 At E3 2006, the majority of the game mechanics were revealed within the same month, while the multiplayer component had yet to be announced.The Xbox 360 demo was released for download over Xbox Live on 8 June, while the PC demo was released just days later over the internet, weeks before the game's first release in North America.The demo included only the initial portion of the game, which contained the game's introductory cinematic and narration, the tutorial and the Overlord's battle to free human peasants from a Halfling operated slave camp.