Second day for the press, first day for the public. Although there are restricted areas for the public, as a press member you have no choice but to cross the immense halls of the complex in order to get to the other exhibitors booths. No problem at all yesterday, but today we had to perform a slalom through the huge crowd already present in the morning. The terrain has changed substantially, and every move has to be perfectly applied.

So we grabbed our things and "teleported" ourselves to Activision to check out the line-up. Now you know that Activision isn't alone anymore and the correct name of the company is actually Activision|Blizzard, but for the press there was still a differentiation between both companies, so you could choose which one to visit.

First we saw Quantum of Solace, the game after the movie with Bond...James Bond, which will appear later this year. Accidentally or not, the gameplay is extremely similar with Bourne's Conspiracy from which many melee combat mechanics have been borrowed. Based on the Call of Duty engine the game tries to offer diversity from shooting missions to stealth and melee combat ones, plus multiplayer. More details to come.

Call of Duty: World at War, continues the dramatic but epic feeling of WWII. This time the action is switched to Pacific and Russian battlefields. Hollywood actors were used for the voice-acting to increase cinematic feeling. The Co-Op mode for the singleplayer is there and has a big impact to the XP statistics. Bigger maps, some of them designed especially for vehicles combat. Flame thrower is the new weapon of the franchise.

"Engage", and we're off to Futuremark and their first original IP called Shattered Horizon. The company, known for its benchmarks, decided it's time to enter in the gaming industry on their own. Based on a home-made graphical engine, derived from the 3D Mark bechmarks, the game is a fast paced massive-multiplayer fps which takes place in zero gravity environment. More precisely on fallen meteorites coming from the Moon. Thanks to the gravity boots and the jet-pack, you can stick to walls and ceilings, a fact that complicates the combat tactic even in a simple death-match. Breath-taking graphics, fast combat mechanics and delirious up-side-down battles can create a hit in the massive multiplayer fps branche. Thank you guys for the presentation! Good luck!

Funcom welcomed us in Conan's lair, or at least this is how their booth was looking, to show us some astonishing new details about the Hyborian land. Strategically positioned next to the other big MMO developer and publisher, Funcom's booth was looking amazing and so was their new DirectX10 enhanced edition of Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures. But the game definitely needs content. A new region and an unlocked wing of the major city is not enough to compensate the lack of the content compared to World of Warcraft. But the guys are still listening to the fans and they decided to recreate some of the dungeons with new traps and puzzles, and to bring some of the popular elements from the Conan movies ("the wheel of pain".

In the end we landed at Focus Home Interactive, the French publishing company, to check out Blood Bowl a game set in the Warhamer universe and based on a Games Workshop boardgame of the same name. If you like American Football and Warhammer, Blood Bowl offers you the best mixture of these two. The game is a turn-based strategy similar to Chaos League, both games being developed by Cyanide, where fantasy meets football.

The final march of GC will take place tomorrow, with a final report on our site. Until then, bye!