It’s that wonderful time of year again! Here are my quick opinions on day 1 of E3.  I’ve put in videos for my favourite titles from each company.  There will be another post tomorrow of course!

Microsoft

  • Natal is Kinect. Kinect is Natal. Cool idea, looks like it works in practice, just the price tag will be the deciding factor.
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops. *yawns* Garbage…
  • Metal Gear Rising. Raiden goodness! Looks awesome.
  • Fable III. Looks more enjoyable than Fable II.
  • Halo: Reach. More sodding Halo. But space combat included this time!
  • New ‘slim’ Xbox 360 at $AU450. Built in wifi-N, 250GB HDD.  Maybe when I get the spare cash I’ll get one. This 2006 model is bound to RROD sometime soon.
  • Gears Of War 3. Wow, its Gears Of War again! *sarcasm* Although, new enemies and chicks with guns!
  • The Kinect games collection. Has some good ideas. But mostly would need to be experienced to be deemed worthwhile.
  • A lot of stuff people that don’t live in the USA will get. Still want Netflix….

Overall, the Microsoft stuff was predictable, except for the slim 360, but its nice to see that Kinect actually works.

EA

  • Crysis 2. On PC, PS3 and Xbox360! In 3D! Looks more enjoyable than the first one. 3D is always an unwelcome addition now.
  • More Need For Speed. Bit over it nowadays!
  • Dead Space 2. :O But I really should finish the first one before this comes out.
  • Medal Of Honor. Looks damn amazing. Damn damn amazing. Putting the CoD series to shame! 24 person multiplayer! Gazooonga! The EA Gun Club……Ummm.
  • EA Sports stuff. It’s EA Sports, same as usual.
  • Sims 3. On consoles now! Not much to say there.
  • Bulletstorm. ‘Bout damn time. Looks amazing and just as fun as Painkiller. Feb 2011 release date? Bit too far away.
  • Star Wars: The Old Republic. Holy.fucking.win! Everyone gets a starship amongst other awesome things. Trailer features chick Jedi kicking some serious Sith arse. WINWINWINWINWIN!

Yeah, that was good pretty awesome.  That TOR trailer is just amazing.

Ubisoft

  • Child Of Eden. I love Rez and this looks awesome. Maybe a reason to get Kinect.
  • Joel McHale! The only decent thing during the whole press conference.
  • Assassins Creed: Brotherhood.  Direct sequel to Assassins Creed II. Looks pretty cool. Trailer is awesome!
  • Shaun White somethingBoarding. Bleh.
  • Physical laser tag. Yep, its a real laser tag gun and you play outside…or inside..or wherever. Could be fun…several years ago.
  • Innergy. Strange and pointless.
  • Kinect stuff. Fitness stuff. Sport stuff. Eh.
  • Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. Looks pretty cool. Joel McHale made some hilarious comments during the demo.
  • Driver. Yay, Driver is back and actually worth playing since the first one. This time, Tanner is in a coma the whole time….
  • Rayman. Usual Ubisoft fluff.
  • Maniaplanet. Trackmania and two other -mania’s rolled into one. Could be fun…
  • Michael Jackson dancing game. Ewwwwww

Assassins Creed: Brotherhood, Ghost Recon: Future Soldier and Driver 5 look pretty awesome. Everything else, not so awesome.