We came, we saw, we stood in lines, and we got lost on the trains!  It was a great first day at the Tokyo Game Show! Each night after the show, I will be posting what was fun, cool, and/or plain weird from TGS.  Check back each day for more info.

So, first things first, I PLAYED HALO 3!  Not a demo, not a beta version, but the final release version.  I know in a just a few days the rest of the world will get to play it, but hey - I just did! For those of you who are hardcore Halo fans, you will love it.  Take everything you loved about 1 and 2, and add it to better weapons, interaction and graphic, and that is basically it.

I then wandered over to play another coming release from a Microsoft game title, Project Gothem Racing 4.  In a feature I have been wanting since PGR1, you can ride motorcycles in this one - of course, I rode the Ducati 998.  A lot of fun to play, graphics were AMAZING, and all in all probably the best of the series yet.

As you might be guessing by now, I spent a bit of time in the Microsoft area, but hey - they have some great titles right now!  The next one to test my skills was Ace Combat 6.  It has been a while since I have played a flight combat simulator that was fun enough to capture immediately, simple enough to fight after a couple of minutes, but not so simple I get bored easily.  I can tell you this much - Ace Combat 6 will be in my collection, and probably spend a fair amount of time in my 360.

We continued on to see what new offerings there were for the Wii, and I found a great Capcom game called We Love Golf!  Definitely more difficult than Wii Golf, but by the 2nd hole, I scored a birdie (don't ask what my scores were on the holes 1 and 3, please...) I think this one will have a good run in the anime golf genre. 

On the hardware side, there were some cool video cards, console add-ons, etc, but the one that really caught my eye was a virtual reality goggle from Vuzix.   They had it hooked to a computer playing Flight Simulator 10, and just by wearing the goggles and turning my head and body, I could see a full 360 degrees.  It was strange actually turning my head and seeing the tail of the ultralight I was flying.  Vuzix has promised us we can get our hands on one or two of these bad boys for a full review, so look for that in the near future.

And of course, you can't forget the booth babes.  They were there and oh so nice... 

So I am heading to bed.  I still haven't adjusted to the time difference, but I only have 3 more days to check out the show!

Tune in tomorrow - there will be more!