[Game] Games Convention 2008 The Thread

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Ralfst3r

Ralfst3r

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Games Convention 2008 in Leipzig
21 - 24 August 2008

Official Website:
http://www.gc-germany.com/

The Kotaku GC Mega News Post:
http://kotaku.com/5038318/the-games-convention-ber-update-post

All Gametrailers.com GC at one place:
http://www.gametrailers.com/gc2k8.php

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The complete lineup for Games Convention 2008 (With thanks to Drakon2k for translating German titles):

1C Company
• Captain Blood (PC, Xbox 360)
• Cryostasis (PC)
• Death Track: Resurrection (PC)
• IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey (PS3, Xbox 360, PSP, NDS)
• King's Bounty: The Legend (PC)
• Men of War (PC)
• NecroVisioN (PC)

Akella
• A Stroke of Fate (PC)
• Disciples III: Renaissance (PC)
• Heavy Duty (PC)
• Moscow Racer (PC)
• Night Watcher (PC)
• Numen: Contest of Heroes (PC)
• Postal 3 (PC, Xbox 360)
• PT Boats: Knights of the Sea (PC)
• Showdown: Scorpion (PC)

Ascaron
• Sacred 2: Fallen Angel (PC, Xbox 360)

Atari
• Alone in the Dark (PC, PS2, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii)
• Family Trainer(Wii)
• GTR Evolution (PC)
• What's Cooking With Jamie Oliver (PC)
• Legendary (Xbox 360, PS3, PC)
• My Horse and Me 2 (PC, DS, Wii)
• Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 3 (PS2)
• Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm (PS3)
• RACE Pro (Xbox 360)
• The Witcher: Enhanced Edition (PC)

Burda:ic
• Florensia (PC)
• Hello Kitty Online (PC)
• S4 League (PC)

Capcom
• Bionic Commando (PS3, Xbox 360)
• Dark Void (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)
• Moto GP 08 (PC, PS3, PS2, Xbox 360, Wii)
• Street Fighter IV (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)

Codemasters
• Operation Flashpoint 2 (Xbox 360, PC, PS3)
• The Lord of the Rings Online: The Mines of Moria (PC)
• Rise of the Argonauts (PS3, Xbox 360, PC)
• Damnation (Xbox 360, PS3, PC)
• Jumpgate Evolution (MMOG; PC)

Daedalic Entertainment
• A New Beginning (PC)
• Edna & Harvey: The Breakout (NDS)
• The Whispered World DS (NDS)
• The Whispered World (PC)

Deep Silver
• Baby Life (PC)
• Cursed Mountain (PC)
• Secret Files 2 - Puritas Cordis(PC)
• Horse Life 2 (PC)
• Risen (PC)
• Sacred 2: Fallen Angel (PC)
• Spielen-Wir-Reihe (PC)
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky (PC)
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NoxNoctum

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Don't forget Operation Flashpoint 2, Codies have promised to show in-game stuff at Leipzig.
 
Lt_Kettch

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I was there today for about 9 and a half hours. It was very crowded which resulted in long wating times and only a small choice of games which could be tested :(

I played Mirror's Edge, Brothers in Arms, Far Cry 2 and Left 4 Dead.

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They gave away a cool T-shirt(Fallout that is you silly) but I didn't got one because we ran out of time.

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We could play Mirror's Edge both on PC and Playstation. They didn't maxed out the graphics for the PC version so it didn't look like in the videos. The movement was a bit like in Dark Messiah and it is in the gameplay style like Portal. The playable level was very short after making yourself familiar with the controls you were through in less then 3 minutes so it is hard too judge how it will turn out. But I got a cool T-Shirt :cool:

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We played L4D in a bus. It was as good as I expected it to be if you like the videos you will enjoy playing it.

Far Cry 2 and BiA were disappointing.

Far Cry 2 seems to be a true shooter from minute one nothing wrong with that but I could imagine it will get boring always (and only) shooting stuff and it has red exploding barrels. Also it is annoying to pick up weapons of dead enemies they jam after three shoots (I am not exaggerateing!!) And also even zoomed in sniper rifles have an additional cross hair (weird). The performance was good.


I played the wind mill level of BiA and a small fragment in a mansion. The AI is not too good and also I was shoot by a clipping German (he clipped through the wall of a barn). The performance was very bad (the console versions were better) The controls were weird to too but most likely they can be fixed through rebinding (didn't work in the preview version). The first person animation of the MG42 was hopefully not final and also it is annoying that cover has to be destroyed (there is no bullet penetration).

We watched also a presentration of Operation Flashpoint 2 and LotR: Mines of Moria.
The only showed new shots of the island and parts of the menu the playable version didn't work for some reason.
Mines looks decent for a MMORPG.

Clear Sky and Call of Duty were playable too but we ran out of time :/

Now some boring pics somehow I only took crap pictures :O

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Lt_Kettch

Lt_Kettch

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Definitely Left 4 Dead.

Mirror's Edge was too short to form an unbiased opinion of it.

BiA was WIP and delayed for obvious reasons but I really hope the PC version will turn out good.

And you only could test the gunnning part of Far Cry 2 for the story or missions was simply no time.
 
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DraKon2k

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Just came back from germany and I pretty much managed to play all promising games except ArmA2 which I couldn't find. Here's the list of games I played:

Left 4 Dead, Stalker: Clear Sky, Tomb Raider: Underworld, Dead Space, Crysis: Warhead, Fifa09, NfS: Undercover, Resistance 2, Killzone 2, Siren: Blood Curse, Far Cry 2, BiA: Hell's Highway, Shaun White Snowboarding, Call of Duty: World at War, James Bond: A Quantum of Solace, Fallout 3(ingame presentation), OFP2(ingame presentation :D), Pes2009, Silent Hill: Homecoming, Project Origin
 
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