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The 'Shrine At ECTS 2003

I've just arrived home from the other side of the city and I have well and truly injured my legs. As with the last two ECTS shows the main show was very disappointing, there were only three games at the entire show worth playing: SSX3, Unreal Tournament 2004 and Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes. It was the Nintendo area outside that saved the show.

The truck itself had about 80 Gamecubes playing Gamecube and GBA games, but the coolest part of Nintendo's 'area' was the huge big screen with the karts in front of it for the daily Mario Kart tournaments. Unfortunately, the LCD screens fitted inside the karts has the worlds worst glare and you couldn't. See. A. Bloody. Thing. The guy who sat at the back left always won because he or she had the big screen's shadow reducing the screen glare a bit, it was so bad I was taking left turns on the city track when there was a big flashing red arrow in front of me pointing right.

I also got to meet Nintendo Europe president Satoru Shibata which was very cool, he's a very charming man as with most Japanese game employees.

Until tomorrow when I do it all over again and get to play a bit more here's some very brief impressions:

Mario Kart: Fantastic. Click here for my full impressions.

Pikmin 2: Click here for my full impressions.

1080: I didn't like the original so I got bored and left it after a minute, but those of you who like the original I'm sure will really love this. The menus were very beautiful and the game also has a LAN mode!

Mario & Luigi: RPG fans are really going to love this, it's really fantastic, I'd go as far as saying even better than Mario RPG.

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