So this was the first
games convention I have ever been to, so I thought I would do a
review. As I absolutely love dressing up, I decided to dress as
Harley Quinn from Batman: Arkham City (Harley Quinn's revenge DLC),
and my boyfriend dressed as The Riddler, also from Arkham City.
On the reasonably
tiresome walk from the train station to Koelnmesse (where Gamescom is
held) I overheard a woman saying that she comes here every year and
this is the busiest she had ever seen it.
In a way, hearing this
filled me with a bit of dread, I generally don't like lots of people,
especially thousands and thousands of them, even more so that I couldn't see
many of them dressed up. I could see a handful of people dressed as
anime characters (possibly, I don't know as I'm not really interested
in anime, so I couldn't recognise who they were supposed to be!) However, as soon as we
got into the first hall, with all the brightly lit up game banners,
loud music and so many interesting things to look at in all
directions, I knew that this was definitely what I had imagined a
game convention to be like, it was overwhelming.
There are some very
exciting game titles coming out this year including: Thief, Fable
Legends, Killzone: Shadow
Fall, Call of Duty: Ghosts, Grand Theft Auto 5, The Sims 4,
Titalfall, WWE 2K14 and last but not least Elder Scrolls Online. Not
forgetting a sneak peak into the next generation consoles as well of
course!
Some of the upcoming
titles that I am personally looking forward to are:
Batman: Arkham Origins,
Saints Row 4, and Lego Marvel Superheroes - and I got to play all
three!
Batman: Arkham Origins
The graphics on this
game looked even more spectacular than before, if that's even
possible. I was already quite enthusiastic to play this game as me
and my boyfriend got to skip the queue, as we were dressed as
characters from the previous Batman game released. :D We even
appeared on the official Batman: Arkham Origins webpage (https://twitter.com/BatmanArkham/media/grid) amongst
other Batman Cosplayers, but our outfits were clearly the best.. The
game itself is quite similar to Arkham Asylum and Arkham City as it
is a prequel so the controls are the same, there are some new gadgets
and obviously a different storyline, but other than that it doesn't
seem that much has changed from the last game. This however isn't in
any way a bad thing, as the Batman Arkham games are very well made
and an interesting play.
Saints Row 4
Another Saints Row
title! Amazing. In my opinion Saints Row has always had what the
Grand Theft Auto games have lacked over the years. - Saints Row is
purely for fun, yes it's ridiculous, but it's also brilliant!
Sometimes you just feel like dressing your overly-musculer male
gangster character in a small pink cocktail dress and catapulting
people out of a cannon that's attached to a car shaped like a cat, or
equally, hitting the general public with a ludicrously phallic
looking weapon. So ultimately I am super excited for this game!
Having had the opportunity to play this at Gamescom, I found that it
looks and plays just like Saints Row 3, which is disappointing in a
way, as there hasn’t been much improvement...except the fact that
you now have SUPERPOWERS! Awesome idea! You can run super fast and
jump the height of buildings, it's so cool! I also really loved the
addition of the Dubstep Gun, and the Black-hole Gun, both are as the
titles describe, and are both just fantastic. I will definitely be
buying this in the next few days.
Lego Marvel Superheroes
There were loads of people
wanting to take photos of us as well which was fantastic as they
recognised who we were supposed to be! I would love to find some of
the photos people took with us, but I've had no luck yet
unfortunately! We also found the Saints Flow Can guy! Yayy! <3
So all in all, I would
definitely go again, I really enjoyed myself, I loved dressing up and
I loved getting the opportunity to play games before they are
released to the public.
Here's some of the swag that me and my
boyfriend got from the convention. :)
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