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Wallace and Gromit Demo (update) 20 Mar, 2009 / Comments: 17

By Gabez


Now up.

Also, there are some pretty sweet deals on the Telltale Hub-Chamber if you pre-order the game now...

Update: You can also apparently download another version of the demo, a "a limited edition, GamePro-branded" version exclusively from its site (direct download here).

Source: Gamepro

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17 Comments

  • AlfredJ on 20 Mar, 2009, 10:57…
    About the Gamepro-version, it's the same version, only there's a Gamepro-logo at the beginning (before the Telltale and Aardman-ones). They have been doing that with all their download partners, as far as I can tell. No differences in the main game.
  • Kroms on 20 Mar, 2009, 11:31…
    :) Thanks AlfredJ
  • Jaap on 18 Mar, 2009, 04:10…
    nice, feels authentic. Can anyone tell me more about the soundtrack? Is it all resampled music from the movies?
    I loved the brass piece outside the garden, when talking to the colonel?
  • Jake on 18 Mar, 2009, 04:37…
    The music is all new, composed and arranged by Jared Emerson-Johnson, the same guy who did the music for Bone and Sam & Max. (The main theme of course is by Julian Nott, but the game has an original arrangement/performance by Jared and many musicians.)
  • Toddas on 17 Mar, 2009, 02:00…
    What won me over, ultimately, was the tune when you were in the car with Gromit. I've preordered now.

    I had to play 800*600 windowed... Perhaps I should get a dedicated graphics card...
  • neon_git on 16 Mar, 2009, 21:13…
    I really enjoyed the demo. It sealed the deal for me, I'll be ordering the series shortly.

    However there is one gripe that, for me, is not a minor one. During the part where Wallace is trying to get some flowers, I found that the music was too loud and I couldn't hear the voices properly. Unlike other games from TT, there are no options for controling the volumes for music, voices and fx separately so I was stuck unable to hear what was being said :(

    Still, the rest of it is rather smashing :)
  • jp-30 on 16 Mar, 2009, 21:30…
    You're not the only one to point that out...

    http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7967
  • jp-30 on 16 Mar, 2009, 20:56…
    Ahh, had to drop to 800x600 and lower the graphical setting to get rid of an audio stutter, but even at 'low res' the game looks gorgeous. Only had a very brief look outside, but so far, it's beautiful and the mouse-keyboard interface is great.

    Hasn't autodetected my thrustmaster gamepad, but I haven't really had a good play around to see if it's possible.
  • Ascovel on 16 Mar, 2009, 21:11…
    By the way, the audio quality for voiceovers in Bone, Sam & Max and W & G is dreadful (and I don' mean stuttering sound), but it was fine in Strong Bad. Has anyone else noticed this? I find it really strange.
  • Zaarin on 17 Mar, 2009, 02:55…
    Yeah, the game uses compressed speech sampled at 8-16 kHz (same as games from the early 1990s) and then the game upsamples it during playback, bringing out the compression artifacts even more. :S
  • Ascovel on 17 Mar, 2009, 09:25…
    It does indeed sound like that and I'm pretty baffled by it. Well, I guess it is done so that the games take up less space, but I thought that with today's sound compression a decent quality speech would only take a few MB more.
  • Kroms on 16 Mar, 2009, 21:28…
    :/ Sam and Max's sound quality was great. I haven't played Bone, so.
  • Ascovel on 16 Mar, 2009, 20:49…
    Looks really good.

    Wallace is a bit different, not as crazy as in the movies, but somehow I don't mind a slightly different take on the character.
  • AlfredJ on 16 Mar, 2009, 19:14…
    Yeah, I liked it. I agree about Wallace, not just the voice is a bit of, but I guess it's just weird to hear Wallace talk so much. Still, pretty awesome, and I like how alive the world feels, and the different camera angles the new controls allow. First Telltale game I can't play on the highest settings (at least, not without a lot of stuttering), but it still looks great. Yes. Give me more.
  • Capn_Nacho on 16 Mar, 2009, 19:14…
    Yes, the game looks great, and animates beautifully as always. The team at TTG is really something.

    I really enjoyed the demo. Wallace is indeed just a bit off, but the acting is just fine. All the art assets look great! The rendering baked into the textures is really effective. More!
  • Kroms on 16 Mar, 2009, 19:03…
    I rather liked it. It's a completely different beast from the other games they've done, but it's quite good. I think Wallace is a little off, but that's OK. By the way, even on minimal specs (my laptop can't handle more), the game looks beautiful.
  • Ascovel on 16 Mar, 2009, 18:42…
    Great. I thought it was still months away.