Summing up Gamefest

After the first week on DFGA i went to the highly anticipated GAMEFEST. It took (only) 4 hours to get there but hey i thought it was worth it... Anyway heres how my experience went. The entire event was placed in one of the halls in the Birmingham NEC arena and it included games like Call of Duty MW3, Gears of War 3, Skyrim, Fifa 2012, Ghost recon: future soldier and Assassins creed Revelations. Some of the bigger companies presenting there were Ubisoft, Activision, Warner, EA, SEGA, Bethesda, XBOX 360, Konami and Nintendo. Bethesda is one i am particularly interested in at the moment because of the rising in popularity free roam game Elder scrolls which when i think about it is sometimes very close to the sort of game i want to make in the future, I qued for an hour and a half to get access to the Bethesda stall only to be shown more of a video i had already seen and then was given a big plastic bag with a Skyrim picture on the side, it wasnt my happiest moment. The rest of the day i tried to avoid the ques as much as possible which limited the entire experience but i did get a go on the new Ghost Recon game that was worth waiting an hour for. Overall the food was overpriced the ques were ridiculously long and the event was way overcrowded but i did get a free bag, a go on a cool game and a free avatar toy so i think it was worth it even if i wouldnt go again based on this experience.

 

These are 2 pics i took of the entire event which capture the size and amount of people there.