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New XBL Games on Demand: Stuntman, FaceBreaker, NFL Tour
Another Tuesday, another batch of Xbox Live Games on Demand. This week it's NFL Tour, FaceBreaker and Stuntman: Ignition. They're available for $20 each in the US. (As usual, pricing and availability vary by region.) Also, you should probably think long and hard before picking up NFL Tour or FaceBreaker. Xbox.com: Add NFL Tour to your Xbox 360 download queue ($19.99) Xbox.com: Add FaceBreaker to your Xbox 360 download queue ($19.99) Xbox.com: Add Stuntman: Ignition to your Xbox 360 download queue ($19.99)
NFL Tour demo kicked through Xbox Live uprights
The NFL season is winding to a close, and things are getting pretty exciting. But it's also getting tortuously serious. What if you got into football not for stats and paydays but just the sheer fun of the game? What if you simply want to run fast on a wall with streaks behind you and do The Worm? For you, friend, for you -- there is NFL Tour.A new demo of the game has just been dropped onto Xbox Live for your turbo-juking, casual dressing enjoyment. Speaking as big fans of NFL Blitz, we're looking forward to giving another arcade-style pigskin game a whirl. But we're more interested in hearing what you think. Share your thoughts right after the break.
Hut, hut, hut! NFL Tour demo tackles the XBLM
Are you ready for some non-Madden football that features a much more simplistic control scheme, where you travel the country, play over the top arcade football and make field entrances that rival the WWE's? If so, you can download and check out the new NFL Tour demo that is available on the Xbox Live Marketplace today. The 710MB demo is available to Live members in Canada and the States and should give NFL fanboys a glimpse at what the Tour can offer to fill the non-realistic football niche. Hop in the bus guys, we're going on an NFL Tour ... yeehaw!
Hands-on: NFL Tour demo
You don't have to play the newly released NFL Tour demo for more than a few minutes before you realize that something is wrong ... very, very wrong. From the game's incredibly woeful character models and jerky animations to the most annoying commentator in the world, EA's NFL Tour feels like it should have been an added feature buried deep inside the bowels of the next edition of Madden than to be unleashed upon an unsuspecting gaming audience. The game tries to combine several aspects from NFL Street and the career mode we've come to expect in Madden. However, judging from the demo, it looks as if it fails on both fronts.
PSN Thursday: mostly jammin', a little juking
Today on PSN a double dose of Rock Band tunes finally squeezes its way through the pipeline, bringing with it a mess of Guitar Hero III tracks. If toy instruments aren't your forte, consider investing in some new cars for ProStreet (how can you resist a bimmer for a mere $2.50?) or shed those pads and wrap your arms around a real man in the free NFL Tour demo. That, or sit back and watch be jealous that Japan is actually playing GT5 Prologue. Euro folk can peep this week's "surely not" offerings over on PS3 Fanboy. Full details of the US update are posted after the break.
(Cheater) Shawne Merriman elected to grace NFL Tour cover
Congratulations, voters -- you've elected San Diego Chargers linebacker Shawne "They weren't steroids, it was tainted supplement I won't identify" Merriman to the cover of EA's NFL Tour, a relaunch of the NFL Street series. The contest, launched at the official website in September, pitted Merriman against Miami Dolphins defensive end Jason Taylor and Indianapolis Colts defensive end Dwight Freeny. It's almost unfortunate to think that a cheater, suspended for four games last season for violating the National Football League's substance abuse policy, gets to be on the cover of a video game. What a wonderful lesson for kids: "It's okay if you juice, Timmy, you just might go to the Pro Bowl after you serve your suspension. If you're lucky, you might end up on the cover of a video game!"
