split/screen co-op

On the last day of the Expo we finally were able to enter the conference room and saw a presentation of The Witcher 2 by the Polish guys who are developing the game. They said the sequel has a new engine and the character customization has been upgraded. The requirements for the game will not be too high and the game will not be a short one.

Before we got to the presentation Dilyan played another demo of Fable III and I managed to shoot some great pics of it.

I also have pictures from the two parts of The Witcher 2 presented at the Expo.

Will post all galleries here next week (I hope everything will be up by Wednesday).

That question popped in my mind when me and Dilyan were shopping for games around the city centre of London yesterday and a salesman in a store we visited asked us why haven’t we bought a game two years ago when it was brand spanking new. Well, you cannot buy everything when it comes out. To make a game collection you have to have patience and a good strategy.

More about what happened on our shopping trip yesterday after the jump

The last installment seems to have covered most of the games that are hot at the moment, so this week’s is much shorter. Enlighten yourself after the jump.

We learnt an important lesson on Friday: if you show up a bit late for the opening, you miss the talk you wanted to check out the most. On Saturday, we learnt an even more valuable lesson: if you show up a bit earlier, you gain a longer wait in line to go in.

Once inside the Earl’s Court exhibition centre, I made straight to the Killzone 3 3D stands. I managed to find a console with no queue for it and was pretty soon playing the game.

People complain a lot about the galsses required for 3D television, cinema and gaming but I’ve never found them particularly bothersome or headache-inducing. So that was not a problem. The problem was that I found Kilzone 3‘s 3D to be actually quite meh. It looks decent enough, to the extent any HD game looks good, but it is nothing spectacular or extraordinary.

The game itself is your standard Killzone shooter, which isn’t bad but isn’t earth-shattering either.

I passed by the Fable III stand and noticed that people were playing a different demo than the one I played on Friday. It was a lot longer and showcased a lot more of the title’s new features. Or maybe it was the same one and somehow I’d gottent it all wrong the previous day. Anyhow, this warranted a second try, but the queues were insufferable so this will have to wait for Sunday.

Having gained an expoing level, we plan to show up around noon tomorrow and maybe try and get into the Witcher 2 developer session. I’ll let you know how things turn out.