Greetings from the land of the morning calm! This week's updates (October 30th-November 5th) by GGA editor Jane Pinckard (that's me) and from co-editor/assistant/bag-carrier Justin Hall will be logged in from Daejeon, South Korea - "city of innovative traffic" and host to the 2nd ever World Cyber Games.
Well, it may be the land of morning calm - with the quality of what the people here call "coffee" it's hard to be anything but practicaly catatonic - but there was also an eerie desertedness to the Expo Park, a gigantic leftover relic from the 1993 World Expo and now, as the Lonely Planet guidebook notes, a great setting for a B-grade horror flick. And truly, watching the trickle of people against the background of empty ferris wheels and closed-up giant dome buildings, you did feel a sort of depressed hilarity about the whole thing.
Well, I did. But that could have been due to the afore-mentioned lack of coffee.
To make the atmosphere even more surreal, there was a constant stream of Bavarian oohmpa-oohmpa folk music being piped into mysterious hidden speakers throughout the park. If I were the paranoid type I'd have thought we were being brainwashed. For what purpose, I don't know. Sinister, I am sure.
It's probably because the event is so new that it seemed rather disorganized. We walked into the park Tuesday night and asked for a press pass. Now, try doing this at E3 - you get the third degree! But here they were very nice. They asked for a business card - which I didn't have, but Justin gave them his - and then that was it. They pointed us in the direction of the Press room and let us go on our merry way.
Sweet!
I must say though that I hope this event succeeds. That's not only because I like games and so on, but because the people staffing and organizing the games are very sweet and hard working and I hope their efforts pay off. And I hope it happens again next year!
All right, we're off to go watch two of the world's best Quake III Arena players in action. More reportage to follow!
This looks like a lot of fun. The pics were cool.
Posted by: Liz | 10/31/2002 at 03:22 AM
any news on a game called Magna Carta? That game looks really really really good........... i'd love to see it broght to north america.. i think its already out in korea.. not sure though.
Posted by: Ifrit | 11/07/2002 at 02:37 AM
Magna Carta's been out for a while here in Korea. General concensus is that it sucks monkey nuts. Mediocre graphics and mediocre storyline along with mediocre gameplay.. Blah. >_
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