E3 Round-up
This year’s E3 happened just a week or so ago, and there were a lot of announcements by a lot of people as usual.
This is a roundup of the main announcements:
Microsoft:
‘Project Natal’ – A motion sensing camera for the Xbox 360.
Metal Gear Solid: Rising – Will now also be available on Xbox 360 when released.
Xbox 360 Games on Demand – The ability to download full games onto your hard drive.
Sony:
PSP Go! – Probably the one thing everyone knew about before E3. It will feature 16GB onboard memory and no UMD drive. This means all digital downloads for the PSP in the future.
PS3 Motion Controller – Yup, another motion controlling announcement.
God of War 3 – To be released… March 2010. just 9 months to go.
MAG (Massive Action Game) – Bad name, yes. True name, also yes. This (FPS) game will feature 256 players online at a time. Sounds… massive.
Nintendo:
Super Mario Galaxy 2 – Rather than Sony and Microsoft, Nintendo’s biggest announcement seemed to be software in the form of a sequel to the very sucessful game, Super Mario Galaxy.
New Super Mario Bros. Wii – Continuing the Mario theme (surprise, surprise), Nintendo also announced a new 2D Mario game for the Wii with multiplayer aspects.
Metroid: Other M – Not continuing the Prime series, a new Metroid game for the Wii from Nintendo.
Wii Vitality – This was the only peripheral/hardware announced by Nintendo. And they weren’t too keen on sharing the details. Seems strange to me, and they’ve said its targeted at the people who still refuse to become gamers…
Its not that I just haven’t included it, there really wasn’t much announced for the DS, other than Golden Sun.
Best of the rest:
EA:
FIFA 10 - Whilst it was to be expected, the graphics seem to be sublime. I will definitely be looking into getting it.
Scribblenauts – DS – This was my highlight of the convention, it seems to be an almost perfect game from what I’ve seen. You need to watch videos to see the extent of the brilliance of this game!
Ubisoft:
Splinter Cell Conviction – Looking like it will be a great game.
Valve:
Left 4 Dead 2 - Who didn’t enjoy L4D? Well, its already causing quite a controversy because fans think that this should be released either as DLC for L4D, or an expansion.
Well, thats about it really. I might have to write an individual article for Scribblenauts soon, but for now, I think I’m done reading and writing about E3.
~Jackreyes
Long time no update…
Yeah, I know, ages since I last updated, I’ve been pretty busy though.
I’m in the process of writing an E3 Round-up now.
