A massive 1.4Gb demo of Dark Messiah of Might and Magic has been released - you can nab it locally from AusGamers, if you dare.

Dark Messiah of Might & Magic puts players in a first-person perspective, allowing them to immerse themselves in the legendary Might and Magic universe as never before. It is also the world's first fantasy action game to feature a complete first-person combat system.

This Source-engine FPS is shaping up to look like it might be good for a multiplayer bash as well.

Looks very nice indeed.

mmm source engine

never heard of the game before but looks good. downloading now

just played the start "training" mission. it looks nice and the combat is pretty cool

and just finished playing part of the first mission and some of it looks just terrible, especially the models of the npcs. I used my skills on backstab and when you're up close stabbing them in the neck it looks real bad and blocky and just s*** in general.

last edited by BoBa at 10:58:46 09/Aug/06

man... i was looking foward to downloading this today but 1.4gb demo? good lord how much of the game is actualy in there? im not spending like 10 hours downloading only to find out i can finish it in 15 min

woot downloading now

demo is too short. i like it though.

gone are the days when you got like 1/3rd of the whole game as a demo like in doom or quake shareware. guess they cant do that anymore though as fps games are getting shorter and shorter with each new release.

short demo yes, but it gave me enough of a taste to be overall impressed by the game.

the combat is excellent.. luuuuurve the daggers. its cool when you just go psycho on the orcs with a flurry of stabs and they are left staggering around bleeding before you decap them.

being source, the physics are spot on and some cool s*** happens in the mayhem of battle.
i had these 2 orcs chasing me and i noticed a rope on the wall, so i cut it and watched as a big metal lantern thing swung down and smashed the s*** out of them and the wooden ledge they were on... it just looked really slick.

me rikey

well im so glad i spend the 10 hours downloading and wasted 1.4gb. i install it, go to run and instantly "mm.exe has encountered an error" pops up. yay

Edit: Oh, I read it as "I go to install and immediately..."

last edited by Hashy at 20:56:15 09/Aug/06

somehow i doubt thats it since it came with the official demo

EDIT - ok got it to work. had to turn my windowsblinds off. after playing through it, all i can say really is WTF caused that 10 min demo to be 1.4gb? if thats how big it was for that tiny level i expect the full game to be like 20gb

last edited by DM at 21:42:10 09/Aug/06

jesus christ enough whinging. download it while you sleep from a free source. hardly going to waste your life.

In completely unrelated news this demo was really fun. Highly looking forward to release now

I think this game has promise, but not enough of a taste though to satisfy me in buying it when it comes out. Downloading 1.4 gig to kill 10 orcs is a bit rich , the source engine is great and the destructable envrionments properly put into gameplay is fun.

MM have to work hard to top Obilivion.

Hahaha

f***ing LOL DM. You had 4 whinging posts outta a total of 14. Highlight was the 3rd post where you mentioned the error.

You crack me up.

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MM have to work hard to top Obilivion.

Are people still playing that? It was really popular for a bit, then I went overseas, came back and noone is talking about it any more.

ya i bitched a lot as this demo just made me quite angry. it was fun to play though, short as hell as it is

Are people still playing that? It was really popular for a bit, then I went overseas, came back and noone is talking about it any more

That's because it's single player.

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That's because it's single player.

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Ran like a bit of a dog on my comp. Impressed by the graphics and the 'feel' of it, however. If they are going to make a better game then oblivion, using the source engine is a good start.