I made a mistake it takes place at the corner of dundas and younge in a gigantic tent. I went there today and it was kinda packed. There was a lot of people but you never had to wait more than 2 minutes to play a game. They had 6 tvs set up with gears 2. They actually have 8 but they weren't all setup at the time. They said they would have system link tomorrow and a tournament. I won't be able to make it tomorrow but I suggest you go visit it. Some big name games there include resistance 2, far cry 2, CallofDuty world at war, spiderman, James Bond Quantum of the Solace, Crysis Warhead, Gears of War 2, Midnight Club 4, Saints Row 2, Brawl, Guitar hero World Tour, Rock Band 2, Red Faction, Spore, and LittleBigPlanet. They gave away some free swag like shirts, stickers, balls, and stuff like that. You can enter raffles at the back to win Tvs and consoles. They will have tourneys for other prizes too including a Guitar Hero Tournament. There was also some band there playing against some kids at Guitar Hero. I'll upload some pics and vids for you guys later on.
Anyways here is my mini review of the games I saw IT IS IMPORTANT cause some of the games really suck and are about to be released.
Gears of War 2I played a lot of it so you guys have a good idea about it. Gears of war 2, a little slower paced, but the new guns are awesome. The shield is pretty sweet but you have a lot of area uncovered, the flamethrower gives you the sense of awe that you got when you first used the chainsaw, the mortar is hard to use but brutal and it looks awesome, and finally the machine gun is incredibly powerful and ate threw my friend. Next comes the Waves mode which is surprisingly incredibly fun. Me and my friend were slaughtering the locust and it was a blast. We logged like 15 minutes before they asked us to stop playing. I left impressed with Gears 2.
Call of Duty World at War You start of coming out of a boat onto an island and you can call in an air strike that looks incredible, and you can repeatledly use it later on too
. The flamethrower isn't as great as I thought was going to be but the campaign is a lot more fun than cod4's. It's satisfying to see 3 guys come out of camoflauge charging at you with knifes and you meet them head on and get the kill. There was no multiplayer but I think it's worthy of downloading just for the campaign when it comes out
Spiderman I was so impressed with the trailers but when I played it today i was dissapointed. It has so much pop-in and the frame rate isn't that great. You will see civilians dissapear as you near a battle with the thugs, and the camera was really erratic. It is sad cause the game comes out in a few days and looked so promising. I'm not totally sure cause the 360 I was playing on is a debug(When I clicked both thumbsticks the debug mini menu showed up).
Midnight Club 4 I loved 3 and I love this one too. There is a cinematic Camera that shifts and gives you awesome angles without harming the gameplay, The game looks incredible and polished without any seams and it has a lot of citizens and cars littering the place without pop-in. When you access the map and go back in the game it has an awesome zoom effect as if its a google 3d map.
Resistance 2: I liked the multiplayer in the first game and the campaign wasn't that great imo but it doesn't seem that bad this time but, at least it looks sweet. There are some dirty textures here and there but the rocket launcher is so satisfying. They had 12 tvs setup for resistance but it was all singleplayer
. I still have high hopes for this one because the campaign still seemed really finely crafted.
Spore I love Spore but playing with 4 players will make the game lag really bad(which reviews forgot to mention), anyways I have my copy preordered and the they had a whole seperate tent for the game that had lots of Littlebigplanet art.
James Bond Quantum of the Solace Graphics are really sharp but texture work is really limited in comparison to Cod4. The game ran smooth and I replayed the demo a couple times cause it was really fun. I'm not sure how multiplayer will be but the game seems like its worth a download when it comes out
Red Faction I had high hopes for Guerrilla but the game is horrible. Walking around planting explosives feels like a chore and because the environment is so sandbox based there are a lot of bugs. You sometimes automatically go into cover in places you don't want to and I got stuck on more than one occasion. The buildings still collapse nice but there's a nice big frame rate drop that accompanies it.
