VGL Review is Here

Sweet!

We walk in to Abravanel Hall and the first thing we notice is the huge disparity among the visitors. There are a bunch of middle aged, overweight geeks that still have acne, probably live with their parents, and are wearing t-shirts and jeans. Then there were the season ticket holders; 60-80 year olds in dress clothes looking around in bewilderment wondering if they overheard an older lahad died and gone to Hell. This group was absolutely hilarious to watch, I evendy say "This might get kind of loud, maybe we should leave early." A few members of my geeky generation were garbed in their authentic video game attire, including a sexy Chun-Li that I don't believe had anything under her fishnets.

The show started out perfect. They started playing a video and about 3 seconds into it they shut it off and a guy ran onto stage to talk to the conductor. I think that they weren't quite ready to start. The conductor turns around and mouths to the crowd, holding out his index finger, "one minute." Immediately, without hesitation, a guy about two rows behind us screams out, "take it out and blow in it!"

Classic.

They start out showing a bunch of old school games on a huge screen, like Pong and Asteroid, with the symphony playing music. Then they made their way through a whole bunch of games playing footage highlights while the Utah Symphony and Snow College Choir played the music from these games. Sounds kind of goofy but it was awesome. The highlights for me were definitely Halo (with the electric guitar), Castlevania, World of Warcraft, and Zelda. (Medal of Honor wasn't too bad either)


The concert lacked some of my favorite game music including Mega-Man and Metroid, total bummer, but I figure they must change up the music each year so that people will come back, which means I will definitely be going to Video Games Live again.

and again.

and again.