E3 2002 was the first time World of Warcraft had been shown en-mass Stateside. The game was unveiled last year surrounded by much hype at ECTS in London where we were on hand to see Bill Roper’s presentation. (see previous article). Eight months on and we’re here to see what’s new. It was an early start, 7AM to make it down for the first appointment of the show but we were slavering at the thought of seeing WOW in action once again. Once we’d made it past the security bag search it was a mad rush up stairs, elbowing like tourists through the crowds to Vivendi’s corner. As you can see from our photos familiar imagery decked Blizzard’s domain (suitably large portion it was too), large Warcraft standards flanked the clearways through the monitor stacks. They must be a new addition as we’ve never seen those at a show before.
It was pretty quiet at this time as we were one of the first on the stand. We located Beau Yarborough, PR man, who gave us a couple of press packs and handed us over to our WoW demo host, programmer Mark Kern.
As many of you already knew from the press release Blizzard were showing a new race, the Dwarves and both a female and male dwarf character were shown on the character selection screen. The female dwarf wasn’t the prettiest at the ball but she looked as if she could handle herself.
