Demigod Released Early

Well that cocks up my release-day review, doesn't it? Thanks to Gamestop inexplicably releasing the game early at retail in the US, the release of digital download versions of Demigod have been brought forward to yesterday. Brad Wardell explains the kerfuffle over at his Impulse blog, as well as pointing out that this whole mess should, in theory, "maximise" piracy rates:

"...it was Easter weekend. And many of us had just finished a good solid 8 weeks of massive crunch and were looking forward to the weekend to recover. Instead, we found ourselves back at work having to turn on and configure the multiplayer matchmaking servers... we’ll get to actually see the effects of piracy. Since we know Demigod is an outstanding game with a wide appeal with equal retail and digital distribution to other titles that came out this year with similar demographics we can see how well it sells compared to them."

Thoughts? I'm liking Demigod very much. Rook SMASH! And if you're going to get it before you read a more sophisticated verdict than that, buy it on Impulse. We'll post some more detailed thoughts later in the week.