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Dallas has been selected to host a Video Games Live Concert June 20th 2007 and the tickets are up for grabs. This is more than your average concert, it is a fully-orchestrated event showcasing the best music videogames have to offer. While you listen to the music you marvel at the light show and the videos that correspond with each piece of music.
This is more than your average symphony of music. It is a showcase of not only video game art, but of the beauty that is in the music while your shooting a zombie to death. It's a rock concert slapped together with a couple of fiddles and brass to create music that we some times seldom take the time to appreciate while we are blasting away with our laser riffles. We're not talking just RPG music here, you will experience music from, Halo, Metal Gear Solid, Medal Of Honor, Tomb Raider, Head Hunter, Myst, Tron (as in the arcade game), Advent Rising, Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon, and Rainbow Six to name a few. If you are more on the RPG side of things you will get the usual dose of Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, Zelda, Warcraft, Castlevania, and EverQuest. And yes, there is more,they even have some for the old school kids such as: Mario, Frogger, Tetris, Sonic, Gauntlet, and some other odd 20 plus songs of old arcades from Pong, to Donkey Kong.
If you're an early bird you can expect to have some fun events in a video
game, festival style. There are Interactive Game Demos, and if you're interested
in dressing up as solid snake, there is a costume contest for you. In select
cities, you can even meet some game composers, and designers along with other
competitions. When the concert starts up, it's more than a sit and watch. If
your one of the lucky ones, you can be called up on stage to play a game while
the music is going on. Sounds pretty cool huh? Well guess what, if you win while
playing on stage you can get an ASUS Ferrari Laptop, and fellas if you don't
know what that is, go to newegg.com and look it up. It's one fine machine!
They also plan on having live performers, laser shows and dancing lights. Can't
get any better than that, right?
Ticket prices aren't that bad. The nose bleed section is $35 with the Orchestra
Terrace down to the Tier Box around $45. The Loge Box down to the floor is
$75. So no excuses on the price, it's affordable. You can buy tickets from
the Dallas Symphony Orchestra website, or you can get them at A-Kon, June 1-3.
I'll be there. Unfortunately I wont be at the pre-show party, but I'll be yelling
and screaming in the nose bleed section when things start up in the symphony
hall.
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