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Posted By: Syke360 |
As you all know I attended Video Games Live last week at my local capital city Cardiff, I was pleasantly surprised to receive a nice mind blowing explosion and experience the show that everyone in the world has been talking about. First we all had to shake off the normal ‘shh! its a orchestrated concert’ and were encouraged to cheer and yell for favourite themes and characters.
Beginning with a series of ‘YouTube’ gaming music classics the show gets underway and introduces us to the music wonders Jack Wall and Tommy Tallarico as our hosts for the evening. First thing that strikes you are well placed lights that occasionally blind you but that didn’t put me off, what kept me sucked in were those spine tingling musical pieces from retro games, Tetris, Super Mario and Mega man. Utilizing a full orchestra, choir, video and an impressive light display, your constantly hooked into the action.
It was slightly unnerving to see alot, and I mean alot of gamer geeks (an entirely different class of gamers) filling the stands but that was evenly matched by the Costume totting people, Mario, Guybrush Threepwood and Ash from Pokémon. Who all coincidently had attended to effort a win in the costume competition and winners this time round were those ‘bloody splicer’s’ from Bioshock.
After all that was over we continued to listen in awe to more gaming epics such as Metal Gear Solid and the Warcraft Suite which inserts this indescribable sensation that rips through what i can only mutter, the soul. With well place intermissions like a brief Video Games history lesson and special guests live via the worlds favourite communication medium Skype, pity about Marty O’Donnell. The show was evenly spaced out.
Show interactivity played a part in this event, seeing lucky members of the audience with large lungs that grabbed Double T’s attention, playing space invaders on a massive screen trying to win prizes and winners of the Guitar Hero competition playing live on stage with Tommy Tallarico on none other than Expert and doing very well.
The most amazing thing was to see the wide variety of people attending, being ranged from your average 12 year old gamer who plays too much Halo to the elderly person who would think VGL is just another medication prescribed by the doctor, it was very good to see how far video games have come and the wide scope of people it interests and reaches out to. A memorable moment is when Tommy Tallarico brings out is array of guitars and rocks up some of the pieces and adds some youth to older titles.
This show was the last show in Europe and will hopefully be returning next year, I fully recommend that if you get the opportunity to go then get tickets asap.
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December 7th, 2009 Posted by Syke360 | Events, Features, Reviews, VGL Tagged under | Tommy Tallarico, VGL, Video Games Live Comment on This Post | Comments (0) Discuss this Post | On the XG:Forum |
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