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The way news has been flowing in into The ANGRY Pixel and considering the staggering number of games scheduled to come up this holiday season, the trickle is threatening to become a flood any time now. News, previews, reviews and press events, you name it and we have it. Not that we are complaining! Such times are especially exciting with so much activity going around us. Quite a heady mix, we assure you. Like the Experience EA event held in Mumbai today. We had our share of quality hands-on time at Mirror’s Edge, NFS:Undercover and FIFA 2009, about which, we will be posting soon enough (the Mirror’s Edge preview is already on). Keep checking back here at The ANGRY Pixel for more hands-on previews of the games at the event as well as the upcoming The Human Weapons Gaming Nightt scheduled to be held at New Delhi tomorrow. For now, hit the jump to view the press release from the Experience EA.
On Tuesday afternoon, EA India unleashed the icky-galacticness that is SPORE upon unsuspecting press attendees at the game’s official launch event held at the Intercontinental Hotel in Delhi. General Manager Ajay Khanna was armed to the teeth with PowerPoint presentations that could apparently freeze time itself, as he went on and on trying to convince the mainstream news representatives that they were staring at something that was sheer “fantastic” incarnate (one of Mr. Khanna’s favorite words). But much like the evolutionary process itself, these things can take time. Which is exactly why you’ve got to bait these groups of 20-something-year-olds with a free lunch, a fancy press kit (nice job with that one, PR dudes), review copies, and a limited edition EA 2GB pendrive! Well played, indeed.
It wasn’t all that boring. In fact, with Bollywood actor Kunal Kapoor and MTV’s Nikhil Chinapa around, tearing the shrink-wrap off a brand-new SPORE box (which ended up being one of our review copies) and giving a live-demo of the Creature Creator to the press, things were only somewhat boring. Also, it appears nigh impossible to have a discussion about SPORE without having to point out weirdo references about someone’s (or something’s) anatomy sticking out in the wrong way. It’s amusingly easy to tell how Nikhil is a lot of older than he tries to seem, what with him blurting stuff about his wife and bringing up people like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Michael Jackson as means of comparison to SPORE’s customization features but with a dash of comedic relevance (seriously). Was rather keen about doing a podcast, though, but he’s “busy.” (Le Sigh.)
Long story short: SPORE is out. You go buy, yes?