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As many of you know, John and I went to New York City Comic Con as members of the press this past weekend. Overall, it was an amazing experience that I hope to do every year. I met some great people in the business and learned a lot from them. The whole weekend was a big sensory overload for me, but my goal in this post is to summarize some of the high points.
The Ultramarines movie
To me, this booth made my entire weekend worth the effort. I am a Warhammer 40k veteran of over 10 years so I immediately had an interest. This movie follows some soldiers of the Ultramarines Space Marine Chapter, which is one of my favorite armies in the game. The only problem I have with this movie is the website itself. I have tried twice now to pre-order the collector’s edition, and the website has failed me both times.
Warhammer 40k: Space Marine Video Game
For Games Workshop’s second trick, they are working on a first person shooter where you play as a space marine. There are plenty of reviews around the net for this game, and all seem positive so far. The cool thing about this booth was they had guys in full sized Ork and Space Marine costumes, so cool.
Capcom vs. Marvel 3
This game was everywhere it seemed. They had demos playing at the IGN booth, Capcom Booth, and the Marvel booth. It seems like a classic 2d fighting game with all of your favorite Capcom and Marvel characters. If you enjoy this type of game or fondly remember playing fighting games on your old SNES, its worth checking out.
DC Universe
This game looks fantastic! The trailer was pretty epic and the graphics were amazing. As part of the story you get to play as a sidekick to some of the more famous heroes such as Batman. We plan on checking this game out as soon as we can.
Intel
I am not sure what Intel was doing at a convention about comic books, but they had by far the biggest booth at the show; it was at least twice as big as Marvel plus DC combined. Intel was showing off their latest Core i7 extreme CPU by having machines set up running a number of popular games. They even had their own stage where they were commentating StarCraft 2 tournaments.
Marvel Superhero Squad Online
Originally we thought this game looked way too cheesy to be of any interest to us. Boy, were we proven wrong. First of all, this is a free to play game in which you can buy some things with micro-transactions, but you can find all of these items by playing the game for free. One of the cool features is that PvP is done through a card game. At another booth we were given some cards for free and we played it the next day. It is a simple game but fun. There will be a more in-depth posting on this later.
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