E3 2013 Day 1 Recap
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Before I start this recap I want to say that I watched the IGN broadcast of the event. Well, day was interesting. Plenty of new games were announced and all the press conferences were packed with information.
Microsoft Press Conference
Best five games of conference: (1) Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2) Sunrise Overstrike (3) Ryze: Son of Rome (4) DeadRising 3 (5) Crimson Dragon
The Microsoft conference was really good and it certainly proved that it is not going to be short of games. The big concern of the conference was the price of the console, $499. The console also looks a little bulky. Other than these few bad things the conferences' games were excellent.
Another big thing that happened was the announcement of a new Halo game. It does not yet have an official title but for now I think for now it is just called Halo 2014. The Witcher 3 also had a pretty good trailer too.
EA Press Conference
Best five games of conference: (1) Star Wars Battlefront (2) Titanfall (3) Mirror's Edge 2 (4) Battlefield 4 (5) Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare
The EA press conference was pretty good. It had the extremely exciting announcements of Star Wars Battlefield and Mirror's Edge 2, it also showed off Titanfall and the new Plants vs. Zombies game. I think that PvZ will make an excellent third person action game. I really wish they had given a longer trailer for Battlefront but it was still awesome. Peggle 2 was also announced directly after the announcement of PvZ: Garden Warfare.
Not to mention that they, of course, had all the annual sports game. All of it went as you would expect it to go except for NBA Live, it featured a really weird thing called BounceTek. It puts special emphasis on dribbling, yeah I know, that is a really stupid idea.
Ubisoft Press Conference
Best five games of conference: (1) Tom Clancy's The Division (2) Watch Dogs (3) Splinter Cell: Blacklist (4) The Crew (5) Rayman: Legends
The Ubisoft Press Conference was excellent. The Division looks really complicated but awesome, Watch Dogs didn't explain as much as I had hoped it would but it was still good, and The Crew looks like a driving game I could actually get into.
Probably the weirdest thing at the conference was the Rabbids TV Show. I still have no idea how this thing is going to work, from what I understand it is an interactive show of some sort. I'm not sure how that will work on Nickelodeon but I guess we will just have to wait and find out more.
Sony Press Conference
Since their were so many games at this conference I am going to list my top eight instead of five.
Best eight games of conference: (1) Watch Dogs (2) Destiny (3) Kingdom Hearts 3 (4) Infamous: Second Son (5) Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag (6) Mad Max (7) Beyond: Two Souls (8) Final Fantasy Versus XIIII
The Sony Press Conference was absolutely epic. It started off scary, after showing off some PS3 stuff it soon went in to talking about TV on PS4. Just like the Xbox One did. Then it went into a completley different direction, it threw out game after game and was awesome. It hit hard with KH3 and FF Versus XIIII, then continued to do well with Mad Max and Destiny.
The best thing about the conference was when they announced that the PS4 would not require online connection and that it won't make you pay to use used games. Everybody was excited about that and then it announced that the price would be only $399, $100 cheaper than the Xbox One.
