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Well it’s that time of year again here at IGT, New York City Comic Con has come and gone once again and here are some of my thoughts on the event.
Maybe because it was the first day for Press, Pros, and VIPs, but some of the bigger names had pretty lame booths. Both DC and Marvel did not really have much going on. Marvel had the cool shield set going for them, but as of yesterday they were not utilizing it for much. The Transformers MMO had a great looking setup, but they were experiencing technical difficulties so there was not any real action, by the end they had some pre-rendered animations of some of the characters playing on their screen.
There were still some pretty good offerings this year. Square Enix had a number of consoles available to demo some of their new games like Deus Ex Human Revolution and Final Fantasy XIII-2. Sprint, like last year, had a number of video games to try out in their booths, Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and Uncharted 3 among them. Star Wars: The Old Republic had a playable demo, which I did not try this day because the line was so long. Believe it or not, 5 Gum had a great booth before entering the Con proper, they had a bed of ball bearings under 3 large speakers you could lay on and had some fun video games you could try out.
Panels opened at noon for professionals, but I do not think many people attended them. They were about comic books and video games in libraries, fairly dry stuff. I have not been impressed with the overall panel offerings this year. There are some good ones we will attend today and tomorrow.
The two panels we attended this year were very good. The first was the Felcia day spotlight which was moderated by Chris Hardwick. Sandeep Parikh was along for the ride and the interaction between all three was hilarious.
The second panel was about Star Wars: The Old Republic. The presenters could not say much as there is still an NDA in place. Originally, they planned on announcing the release date at the panel, but decided to the week before in London. Instead, they rendered a brand new cinematic trailer for us, and it was great.
I think Comic Con is suffering from a case of confused identity. As cool as it was, 5 Gum does not really belong, neither does Chevy or the Microscope/Telescope company. Last year Intel seemed a bit out of place, but at least they had a place to play video games and had a cool stage for it. So far, not impressed.
Bellow is some of the pictures I took during the weekend.
http://www.itsgeektime.com/gallery/index.php/2011-NYC-Comic-Con
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