![]() ![]() The joke at E3 was that Shannon Drake was the most popular guy at the show, yet few people had ever met him. As a result, most developers had his name listed where ours should have been. Shannon is the guy who was in charge of setting up our interviews at E3. I would later come to call this “The Shannon Drake” effect. When I hit the downstairs reception desk and handed them my card, I was greeted with a bit of humorous confusion. I was fifteen minutes late to the presentation. I arrived on time for my appointment to get hands-on time with Gears of War. Very few people got in, and those who did were examined mercilessly. It had two stories, dozens of private meeting rooms, two separate reception desks and the security-to-flatscreen ratio was off the scale. It was glaringly white, sickeningly green and deafeningly loud. Microsoft’s E3 booth was a gigantic plastic and neon monstrosity towering above almost every other booth at the show. So they handed me a notepad and asked me who I wanted to talk to and what I wanted to see.Īt the top of my list were Microsoft and Gears of War. I had just started at the company, and in spite of the fact that they were willing to give me a plane ride to L.A. When The Escapist went to E3 this past May, I was put in the enviable position of setting my own agenda. It’s being praised as the Xbox 360’s Halo a must-have first-person shooter showcasing all that’s great and wonderful about next-gen technology, cutting edge graphics and the hottest game engine ever made. The most-hyped game ever is coming out on November 7th, and having it’s Grand Opening (AKA Emergence Day) five days later.
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