the same rules.
The only limits the game gives you are that you cannot play all single player campaigns in trial mode, you cannot save in the level editor, and PS3 users will have to reload the game after every 3 matches. Apparently this is a PS3 security issue regarding add-on content.
This is a fantastic addition and really something that should be encouraged for ALL games. For the upcoming titles on Xbox Live Arcade, Darwinia+, Death Tank, Vigilante 8 Arcade, Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, Things on Wheels, and Rocket Riot would do a whole lot better if players could understand how the online works. Hell the recently released War World would have done a whole lot better if people could play online, and not just play for 50 seconds of single player.
