Dark Void demo removed from EU PS Store

PS3-Sense writes: "The first PS Store update for 2010 brought us the demo of Capcom's newest action/adventure game Dark Void. But when we looked into the European PS Store, we couldn't find the demo anymore today.

While the demo of Dark Void is shown in the XMB-menu under "What's New", it's still not downloadable. We just getting the error code: (80023111)."

[andron]

If you go into the PSN store it should be there. From what I know the error code only means the preview link is broken....

[Woofer]

We can't find it in the Store and the error code is correct

[andron]

But it's still up here in Norway, so claiming the demo is down in all of Europe may be a bit hasty. I'm sure you got that error code, but the error codes are tricky since they have different permutations....

Edit: Actually I found this error code: http://community.eu.playsta...

[vasilisk]

???
I live in Europe, I downloaded it yesterday, the game was complete cr@p and I deleted it after 10 minutes.
It's still here and I can still download as far as I can see. Maybe the problem exists in some countries...

[mikeslemonade]

If you're saying it's worst Dante's Inferno i'm not going to even try out the demo.

[dead_eye]

same here vasilisk. was only on my hard drive for 10 mins.

[yoghurt]

Tried it, thought it was rubbish.

[riksweeney]

I agree, I was quite looking forward to playing this, but after about 5 minutes I switched it off and deleted it.

It was nothing like I thought it was going to be.

The flying is very badly handled, reminiscent of the Iron Man game. I actually thought they'd just be a bit of jetpacking with most of the action taking place on foot.

The biggest annoyance was trying to lock on to a moving target, since there's no feature to do this you have to manually turn the character around (with the crappy controls) and try and lock onto it again to fire. The evasion move doesn't really do anything except to stop you from being shot up for a few moments.

[DARK WITNESS]

Ya, i have to say I agree.

I liked the concept but man the demo didn't feel like it was giving me a reason to like it or buy it.

For a big start I really wish a lot of these devs would try something other then unreal3. I know it boils down to cost and ease of use, but unreal is really hurting a lot of these games in my opinion.

apart from epic and a very few studios, most games using the engine just look horrible.

[BeaArthur]

Make it unanimous, I was thoroughly underwhelmed.

[Bargu]

@2.1

I did the same thing, i could not play for more than 5 minutes, this demo is crap, don't waste time with this..

[Ether]

Got room for another?

I thought the demo was not enjoyable at all. Definite no-buy.

[DARK WITNESS]

lol, sounds like the vote has been thrown in...

Capcom will be disappointed again with a western dev.

it's shame cos in the vids the game really looked good, but on screen.... another story.

[nix]

i just hope the game has the next gen graphics, greatly polished etc. the disadvantage of playing only PS3 exclusive games most of the time is that you find even a good 3rd party games average.

[ABizzel1]

The game is far from rubbish, but it takes A LOT of time to master flying, and if you don't put that time in then you're not going to like the game.

I've looked at the gameplay videos for a long time and it looked so boring, but after playing the game I can say it's not as boring as I thought. The problem is that the flying (while probably the most realistic) is to hard, and everyone will not be able to pick it up or want to take the time to learn it. Gamers have gotten lazy with each generation, and Capcom made a choice that's going to isolate a lot of gamers, by not having a simple flying mechanic.

Graphically the game look decent, music is good (demo music sounds like Heavenly Sword), Voice work is good (the main character sound kind of Like Nathan Drake), and the air gameplay is pretty good, but the ground gameplay is lackluster (shooting and flying in a open space isn't easy).

Graphics- 8 (nothing special, but everything runs good)

Sound- 8.5

Gameplay- 8 (a mixed bag mainly good, but there's a STEEP learning curve)

Fun Factor- 8 (there's fun to be had if you learn the flying mechanics)

Online- There should have been online for this game, not having it makes it an even harder sell for gamers.

Overall- 8.1

A good game, but they should have had the flying similar to Warhawk.

[Cheeseknight28]

I'm gonna file Dark Void under the same place as Bionic Commando, Turok, Too Human, Far Cry 2, Fracture, etc. All of them have a great hook, but none were executed properly. Dark Void is better than the rest though.

I can't say I care much for what little story I saw in the demo though. When the dialogue starts off thus, I cringe a bit:

"What is that thing?" Immediately followed by...

"Can it fly?"

Why would anyone's first reaction to foreign tech be asking if it can fly? He clearly didn't know it was it was, but within 5 seconds did. Ugh.

[chewmandinga]

...or is the voice of Drake in yet another game??

[madmonkey0]

ive just downloaded it from the EU store about 5 minutes ago. im from the UK

[BeaArthur]

In another 5 minutes you will be deleting it.

[madmonkey0]

you were right

[kingme71]

This game had a good bit of press middle of last year and then it got quiet. Still pretty quiet for a game coming out in 11 days. I think Capcom realized it was not going to do well and has given it less of a marketing budget. Capcom also recently released that statement about its disinterest now in working with devs outside of Japan. Maybe Dark Void was one of those games that helped fuel this feeling. GamePro gave it a 60.

[redsquad]

Eh? I'm downloading this very minute...

[timestoby]

the graphics were pretty good and the flying was great,but there was nout to do lol

[BeaArthur]

Did you get to the part where you had to use the jet pack weapons? That is where it took a severe downturn for me.

[xg-ei8ht]

What did you expect UNREAL ENGINE. yuck.

Looked like crap tbh.

[MajestieBeast]

Calling it the bionic commando of 2010 nice concept badly executed.

[DARK WITNESS]

this is going to sound crazy, but Bionic Commando still looked better.

I played bionic and finished it, and from what i played of the demo, i would rather play bionic again then play this.

[Baba1906]

i didnt like it at all. it felt so boring and the shooting was not fun at all. the only cool thing was his first jump of the clip. that looked kinda fun. but thats it. and the demo isnt even much longer than 5 min. nothing happens.

[FwanK]

I played it and they should rename the game to

Dark Vomitoid

[Frulond]

lol

"Barf Void" sounds more appealing IMO XD

EDIT:

the demo is really bad, horrible graphics, controls andgeneric sound effects. also the famerate sucks!

no buy at all for me

[redsquad]

Didn't think it was that bad actually. Some of the visuals were a little bland, but hopefully the full game would offer more variety. Definately not a first-day buy (by a long way!), but I may pick it up later on.

[Gen0ne]

... THE GAME SUCKS. Don't even waste your time. Seriously, as previously stated above, 5 minutes is all you'll need to be supremely unimpressed.

[tommyhj]

On the Playstation blog it stated very clearly that:

Dark Void is not available in Germany.

Hence your problem. Probably some kind of ratings problem...

[jay2]

Downloading from the EU store now.