Demos Giving Bad Impressions

I wonder if there are any figures or polls floating around that show how many people actually buy a game after they play an XBLM demo?

The only game I bought based on an XBLM demo was LOTR:BFME2. Mainly because I went in thinking EA butchers another LOTR game and it would be shit. I was suprised after setting my expectation so very low and there was nothing much out at the time at mid-summer. Every other demo I played turned me off of the games. I really wanted Raibow Six Vegas until Gears hit. Then a bad multiplayer demo game type with a mode and a map I didn't like had me forgetting about RSV. The single player demo was a poor choice of areas but it was still pretty great, it did guarentee a rental just for the single-player. If all I played was that MP demo I would have never even rented this one.

Not thinking it was much more than a Black Arrow (or worse) I was suprised to see many positives I didn't see from the demos. The gameplay has been fun so far in most modes. I haven't even touched co-op yet. Long drawn-out gunfights with some long-range shooting, greater levels and better visually, and alot more customization and gun realism. Playing on the updated 'streets' map was a treat and reminded me how much fun a good Rainbow Six is, and how its been improved for  the 360. Rental is up in a few days but I am thinking more about picking it up for the MP, which I initially thought blew from the demo. I can't wait to finish the campaign (at Dante's now), try some co-op terrorist hunts, and try the rest of the MP maps.

Now and I still believe the plot is absurd. There are so many holes in how this all goes down. Didn't the incident in Mexico before LV put the US terror alert on red, therefore some woman can't waltz into casinos with huge bombs? Spec ops? Hundreds of ex-military or contract mercenaries just flood LV and no one picks up on it? The lady blowing the room in Mexico and coming out unscathed while your whole team is down. They elected not to put a bullet in your head either. These Clancy games have gone Hollywood. Atleast try to make it seem like Clancy actually writes for these and you're not just using his name for brand recognition. But its a good excuse to show people Las Vegas in a video game and now there is a game made on the UE3 that has some color. I was kinda skeptical of this idea from the beginning and really think they built the story around Vegas, flashing lights, and slot machines rather than crafting a story first. All the Clancy games have gone Hollywood lately. I really would like to see another Ghost Recon like the first. Felt like you were in a military briefing room. The old Rainbow Six games were way more tactical.

Often these demos are unfinished or edited products. In some cases they are taken right out of the games. Either that or the demos themselves are just poorly prepared. The experiance of a demo may sate the thirst for a new play but the feature hasn't been doing what the creators hoped, atleast for me.