By Alexander Villafania
INQUIRER.net
MANILA, Philippines — While waiting for the upcoming World Cyber Games Finals in Germany, the organizers of the WCG Philippines tournament has started the WCG League in an effort to spur continues training of gamers hoping to get into the annual WCG Finals, local organzer eSports said.
The WCG League starts on October 18 and will be held at the Cyberzone of the SM Mall of Asia.
For now, two games will be highlighted and both are for the Microsoft Xbox 360. These are Guitar Hero III (GH3) and Soul Calibur IV (SC4).
For GH3, the game mode will be one-versus-one and will be set on expert. There will already be a selection of songs including “One” by Metallica, “Welcome to the Jungle” by Guns N’ Roses, the extremely difficult “Through the Fire and Flames” by Dragonforce, among others.
SC4 will also be on one-versus-one mode in best-of-three rounds. Each round will be 60 seconds long. Players must also use the same character throughout the game.
The top winners of GH3 and SC4 will take home P10,000 and P8,000 respectively. Second placer winners for GH3 will get P5,000 while for SC4 it will be P4,000.
The WCG League will also play host to a cosplay event. The first and second placers in the cosplay will take home P15,000 and P10,000, respectively.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:43 pm
[...] now, two games will be highlighted and both are for the Microsoft Xbox 360. These are Guitar Hero III (GH3) and Soul Calibur IV [...]
October 14th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
ZOMFG! Guitar Hero 3!!!!11`
Time to brush up on my SKILLZ lawl!
Pero seriously, I can’t handle expert. I can only do Medium. =P
But if the contest was on showmanship, hmm… Malupit ang showmanship level sa Medium. Lol!
Alex! We need to jam again! \m/ >.< \m/