h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I've been playing a couple of game Demos today one was a PC game Long Live the Queen which is and RPG/sim and the other was The Bridge on Xbox a puzzle game. Demos are great, they allow you play a level (sometimes a few) of a game inorder to decided whether you want to play it. All of the XBLA games have a demo and we try out quite a few of them and in some cases buying the game after plying it. Many years ago they came on an actual disc with games magazines, if you didn't get your magazine early the game disc would be gone. Now it's just the CDs out of Classic Rock.

So, what of today's games? Well, Long Live...is about a Princess who has just lost her mum (the Queen) and training to be queen. It's and and RPG/sim in that you are trying to the Princess all sorts of thing about being a queen while at the same time keeping her happy - she only 15. The demo's quite short, but can play it over and over learn different skills and get different results. The Bridge is a whole 'nother thing. It's a series of puzzles, drawn in pencil, that are sometimes really easy and other times not so much. Of course once you've worked out the solution, you realise how thick you were not to see it in the first place.

I bought one.

[Amy P]

[SQ]

ahh... but which did you buy... *thinks* the princess one!