E3 has come and gone in blink of the eye yet there were a few big announcements for Microsoft. Final Fantasy 13 coming to Xbox 360, the new Microsoft interface featuring avat.. Cough mii's cough, NetFlix which is huge for current users and Tons of new footage for all its killer apps. Personaly I was just happy to see game play for Fallout 3, Gears of War 2 and Resident Evil 5. After watching a few RE5 videos I was think this is just RE4 but in Africa but I was totally wrong. With the introduction of co-op it makes sense why in the early trailers Chris Redfield (protagonist) was fighting literally hordes of enemies with only a pistol, sense he'll be fighting along side a partner.
One game that made a big impression on people with its multiplayer announcement was Fable 2, which quite frankly I don't give two s%!^s about. They're implementing a new multiplayer feature were you can view you friends playing fable 2 as small balls that move around the world…..are you kidding me. Do the developers really think while I'm trying to enjoy the graphics and the scenery I want colored balls flying around? O and if they show that dog one more time I'm going to throw lassie a ball right over a cliff.
My favorite game from the show has to be Fallout 3 sense it really showed the first in game footage and had a phenomenal trailer also shown. I felt the V.A.T system was an automatic kill, yet if you're stats aren't aligned perfectly it some times fails. I was also a little disappointed to hear that there would only be a few hundred unique personalities instead of the roughly thousand ones that were in Oblivion. Never the less Rpg/3rd/fps/set in a post-apocalyptic version of Washington D.C, what more could you want?
Gears of War 2 looks great, graphically it looks similar with a few exceptions like bullet streams and just crisper details on buildings and characters. Hordes of enemies on screen looks to be a challenge and the announcement of Horde mode sounds….interesting. I think it'll be more of a novelty then a mode people will play once or twice then turn back to the new 5vs5 multiplayer.
Well that was pretty much Microsoft's E3 , short but sweet for many fans. I watched the other two conferences for Journalist reasons, and I have to say they were pretty boring. Nintendo had a few motion censored games like resort games and wii Music. Sony showed mostly footage fro games that we've now about for months. I really expected more from the other companies. The B^#ch slap of the event had to be FF13 coming to the Xbox 360, which Sony will be hurting from. MS keeps giving us reason not to buy a PS3 for one reason
1) Exclusive Downloadable content !
On another note if any one needs a reviewer for a website they run/operate i'd be happy to help.
-Jason