EA's new and upcoming "The Simpsons Game", which is set to be released in late October to early November has been placed in the Xbox Live Marketplace and is currently available to download as a demo. Below is a short, first impression preview of the demo.

The demo gives you two options in the menu. Start Game and Exit Demo. Simple Enough.
The demo starts with the ever so famous reporter Kent Brockman chasing Bart and Homer Simpson as they prepare to battle Lard Lad - the donut store mascot. After half a minute or so, after the introduction video is over, you're finally playing.
You can control either Bart or Homer. Each character has special abilities or power-ups which are collectible throughout the allocated area. Bart's power-ups/specials include transforming into Bartman, which gives him the ability to glide. Some of Homer's power-ups including eating items located in the allocated area. Some of Homer's special abilities include flying for a short period of time or becoming invincible and strong.
Whoever you are, or whatever you pick up as a power-up, your main objective is to destroy Lard Lad. Lard Lad just wonders around the area you move around in, stomping and using his laser eyes to hurt you. He also gets small Krusty dolls to come and attack you too.

The graphics in The Simpsons Game are not the best, but since it is a cartoon game and you cannot make cartoon game graphics very good, or even very bad, concluding that this category is skipped and gets no rating.
One thing that however that I was disappointed with was the game-play in the game. I found the camera angle of the game was awful. Sometimes it was very hard trying to see where thing were and where your character was! And you can't have a good game without the camera angle being good. Another thing was the demo it self. Although the demo only gave us a taste of one challenge, I certainly do hope that challenges are way funner and better in the actual game itself. I though the Lard Lad challenge was very plain and lame. Destroying the hatches and all of that didn't sparkle any excitement and/or enthusiasm during/after completing the objective. It just seemed like a game created and pointed at the lower aged audience and not the teenage/adult adience that also watch The Simpsons and look forward in purchasing the game.
I honestly though The Simpsons: Hit and Run game was way better than this game as it provided the fun factor and enjoyment every game should have.

Although I have decided to give The Simpsons Game a pretty bad first impression preview, readers do not think I am a Simpsons hater or something a like. I myself am a Simpsons fan in both TV Show and Games, and I was frankly disappointed with this game. First impressions can be wrong sometimes (I hope in this case), but this demo was disappointing.
However, the full game promises to be way funner than what was presented as it:

• >>Contains 16 parody packed episodes.
• >>An original story crafted by the writers of the show.
• >>Be able to explore Springfield and interact with more than 170 characters!
• >>Being able to play Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and even Maggie!

I'll review The Simpsons Game when it comes out and tell you ifi changemy mind.

Ubisoft has announced that its upcoming game - Assassin's Creed could be delayed due to the fact and news they released stating that they are having problems with fitting the game on the DVD for the Xbox 360 system, and general memory related problems for the Playstation 3 system.

Patrice Disilets, creative director of Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed has stated the issues orbit around the Xbox 360's version of the game in which Ubisoft is finding it difficult to fit everything of the game into the DVD. Meanwhile, the Playstation's issue is that its memory architecture.

Disilets' official statemen:

Both have their own challenges. Right now we have a big challenge on the 360 to make it fit on a DVD, to put five languages, to put all the data on eight gigs. On the Blu-ray side we're really good, but then the memory is quite different. How we handle memory is really different between the two machines and we're struggling right now on the PS3. But we have people who are really dedicated and we're having help from Microsoft on one side and Sony on the other side to have the same quality on both systems. It really depends on the week basically as to who's best.

These problems mean that Assassin's Creed's release date could be pushed back from November to at least +1 month(s). Something that both the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 community do not want to see happen.

There Microsoft goes....Xbox 360 Console #3 the Elite version. The version is 100GB more powerfull than the premium version and includes a HDMI Port and Cable, a  Composite AV cable and a Composite HD AV cable and more. The price when it is realesed in North America will be $479...A rip-off in my mind.

Somy has confirmed that the PS3 will be less backwards-compatible in Europe? That will mean that the European model of the PS3, due to launch on March 23 will not be able to play all PS2 and PS Titles. I pesonally think that Sony has f***ed everything up while making the PS3.