IAM8BIT had a photo area with plenty of props to play with. You could become Kratos or a monkey from Ape Escape, but you also had the chance to pick up plenty of prop weapons to show off your moves.
Way play with props when you could dish out hits with the game itself. I heard fans going "Eehhhh' and "Nooooo" as intense battles were fought out all night. Luckily, even though the head of the game Omar Kendall came to the celebration he gave no speech so everybody could enjoy themselves. Everyone did enjoy themselves by mercilessly launching missiles, electrocuting and setting each other on fighter. Instant friendship for everybody. I myself got lost trying to learn all of Ratchet's moves or getting use all the Big's Daddy's plasmids. The diverse roster of characters and strange backgrounds allows for a lot of different trial and error per character. Kratos was probably used the most with Sweet Tooth coming in second.
As I saw old friends who I had stop bad guys, played music and killed gods with disintegrate into the PlayStation button logos I was a bit nostalgic and a bit happy to see them coming together to violently destroy each other.
The game is due out Nov 20.
more photos of the event after the jump
