Well it’s been a wonderful first day of E3 2009.  Of course it wasn't a full day of E3 with the showfloor of anything, but it was an awesome day none the less.  I thought Microsoft did an excellent job with their conference.  They highlighted the things they needed to, like the Motion "camera" Project Natal.

I think the games I am most interested in is Modern Warfare 2, Forza 3, Alan Wake, Halo 3 ODST, and Halo Reach, Splinter Cell Conviction, FFXIII, and Metal Gear Solid. Probably missing a couple, but basically every game they talked about I want to get and play. The biggest surprise for me was the Left 4 Dead 2 announcement, and I am not sure how to take that announcement.  I am a big Left 4 Dead fan, but we haven't even started with the modding content, let along buying a new game.  I probably would of been more happy with a story expansion rather then a whole new boxed game, but we will see I guess.  Netflix upgrades sound good, but there wasn't really anything too terrible new and exciting on the software or hardware front (other then Natal) of the Xbox 360, no new HDD for all this damn content they want us too buy.

The EA press conference was quick and decent.  They got the point of across with their big games, and boy do they have some huge games coming out.  Mainly Dragon Age Origins for me, but also Mass Effect 2 and Star Wars Online the .  I am kind of sad they didn't announce any new good Battlefield game coming out for PC, or even talk about Crysis 2.

The Ubisoft press conference was probably the worst.   Not only did it last forever, but it was really unorganized and painful at times.  I thought the host was fine, not like Activisions horrible choice last year lol.   But they pretty much didn't show anything worthwhile or anything we haven't seen before.  SplinterCell and the stuff was all the same and Assassins creed was just CGI trailer, so I was pretty disappointed with Ubisofts conference.

Overall I was really pumped all day, G4 had the best coverage of the event, as much as a dislike G4 they did a good job.  IGN.com was a joke this year with the press conferences, and pretty much gave up on them when their feed was in mono sound only coming out of the left speaker, then their feed kept going out.  So I will be watching G4 feed on my TV and in their Justin.tv chatroom.  Anyway, got a WoW Ulduar raid to complete and can't wait to see what Sony and Nintendo have in store.