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[TheBlackOut]

Totally out of the blue this one, an demo version of Universe at War: Earth Assault has been released. So if you were not part of the beta testing here's your chance to try the game. The Universe at War: Earth Assault demo includes a tutorial and the first two missions of the Hierarchy campaign.

We have a list of mirrors for you download from. Speeds will vary. The file size 1179 MB.♦

• GameSpot
• GamersHell.com
• FanGaming.com
• FilePlanet

If any more mirrors are found the list will be updated. I recommend the GamersHell.com mirror.

- http://forums.petro-gamers.com/viewtopic.php?t=429

Downloading nao!

[Intraframe]

awesome! will try!

[OjKa]

heard it was pretty bland

[h3r1n6]

do want (to try)!

Will post impression later on

[Infernoblaze]

will do tommorow!

[TheBlackOut]

heard it was pretty bland

Try it yourself and judge.

[RaiDK]

Downloading now at 500kb/s

From the screenshots I've seen the interface has had an awesome facelift. Gonna be great

Edit: That demo is win.

[Vezner]

Downloading now at 500kb/s

From the screenshots I've seen the interface has had an awesome facelift. Gonna be great

Edit: That demo is win.

I'm still downloading it.

[RaiDK]

Unbelievably better than the beta, glad they got all the bugs ironed out. The music is crazeh cool as well.

Oh and lol at 1 unit for the humans being a squad XD

[Destructor]

Music is the best thing about the demo. I gotta say, I see the potential for some interesting gameplay that is unique and innovative in UaW, but the demo didn't do a great job of showing it. The tutorial is complete crap (heres how you move... good job! you're done) and the missions they give you (all two of them) involve literally right clicking on the objective markers and sitting back as your units (including the giant walker thing) just walk there in a straight line and rape everything in their path. I see the potential for cool strategic stuff, but you don't get to try it in this demo. They don't even give you a skirmish option.

[RaiDK]

Having played the beta that's true. A bit weird that in the demo they'd give you so few units to use...

[Vezner]

Having played the beta that's true. A bit weird that in the demo they'd give you so few units to use...

It was pretty similar with the EaW demo. I think Petro just likes to give you a taste with their demos...just enough to make you get interested but not enough to really give you an idea of what the full thing will be like.

[ArmoredSandwich]

Downloading asap

[TheBlackOut]

It was pretty similar with the EaW demo. I think Petro just likes to give you a taste with their demos...just enough to make you get interested but not enough to really give you an idea of what the full thing will be like.

I kind of like that more... Some guys it's like you get the demo and then the game and it's like... "Whats the difference?"

[a Teddy Bear]

The demo kinda... sucks

[Infernoblaze]

Well that was a mix of good and bad.

Things I liked:
The Animation and feel of the large walker unit was just excellent, loved it.
Seemed like a nice mix of units and powers that good lead to some strategic elements.
The voice acting was very nice.
Cutscenes, some of the cutscenes/FMV bits were very well done... others weren't.
The music (AWESOME)

Things I didn't like:
The actual levels in the demo just sucked.
A bit buggy.
fights weren't actually tat interesting to look at
The camera, oh god how I longed to zoom out just a bit more, it doesn't let you rotate it nicely either, I want full 3D rotation when I hold the middle button down so I can look at stuff in front of me as well.
The minimap, it was just HORRIBLE to look at, really blobby and no sense of FoW given on there (at first a I thought a lit up area was where I could see but instead it was just a bug). Why so nasty grey and grainy?
the fact that you have to use WASD to look around. It's an RTS! Arrow keys to look around and WASD should be hotkeys!
The scrolling speed. PAINFULLY SLOW.

[Vezner]

Well that was a mix of good and bad.

Things I liked:
The Animation and feel of the large walker unit was just excellent, loved it.
Seemed like a nice mix of units and powers that good lead to some strategic elements.
The voice acting was very nice.
Cutscenes, some of the cutscenes/FMV bits were very well done... others weren't.
The music (AWESOME)

Things I didn't like:
The actual levels in the demo just sucked.
A bit buggy.
fights weren't actually tat interesting to look at
The camera, oh god how I longed to zoom out just a bit more, it doesn't let you rotate it nicely either, I want full 3D rotation when I hold the middle button down so I can look at stuff in front of me as well.
The minimap, it was just HORRIBLE to look at, really blobby and no sense of FoW given on there (at first a I thought a lit up area was where I could see but instead it was just a bug). Why so nasty grey and grainy?
the fact that you have to use WASD to look around. It's an RTS! Arrow keys to look around and WASD should be hotkeys!
The scrolling speed. PAINFULLY SLOW.

Your points about sum up my feelings as well. However I do want to say that I wasn't really interested in UaW before but after playing the demo, I think I'll be buying it. IMO it's a nice change from the typical series that we've had thrown at us for the last few years (ie C&C, WarCraft, StarCraft, Total War, etc). The fact that you can pretty much use your construction buildings (ie the huge walker thing) as an attack weapon as well as a manufacturing facility is pretty cool.

[RaiDK]

If anything I'll buy this for the music + single player campaign

[Intraframe]

meh, looks pretty good. Probably not gonna buy it for mp tho. Seemed a little like cnc3
It was an alright demo, wished they had either more missions, or a mission per race. Story wasn't displayed to well either.

[TheBlackOut]

meh, looks pretty good. Probably not gonna buy it for mp tho. Seemed a little like cnc3
It was an alright demo, wished they had either more missions, or a mission per race. Story wasn't displayed to well either.

lol, wut?!