E3: The Storm before the Storm
Microsoft’s showing was a mixed bag this year (UPDATED WITH PICS AND MORE GAMES)
- So Project Natal is going to be called the Kinect. And the lineup is about as predictable as the Move. Oh dear. There’s a move enabled Forza, a Wii Sport Clone, a Wii Sports Resort clone, a Just Dance clone, a Wii Fit clone. It’s coming out in November (no pricing yet). Avatar racer Joyride is now a Kinect game.
- Star Wars and Disney titles for Kinect as well
- But the 360 has gotten a slimmer redesign with in built 802n wifi (at last) but no price cut. It’s available in stores this week in the US (Europe in July). It’s black and edgy like the cross between a sword and a marker pen.
- Halo Reach and Fable III are the 1st Party games for the gamers from MGS.
- Metal Gear Rising showed us fruit slicing skills.
- ESPN sports streaming
- Gears of War shown. 4 player co-op demoed
- New Crytek 360 only action title Kingdoms
- CoD Black Ops trailer- 360 getting all map packs first for next three CoD games.
EA probably had a line-up more in tune with what people who read blogs like this actually want.
- Need for Speed Hot Pursuit! from Criterion
- Dead Space 2
- Medal of Honor MP Beta starting soon
- Bad Company 2 Vietnam expansion
- EA MMA, EA Active 2, Tiger Woods, Madden, etc
- Sims 3 on consoles
- Crysis 2 will support 3D on consoles. PC?
- Bulletstorm details (coming Feb 2011)
Ubisoft also held a press conference with that dude from unfunny show Community. He was marginally better in this.
- Driver: San Francisco
- A cross between laser tag and a video game and a goody press conference that is more embarassing than MS’s rather goofy show.
- Ghost Recon Future Soldier looks like Modern Warfare with robots. It looks great.
- More Rabbids
- Rayman reboot. Looks greatacular. DD game
- Child of Eden is Rez with motion control
- Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood coming mid November
- Shaun White, a snowboarder, has a skateboarding game
- Innergy. Jesus Christ
- Mania Planet. Make your own Shootmania, Trackmania and Questmania
- Michael Jackson’s corpse being given another outing
June 15th, 2010 at 9:23 am
The 360 slim looks like a half-crumpled can of Rockstar.
June 15th, 2010 at 4:32 pm
“It’s black and edgy like the cross between a sword and a marker pen.”
I think you mean it’s black and edgy like it’s trying to be the PS3, but failing. Silent is good, but I’m pretty content with my current XBox noise levels, once the game is installed to hard drive or data key.
BTW, in Canada we’re seeing price cuts on bundles. I’m hoping they cut the price on the big hard drive because I really don’t want to blow $160, half the cost of the new xbox, on more propritary storage.
I’ll probably stock up on 16gig USB keys, at least I can reuse those once the next generation comes.
Kinect looks like it could be fun… alot depends on pricing.
Also, if Kinect works as advertised, then Nintendo had better come out with a hi-def version of thier console *now* or say good bye to the casual gaming market. You can’t buy a normal def tv anywhere now and the WII… I’ll let you all finish the sentence on your own.
McHale did a pretty good job as a presenter, but he’s got a too cool for school attitude that made him seem like he’d rather be anywhere other than presenting video games to geeks.
June 15th, 2010 at 4:53 pm
“CoD Black Ops trailer- 360 getting all map packs first for next three CoD games.”
Does this really matter? How many gamers play the same game on multiple platforms? I’m not coming down on either side of this, I’m just curious as to the numbers. I guess it’s something to announce.
The new Driver gimmic looks pretty neat. Good idea. I bet some designers are kicking themselves: “Why didn’t I think of that?”
The Innergy presentation was hillarious… just hillarious.
I felt embarrased just watching it. But I wouldn’t be surprised if it sells some consoles – stress reduction is a big business. I don’t know if it works however.. probably about as well as the DS works at preserving brain function.