Edinburgh Games Festival - FightBox, Fable, More..

TheNomad writes "This past Monday, the first ever Edinburgh International Games Festival was held. In the middle of the massive Edinburgh Festival cultural season, this is an interesting development for games and gaming. There's a review of the event over at Machinima.com, including details on Peter Molyneux's demo of Fable, the BBC's TV series/game, Fightbox, and other cool stuff." FightBox, a TV show which is "...a gladiatorial arena-style competition between virtual characters, created by members of an online community who compete... to get a chance of appearing on the show itself", is particularly interesting.

I tried the Fightbox game

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It sucked. Well it wasn't too bad for a first attempt at interactive Gaming TV. The controls weren't fluid enough and the qualification games were dull. Also there was a limited number of moves (punch kick etc). The main way to customise the warrior was to upgrade the thing to have better power so you could attack more often. Which was yawnsome. Something with the move depth of a fighting game and the character building of a Final Fantasy. So getting the dragon fist would allow you to do a jumping upper-cut punch and link other combos in to it. Actually a MMORPG based on a sci-fi gladiatorial arena and surrounding world would be ideal.