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The Soup host Joel McHale livened up an otherwise low-key Ubisoft press conference that had a bit too much casual (OK, we get it...Imagine and Petz rule the world!) and not enough hardcore (mainly because we already saw the awesome Splinter Cell: Conviction demo earlier in the day at Microsoft's presser, and Ubisoft didn't show any Assassin's Creed 2 gameplay).
He's the latest in the line of comedians that game publishers bring in to entertain the nerd press, from (good) Kevin Nealon doing an SNL Weekend Update-style news segment for Sega and the Dreamcast to (bad) Jamie Kennedy interviewing developers for Activision.
McHale, as expected, got the crowd laughing. Some of highlights:
"I had two kids, and...I regret that. They are distracting me from my gaming time!"
"My Gamertag is SeacrestSlayer311."
"In Splinter Cell, you can strangle, shoot, and stab a guy, but you won't die. That is an awesome game."
"I pitched a new game [to Ubisoft's CEO] called Receding Glacier in Real Time. It's very exciting in year three, cause you have to leave your console on for that long."
"Everyone at Ubisoft is a star at what they do. That's why I'm not allowed to work there."
"[Ubisoft has] a new game called Trying to Open the Packaging of Videogame Wrapping. It takes an hour to complete."
