Hidden away from obvious eyes behind the main Smash Bros. TV was another one showing at least 10 minutes of various Adventure mode clips, including both its gameplay and cutscenes. Those cutscenes are rad, and I managed to take some video of my favorite clip involving DK and Diddy Kong fighting off a few Bullet Bills. It’s short, but sweet. Take a look:
Upon walking into the Expo, we immediately noticed giant Smash Bros banners and posters hanging from the ceiling, including the strange snow-cone shaped ones which are advertising for the DS games directly below them.
The Smash Bros. Brawl area worked like this: people waited in line by sitting in a large set of bleachers while watching people play on the flat screen TV. After every match, 16 people would be moved to a four Smash Bros stations where they would battle it out for two minutes. Each winner from the four stations would move on to play a “championship round” on the big screen everyone in the bleachers is watching. Here are some images from when I was sitting there.
The unfortunate (yet hilarious) part of this setup were the two booth babes doing their best to give the “play-by-play” of the match on the big screen. They were very much into trying to entertain everyone, but they clearly did not really know the game. Saying the names of characters once selected, or counting off the last five seconds of the match were easy for them. But making small talk was not. They would try to get the crowd riled up by having us do the wave, or asking us questions such as “what’s your favorite final smash?” and “who owns this game on Gamecube?” At one point they wanted us to ask them a question. Really? Why would the experts ask the questions?
Ray and I went to E for All on Friday and will spend the rest of this week sharing our impressions of the show, the games we played, the Video Games Live concert, and some pictures of it all. We’ll even talk about it in our podcast this week and maybe even our comic, so check back for updates throughout the week!
[Update] I’ve added a few more games to Ray’s list below that he missed.
Here’s a list of the games we were able to play below. Included in this list is obviously Brawl. I got a good solid eight minutes of gameplay in, and would have had two more had the power not gone out! I’ll talk more about Brawl in more detail whenever Tim gets done wasting our time and starts uploading some pictures.
Advance Wars: Days of Ruin (DS)
Civilization Revolution (Xbox360)
Dewy’s Adventure (Wii)
DK Barrell Blast (Wii)
Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings (DS)
Flash Focus (DS)
Guitar Hero III (PS3 / Xbox360 / Wii)
Link’s Crossbow Training (Wii)
Mario Party DS
Medal of Honor Heroes 2 (Wii)
Metal Gear Solid 4 (PS3)
The Orange Box: Team Fortress 2 (Xbox360)
Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles (Wii)
Super Mario Galaxy (Wii)
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii)
