NFSW Community Spotlight: Matthew Dell

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Ah, Manchester. The birthplace of Oasis, Joy Division, The Smiths among other unforgettable Mancunian bands. And of course, if you're into sports, you would know of the Manchester United football team.

Well, this week's Community Spotlight features a professional gamer from Manchester. How serious is he about gaming? He involved in setting up teams and also competes in tournaments all over Europe.

Let's get better acquainted with Matthew Dell!

Tell us about yourself.

My Name's Matt Dell aka SilvaSkin and I'm from Manchester UK. I'm 29 years old and I have been competitively gaming since 2000.

How long have you been playing NFSW?

Roughly 8 months or so now.

What’s your favourite(s) in NFSW?

Lamborghini Gallardo and the Escort Cosworth but If I had to pick one, then it would be my Gallardo.

Your most memorable experience in the game?

That has to be the time when my team decided to all jump on NFSW together. Instead of doing normal races and events, we all had a race around the entire outside roads in world. We started on the golf course part of the freeway and went east around the whole of the world. It was great fun having 8 people all screaming at each other in ventrilo.


What do you like most about NFSW?

It has to be the free roam aspect. I'm not a big track fan when it comes to driving games. Three laps on the same course get a bit boring, so the free roam aspect wins hands down. I'm looking forward to canyon drifts though.


What other console or online games do you play?

Call of Duty 4 is the game I played since its release date. Before that, it was Unreal Tournament. I am a professional gamer and play at lan tournaments all around Europe. At the moment though, I have just stopped playing Call of Duty 4 and am waiting for Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3 to come out. My new team is focusing on these games now and we hope to win some tournaments, Personally though, I'm loving Battlefield 3 beta at the moment.

Favourite cars or driving scene in a movie?

Has to be the car chase in Ronin.

What song or music do you rock out to while playing NFSW?

At the moment I'm loving Gabriel & Dresden again. But my playlist does include artists such as B-Complex, Danny Byrd, MGMT, The Enemy, The Hives or whatever rampfm are playing.

When you’re not playing NFSW, what else are you up to?

At the moment, I'm really busy setting up Respected Gaming, which is going to be a multi-gaming team. We plan on getting servers for both Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3 and will be sending teams out to lan tournaments and such. I'm quite busy with the rest of the guys building the website and getting some sponsors. Red Bull have confirmed and we're waiting on replies from a few other companies. When away from the pc however, I love having a walk.

Alien or Aliens?

Tough question! I love Alien as it's a classic, but Aliens has the classic "Game over man. Game over!" quote.


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