Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition Factoids

GameSpot is offering up a list of interesting facts to be found in the soon-to-be-released Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition. Some notable entries:

Shigeru Miyamoto was inspired to create the Zelda series after watching Legend, director Ridley Scott’s 1985 fantasy movie about a young man’s quest to prevent the Lord of Darkness from destroying daylight.

Gamers playing The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion can expect to see 35,544 shrubs, 67,730 plants and mushrooms, 94,013 trees and logs, and 395,696 rocks.

The largest virtual beer festival takes place every year in World of Warcraft, when sworn enemies the Horde and Alliance get together for Brewfest, which lasts around a fortnight and features a huge selection of virtual beers for sale.

The least-violent first-person shooter is Deus Ex, which can be completed by killing just three enemies.

There are a total of 20,000 lines of spoken dialogue in BioWare’s sci-fi role-playing game Mass Effect–the same as you could expect in about 20 movies.

The largest land-based game is The Elder Scrolls: Chapter II: Daggerfall, which has 163,492 square kilometers of space in which to jump around.