Well, what a day. Lots to discuss and lots of things to see. There was indeed lots of cool and awesome stuff to see. But where there's cool stuff, there's also a bunch of crap no one really cares about. The later seems to be the stuff that accumulated most of the first day of E3; to my disappointment. Even if there was that, the cool stuff of E3 I will show here to try and forget about the bad stuff. Lets start with the best thing to come out of E3 today, the announcement of the new Xbox 360 [Slim] Console. Now I have to buy it again:
Yep, there it is. In all its glossingly blinding glory. Here’s a size comparison:
Yep its smaller. Here are some specs:
• Touch sensitive on/off and eject buttons (like the PS3)
• "Much quieter"
• 250GB internal hard drive, which is still swappable.
• A custom Kinect port (not a standard USB port—it's a USB port that can feed more power)
• There are five USB ports now, with three in the back and two in the front
• AV cable included, an HDMI and optical audio
• Different power supply—it's still big but nearly weightless
• External Xbox 360 hard drives and memory units are NOT compatible with the new Xbox
• Other accessories are
• Internal components that are changed: two small fans changed into one large fan for quieter operation, 45nm integrated CPU and GPU
It could also mean no more Red Ring of Death! I really want this now. More pics found here and here.
Lets see, most of the Kinect launch titles pretty much sucked. They all need a lot of work and most of the games are Wii Sports clones. The only game that had potential was this:
Although when they had a preview of this the night before, it was mostly rehearsed so it needs work too. Nothing really makes sense in the trailer at the same time. If you are a Star Wars fan you would notice that Droid tanks and a Droid fighter don’t belong with Stormtroopers. Just watch it, even if its a bit mess when speaking canon-wise.
Now here comes the awesome stuff:
It may not be so stealthy, but you gotta admit playing as Raiden and slicing stuff is quite awesome, no?
I’m going to be incredibly brief as you can see, today as the trailers pretty much speak for themselves. Other stuff was talked about, but like I said its boring. The trailers are what made the show. The same can be said for this Dead Space 2 footage:
I still sense a horror factor here, even if it is said to be more of a shooter and less survival horror.
Remember the Star Wars Cinematic Trailer last year? Well a new one was shown and focuses on the light side characters:
I am stuck between choosing Light side and Dark side now. Both show their own side of being awesome.
Next trailer is not officially announced. IGN leaked it before Activision may or may not announce this tomorrow. And seeing as you may see the title of the video, some may or may not hate this:
Yep, apparently the rights to make this went through and this is the aftermath. I still don’t really know what to make of this. Does Jaws have a mustache? I’m worried this may turn out for the worst, as much as I don’t want it to either…
Well what's next? Oh right, Gears of Wars 3. This game is coming along very nicely:
Apparently its 4 player (probably online) co-op and not one, but two girls are playable. I guess this game really wants to show that girls can fight too.
Even if it is a movie, it was a comic before and had video games oriented into it. And now its a game? Madness!:
Now I shall end it with a trailer for Halo Reach. I would show some videos for Ubisoft, but I’m sorry to say it was just too awkward and embarrassing to show exactly what happened. That's another post for another day. Joel McHale apparently didn’t have his usual comedy staff and things were left unexplained. They also managed to make their own Wii Vitality Sensor which is supposed to give you energy on the go somehow? Laser Tag was somehow revived and sad part was no one really cared. Only three things to actually gain my respect was Rez being introduced for Kinect (best Kinect game so far), Assassins Creed: Brotherhood, and Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. Poor Ubisoft, you could have redeemed yourself in the end, but you left everyone in the dark and creeped out. Seriously what happened there? (It ended like this, seriously)
Well, to end this with a high note, here’s the Halo Reach Campaign trailer, complete with a dogfight, enjoy!:
I only hope Nintendo’s and Playstation’s conferences aren’t awkward and pointless as with previous years. Here’s hoping for the best.
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