Shame-porium

The mother-lode this weekend - Eurogamer Expo in London. Actually not as painful as I feared, less fan-a-thon more slick trade show. The queues were short, the games were good - the whole thing was well worth the attendance.

Went to one presentation on Brink, which looks very promising as a realisation of the potential of Quake Wars (also from Splash Damage). There's some heavy Modern Warfare inspiration but that's no bad thing, and the emphasis on co-op buys into a very encouraging multiplayer trend (cf Borderlands, that I hope to write about soon). On the floor Left 4 Dead 2 looks promising, though there doesn't seem that much of a development of the graphics from the first one. More of the same is still a pretty good deal there. More gorgeous were Dark Void (which quite brilliantly has implemented Gears of War cover fighting in a vertical axis) and - surprisingly to me - Bayonetta. Previously I couldn't have cared less, but it actually won me over, just for its sheer mental-ness. Honourable mentions to Lost Planet 2 and Dragon Age.

Good fun. And two free t-shirts. Result.