NEVER trust tabloids!!!

[Sui]

OK, here is a letter which i sent to the sun just now:

From james wragg, year 10 Student.

As a PC gamer myself, i was slightly suspicios of the "free game" offer. So i looked through the sun and read for any small print i could find regarding the "free game", trying to find a hidden catch. Finding none, i considered that maybe the games developers were giving away a free game (seeing as most of them were old) to promote other games / sequels to the game.
So i decided to gat XIII, as it is a great game and it is fairly new. So this morning i walked to school, found a newsagent, bought the sun and went to blockbuster. Finding it closed, i decided to come back later.
So at lunch time, i dashed down to blockbuster and got the copy. At this point i considered the authenticy of my discovery- surely the game would have no online multiplayer mode due to it being free in the sun? So slightly dissapointed at the fact that it would probally be a strimmed down game, i returned to school (and ended up 10 minutes late, dispite running back).
When returning home i was eagerly anticipating playing my "free game". so i stuck the disc in and was suprised by a cheap "sun" presentation screen. But what suprised me is that now the "free game" had suddenly been changed to "limited edition". This wasnt just suspicios, it was really irritating. So upon installation i decide to read the readme file.
And suddely, low and behold, the "limited editon" has now changed to "XIII Demo". the SAME demo that i downloaded FREE off the internet just a while after the game came out, over 6 months ago. Testing it just to be sure, i was shocked to discover that this was exactly the same.

So i had gone out of my way, wasted a whole 2 hours in total - un-neededly bending over backwards in order to grab a limited copy of a game demo that i could have taken 5 minutes to download on my broadband connection.
Looking back through the paper i see NO MENTION of the fact that it is a cut down game, only that it is "free" and that "You have to foil a conspiracy after being set up for the murder of the American president". This is very misleading as the game demo only features 2 VERY SHORT levels, and both are before the story has even DEVELOPED into that stage.
I do not see any reason for this to be lied about, as im sure many people would have purchased the newspaper in order to get the demo without lies needing to be spread throughout the article. These misleading sentences are not just "bending the truth", they are actually UNTRUE as everyone knows that a "game" is a completely different thing to a "game demo". a game contains a whole engine and single player experience, while a "demo" is a short snippet containing nothing but a breif demonstraition of a tiny part of the game.

I am completely outraged by the lack of information, and i demand that an apology be made.

now you must understand that this was slightly exaggerated, as of course im trying to make a point. In actual fact i just went down at luch time with a few mates and we werent really that bothered, when we got the game i was suprised they even had any left. when i got home and it was the demo i wasnt really suprised AT ALL because i allways thought there was something fishy from the moment i heard "free game" and "the sun" in the same sentence.

But when i was actually sendint the e-mail, i got a little distracted... as the sun have a little archive section of the infamous "page 3". obviosly i cant give a link on a public forum, but i will say that the adress has the words "3" and "page" in it.

so i learnt a lesson today (or should i say that a lesson has been re-enforced)- which is that you should never trust a tabloid. theyll probally only send me back an email saying "sorry, please accept our appologies and this free porn" with a direct link to spyware. :flame:

 

[AH_Viper]

you know i was hopeing to get XIII and Splinter cell but now i know its just the demo im glad i couldnt be a**ed today to go get it

 

[Godcat_V2]

Yeah, I saw the advert for it in News Of The World, and thought 'XIII for free - great!' But after looking at the picture of the game sleeve, and noticing it say 'exclusive edition' or whatever, my cynisism kicked in.
They're a tabloid - do you expect anything less but bs?

 

[Neutrino]

What? Don't trust tabloids? You must be joking man.

 

[KagePrototype]

The Sun? Bleh. The only good thing about it is Page 3, and I can get the equivelent of 1 million page 3s within the space of 10 minutes if I wanted.

/me pats cable modem

 

[Pressure]

Whats Page 3?

 

[Fat Tony!]

Whats Page 3?

The comic page! yay!!!111

 

[Sulkdodds]

Yep. Although I've got to say, buying the Sun for Page 3 is not worth it...there are much better comics on the internet.

But yes, they did say cut-down version of the game...slightly misleading considering it's so cut-down it's got onyl two levels. At the end of the day,y ou get what you pay for. The wallpapers, gifs and making of video were worth the 30p anyway.