Top Five Funny Things at Codemasters

Ho har! Went to Codemasters yesterday to play on DiRT, SWOS and Overlord. Which was nice and had a lovely day and now feel no urges to name drop.

They gave us a nice tour around the studios that was quite interesting, but not really why I was there. It was cool seeing the insides of the how a developer works but I was more interested in playing Overlord. But I guess that's all part and parcel of the PR guys giving us a positive day.

As Andy pointed out, the reason why we'll be giving Codemasters some very positive coverage from the event is not because of all the nice things they did for us, but because they actually showed some good quality titles.

We'll have previews up on BXB shortly and all three of the games were certainly impresssive with Overlord winning the day for me personally due to the cool game play. I think Andy was won over by SWOS and DiRT just rocked hard.

Anyway, onto the main topic of this entry:

The BXB Top Five Funny Things We Saw in Codemasters...

1) A man relaxing in a room full of comfy chairs reading the 'We hate Sony because they slaughtered a goat' Daily Mail. How I laughed.
2) A very large amount of cookery books stacked up on some tables.
3) Ade from MSxboxWorld doing a great American Tourist impression with his fancy HD Camera, even filming us walking down stairs.
4)An unamed member of the Codemaster's team being caught on video saying less than positive things about another major publisher.
5) The DiRT development team enjoying Guitar Hero 2 on their lunch break.

While probably the most awkward moment was being stuck in a soundproof room with the XCN Manager "Aceybongos" and not having anything to say at all. Nothing. *bites fist*

Anyhoo, we had some technical issues on the day and the video camera gave in so I had to film some of the games on my phone which didn't lead to the best quality videos, which is a real shame. I'll post them later anyway.