I escorted my brother to an interview in London yesterday and thought while i was in the city it might be a good idea to check the exhibition out.
We got in at about 2:00pm and had 1 hour 30 mins to play as much as we could. It was really cool, i had this vibe of nostalgia throughout the whole exhibition. It was like a huge arcade featuring important and popular games from the industries history; past and present. They had pong, street fighter (1 and 2), prince of persia, pro evolution soccer, madden nfl, halo (multiplayer), final fantasy VI, Dragonball Z, Tony Hawk's pro skater, Goldeneye, etc... the list just goes on.
We couldn't try out Wii Sports and PS3's motorstorm 'cus the waiting time was way too long but we could see them in action and Motorstom in particular looked great (graphics-wise). Like lagmaster said there was some good art, info and design charts on games like Max Payne and GTA. They even had the original Max Payne clothes set on display; the leather jacket, hawaiian shirt, pendant etc worn by the actor for the comic-scenes and used to create the texture for max in-game. It was in some see-through plastic cabinet.
I was on a serious losing spree, got my behind handed to me in Street Fighter II (and i thought i was pretty good!
, it was a tough match but someone had to loose) and some little kid beat me 3 - Nil in Pro evolution soccer 5!
Oh well, it's been a while and i'm rusty... at my prime things would have been much different!
On a side note the actual science museum is spectacular!
