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GC 2007 - Day 1

By: Jarno Kokko Aug 23, 2007

Blizzard - the "BlizzCon Rerun" press event

Blizzard also held a press event, but it was absolutely devoid of news. In fact, it was all just a condensed re-run of the BlizzCon presentations that every Starcraft II and World of Warcraft fanatic has already watched (probably several times).

The Wrath of the Lich King presentation delivered by Jeff "Tigole" Kaplan was copy-pasted from BlizzCon.

The Blizzard booth, with the demo stations somewhere behind the huge mob.

The Blizzard booth is completely dedicated to demo stations of Starcraft II and Wrath of the Lich King. As is to be expected, the demos were very popular, and I decided to tackle the queues on another day.

Blizzard's press conference was somewhat packed.	Starcraft II portion of the presentation, demonstrating the terran Viking unit.
Starcraft II single player mission demonstration.	...and some teasers, as seen before.

Other bits and pieces

One of the day's highlights was Ubisoft's World Premiere of Far Cry 2 (more on that here). The showing was delayed by thirty minutes due to technical problems while Ubisoft's techs fiddled with their stuff. You can actually see the cause for delay in the small video clip of our news post, taken before the delay was announced - the picture on that video wall is cut off from the right and bottom edge (the "2" in Far Cry 2 is not visible at all, and bottom portion of the screen is missing). The devs made it up by showing a bit more than they were "supposed" to show - or so they said - and that would be the closing bit with the glider and the herd of animals.

Rockstar had their gear set up close to the Blizzard's completely overrun booth, and had no such problems with overcrowding. While there was a big wall with Grand Theft Auto IV plastered all over it, the game itself was almost a no-show - we got to see just a looping trailer. Table Tennis on Wii was good fun, but it wasn't exactly what I was looking for...

This logo was the extent of the GTA IV presence in GC 2007. Oh and there was one display running the old trailer everyone had already seen. Weak.

Instead of GTA IV, Rockstar concentrated on demonstrating the Table Tennis on Wii.

I also ran across System 3 promoting some Ferrari-related game. I kinda missed the name [It's Ferrari Challenge, and we pay you to look at the games -Ed], as my attention was once again distracted by silly marketing tricks.