Euro Gamer Expo 2011 Round up

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On Friday 23^rd of September I attended the EuroGamer Expo at Earls Court in London.   The event was sold out. I was fortunateenough to have been given a press pass which allowed me early entry to the expobefore it was open to the general public. I didn’t have to queue to get in and there wasa separate entrance for the press. When I was first arrived there were very little queuesfor all the booths. I went straight to Olive booth as they were giving awayfree Micro Consoles. I queued  for about20 minutes , I got my Onlive console which came with a free issue of PC gamermagazine and vouchers for a 3 month trial if you’re a BT internet customerwhich I am.  After that I went to theAlienWare booth which featured all of the latest AlienWare  PC’s and a very difficult driving simulatorwhich had hydraulics , a gear stick a steering wheel and 3 screens and it wasplayable in 3D with Nvidia’s 3D vision technology.  
Unfortunately I wasn’t able to play Battlefield 3 or Modern Warfare3 as they were in the 18 + area and when I tried to gain access to that area itwas being guarded by security so I couldn’t get in. But I got to play someawesome games including , Uncharted 3 the sequel to Uncharted 2  Among Thieves which was awesome  Iplayed the multiplayer mode which was great and highly addictive.   I alsoplayed a game called Rage which was made by Bethesda, The mode I played was arenamode where hoards of enemies were sent after you and you, the aim was tosurvive as long as possible, I also played Forza 4 motor sports which was good,you had about 4 cars to choose from and you could do a 2 lap race, the graphicswere pretty good. Samsung had a booth there where they were displaying many ofthe TV’s and Gadgets they were releasing ,I got to have a go on the new Samsunggalaxy tab and I was pretty Impressed , I played fruit ninja on it and thetouch screen was very responsive.  Therewas a press exclusive room that only people press passes could go in, it hadfree WIFI and they provided us with lunch, I felt very amateur compared toeveryone else as they all had broadcast quality cameras and macbooks.  One of my friends even over heard someone saythat they worked for IGN.
There were severalcos players (people dressed up) and some very hot gamer girls.  There were quite a few games I would love tohave seen but the queues for them were just too big, Counter Strike GO’ forexample and Batman Arkham City. My favourite game that I played was defiantlyUncharted 3 and I am going to pre-order it.  I had hope to get round to doing someinterviews with developers but I was just having so much fun that I didn’t getround to it. Next year I think I will go to more than 1 day as there was somuch I would have liked to see / play but couldn’t. Overall I thoroughlyenjoyed it and am looking forward to next year . You can see all my pictures from this year on my personal Facebook fan page.

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