The FIFA 08 demo has just been released on Xbox Live, unfortunately however Europe is not included in the list of countries for which this is available.

It seems that there has been a last minute hitch as far as the European demo is concerned with an official source on the FIFA forum stating "We’re sorry to have to tell everyone that the FIFA 08 NG demo won’t be launching in Europe today as was expected. Although the demo is being released in North America there were a couple of issues which we couldn’t get ironed out in time to release today despite working through out the night to get these sorted.We understand how disappointing this will be to everyone and we’re absolutely gutted this has happened.VancouverBlade is currently over in the UK right now, attending a Community Day for FIFA and I was unfortunate enough to be with him as the news broke. It really was a massive downer for what was set to be a great day."

For those lucky enough to be in the correct region here are the dash details courtesy of Major Nelson.

Content: FIFA 08 Demo
Price: Free
Availability: Only in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, United States*
Dash Text: [ESRB: E (Everyone)] Download the demo.
Size: 702.7 MB

*Note: EA has told Major Nelson this demo is coming to Europe ’very soon’.