Impressions from the GamesConvention 08

[Lunex]

Hi Guys,

i thout you might be interested in some pictures and talk about the GC08 in Leipzig, Germany last weekend.

During the exhibition met Instinct ( and his girlfirend ;-), at the stand of 1C Company.
First i want to thank him for the time he took for me ! ( He seemed very busy holding one meeting or presentation after another for the press )

First some pictures, later i'll try to tell you his answers to my questions as far as i remember them ;-)



This is the 1C Area, not far from the big Blizzard stand.


Close view of the stand.


On the left, there were some other Games distributed by 1C, togehter with these 2 ladies ;-)


Beside these 2, the really interesting things went on behind this small entrance
( You must be 18 to enter this one )


After entering there where 3 rows of 3 computers each. ( +1 console for the kiddies )
The laste row contained 3 times a MOW single player demo, the others some games i was not interested in.
( Some words to the demo later )



This one is taken from the last row. You can see a Junkers 52 contained in a German mission. ( as far as i remember )
The "yellow wearers" are all from 1C.



Another one from the last row !

Last but not least, loot what i looted ;-)



Regarding the Demo :

There were 4 single player missions were available to test, mp only without other players.
3 Missions were from 1 campaign each, 1 was labled as bonus mission ( or campaign ? ).

The gameplay seemed smooth, i noticed only a few minor gliches ( problems layaing fences for example ).
The game itself seemd stable ( but sadly not the pc's which suffer from heat in their small table cages ).
Instinct told me, this was not the actual (latest) version so im confident that the final version will not contain heavy gliches.

The missions were available in 3 different difficulties, where normal seemed like what we know from S:HOWW2.
( perhaps a little bit more difficult.)

Multiplayer, as told was only availible alone ( sounds weird ;-)

As already told in another thread the japanese were not available here, according to instinct they will be patched in later.
1 Personal line here :
As worst case scenatio : The Multiplayer in Anno 1503 also was announced to be patched later. It nerver happened.
Please dont do this here. The motivation to still devellope content seems to be sinking rapidly after selling a game.

ok back to the Multiplayer.
Here Instinct explained to me the Interface changes, the configuarble minimap and the mappable keys for example. I missed some hotkey features which may be contained in the final release.

The graphics were great as usal, some improvment were made, but the style was kept !

The driving and firemodel were already great ! especially shoting was real fun, even without enemy :D

The available maps, contained many already known from FoW, but also some new ones.
There will be available some more new ones, according to Instinct.


Tanks 1C, especially Instinct and his russian collegue whos name i dont remember !
This far to FoW, i hat to visit some other areas too ;-)

For example Age of Conan which still uses cages :D



Hope you enjoyed the few pics, if you got any further questions which i could answer dont hesitate ;-)

greetings
Lunex

[C0ntrol]

Woah! Thanks for the pictures Lunex! Seems like GC was quite big this year.

Were those girls in the stand also distributable as you said the games behind them were?

[Heer_sturmfuhrer]

What does Instinct look like? Just wondered

I cant remember what games convention my dad accidentally saw when my mum & dad went to see the Police, but they saw glimpses of Cod 5:world at war...

[s.pz.abt.503]

what configuration system has the PC's from the pictures ? maybe Instinct tell us

[TTorpedo]

Great post man.

Multyplayer was total alone or possible against Ai opponents? skirmisher on the horizon...

Ps: Girls in cages are always a good... mn photo opportunity

[FreDMouL]

Nice post, thanks for the pictures.
It's not a Game Convention without babes

[Kenex05]

have you got Instinct's photo lol ?

[filon102]

have you got Instinct's photo lol ?

[Lunex]

Hi,

What does Instinct look like? Just wondered

I wondered, too. But as suspected he's a smart young man who knows exactly what he's talking of.

Multyplayer was total alone or possible against Ai opponents? skirmisher on the horizon...

Just alone as i didnt try coop. Skirmish isnt possible afaik.

Were those girls in the stand also distributable as you said the games behind them were?

Yes i alread enlisted for "caged girls beta" ^^

have you got Instinct's photo lol ?

Even if i had some, i wouldnt release them without his ok.

greetings
Lunex

[Dilust]

Great post.