Blue Dragon demo on Xbox LIVE Marketplace

Playable sample available over a month before release.

1.1 gigs worth of playable Blue Dragon is available to download on Xbox LIVE Marketplace now, before the game's allotted August 24 release.

The RPG from Mistwalker and Artoon Co. Ltd. features a range of talent on its development team, including a character designer from Dragon Ball Z and one of the Final Fantasy composers.

Blue Dragon, which is shaping up to be enormous, casts you as Shu, a young boy with the ability to use his shadow as a potent weapon to defeat an ancient, dangerously powerful human race.