E3 2009

Right, this is going to be a very long blog post as it will involve ALL of the conferences that I've watched with a special video and blog in the end. Hold on to your horses, it's going to be a long one.

Microsoft Conference:

I'm not promising to do the other conferences here but I'm happy to have witnessed this conference. Why? Let me tell you! The entire conference started with a weird but cool looking trailer of Beatles Rock Band, a Rock Band game entirely devoted to The Beatles. it was a good concept to start the show with but it went on for far too long. Though Paul motherfucking McCartney coming on was just plain EXCELLENT! Though they were obviously reading off a prompter and stoned off their ass. Next up was Tony Hawk Ride. Nothing new was said but again, the guest speaker was the interesting part. Tony Hawk himself. Now was where the fun started. Namely Modern Warfare 2. Easily able to surpass it's predecessor. This game is looking quite awesome. Mustache man is back. We find ourselves in a snowy area. The surroundings look good, the character models look great, the sound effects are very realistic and the vehicle sections, snow scooter, shown looked pretty well done. Kitase himself now came up stage to show the first ever footage of the 360 version of Final Fantasy XIII. Nothing new except some english voicework. It sounded pretty solid but then again, they only said a few words. Though there was a brief showing of a summon known as Odin, added specially for E3. It, looked GREAT! And it's expected to be released in spring of 2010 Exclusives HOOOO! Yes, the exclusives are coming up next. XBLA will soon be getting a sidescroller hoping to be as good as Metroid named Shadow Complex. As far as I could see, it's pretty damned sweet. You can use the environment, jump, duck and all that jazz. The motions look fluid and the graphics look good for an Arcade exclusive. They then showed a cartoony races using the 360 avatars named Joyride! yeah, moving on. Crackdown 2 trailer. Looked cool. Lots of action, lots of good graphics, good voicework. Awesome in general. Next trailer was Left 4 Dead 2. It had humor, ZOMBIES, guns and chainsaws. Yup, that's pretty much all we need to know. It was the next trailer that I was most exited for though. Namely Splinter Cell Conviction. It's a 360 exclusive this time, even though Double Agent was far superior on the PS2 but I'll let it slip :P Gameplay: This time you still play as Sam Fisher. Moving about like the prince of persia is a lot more smoother and faster this time around. Since there is little need to sneak about now. Environment wise, Sam uses it like Batman did in the Batman Begins game. For example, you are up on some beams in a room and Sam shoots down a chandelier that crashes on to several people. This causes fear in your opponents who start to run to the crash like headless chickens. One thing I noticed though is that Sam surprisingly used a lighter version of CQC. Sam Fisher meets Solid Snake? I'm game! The story in this game is entirely in Real Life and you are in control. The story is about the death of his daughter and that's all we know really. All in all, one of the best demo's and gameplay demo's of the morning. After Splinter Cell came Forza Motorsport. the only thing I found notable was the fact that you can use skins created by professional artists. Excitement all around as Halo ODST was announced! You play as the rookie of the team. Something happened to a large city and you are there to find out what. By using flashbacks to other characters, you collect clues as to what exactly happened. Since you are no longer a Spartan, you can use silenced weapons and a whole new SPlinter Cell like Visor that uses different modes. The HUD looks intuitive, the Pistol is back and OverPowered as usual and all in all it looks solid. However, after ODST, a trailer was shown to Halo Reach. A simple trailer but very impressive. Unfortunately, anything else about the game is TOP SECRET, but Beta keys will be handed out with ODST. Alan Wake graced us with its presence next. A Resident Evil/Silent Hill type of game that seems to handle a lot smoother, looks a lot better and is in general creepier. It show a lot of promise, this one. 360 news was next. Last.FM will be providing news services to the system and Netflix will be updated. Sky TV will now also be providing the UK and Ireland with Live tv. Live Party will also allow you to watch a movie online with your friends at the same time, with your avatars sitting in a theater and the movie is being played out on the screen. There is also a new partnership with Facebook with a more than awesome interaction between it and the games, which by the way all happens simultaneously if you will. Lastly, TWITTER is coming as well. And now the moment we were all waiting for really. It was Don Mattrich himself that came on stage and introduced to us, for the first time at the Microsoft Press Conference: Hideo Kojima! He was there to announce that the Metal Gear Franchise would come to the 360 with its new installment Metal Gear Solid Rising, where you play as none other than Ninja Raiden… Wait … As already mentioned in several threads, I FUCKING CALLED IT. Lastly, Project Natal. It’s an EyeToy V.2 where you attach a device to your 360 so that you can act as the controller. It has motion detection, voice detection and it works surprisingly well. By the way, it’s Steven Spielberg approved apparently because he came to talk about it on stage. It didn’t interest me much until Peter Fucking Molyneux introduced us to Claire and Mylo. Claire is a real life woman who is in front of the LCD TV and the 360 using the Natal. Mylo is a virtual character that interacts with Claire as if he was a real life person. He reacts, responds and acts as if he was real. His voice, his emotions and more. The way Claire interacts with him was amazing as well as, for example, she drew a fish on a piece of paper, said what she was drawing and how and then handed the piece of paper over to Mylo. Literally. She held it over the TV. The Natal had scanned the paper and the SAME paper was in Mylo’s hands. The same color and size and he acted as if the fish was really drawn on it. Amazing really! That was pretty much the Microsoft conference. I hope that you enjoyed reading this and that it helped you enjoy E3 some more. If I can’t be with the other conferences, sorry. But I’m as sure as hell going to make another blog saying what I liked best about this year’s E3. This has been Puddle Jumper, see you later.

EA Conference:

The EA conference kicked off at the right time and in the right way. Bringing us in the mood with a nice opening video, we were about to be treated to a lot of new and exiting games. Or so we thought … The first trailer shown was definitely promising. Dante’s Inferno was very, very cool. The graphics were familiar though. Dark, bloody, brown and gritty. That didn’t bother me much though because it looked awesome, the story looked to be amazing, the sound was great and it was of awesome length as well. A big name came on stage and talked about The Sims 3. Where after a trailer was shown. It shows that The Sims 3 sticks to the formula to the letter. It’s goofiness and goofy voices. It’ll definitely please fans. Proudly the man then introduced Chip Liang from Hasbro. Look, it’s the crapper, let’s get in it, EA says. First he talks about Littlest Pet Shop expantion packs, three of them for the WII and the DS. Then about Littles Pet Shop online. Next up was Dyan Williams with Charm Girls Club. CGC at the mall … PJ party … minigames like combing hair … grooming hair … Wii game … Yeah … no! Please EA, move on will ya. DO NOT CLAP! AUDIENCE, DO NOT ENCOURAGE THEM. My eyes are burning! Make it stop! Wait, who’s this? Patrick Soderlund … Need for Speed Shift? Hell yeah! NFS returns to the tracks with this one. No more street racing. The entire game’s pitch is about three things: First: This will be the first NFS with multiple developers. Second: The Cockpit view is extremely detailed, filled and realistic. Unlike anything you’ve ever seen before. Third: It’s extremely deep. Meaning that your driving influences your game and how your driver evolves. To be honest, it looks very good. To all at E3: There’s a BMW to win over at their booth too! Ray and Greg from Bioware then came on to show Dragon Age Origins. The first part of their talk was in extremes like best, darkest and more. The trailer was perhaps the best for a fantasy game evarrrrrrr. It was kickass, it looked great, sounded awesome and it was overall bad assssssss. Next up was perhaps the most anticipated title: Mass Effect 2. Acording to the speaking, Shepard is a kickass hero. At any rate, the story is going to be very emotionally charged with a lot more new characters, new worlds and a lot more. The trailer looked cool. The presumed dead Shepard is back in a great trailer that definitely was worth the wait. Everything about it just screamed that it was going to deliver. And then came … Russia? Wait … What? Ru … OOOOOOH, it’s a trailer for their next segment! EA Sports is here! Peter Moore comes up and brings us Fight Night round 4. He said that it will raise the level for the gaemplay as FN 3 raised it for the graphics. The game focuses on the four S’s. These are Speed, Strength, Strategy and Style. It looks a bit better than FN round 3 but it sounds a lot more painful. I was about ready to strap in a cup because I was afraid I might get hurt. Like every other game already shown that’s worth two shits, they aim for realism and this game pulls it off well it seems. We just have to wait and see. But we don’t have to wait long because the released has been changed to June 25th of 2009. Also announced: EA MMA, or Mixed Martial Arts. Steve Chiang came to play and talked about Browser games for EA sports. Including an American Football team builder game and a Madden football game. Nothing to get exited about really. Or at least not for me. Now we got to the good stuff as Tom French from Pandemic Studio’s came on to talk about The Saboteur. The Sean Devlin trailer that he showed looked realistic but at the same time a lot like a game. Which is something I miss about most games nowadays. To me this game looks to be a toned down Sin City during World War II. Hoo-rah! Gameplay showed us that it is a lot like Assassin’s Creed in the sense of that you can climb everything and that you have to sneak around to kill or blow up. The only other thing I could pick up was that the minimap looked good and the gameplay looked fluent. Near the end there was also a small driving section. EA Partner time as Tim Schafer came up to discuss Brutal Legend. Apparently he finds Jack Black to be funny. NO WAI?! Mostly he discussed about the characters and how that one guy can fly with his hair. No, seriously, that’s what he said. And all that the trailer did was make me wish I was a roadie … And to buy the game because OZZY FUCKING OSBOURNE is in it. WIN. Lastly there was a special message from Jack Black himself that was … euh … weird … To say it nicely. But it was extremely effin funny though. Cevat Yerli talked about Crysis 2 after that. It’s for the PC, PS3 and the 360. It will use the Cryengine 3 to maimize its overall performance for graphics, sound and A.I. A new partner was announced. RealTime Worlds is developing a game known as APB or All Parts Bulletin. It’s set in a single, modern city. One hundred people will be put in a single server and it is their job to become as famous as possible in the shortest amount of time. RTW is aiming for the best and most realistic as possible graphics with this game and they’re definitely pulling it off. Here’s to a good game guys and I hope you have a good time over at EA. Then the room went dark, an orchestra started to play and we all awaited what was coming next. Then the music starts to sound familiar and when we realize that it is nothing less than a song from Star Wars, actors appear on stage dressed as Sith and Jedi. Ray and Darrel come on stage to announce Star Wars: The Old Republic. Made by Bioware, they are promising a game unlike we’ve ever seen before. Every person you will encounter in the game will be voiced and on top of that, it will be voiced by their own unique voice actor. So, a fully voices game with a different actor per character. AND there’s a unique story behind every playable character for a unique experience per playthrough. How awesome is that? And then came the trailer. Holy SHIT. How was it, you ask? IT’S STAR WARS, YOU WANKER! It Rawked my bawls off! This had to be the best trailer shown so far. There will never be a trailer as good as this one and it will be written in stone that it will be worshipped. It deserves a 10/10 on every aspect that you can think of. Seriously, go watch it now. What are you doing, staying here if you haven’t watched it yet? GO! I can wait. The conferecne was over anyways and Peter wrapped it all up after this. Well, that was the EA conference for you. I won’t be doing the Ubisoft conference but I will attempt to follow Sony and Nintendo. I can’t guarantee anything. This has been Puddle Jumper, I’ll see you next time!

E3 So far:

Looking at these two conferences together has made me realize that 2007 might be kicked off its throne. So far, '09 has given us a lot of awesome footage, surprising footage and long awaited service to new consoles. Though they have kicked themselves in the ass somewhat by making certain segments too long like Beatles Rock Band and by adding very unimportant segments like EA girls and EA Sports Active. But, all in all, both of the conferences were solid. The Ubisoft conference I didn't watch and I have to say, I'm happy that I didn't. Because for god's sake did that suck monkeyballs. The only notable event was the Assassin's Creed trailer that looked just as good and just as awesome as the Star Wars trailer. Other trailers that have already been shown for E3 all promise very good games. Nier, Batman Arkham Asylum joker gameplay, Just Cause 2 ... These games deserve a medal. Lego Rock Band and Lego Harry Potter however should be brought behind the tool shed and have a two barrel shotgun placed in their mouths. I know, they might look pretty and be very friendly but it's best for all that these diseased, inbred mongrels be shot to oblivion. between Screwattack, Gamespot live and Twitter I've been following E3 quite nicely really and I would just like to thank everyone for their awesomeness.

Nintendo Conference:

After a full day of eager anticipation, E3 continues with the press conference of the Big N. Right on schedule, Nintendo begins its presentation with a video and the announcement that Cammie Duraway is up. After a long and useless speech, that promised us new and awesome innovations, a nifty little Mario montage appeared to guide us through the years of Mario. After which we got New Super Mario Bros WII! Bill comes on stage and shows us this game which is a side scrolling Super Mario, but with four players at the time. Not exactly invoking us to ooooh and aaah but it’s good enough for an opener. We also see a Propeller Suit, that propels you in to the air, and a stat menu at the end of every level of how you did. The game launches in the holidays of 2009. Cammie’s back to talk about WII fit and how it is the best sold game and that it is a whole new platform of gaming on its own. She announced: Wii Fit plus. Wii Fit V.2 really. Yawn! Next up, talk about Balance games. Seriously guys, you only got 60 minutes. Reggie Fils-Amis comes on and introduces to us: Mii Motion Plus. We’re already acquainted, thank you. We don’t need to know you’ll be releasing a supplement to the controller that will allow it to work like it always should have worked. Seventeen minutes in and still nothing guys, hurry up! Bill is back and shows is Wii Sports Resort. It looks good, graphics wise. But that’s where it ends. We see skydiving, archery and basketball with Reggie. More Wii Motion Plus talk. Games for it will include Tiger Woods Gold, Virtua Tennis and Red Steel 2, the only decent thing so far and it’s only shown as a fucking title on the screen … RPG talk is next and how it will be revolutionized by the WII. A trailer is shown for Final Fantasy: The Crystal Bearers. It looked decent enough. The graphics were okay and the voices were okay. If it weren’t for the fact that this game announcement came completely out of nowhere, I would have been more pumped. Luckily we were given more time to prepare for Kingdom Hearts on the WII. Because they actually took their time to announce it. Sort of. It still came out of nowhere after a speech. God, do they love to speech. Reggie then discusses a new Mario RPG known as Bowser’s Inside Story, where the two brothers are shrunken to a microscopically small levels and they are trapped inside of Bowser himself. This game will come out on the DS and will be released this fall, but frankly, all I could think of was how desperate this idea really is. And then … The most awesome announcement so far. Are you ready for this, reader? Here it comes: Golden Sun DS was announced. Very nice! It sort of upgraded like Pokémon did but it has its own style and such. HALLELULIA Nintendo at least has something! … Cammie shows James Patterson’s Woman’s Murder Club: The game. It looks good graphic wise but I think that is where the fun ends … Seriously, Nintendo? SERIOUSLY? Then C.O.P.: The Recruit was announced. A comic meets Anime style GTA clone on the DS. It looks promising. Suck, yay, suck, yay, suck yay … Make up your mind Nintendo. Style Savy: a game for girls on the DS is announced. Zwinky on the DS, really … ‘Nuff said … Moving on … DSi Talk. Aw, hell no. Knock it off, Nintendo. Stop hiring speech writers to do your job! You’re doing what now? Tossing numbers at us? One million units sold for the I and 400k Lite’s. Interesting … Finally, a return to games comes but as usual it comes out of nowhere. First they make you doze off with their boring speeches and then WHAM … Something average. Something liiiiike: WarioWare: Do It Yourself. Yeah, nothing more was said. Then came the announcement that you could upload media directly to Facebook in the future. Then we were treated to TWO SENTANCES about The Legend of Zelda: The Spirit Tracks and a nice title image on the screen. I’m sorry if its so short per paragraph guys, but that’s just the way it is. If there was more to talk about per item, I would do it … Satori Iwata comes on and tosses more numbers at us and a really long, pointless and boring speech. SUNUVA BITCH. It’s a Game convention guys … You’re talking to Gamers. Not businessmen. The reporters there aren’t interesting in all that shit! TEN MUCKING MINUTES later we’re finally getting somewhere. He pumps us up, he thrills us, we’re getting … oh wait, never mind. It’s just a Vitality Sensor for the Wii that shows you your vitals … Bah Cammie’s back! Yay …! …? She says that she’s going to further stimulate us … WHUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *cough* Okelidokeli. Wait, what’s … OMFGWTF! Is that? Could it be? YES, it IS Super Mario Galaxy 2. It looks like the first game, it sounds like the first game and it’s just slightly bigger on some levels than the first game. Disappointment all around. At this point, applause has gone down to a minimum. Hell, EA girls had more applause than they did. Sad really. Reggie returns and shows us a barrage of awesome games in under ten minutes. But to be honest, they look like Jesus Reincarnated compared to the craptastic 50 minutes that had already passed. First up, a Conduit trailer. Nothing new, but it gets us pumping for the next ones. Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles. A rail shooter that looks very nice for a WII game. Seriously, the graphics were superb. It also promises to have a story unlike ever before seen in the RE universe. We’ll see about that. Dead Space Extraction follows with a dark and scary trailer. In the end, this is too few too late. Sorry Nintendo, but … Hey Reggie, ‘Sup? Sorry if I don’t believe you’re actually building up atmosphere for something good. Hehe … Then comes the trailer. Team Ninja and Nintendo present. Wait, what? Team Ninja and Nintendo? Okay, now I’m curious. The trailer starts. It looks awesome. Dark, stylish and with more colors than the usual games. The sound is excellent. Yeah, this could be what we’ve all been waiting for. Suddenly a woman says: ‘My name is Samus Aran.’ HOLY SHIT. OMG! The title then comes along: Metroid: The New M. This is the best trailer of the Nintendo conference without a doubt. With this trailer alone you managed for me to forgive you Nintendo for this craptastic Conference. Look that trailer up if you haven’t seen it already, it’s amazing.

Sony's conference:

Microsoft has stolen the show from the word go with their more than excellent conference. Nintendo disappointed us all but managed to sneak in some pretty awesome games, though you couldn’t blink or you’d miss them. And finally, EA and Ubisoft presented us with some pretty solid conferences themselves. Now was the time for the other big name. Sony’s up! How did they fare? Let’s find out. The pretty epic opening video promised a lot as it left the video’s of the other big names eating its dust. It’s a tad long though, but still epic as hell. Jack Tretton comes on stage. He is the president and CEO of Sony. Apparantly he needs the Wii’s Vital Sensor because he’s so nervous. He made a long speech but it was modest and solid. It was mostly talk about games that will be on the PS3. Then he begins to talk about the Playstation 2. Praising it, Jack talked about how they will not be stopping with the PS2 for as long as people are buying. And if you look at the numbers he tossed at us, the PS2 is still the King of the Hill. On a final note, the PS2 will be getting over 100 new titles. After some PSN praise, Jack introduced Evan Wells from Naughty Dog. There’s only one game from Naughty Dog here and that’s Uncharted 2: Amongst thieves. He talks more about the single player campaign. Then he shows a video that totally blew my mind away. The gameplay looked just as solid as the first game. Acompanied by the NPC known as Chloe, you free run across town with her not being a bother like … She who shall not be named. Chloe’s voice actress is Claudia Black so that brings this game to even higher levels. The gameplay looks very thrilling, seeing as you are also fighting choppers. Combine that with the awesome graphics and the cinematic nature of the game, you have a hit on your hands. And lastly, the humor was amazingly funny too. Jack then introduced Andy from Zipper Interactive to show us MAG, or Massive Action Gaming. This is a MMO first person shooter where 256 people are devided in two teams. It’s further split up in to four platoons. The demo shown is with a full server. It looked very good with a nicely filled HUD that could be a little confusing at first. There was no lag to speak of. Interesting fact was that you needed to complete an objective first before you can respawn. Jack was back at this point to talk about future PSP games like Assassin’s Creed, a Hannah Montana Bundle and more. Yes, you heard me correctly. A HANNAH MONTANA PSP BUNDLE! Kaz Hirai then was tossed on stage to talk about the PSP for the next while. First he announced the PSP GO. The thing will cost 249 USD. It slides open on the side, which is pretty sweet. It has a 16 Gygabite internal flash drive, built in Wi-Fi, integrated Bluetooth and more. For the PSP services was also announced: MediaGo, a community service for media sharing. And SenseMe, which will analyze your mood for your music playlist. The Toolkit’s price will also be dropped by 80%, there will be more content to the Playstation Store and some more speeches. I don’t care because the speeches are good, unlike at the other conferences. Yamauchi announces Gran Turismo for the PSP after that. It runs on full screen at 60 FPS, it has 800 cars, 35 tracks and 60 lay-outs for those tracks and a single player mode with standard stuff. The special feature will be a multiplayer for up to four people and the ability to trade cars with other people. A video was shown at this point that shows a very detailed and graphically great image. It releases on October first of ‘09. Kaz returns to introduce the man of the days: Hideo Kojima. Kojima announces a new Metal Gear Solid game on the PSP named Peacewalker. Set ten years after the events of Metal Gear Solid 3, you return to the battlefield in Costa Rica as Big Boss. The trailer showed play station 2 worthy graphics with MGS4 like gameplay. PSP time is over and Jack returns to the stage. The man announces that Resident Evil is coming for the Playstation Portable alongside games like Little Big Planet, Motorstorm, Harry Potter, Hannah Montana and many others. More PSN talk now as numbers are being tossed at us, but not for long as its announced that Final Fantasy 7 will be available for download. And then comes some Home talk that nobody cares about … An announcement was made that they were going to release content for multiple games such as Infamous and many others. Then came a video with previews of what was in store for the PS3. It was a lengthy video but it was made out of pure win. There were games in it like Katamari, Battlefield and others. Jack hyped up Rockstar to announce an exclusive for it known as Agent, a spy game set in the 70’s. Talk about it stopped as Jack introduced Sebastian to talk about Assassin’s Creed 2. Returning to the game is Desmond Miles who is now returned to his ancestor in Venice, Italy during the renaissance. One word can be used to describe the assassin Ezio. And that is: Ninja. The gameplay demo revealed that it’s a lot smoother, more fluent and a lot faster than in the first game. You can use inventions from Da Vinci like the flying machine, which you use to fly over Venice to your target, and the hidden blades, of which you now have two. The seeker A.I. is also shown. This means that certain NPC’s will look for you in the hiding spots. You are able to fight barehanded and you are also able to disarm your enemies. There’s also a smoke bomb and Ezio can swim. This game is promising so much and I want to bet that it is going to live up to its name and deliver us even more. It’s scheduled to release this holiday. Jack returns to talk about Final Fantasy XIII. After which he shows a video about it. The English voices were kind of off if you asked me. It was like the characters themselves weren’t talking and the guns weren’t the ones making the sounds. At any rate, it looked awesome enough as always. The story is promising to be quite emo though. But more importantly was the next announcement. Final Fantasy 14. The video shown promised us a fantasy world again with great graphics and chocobo’s. And it’s a new MMO! Next up was the new Motion Controller. From the makers of the Eyetoy comes a nun chuck like controller that uses a sphere at the end to interact with the Eyetoy on the TV. From first glance, this controller is just as good as the Wii Motion Plus. But it would be used a bit differently than at the Wii. For instance, you’ll be turning it on and throwing a fireball spell in RPG’s. The sensor at the end of the controller makes it look like you are holding an item on TV like a baseball bat and more. And I do mean you. The Eyetoy camera, remember. Unlike Nintendo, the developers of this controller welcome casual games but will focus more on hardcore gamers. Fuck, yeah! The sword and shield demo was pretty impressive and so was the archery demo. Seriously, if the end result is going to be this impressive, the Wii has no chance in hell. However, the only problem was that the controller looked like a Dildo … and so anything they said on stage was just oozing with sexual innuendo. It launches in Spring of 2010. Little Big Planet news after that. New downloadable costumes will be of movie characters such as Jack Sparrow and Mister Invincible. Also announced, Mod Nation Racers, a Little Big Planet game but with cars. There’s nothing more that could be said about this really. Jack then showed us a trailer of the next game by the team behind Ico. Namely: The Last Guardian. It seems that the leaked trailer was in fact real but the real E3 trailer was twice as long. The action shown in the last part was quite exhilarating really. It looked amazing as well. What also looked amazing was the trailer for Gran Turismo 5. Because DAMN, did that look good. Last to be shown but definitely not the least: God of War 3. As Jack said, it’s not just for the play station 3, it can only be done on the play station 3. The demo had blood, awesome graphics, gruesomely realistic sound and kills, interesting enemies and it was sheer epic win. I mean, you jump at a harpy, grab it and start stabbing it repeatedly so it will take you over the large gap that you couldn’t cross. You can also Zerg Rush enemies like Wolverine did on that wooden bridge at the beginning of Xo Wolverine: the game. The Gauntlet gameplay was pretty solid as well as Kratos literally Fight Club stomped the guy to death. Quick Time Events are back but that’s more like a Fucking Duh statement. Lastly, the demo showed big bosses with QTE’s. In the end, this video was amazing and I too awwwww’ed alongside the crowd as they had to cut it short. Find this trailer now and watch it a hundred times. This blog is pretty much over because the conference has ended. Sony has climbed to the top of E3 with this conference and I doubt that they can be knocked off. Sony wins this years E3 and this year’s E3 wins the Best E3 ever award in my books. Sony would have tied with Microsoft if it wasn’t for those damned games for girls that they showed and the awkwardly long Beatles Rock Band sequence. Sony just never fumbled the ball really.

E3: Final Thoughts



E3: One More Day

One more day of E3, huh? Well, let's see what we ... *he came buckets at this point.* JAK AND DAXTER THE LOST FRONTIERS? FUCK E3! THIS IS THE SHIZNIT RIGHT HERE! So, I clicked on the video that I've been waiting for all E3 and eagerly anticipate what's coming. You've seen everything I've done about E3 so, right? I've noted down everything there was said in the Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony press conference and as a bonus, I also did EA, and then I typed it up as a nice blog and posted it here for all to see. And I also made one blog reviewing E3 up to that point and a Final Thoughts VIDEO. But all of that fails in comparison to this one video that I ... What's this? PSP? FUCK THE PSP! I want Playstation 2 footage, BITCH. What's this? FLYING? Oh wooptie fucking dooda! How will Jak look like? What will Daxter look like? What's the story? What's GAAAAAAAAH What IS this shit? Over after 45 seconds and they showed nothing?! You can fly ... Oh woohoo! Blow me ...


Video Games | Jak and Daxter: The Lost Frontier | E3 09: Official Debut
XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii
Anything else noteworthy about this E3 day then, because this is lamecakes to be honest. Army of Two gameplay ... Yeah, okay. That's at least done right. A Walkthrough of The Agency? Three videos of gameplay and it's ... Oh wow, looked good. Tekken 6? Nice. A Left 4 Dead 2 walkthrough? Pretty Fuckin-A-Awesome Hot Chick filled Postal 3 Video? AWESOME. Lawd, G.I. Joe is promising to be another Movie to Game disaster. Dead to Rights is back. Meh ... Didn't really care much. The previous titles had good trailers but the gameplay was rather generic and the story was meh. As I'm typing this, there's still no Beyond Good and Evil 2 talk or trailer or anything of it. here's to hoping it'll come soon ... Bugger it all to hell ... For me, E3 ended yesterday with this blog: http://screwattack.com/node/23693 Anything remotely interesting was said during the big 3 conferences ... Bah!