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It's been a long time coming, but today cloud gaming service Gaikai is coming online and are letting the public try it out for the first time. Demo's for Mass Effect 2, Dead Space 2, Spore and The Sims 3 are all available to play through your browser - providing you have enough bandwidth. I do, and I can tell you that it's pretty amazing.
"Just wait and if your connection quality to our Server is fast enough," instructs CEO David Perry, "one of several pop-up designs will appear." If your network speed qualifies a prompt asking you to play the demo for Mass Effect 2 will appear.
I've been somewhat apprehensive about cloud gaming since we've started hearing about things like Gaikai and Onlive, and a gamer likes me can't see himself giving up his game boxes anytime soon, but I will admit that the tech is astounding and I would love the opportunity to play complete demo's in my browser as I'm reading an article about a game.
Try the system out for yourself here.
[Source: Joystiq]
Comments
13 years, 2 months ago
Woah, thats pretty fucking cool. Although my internet is poopy and doesn't even let me start up Onlive so I kind of doubt it can run this. Still pretty awesome.
13 years, 2 months ago
if only my computer was powerful enough
13 years, 2 months ago
Gave Mass Effect 2 a shot using this service. Seems to work pretty well despite some input lag, which is to be expected. It is an odd sensation to be playing a game which normally requires a full install, without having to do anything other than a few clicks within a web browser. The image quality is pretty crisp when at its native size, though some jaggies are visible (their servers probably have anti-aliasing off as well as a few other features toned down).
I have ME2 for PC and played through it last year using my old GTX 280. Obviously if I had a choice between this and playing the game with the horsepower of my own computer and graphics card, I'd choose the latter due to my PC's capabilities. That doesn't diminish how impressive cloud gaming is, or how impressive it will be in the future. Even if it were only used as a method to distribute game demonstrations, it would serve a vital marketing purpose. I look forward to observing where this technology goes, and if enough potential customers have the internet connection required.
13 years, 2 months ago
So its basically OnLive?
13 years, 2 months ago
I want the future to get here so we can all have computers that can run this awesome stuff :[
13 years, 1 month ago
Sweet this is finally up.
12 years ago
You can play more demos at: http://www.gamer4eva.com/2004/10/play-pc-demos_05.html