Microsoft
Judging by their press
conference,Microsoft is going for broke this time.They kicked the show
off with a bang with a live demo of The Beatles:RockBand followed by
on stage appearences by The Beatles themselves.We were then informed
that we would not be subjected to painful sales and growth charts,only
games,games, and more games.Thank you sir,may I have another.Here is a
list of what was shown.
Tony Hawk:Ride I was really impressed by what they
showed of Ride,including the look of the board.I love the Birdhouse
graphics and it looks pretty sturdy.I'll be buying it when it comes
out unless it turns out to just not work.One thing that caught my eye
was that it looked as though they kept the classic over-the-top Tony
Hawk moves,which i thought was odd given the fact that you can't do
that shit on a real board.
Modern Warfare 2 I knew before the show started that
we would be seeing a live demo of this game,what I didn't know was how
much more inpressive the live demo would be over the recently relesed
trailer.Everything from the climbing up the side of the mountain to
shootin' dudes gansta style while riding down a mountain on a
snowmobile looked freaking awesome.I have already reserved this game
so all that's left to do now is wait.
Final Fantasy XIII Not too much to say here,the demo
wasn't that different from previous demo's although Odin did
look pretty badass.This is another one I'll be getting at launch,as to
when that launch will be is another story entirely.I did like
how they said they were "targeting" a Spring 2010
release,all I have to say is don't hold your breath.
Shadow Complex Looks kinda cool,I don't know I
mean,the thing that makes us look back on games like Metroid and
Castlevania so fondly is nastalgia not a burning desire to play side
scrolling adventure games,right?I don't know,I might just be speaking
for myself but I just can't get pumped over a side scroller in this
day and age.With that said,I'm sure I'll buy it being that it's an
XBLA game,unless they try to charge some redonkulous amount of money
for it.
JoyRide........Moving on.......
Crackdown 2 I'm sure there were some dudes that were
pretty stoked about this one,I'm just not one of 'em.I mean,I bought
the original Crackdown,but that was for the Halo3 beta,so when that
was over I traded it in.Apparently later in the week they announced
4-player co-op and 16-player multiplayer(presumably competitive) as
opposed to the 2 player co-op from the first game,yay.
Left4Dead2 Oh yeah,I'll definately be getting this.I
mean what can I say,it's more L4D but in the day time,with
chainsaws,fire hatchets,and fucking frying pans!!And it takes place in
my home state of Louisiana,I'm really hyped for this game.And
to all the so-called "boycotters" of the game I say "QUITYERBITCHIN!!".
Splinter Cell:Conviction Man,I had all but forgotten
about this game.I like how the game projects mission objectives and
info on the enviroments and the "mark & execute" stuff
looked cool too.I liked the previous Splinter Cell games but the
formula was starting to get a little stale after Double Agent so
hopefully Conviction will give the series the reboot that it needs.
Forza Motorsport 3 I was very impressed by
the graphics in Forza 3,especially since the graphics were Forza 2's
weakest point.Before I watched that demo I had no problems saying that
GT5 was the best looking racing game out there,but now Forza 3 holds
the title of best looking racing game.Oh and somebody please tell that dude from
EA to STFU!!
Halo 3: ODST Seeing as how I'm a HUGE Halo fan,this
was my favorite game shown.Although I must say,there doesn't seem to
be as much excitement around ODST as compared to previous Halo
games.The only reason i can come up with is that people still aren't
sure what it will be like.I have no doubts about it's greatness,I'm
just not sure which variety of great we'll be getting.I'm not gonna
really go into this game as I'm saving that for another blog,but I'll
just point that the multiple visors,suppressed/scoped SMG &
Pistol,open world gameplay and multiple prespectives of the story all
look awesome.
Halo Reach Not really anything to say about this one
since they didn't really show anything.As someone who has read every
Halo novel I know what the text at the beginning of the trailer that
said,"From the beginning,you know the end",meant,but other
than that I got nothing.The only other info we got was that ODST would
come with a voucher for the Halo Reach multiplayer beta,so we at least
know that whatever it is there's gonna be multiplayer.I just wish they
would have at least told us what kind of game it is.
Alan Wake I think some people were about ready to
give up on this one but judging by the live demo,it seems to be coming
along nicely.I don't think that a game like Alan Wake can really be
understood when shown as a short demo at E3,but never-the-less I was
impressed with what Remedy showed.I really loved the Max Payne games
and have complete confidence in Remedy's ability to make an awesome game.
MetalGearSolid:Rising I don't think anyone was
surprised to see Hideo Kojima on stage at the Microsoft press
conference announcing an MGS game for Xbox360,what shocked everyone
was that the MGS game announced wasn't MGS4:Guns of the Patriots,but a
completely new game starring Raiden that is being said to be more
action oriented than previous MGS games (and after seeing Raiden in
MGS4 this makes perfect sense).I can understand the people who don't
own PS3's being frustrated by the lack of MGS4 on Xbox (although I'm
still not convinced that it's not coming to 360),but I'm really
excited to see what the new game will be like.
XboxLive Services
Last.FM This will probably be cool for a couple of
dudes,but not me.
NETFLIX I LOVE Netflix on my Xbox360,so I'm really
happy that they are adding the ability to browse movies straight from
your Xbox360.Awesome.
1080P Streaming I'm really intrigued by this one,I'm
curious to find out what kind of compression they are using.I also
like how they left out the part where you'll need an internet
connection with download speeds of at least 8mbps.But at least you can
still download the movies if you can't stream them.Either way I'm
looking forward to trying this out.
Movie Party I like how all the little avatars sittin'
in front of the theater screen watching the movie reminded me of Mystery Science theater
3000,that was pretty cool.I don't know,having your avatar sit in a
virtual area with all your friend's avatars while you all watch
something together sounds pretty retarded to me,but you never know
might be good for some laughs.
FaceBook I wasn't surprised by this at
all,XboxLive has always kinda felt like a social network
anyway,so I was fully expecting them to eventually partner up with one
of the big social networking sites.I spend alot of time just tooling
around in the 360's dashboard,so this will just give me one more thing
to mess with when I'm bored and don't know what to play.
Twitter Not a whole lot to say here,it's Twitter on
your Xbox360.Still,I'm glad they did it.
Project Natal I'm not gonna say much about Natal
because I have a whole blog planned for it,but I will say that I'm
very excited about it.
All in all,this was one of the best press conferences I can remember
seeing.I really hope Microsoft delivers on Project Natal because if
they can then it will change video games as we know 'em.
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