HIGHLIGHTS

Shrines of Trials: More than 100 of these locations are scattered around the world for players to find, and in some cases finding the Shrines can be a puzzle in itself. As a result, Shrines offer more compact challenges that can be solved in a variety of ways. In order to earn a Spirit Orb from the monks who designed these challenges, players must overcome challenges or solve puzzles.

Runes: While exploring Shrines, players can earn Runes. For instance, the Magnesis Rune can help Link lift and toss metal objects. The Remote Bomb has two different types of bombs: rolling spherical ones and cubical ones that stay in place. The Stasis Rune briefly stops moving objects, while the Cryonis Rune freezes water and causes an ice pillar to appear.

Weapons and Combat: The game contains a wide variety of weapons, many new to the series. Players must find weapons or take them from enemies, but weapons wear out as you use them. Players can also time offensive and defensive maneuvers to temporarily slow time and connect with a flurry of strikes against their opponent.

Food: In another break with conventional gameplay for the series, players hoping to replenish their hearts or score some easy rupees will come up empty when they cut grass. Link can forage for a variety of foods in his environment, including apples and mushrooms. He can also hunt for food. Consuming uncooked foods gives him a modest health increase, but cooking different kinds of ingredients together will result in dishes with different effects, such as cold or heat resistance, for a limited amount of time.

Climate: From snowy areas to desert heat, Link must dress appropriately for the weather. If he needs to stay warm, he can don appropriate clothing, warm himself with a fiery torch or even eat food to maintain his body temperature and his health. Link also needs to be careful during lightning storms – if he is equipped with metal equipment during a downpour, he can find himself attracting deadly lightning bolts.

amiibo Compatibility: A new series of detailed amiibo figures specific to the game were announced this morning, and Treehouse staff finally revealed how the Wolf Link amiibo from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD will connect to the game. When players tap a Wolf Link amiibo to the Wii U GamePad controller, Wolf Link will join Link to attack enemies on his own. He initially has three hearts, but players can raise his heart count by completing the Cave of Shadows and carrying over the save data from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD. Wolf Link can be summoned once a day, and disappears when his hearts run out. However, you can use Wolf Link again the next day.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is scheduled to launch simultaneously for both Wii U and Nintendo’s next system, code-named NX, in 2017.

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“We typically like to keep our setlist a secret” says prolific game composer and Video Games Live creator/executive producer Tommy Tallarico, “but there are so many incredible performances, spectacular performers and industry special guests that I decided this time around to publish almost the entire setlist to the public as nothing like this has ever been attempted for a video game concert anywhere in the world! Since starting Video Games Live over 13 years ago, this particular show is definitely going to be one of our biggest and most exciting shows ever. Being partnered with E3 allows us to bring the entire industry together for a complete celebration of the gaming universe.” A complete listing of ALL the incredible World Premieres and Special Guests can be found here: http://www.videogameslive.com/index.php?s=e32014

A variety of YouTube and internet superstars will also be performing including Malukah known for her popular acoustic rendition of “Dragonborn Comes” which has been viewed over 40 million times around the world. Amazing vocalists Peter Hollens and Jillian Aversa (Halo, God of War) will be performing throughout the show as well as Mystery Guitar Man and Taylor Davis (Violin Tay). The video game cover band Critical Hit fronted by Blizzard Entertainment composer Jason Hayes along with Paul McCartney guitarist Laurence Juber will be premiering an incredible Mega Man arrangement as well as the world premier of Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft. World famous film score pianist Randy Kerber (Star Wars, Titanic, Forrest Gump) will be featured in the League of Legends world premiere.

During the show, the world’s leading record label dedicated to releasing video game soundtracks, Sumthing.com is giving away a year of free music downloads to three lucky winners. Sumthing’s catalog (over 250 albums!) features some of the most popular soundtracks of all time such as HALO, Castlevania, Deus Ex, Fable, Hitman, Journey, Mass Effect, Metal Gear, Silent Hill, Tomb Raider, Uncharted and many more! Prize will be awarded on stage during the show to lucky winners (any ticket holder will be able to enter).

The ever popular pre-show costume contest will be in full effect right before the show starts as each costumed member will be brought on stage as the audience decides the winner by volume of applause.

TICKETS AND MORE INFORMATION AVAILABLE HERE:
http://www.videogameslive.com/index.php?s=e32014

Video Games Live is also proud to announce the performance of over 60 shows around the world taking place over the next 9 months. Countries include the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Argentina, Columbia, China, Italy, England, Belgium, France, Sweden, Spain, Netherlands, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Austria, South Africa, Russia, Switzerland, Turkey AND MORE!

A complete listing of the Video Games Live World Tour can be found here:
http://videogameslive.com/index.php?s=dates

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