LEGO Universe CES 2010 GameTrailers Demo

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Here's an almost 25 minute long demo of LU given to GameTrailers at CES 2010 (while the game was still in alpha) plus a video interview. They were of course previously hosted and available for download on the GameTrailers website but only the interview is still online.

 

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/rzfcy8eoufxu4/LU_GameTrailers_Videos

 

They were once mirrored on YouTube by somebody but Viacom blocked them.

 

This particular demo shows character creation, the Venture Explorer, Avant Gardens, and Gnarled Forest - pretty much all of the content the alpha test had to provide at the time. Demos like this were given to other sites, though the only other one to get recorded/uploaded was the IGN demo (which skips Avant Gardens and instead shows the early Tiki Island property). The game was also available for the public at CES to play. Videos of all that can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcQ-Py1T_KHSSzt8fqf3RxWtoebOdrxZI

 

Fun fact: All this took place on the same server as the alpha test, and even though most of this took place on days when the server wasn't scheduled to be open, some players (including myself) noticed we could get in anyway. Here's some screenshots I got of CES demos in progress (though we had no idea what was going on at the time - there were mysterious stories of GMs standing in line, doing a dance, then one of them saying something like "ok guys testmap 2" and all of them vanishing, lol.)

 

http://legouniverse.wikia.com/wiki/File:Alpha046.png

http://legouniverse.wikia.com/wiki/File:Alpha053.png

http://legouniverse.wikia.com/wiki/File:Alpha059.png

http://legouniverse.wikia.com/wiki/File:Alpha060.png

 

Another fun fact: That blue spaceship was built by a LUP who also worked on the Moonbase world, and those engine designs also got reused for the Piratron spaceships in the Moonbase. And that GM Molly2 also showed off her fancy GM abilities once by wearing Sky Lane's torso/legs, but in black (Sky's outfit was grey at the time, but those early NPC textures didn't have the primary colors as part of the texture).