Shashi(斜視)Blogg

Okay, so I have been watching most of the live streams from the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) during the press conference, it started out with Microsoft and I gotta say, they had interesting stuff on their table now, I didn’t care much about the games though because they didn’t seem to have too much new there, except that they announced a release date (ok, maybe not date but time) for Final Fantasy XIII for the 360, which is Spring 2010 for North America And Europe. Together with that they showed a project they’ve been working on for a while which makes todays console controllers useless, motion sensor controller, in other words, you use your own body as the controller without the need of having anything in your hands. In my opinion so did this look like quit an awesome thing for the 360 and would love to buy it when it’s out, Lionhead made an AI and program where they tested it and it seemed to work fine, the sensor can even scan your items from real life into the game. Oh and yea, Koijima took a little visit on the Microsoft scene and THAT surprised, they’ve now announced a new Metal Gear Solid for the XBox 360. Microsoft is also launching last.fm radio, facebook and twitter access on their console so you can do social stuff while sitting in your living room without a computer to do it on, they are also starting to release FULL HD (1080p) movies through their movie service, and they have now doubled…No wait, trippled the amount of countries part of this, from 8 to 26.

After Microsoft it was Electronic Arts (EA’s) turn and they surprised me a lot this year, normally they only have shitty games or some poor follow-up to some other crappy backassed game which doesn’t deserve to be sold for anything. After the boring shit was done with (EA Girls & EA Sports) the other develoeprs and partner studios could get on the scene and show their awesomeness. The following games are MUST-HAVE games which looks extremely awesome; The Saboteour, Brutal Legend, Star Wars: The Old Republic (MMO), Crysis 2 (holy shit I want this game!), alos, Crytek surprised with their CryEngine 3 announcement, a friend and I were sitting on MSN watching and was hoping they would announce Crysis 2, and when the guy at the scene mentioned it we orgasmed, LITERALLY!

I didn’t watch the Ubisoft and Nintendo press conferences so I can’t say much there, except that Nintendo apparently is just making a new Mario game and a new Metroid game, oh, and alongside yet another Zelda game *Yawn.* Assassins Creed 2 looks interesting and is probably worth a try when it is released.

At last it was the Sony press conference, I didn’t watch everything but they seem to have new stuff up their sleeves, but first I gonna tell you what new games are coming for the Sony PS3 and PSP. On the PSP we will be getting a Metal Gear Solid game and some other games which I probably missed, on the PS3 we will also get a MGS game alongside the following; Modnation Racer, seriously, that game looks so awesome it almost made me want to buy a PS3, it’s like LittleBigPlanet but as the game title says, this time you will be racing, you can make maps like on LittleBigPlanet…etc and have fun on them with other players! You can custom make your characters and cars, get them rated and even let others re-customize them, this also counts for your map by the way. God of War 3 is coming too and The Last Guardian. Sony also showed us a prototype of their new motion sensor controller which seemed quite fun to use actually, too bad we couldn’t see it used in a real game but what I saw from the demo it looked worthy enough to be showed on E3! Oh and I have one last thing to tell you Final Fantasy fans, they are releasing Final Fantasy XIV Online for the PS3, I hear rumors about it coming to PC too but don’t take my words for it.

Well, that’s what I had to say about E3 and the different press conferences. Why there are no videos or images you say? Because I didn’t want to clutter up my blog with them.

EDIT

Woah…Woah…WOAH! I actually forgot the other days of E3 and such, I have though not been actively following the other days after the first two and the press conferences so can’t trust me on all this, but I’ve heard about some new games coming out and such which might be interesting, for example, for all of you zombie fans we have Left 4 Dead 2 which brings us down south in the United States…The AI Director v1.0 have also been upgraded to v2.0 which means it also will be able to render blockades and such in maps and the weather, so we will be seeing zombies in full daylight now, while in L4D all missions were done during the night. There will also be more co-op missions and the Survivor modification will come straight out of the box instead of VALVE making an ‘expansion’ to add it.

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