The Event: Gamescom 2010 – Day 3… The beginning of the end
So we’re three days into the largest Games Conference in Europe, and I still haven’t made it onto the show floor. Today was the day, and after a few hours of frantically writing and sorting out photos, it was time to brave the chaos of the main halls. However there was a twist; Dan decided it would be a great idea to take one of the Dragon Age 2 blood transfers and apply it to my face, just like Hawke in the trailer you can see by clicking here.
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- I AM HAWKE! To do: grow beard and make eyes glow red…
So looking suitably foolish (after all, I didn’t have the rest of the gear to go with the blood on my face – foolishly half-arsed Cosplay) we took to the show floor in an attempt to see anything and everything… With little success. The masses of queues and the fact that I was on a tight schedule, including an interview with Greg Goodrich, Executive Producer for Medal of Honor, meant I had no chance to wait with the rabble.
After traipsing back to the EA Business lounge and, you guessed it, doing a bit more writing, Dan brought over Greg to have a little chat with us. The full transcript of this will go up later today, but basically Greg is a ludicrously nice guy, the interview was spectacular and his game is shaping up nicely.
Cosplay doesn't get any better than this...
After another brief dash to the show floor, to watch a video for Final Fantasy XIV (in German, I have no clue what was going on but it looked nice) I ran back to the lounge for a drink. Soon after sitting down, the day took a turn to the bizarre. A gentleman, dressed from head to toe in hot pink, wearing a peroxide-blonde wig, took to the standing area by the bar and began to sing tune after tune, all in German. What made it slightly stranger was the fact that around his bathing suit area he displayed what can only be described as a stonk on.
Bizarre squared
So the main part of Gamescom has ended fittingly, with a camp How do I think EA have done? Well with Dead Space 2, Dragon Age 2, Hot Pursuit and Medal of Honor they seem to have pretty much all your bases covered. If you’re reading this then I assume you aren’t a casual gamer, but just in case you are; Harry Potter was also quite fun using Kinect.
I guess it’s time to head out for some well deserved R&R, and maybe even a beer or two.
- Tom Wallis
The man in the pink tracksuit looks a bit like Robert DeNiro…
Ah I wish you would have had time to get to the Square Enix booth to see The 3rd Birthday. Great job.
That guy does look like De Niro. Ha.