What's the best game demo you've ever played?

My best demo is actually pretty recent:

Racedriver: Grid for ps3

Why?

It caught me by suprise, its actually pretty decent driving game and it includes 2 tracks in multiplayer mode in net for absolutely free. Ive already spent couple of hours with it and im still wanting more.

Also worth mentioning is Theme hospital demo for pc(sweet memories) and Future cop lapd demo for psx.
 
Ouch, that's a tough one. Maybe Theme Hospital or Skate.
Weird though, since I never bought either of those games.
I should really get around to that...
 
Hmm I must confess I don't really know the difference between demo and shareware. Shareware for me was the games you got (actually... I bought *ehm*) on floppys back in the days and that held like one episode of the total game. I'd say Doom scores the highest for me if that counts.
 
Definitely SKATE. The only demo which made me think something like " I can't possibly go on living without that game. :| MUST...BUY...SKATE...NOW"
 
Beyond Good and Evil, I was amazed by the hovercraft's deformable skirt which seemed revolutionary at the time.
 
Half-Life. Not really a demo but a whole new game chapter. (Uplink) I played the English demo and was blown away. I bought the German game a few days later and was very disappointed. I shot a Scientist and he just sat down shaking his head, showing me that it's wrong to shoot the good guys. Soldiers were replaced by stupid robots. You could reenable blood effects but it was turned yellow and gibs were replaced by nuts and screws. Meh. God bless imported games.

The Fallout demo was awesome, too. Again I was very disappointed by the German version after playing the US-Demo.
 
I'd say...Daggerfall (The second, "Betony" demo; if I recall correctly there was another demo before that, that started you in a dungeon, threw you immediately into water, and you couldn't swim upwards because you were encumbered).

The amount of stuff that was put into this demo amazes me even today. Too bad that the "demo" version of Betony didn't make it into the final game and the island we see in-game has just 1 or 2 minor towns.
 
My best demo would be Prey. Mainly because it's better than the full game.

Prey is deliberately designed so that all the cool things are shown/experienced to/by the player within the first hour of playing (the bar, the abduction with the Blue Öyster Cult music, seeing a portal for the first time, the kids, the planet-in-a-jar). Coincidentally, that's how far the demo for the game goes. Once you're past the part where the demo ends, the game becomes just another boring FPS game that ends a couple of hours later.

Prey is currently clogging up every video game bargain bin in my country, but it's still not worth the price.

The only other demo worth mentioning is the one for Space Quest 6, because it's an independent game in itself, where Roger Wilco has to deal with his ship being attacked by the Bjorn Collective.
 
Hard question. In my time, i played demos almost exclusively. Was too young to work, not enough money around to actually go and buy games (which were insanely expensive back then, too), and no internet. :D

Anyway, i think that would be either System Shock, Magic Carpet or Constructor. Played the demos for those games to death, and then some.
 
Carmageddon.

It was time limited, took ages to load but i have never seen anything like it before. I couldn't get my hands on the full version so i played the shit out of that demo. Good memories.

Then there's the Fallout demo, the concept blew me away, i fell in love in it from the start.

Ahh, to be 13 again.
 
Ivan1983 said:
Carmageddon.

It was time limited, took ages to load but i have never seen anything like it before. I couldn't get my hands on the full version so i played the shit out of that demo. Good memories.

Then there's the Fallout demo, the concept blew me away, i fell in love it it from the start.

Ahh, to be 13 again.
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Oh shit, you just reminded me of the Carmageddon 2 demo, and the Blood 2: The chosen demo.


Now THOSE two were the best.
 
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