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 First there's the hype: belly-dancing twins, parties at the Playboy mansion, open-bars, and token indie-rock stars (Beck, Everclear, and the like). Then there is the reality: rumpled, sleep-deprived editors stifling yawns and nodding their way through demos (not GameSpot's editors, of course), disgruntled women moaning (justifiably) about the excess of scantily clad booth bunnies at the show. Companies with million dollar booths blare music and sales pitches from enormous speakers at a crowd with a hangover rate as high as New Orleans on day two of Mardi Gras. Then there is the inner circle: game-developers, looking like Metallica roadies, grinning over thousand dollar expense-account dinners in swanky LA restaurants. And there's the outer-circle, would-be game developers, staying in dusty motels 50 miles away from the convention center, eating hot-dogs and popping chocolate-covered espresso balls chased by Mylanta on the show-floor. There will also be games of
every type and seemingly every possible combination of genre. We could
have picked more obvious games - or the most hyped - but we decided instead
to go with the games we were most looking forward to, the games that push
at the envelope a little more. Here's a preview of what we're really looking
forward to at E3.
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