Ground Zero Recap! E3!
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E3 Day ZERO
E3 has landed upon us, the first two days had been conferences and exciting reveals. Although the main event, the Microsoft press conference was a disappointment to everyone, despite receiving FREE XBOXs, the EA and somewhat Ubisoft is the one that is actually better than the Microsoft one.
Microsoft Press Conferences
- Revealed Natal or Kinect (which is a dumb name), motion sensing
- Games... well ''games'' being played through motion controllers by waving your hands like an idiot, one of the games was from Rare
- More social media being implemented, video chat and shit
- Exclusives: Gears of War 3, Halo Reach, Fable 3
- Other games: Metal Gear Rising, Call of Duty Black Ops, Crysis 2, Codename Kingdom
- Dance Central and other causal games
- Microsoft trying to appeal to the causal audience
- Xbox 360 slim revealed, totally similar to the PS3 slim... BUT ITS WAS FREE TO EVERYONE IN THE SHOWCASE
Thoughts:
Yeah it was disappointing, the lack of new games and appealing to the casual audience is a wrong idea. Nintendo has that market cornered, and having this new device, Kinect to play these kind of games is a good idea but making too much causal games would go into the Nintendo route and will rarely appeal to the hardcore audience. That said, yes it was rather disappointing.EA Press Conference
- Blasts off with a Need for Speed game developed by Criterion Games, with a Cops and Robbers sort of game. It looks pretty neat but looking back at Burnout Paradise's dlc.... meh though they want the series to go back into the roots
- Dead Space 2, AWESOME! Still wearing a mining suit with his mining accessories fighting necromorphs in some church. But a church of genology, at first I thought it was the Church of Scientology, with Katie Holmes greeting Issac and then I thought Tom Cruise or John Travolta to pop up at any moment, but you get to kill fucking babies! Then a helicopter pops up and you fall down into the underground where monster Katie Holmes greets us again!
- Medal of Honour Multiplayer Demo, Dice and EA LA is working together to make this game similar to Bad Company. Dice with the Multiplayer and LA with the SinglePlayer. I'm disappointed with the crap of introducing the multiplayer first, and seeing that the engine is sorta running like Battlefield and not feeling like Medal of Honour. Oh MOH, where thou art? Though 24 fucking screens were played in front of us, with 24 other people
- Vietcon has come to Bad Company 2, an expansion and awesome
- MMA, Madden 11, Peter Moore showing his guns
- Some wannabe Will Wright shows up to talk about philosophy and then Sims 3 on consoles... boring not even close to how awesome Will Wright is
- Crysis 2 looking awesome but the part where you put the 3D glasses is fucking lame. Probably will buy a high-tech PC to play the levels of an city being destroyed in the future where shaky cams are always on and you are the resistance fighting something
- Bulletstorm, no interested but looks pretty nice with the shooting
- Stars Wars: The Old Republic cinematic trailer ends the presser... looks awesome but like Jeff said, its a fucking MMO and like WoW, it isn't awesome when you see the gameplay aspect of it
Thoughts:
This presser is the best of that day, games were actually shown and games that I'm hyped for. Though I'm rather disappointed with Medal of Honour being multiplayer-oriented, Dead Space 2 and Crysis 2 looks astounding. The Will Wright clone is rather lame and boring but its better than the press conference featured below!Ubisoft Press Conference
- Starts with Child of Eden, the neo- Geometry Wars game looks unique and eye-popping
- New Assassin Creed game, Brotherhood... new features and such and such
- Shaun White on stage with a new Snowboarding game, didn't care much about that and was busy doing something else because I hate Shaun White's freakishly orange hair
- Oh yeah, Joe from the previous presser is still the host, using his lame one-liners and getting ambushed by ''attractive' people with plastic toy guns, or laser tag. Pretty awful to waste time, shooting like a moron and then having the host play some dumbass minigame with the creator, shooting at the sensor and using so- called clips of ammo as checkpoint or whatever.
- Innergry being introduced, Ubisoft stealing from Nintendo's Vitality, and a hippie talking about claiming your stress level. Fucking lame
- Then: Some fitness game, and other fitness game... yeah like gamers are fatasses who just sit on the couch and having a virtual excerise is being active
- But Raving Rabbits redeemed this show, being quirky and hilarious at the same time and the rabbits are now time travelling!
- Future Soldier demo is shown, pretty neat and cool. People didn't like the active camo, I didn't like it when you team says, tango down and setting in a post-apocalyptic world is being creative. Though the team-oriented AI, graphics and stealth looks mindblowing even though there isn't not fucking CQC and that dude just silently walked close to an enemy and shot his face.. like CQC!
- Driver having 100 license cars and kinda looking like Wheelman with how it feels and looks. But in San Fransisco!
- Rayman Origins being shown, pretty funny at the starting to not reveal the name until the titular character is shown on the screen. Quirky!
- Ending with Michael Jackson' Beat it with sexy and hot dancers, including that blonde lady with clothes that wouldn't look like it would fit her