The opening of the second WCG, the scale is several times larger than the first session, last year Longteng made a good start, and the partners looking for in the world are very powerful, Fox TV in North America, Canal+ in Europe, Samsung in South Korea, everyone works together to make the annual WCG the most anticipated game carnival feast for global game fans, waiting for a year, just to see the excitement of July and August, for the world's highest level of e-sports confrontation, for the most brilliant excitement/emotional collision.

This year's official tournament program is the same as last year, NBAGame and FIFA have been upgraded to the 1998 version, and the real-time strategy games and first-person shooters are still the same, but the show invitational has changed considerably.

Last year, only one KTT's Need for Speed was an exhibition competition, but this year there are four games called "Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos", "Half-Life", "Counter-Strike" and "Age of Empires", and the prize money has dropped from $1 million last year to the normal level of 300,000.

As for the Need for Speed series, which has become the core competition of KTT's CPL, it no longer occupies the WCG place, and the CPL organizing committee has decided to choose two of the four performance games of WCG to become the official project of CPL this fall, and they will choose the two more popular ones on WCG.

This rule has relieved professional esports players around the world that they will no longer be in the awkward position of having a WCG that they are good at, but the CPL is not, and they can play WCG in the summer, participate in the CPL in the spring and autumn, and adjust and rest in the cold winter. Give yourself a big vacation, this is called relaxation. Work and life are the same.

Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and Age of Empires are both real-time strategy rivals, while Half-Life and Counter-Strike are different except for the game engines. Other highly overlapping games with almost identical settings, which made peers in the game industry exclaim, this is a collision of two heavyweights, Dragon Teng fights in one against two, two lines, and it is unknown who will die!

Dragon Soar with Warcraft and Anti-Terrorism, One-Enemy Two-Fight against Microsoft's Age of Empires, and Half-Life of Snow Le Mountain, these four games are rare and excellent games on their own. It will definitely make a big mark in the history of world games, but everyone meets each other, and the same type and content are similar, and it is inevitable that they will fight.

Originally, after Microsoft released "Age of Empires" in April, it was very confident that it would sell half a million people, and with such high sales, it was obvious that they were successful in this game, so the next thing was of course to develop subsequent versions and keep upgrading. They didn't initially think about bringing Age of Empires to the WCG for official competitions at all.

Xue Leshan had the same idea, but what they didn't expect was that their Half-Life game would be released a week later than Dragon's Counter-Strike, when they celebrated with great interest that they had opened a new chapter in 3D shooters. As a result, they were informed that Dragon had released the latest 3D shooter a week ago, which made them feel like they had eaten a fly.

Xuele Mountain had to face head-to-head competition from Longteng. However, they also have the advantage that Dragon's Counter-Strike is a purely competitive game. There's no single-player mission mode, and their Half-Life is very fleshed out.

In order to compete for the market. Xue Leshan must seize a qiē opportunity to promote his game, and the WCG competition that starts soon is a great opportunity, and they can't help but participate, if they don't participate, they will definitely lose to "Counter-Strike" in fame, even if they have a big advantage, they can't do it, so they have to apply to the WCG head-on, wanting to qualify for the exhibition competition.

I thought that Long Teng would deliberately make things difficult for their competitors, but I didn't expect Long Teng to readily agree, and asked if the WCG official contacted professional players to train the game of "Half-Life" in advance, and strive to play a beautiful and wonderful exhibition game on the WCG.

Xue Leshan didn't dare to ask for more, they were already very satisfied to get the qualification for the WCG exhibition match, and politely said that they would bring someone to demonstrate the performance, and they would take care of themselves.

Microsoft's status is much higher than that of Xuele Mountain, after selling 500,000 copies of "Age of Empires", they have already determined that this game will definitely become a blockbuster series, and they have begun to contact Microsoft licensing centers around the world to sell "Age of Empires" game software, using what they are best at and what they like best to "monopolize bundles".

If Microsoft wants to make "Age of Empires" a classic real-time battle game series in the history of game development, and wants to have a long-term harvest of several years or even decades, they had better try to see if they can get the consent of WCG.

For this opinion, Bill Gates attaches great importance to it, but he is a little hesitant.

At the time of Nintendo's bankruptcy acquisition, he personally went to Japan, and at that time he had a very good relationship with Yang Yun, and even discussed the possibility of the two sides holding each other's company shares, but Microsoft gave up on the acquisition of Nintendo, and as soon as he turned around, the two sides became strangers, or enemies with direct rivalry.

KTT has acquired some of Nintendo's most famous brands, and Microsoft has begun its own XBox game console, which is now nearing completion and is scheduled to be released by Christmas.

So now he and Yang Yun are competitors, and he also knows that the threshold of WCG is not easy to enter, Yang Yun is not a good talker, there is no board of directors to restrain him, and he is the CEO of a private company.

In the end, Bill Gates still dialed Yang Yun on the phone, and to his surprise, Microsoft got a precious place in the performance competition and officially entered the WCG performance competition list to compete with Warcraft 3.

At the opening ceremony on the first day, Lin Zhihong made a cameo appearance as a co-host, and finally squeezed into the live broadcast room, and explained the game to the players with Ah Wei KiKi, in fact, he was trying to get on camera.

The first exhibition match, first of all, the CG video of the first WCG official competition and the editing of wonderful shots, which is the official production of Longteng, and in order to protect privacy and avoid embarrassment, the editor deliberately disposed of all the technical aspects of all the shots that may involve the name of the team and the name of the personnel, plus slow motion, zoom, playback, rock dubbing, the editing route has become particularly exciting, making people watch the blood boiling, and they can't wait to play such a wonderful game by themselves.

The background music is "Crawl", a song that combines rap and rock, which is the second title track of "Numb", the second record of Longteng's band Linkin Park, inviting riffraff Eminem to sing the harmony, and the song was composed for the opening of the second WCG.

In the terrible sound of the Arab siren, the horn of the charge sounded, the tank army all over the mountains launched a charge against the enemy, the yellow sand was rolling on the ground, the heavy Tiger tank carried the extra-long barrel and ran over it, the light armored vehicle hid behind the minesweeper that cleared the road, the carriage was full of infantry, and the expression on the face of each soldier was stern, holding a steel gun, waiting for the battle.

In the sky, Jacques and Apache are entangled, the bombers parked at the distant airfield are eager to try, waiting for the fighters to clean up the battlefield, the commander's expression is cold, explosions and death cannot affect them in the slightest, the war has become a huge meat grinder, and the picture presents an alternative beauty of blood and violence.

The camera zooms out until it walks out of the planet Patis where the Saloman is located, into space, and sees the Milky Way, and the song also synchronizes into an extra-long extended note, and with a short chant, the aerial combat scene in StarCraft can be seen at a glance.

The Terran aircraft carrier group is huge, more than a dozen aircraft carriers carrying heavy weapons form a formation, surrounded by a large number of Terran transport planes, ghost fighters as escorts, Vargre and countless technology balls, but in the way of them to the blue planet close at hand are a larger number of Protoss giant ships and pirate ships, and the battle is about to break out.

The camera flew across the battlefield and landed on the new blue planet, the special 3D treatment of the man-god battle began, after the addition of ground troops, the mobile and flexible Terran and the god race coexisting with technology and magic launched a fierce battle, this is the first WCG final, the audience cheered loudly, because it was the victory ending of the Chinese Emperor Ye Fan.

After the song was played, I didn't see the editing video of "Special Forces", and the audience thought that there would be a second song or a second promotional video.

The host in the studio did not give an answer, and Ah Wei introduced: "Here are the special guest teams of "Counter-Strike", the CS team of China Longteng E-sports Club and the CS team of South Korea's Samsung E-sports Club! ”

The players from both sides stood up from the computers in the competition area, and they were already in the room when the CG was playing, waiting for this moment.

The current version of "CS" is 1.2, which is the version set by Longteng himself, which is probably similar to CS1.4 in real history, there are many small details that have not been dealt with perfectly, but the battle is enough, and the effect is not much worse than 1.4.

The lights in the main hall dimmed, and all the audience's eyes were focused on the big screen, waiting for the referee to debug.

"Come on Xuele Mountain, I want to see which first-person design game is strong!" Lin Zhihong secretly clenched his fists, full of confidence in his heart! (To be continued......)