The Club: Renwick Demo This Week

Sega’’s The Club will make its debut this week as an exclusive demo showing off what this game has to offer Xbox 360 owners when it is released in February. From 9 a.m. GMT on Tuesday Jan. 8, the demo for Sega’’s new shooter will be available via download across Europe and Australia on Xbox Live Marketplace. The demo will be released a little later in North America. The Renwick demo puts players in a rundown federal penitentiary as an NYPD Detective whose investigations has brought him too close to The Club’’s illegal deathmatch tournaments. Renwick, now an unwilling participant in this underground blood-sport run by a secret group of millionaires, goes with the flow. The demo features Renwick in two single-player modes (Sprint and Time Attack) and one multiplayer mode (split-screen). Developed by Bizarre Creations, The Club is a shooter that focuses on racking up points by taking out targets with style and as quickly as possible. Points are earned based on combos, which are based on type, range and hit location. As the player kills a kill bar is filled, though more stylized kills garner the most amount of points. After each target is eliminated, players must sprint off to the next target, while maintaining the ever-diminishing kill bar by further kills and special power-ups.

Whether this game based on a blood sport concept and developed by people best known for arcade shooters and next-gen racing games will be well-received is anyone’’s guess, but at least you can take the game for a spin this week.

The Club is set for release next month on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC and is obviously rated M for Mature by the ESRB.