CES07: Day Two!
Well today, I am already exhausted and it is barely my second day at CES, yesterday I walked more than I had planned to. I wasn’t feeling while I was walking but now it’s hitting me. Today I decided to see what Sony had to demonstrated, Microsoft proof to be the leaders in software in the event.
My first thing I wanted to see at the Sony booth was definitely this holiday hard to get gadget the Playstation 3. Some of the games that were demonstrated on the floor were Motor Storm (an off road racer that you get to drive dirt bikes, ATVs, sand rails, rally cars, monster trucks, and everything in between), Lair (a Playstation 3 exlusive title where you get to wonder off in the skies using a dragon) and a trailer of Gran Turismo HD that really caught a lot of people’s attention. No doubt their booth was packed with people, just like majority of the major company’s booth. I ran into one of the representatives from Fox News, who was a bit intimidated about trying out the games. So instead he decided to watch us play and was amazed oh how much improvement video games have made, of course. They some pretty hip looking notebooks out on the floor. Somehow, that’s were Sony shines all the time, they seem to manage to make things look trendy from the outside, excluding the PS3, I don’t know what happened there.
While we were making our way back to the Microsoft tent, since I needed to upload more pictures. We couldn’t help but noticed that 3 Doors Down was doing a live show with their hi song Kryptonite over at the ESPN booth. For being live they actually sound much better than a lot of the musicians out there, they really rocked the ESPN booth.
We decided to wonder off and check out what else CES had to offer around the event. We saw more Games for Windows titles such as Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures (an MMO that looked like a combination of WoW and Oblivion), Hellgate London (really made me feel like I was playing Guild Wars, different story lines in games just the feel was so easy to get used to), Rail Simulator (how fun is that to drive around freely a train), Lord of the Rings Online – Shadows of Angmar (That’s right another one, perhaps they will hitch me on this one). So watch console gamers, this upcoming year there’s a lot of great titles coming up on PC, finally, I am getting tired of seeing the old great games in the shelves. Games for Windows seems to be stepping into the right direction, can’t wait to see outcome of the hard work the developers have put in.
The highlight of today was running into Godfree’s twin playing Halo 2. That was strange seeing the twin of my buddy that I wish could’ve made it. So watch out Godfree, we might consider replacing you if you annoy us, ha! As well as seeing 3 Doors Down live was a plus. After the show we decided to relax for this night and see what Vegas had to offer. So we decided to go see the Blue Man Group over at the Venetian. Sad enough they don’t allow you to take pictures of their performance, so I was only able to bring back home a mental memory of the show. But may I say it was a great show, the combination comedy and paint just was an amazing performance. Unfortunately, after this we headed back to our hotel, so no Zune Part, we didn't have enough energy to stick around for the midnight party.