Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Cool Dudes Fest - 2006!
I went to E3 today. I saw a line of eligible bachelors waiting in line to meet one of the recent incarnations of Lara Craft models who was signing one of those hint books for the new game. I think she was writing her phone number down too.
Lots of people stared at the screen playing the new Metal Gear Solid 4 movie. I stared really hard. It had some old guy who seemed really upset that he had to go on some mission, he put a gun to his own head. At least, that's what I think happened.
It was really loud and blinky. The PS3 stuff looked great, but there was no chance in hell I was waiting in line behind some stock room employees from Best Buy for twenty minutes just so I could get shot by Nazis in under 2 seconds, and then stare blankly at the screen wondering which button made my guy "go".
There are a lot of bald guys in suits with Blue-Tooth earpieces. My friend was going to pretend he had one and just talk like he was making some big deal for a really awesome game. But, we figured about forty seven other people made that same joke, so we played some Tempest at the Atari arcade.
The biggest display I saw was for Scarface. It was a two level facade of his mansion staircase where all that "say hello to my little friend" thing happened. There should have been a stage show where some Pacino look alike comes out and does that whole bit. I would have enjoyed that.
Deadrising just had a lot of running around in a Dawn Of The Dead ('78 or '03) type environment and you could kill a lot of zombies. It looked like the best game ever made.
Lastly, we saw the Desperate Housewives game. Yeah, I typed that correctly. The guy telling me about tried to make it really exciting. I think after that he went home and hoped that he would just sleep through the next two days.
pJ
Lots of people stared at the screen playing the new Metal Gear Solid 4 movie. I stared really hard. It had some old guy who seemed really upset that he had to go on some mission, he put a gun to his own head. At least, that's what I think happened.
It was really loud and blinky. The PS3 stuff looked great, but there was no chance in hell I was waiting in line behind some stock room employees from Best Buy for twenty minutes just so I could get shot by Nazis in under 2 seconds, and then stare blankly at the screen wondering which button made my guy "go".
There are a lot of bald guys in suits with Blue-Tooth earpieces. My friend was going to pretend he had one and just talk like he was making some big deal for a really awesome game. But, we figured about forty seven other people made that same joke, so we played some Tempest at the Atari arcade.
The biggest display I saw was for Scarface. It was a two level facade of his mansion staircase where all that "say hello to my little friend" thing happened. There should have been a stage show where some Pacino look alike comes out and does that whole bit. I would have enjoyed that.
Deadrising just had a lot of running around in a Dawn Of The Dead ('78 or '03) type environment and you could kill a lot of zombies. It looked like the best game ever made.
Lastly, we saw the Desperate Housewives game. Yeah, I typed that correctly. The guy telling me about tried to make it really exciting. I think after that he went home and hoped that he would just sleep through the next two days.
pJ
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