E3 2012 Favorites
This is a list of the games I'm most anticipating that were shown as E3 2012. They are weighted from greatest to least desired.
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Uncharted 2 was absolutely one of the best games of this console generation and the idea of a darker, harsher game from Naughty Dog is incredibly appealing to me. Everything I've seen of this game makes me hope it is as enjoyable to play as it looks.
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I've never played an X-COM game. I was still playing Super Nintendo games and didn't get into PC gaming until a few years later. That said, strategy, specifically turn-based is not a genre I delve into often but when a fantastic strategy game comes along it is very easy for me to become completely absorbed by it.
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The original Deus Ex was one of the games I just picked up by chance back when I first acquired a capable PC. It was a formative experience. People are describing this game as a combination of Bioshock, Assassin's Creed, and Deus Ex. I like all of those things, quite a lot: give it to me!
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In the past few weeks I just wrapped up Assasin's Creed: Revelations. While it was probably the second worst in the series (next to the original) seeing how different, yet the same the "third" game in the series is has me quite excited. I am curious to see how the American Revolution is portrayed, as well as how the main character himself fits in. The naval battle stuff looks neat and different, but that is not what gets me going when I think about AC3.
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I love Burnout Paradise and I love Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit. Heck, the original Need for Speed: Most Wanted is my favorite launch Xbox 360 game. This game is all of those things mixed together, and since I played the original Burnout game, Criterion has always been my favorite racer developer. Running from kind gentleman-like police officers never gets old. Never.
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As I write this is I just finishing up the last bit of DLC for the original Borderlands. While the original game wasn't the lengthiest thing in the world, the second play-through and (mostly) quality DLC have kept this game in my Xbox for a couple months now. No one has had a bad thing to say about this game and I really do love the tone and look of the world they cobbled together in Borderlands. I cannot imagine this disappointing.
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While they E3 gameplay demo looked neat and very visually impressive (6+ year old hardware!) what really excites me is the Spartan Ops competitive multi-player mode. Halo: Reach was my first real online Halo game and I was really into into it for a few months. To have an excuse to keep logging in every week for some new story-based missions to me sounds almost unbelievable. We'll just have to see if they really can pull what they're promising off.
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I got Rayman Origins for about half off a couple months after it came out. It was highly regarded, but boy I really didn't know what I was in for. Not only an incredible looking game, but spot on controls that I felt 100% comfortable with playing with an analogue stick, which I never thought possible. Origins was awesome and this looks like a prettier, crazier, and possibly even harder version of that. 2D platformers are far from dead.
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The only reason I own a 3DS is surprise surprise, a Mario game. While I didn't love New Super Mario Bros Wii as much as I did the Super Mario Galaxy series, I still appreciated the fact that Nintendo actually went back and made them. I hope this game is packed to the brim with content like Super Mario 3D Land was, because if so, I will be recharging my 3DS a heck of a lot when this drops.
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I'm not sold on the Wii U as a system, but if I do decide to drop the coin, unsurprisingly, this will be the sole game I will be buying with it. Re-watching that trailer I was able to spot out some really interesting things, and if the game is as full of ideas as the Super Mario Galaxy games were, this game alone might be worth the cost of entry. Just maybe.
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