Demo Limitations

General Info
Just like all of the other paid InterAction Studios games, they offer a free copy of the latest version of the game, however, it comes with some extreme limitations, and Island Wars 2 and Island Wars 2 Xmas aren't any different.

Duration
As usual, the game is limited to just 60 minutes of free gameplay, afterwards you'll be stuck at the demo screen. The style of the demo screen is the one that had been used in older versions of other IA games like the old Chicken Invaders: The Next Wave and more recent versions as well like Loco.

Gameplay
Only two of the game modes are available for Demo players, being Invasion and Duel. Even then, Invasion is heavily restricted to just the first ten of the fifty waves, so if you want a full experience, either buy the game, or stick with the classic Duel. Otherwise, it's game over.

As for mutators, they're considered cheats that affect your rating in any game mode. Since your rating is already going to be low after finishing the first ten waves, they won't be available at all whatsoever, so again, buy the game if you want the full experience, or if you're not bothered to pay, deal with it.

Extraction
When you extract assets (if that's ever going to happen), the demo version will only give you the assets that are used in the game, and almost never the features that went unused or were introduced in the full version like additional enemies (such as the DC-3 Bomber). The full version will give you just about everything you need, including scripts that aren't used in the demo versions just to annoy you even more.