Games, Games, Games and our first live show.

Day 2 was an absolute blur. I had to shake off the effects of Thursday night and hit the ground running by noon, as we rushed to the showroom floor to take advantage of our “Media” Status. Truth and Justice (aka TJ) was in tow, and we were glad he was there. The man will do absolutely anything we needed him to do and believe me, there was much to be done. The only problem? TJ didn’t have a media pass.

A problem? Find out, and read all about what we saw, did and played, after the jump!

First: The plan of attack.

There’s one thing you learn about people, if you give off a vibe like you don’t know what you’re doing, people can smell it, like a dog smelling fear. I gathered the troops and told them, act like you know what your doing, we’ll walk right in without being questioned. If anybody says anything, let me do the talking. And away we went.

Our first obstacle: Door guard number one. It sounds way more forboding that it really is, because really, he was a septegenarian with a vest and a flashlight. Easy prey. We walked right up and he checked our badges, looked at TJ and before he could say anything, I said, “He’s our camera man.” It worked. He nodded and let us pass, like we were Ben Kenobi and Luke in Mos Eisley. We were in.

The entrance to PAX. We made it!

Second: Sensory Overload.

Walking into PAX I realized what it must have been like for the fictional kids to walk into Wonka’s chocolate factory. My eyes buldged, my palms became sweaty and I was frothing like a mad dog. Left 4 Dead must be close…

It was. Smack dab in the middle, front and center by the entrance was Valve’s glorious monument to zombie killing. It was like finding the monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey. I just kept hearing that theme in my head as things went into slow motion as I realized that there were three empty seats in begging us to take up. And so it was. And we did.

Dave TJ and I sat down to the Xbox 360 version of Left 4 Dead and got it going. Let me preface this next part by saying that I did have some reservations about my expectations for Left 4 Dead on the Xbox 360. I thought it wouldn’t look as pretty or play as well on the console, as compared to the PC version. I had last played Left 4 Dead in August of 2007 in Quakecon and loved it then, and I did not want to be disappointed.

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