Games Convention 2005 in Germany

[Trotim]

First: I did play Shadow the Hedgehog. I did play Sonic Rush. I did play Sonic Gems Collection.

Now with that gone: I did go to the Games Convention 2005 in Germany.

You can await some cool pictures of all the games I was able to play, even if most of them were only beta, like Black&White 2, The Movies, NFS:Most Wanted. There were also quite good presentations of Gothic 3 and FEAR and the XBoX 360. There was no Tails there though, else it'd have been perfect ;D

Expect some pictures tomorrow or at least in a few days when I am able to upload them. Maybe you could even ask me some questions about the games, but I didn't play them all very long.
And yes, Shadow the Hedgehog does work with a gun. Or multiple.

As I said, pictures in a few days, you can begin shrieking and hyping now

[Marik]

Well Gems is out here so I have no problem seeing how it is. What version of Shadow? PS2 or GCN? Did you demo the 360? I wanna know how the upper triggers are. They say its like 2 GCN Z buttons which isnt good.

[Kit]

oooh, FEAR looks good. How was Shadow the Hedgehog?

Was The Movies any good? It looks like its going to be a pretty fun game.

[Trotim]

tailsandgrowly said:

Well Gems is out here so I have no problem seeing how it is. What version of Shadow? PS2 or GCN? Did you demo the 360? I wanna know how the upper triggers are. They say its like 2 GCN Z buttons which isnt good.

Both, and no, you couldn't demo the 360 and I didn't see a 360 controller once. Only the console itself was shown and some presentations about it's power.

kitprower said:

oooh, FEAR looks good. How was Shadow the Hedgehog?

Was The Movies any good? It looks like its going to be a pretty fun game.

Shadow the Hedgehog was quite like SA2:B, there were only some small changes (as of now, it WAS beta after all):

- Guns. Shadow aimed at the enemies automatically, but in a way so it didn't hinder movement (no 180 degrees rotation for example) I think they based it on the lock-on. There is no ammunition, or at least I didn't see any, but without rings I wasn't able to shoot. There were multiple guns and you could change them, Shadow is only able to carry one.
- Story. There were only 2 levels playable, but there was at least 3 minutes cutscene too. There were no subtitles or speech though, but it seems as if the president or some other important human wants to get him and Ivo plays a role in it too. There were end of stage rings just like in SA2:B, but with an uncolored emerald in it. In a cutscene you were able to see how, after he got two of them, a transparent figure looking like a demon waited for Shadow, but he simply ignored him as good as he could. Strangely, there are also...
- Comrades. I met Sonic, Knuckles, but also an eye called "Doom Eye" who helped me in "Destroying those pathetic human forces", as Doom Eye said. Yes, Sonic and Knuckles helped me. I don't know why, not an idea. Maybe it was just for testing?

Just like in SA2:B, you can also play multiplayer fighting against each other. It was poorly made though as of now, so I didn't bother with it much. There were four variations of Shadow in it, all with another color of their hair.
It was loading quite long for each level, and it lagged a bit. Once the game froze and the guys from SEGA simply replaced it with a Sonic Gems Collection game.


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Oh, The Movies is very nice too. You can make even more abstract faces than in The Sims 2, every star you made had several attributes like "Mood (Up)" (how easy it is to make him happy) or "Mood (Down)" (how hard it is to make him angry). There were attributes for different genres too, like Horror and Action. If you have a hybrid (Resident Evil for example would need both Action and Horror) you have to make sure the actor knows how to do both.
You built houses like in Sim City, only way less complicated. When a house was built there was a timer, when it was full the house was ready. There were buildings like "Rehab", so actors (and camera-men) could go there when they were addicted with alcohol or something similar.
It seemed like quite an early beta though, you couldn't make movies yet.

[Kit]

Shadow and The Movies both sound like theyre coming along nicely. Im looking forward to both these titles. Do you know if the Movies is a PC exclusive?

[Trotim]

kitprower said:

Shadow and The Movies both sound like theyre coming along nicely. Im looking forward to both these titles. Do you know if the Movies is a PC exclusive?

Yes, I do think so, seeing as how the movies made with The Movies are supposed to be shown to other people - and the internet is, no doubt, accessible the easiest.
Also, it's like the Sims or Black and White, and none of them appeared on a console, right?

[Marik]

Sims did, its on the Xbox GCN and PS2 and GBA. The movies is PC exclusive but you could see a 360 version come out.