Since I'm in the middle of A-Level revision right now, and the popular gaming festival E3 is on today, I decided to take a ganders at what was going on. Unfortunately it's probably going to last all day, seeing as it started only a few hours ago and is still happening right now, but the guys at RoosterTeeth are doing a Live blog of the event and I've learned several things:
Kinect is going to become amazing. Apart from all the silly sport games they're going to be releasing, they've added 3D mapping to the table. Now you know in Iron Man how Robert Downy Jnr can create 3D models by just flailing his arms about a bit? Yeah, it's exactly like that - but not. Unfortunately we're not there yet. But you can take a picture of an object using Kinect and then it'll create that object in 3D on your TV screen. It can also take a picture of you and create an avatar based on what you look like, so you won't have to spend pointless hours scrolling through all of the options trying to create something that looks like you. Kinect are also bringing out 3D drawing, so you can stand in the middle of your room, wave your arms about a bit and it'll draw on-screen how you drew yours in real life. So if you wanted to draw a box that you will then be inside, it'll do it. It sounds pretty cool.
Tom Clancy hasn't stopped his tyranny yet and is bringing out Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. Wait, that sounds exactly the same as the other two games. But it's not! In true Tom Clancy fashion, voice commands (through Kinect) will be available along with fully customisable weapons. Yeah, that sounds pretty cool. Aside from the voice commands, they won't work at all. Neither will shooting with Kinect, unless you actually have a gun.
Keeping with shooters, we now know more about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 which will have customisable weapons (as ever), another bloody boat chase scene, voice commands and Kinect shooting. Same deal as Ghost Recon.
Still keeping with shooters, nothing new has really been said about Gears of War 3 apart from the release of new trailers which will hopefully be online soon. These videos absolutely confirmed that we will be able to use mech suits (called Silverbacks) in the new game and there are also giant squid things (the Lambent - for those of you familiar with the series) that pop out of the ground and murder your face off. Must say I'm really looking forward to this more than any other game this year. No mention of Kinect (thank god).
Minecraft! Yep, it's coming to the Xbox with... yeah, Kinect! Wow! Now instead of mashing a button to dig to the centre of the Earth you'll have to wave your arm about! A lot! I was under the impression that there already was Minecraft for the Xbox under a different name and very cheap, but if I'm wrong I'm wrong.
YouTube and Bing are coming to Xbox Live (unsurprisingly) to make trips to the laptop less frequent. Hopefully with the Dashboard revamp they'll get rid of the bastarding Zune Player that slows down the entire console to a snail's pace while you try and boot it up. There was absolutely nothing wrong with the old Xbox Live video thingy, mainly because it worked, but Zune is just an unnecessary extra program that is also shit.
As we all know the Halo franchise has been moved over to Microsoft, and we all though that Halo:Reach would be Halo's swan song. It still kind of is. The first Halo game I owned was Halo 2, so before I got Halo 3 I decided to play Halo: CE. My only complaint was that Halo: CE was fucking awesome, but the whole thing seemed well past its sell-by date and Halo 3 was a vast improvement. At the time I knew Halo was going to live forever, seeing as Halo Wars and Halo 3 ODST were on their way, and I thought it would be an amazing idea to put Halo: CE into Halo 3's engine and revamp the campaign so the second half didn't seem exactly the same as the first half but in reverse order. So, the gods of Microsoft have answered my call and in Autumn 2011 Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary will be on our shelves with Halo: Reach's engine, hopefully the weapons and a better campaign to go with it as well. That'll be awesome.
Okay, I lied about Halo: Reach being Halo's swan song. Halo 4 is hitting the shelves in Autumn 2012. You know, Halo 4 meaning Halo 7. You know when Halo 3 ended with that massive cliffhanger where Master Chief is in the back end of a ship? Yeah, it gets attacked and now he has to fight. Nothing aside from that.
So if you're not a gaming fan and have been massively disappointed with this post, then I apologise.
Oh yeah, Fifa is going to have Kinect integrated. Somehow. Kinect is also going to have GOLF! FUCK YEAH! GOLF! I KNOW RIGHT!
Well done, Microsoft.
For those looking for Halo 4 stuff, here's the trailer:
http://uk.ign.com/videos/2011/06/06/e3-2011-halo-4-e3-teaser-trailer
Apparently they're releasing a trilogy on it. So yeah. Look forward to it.
Almost forgot to say that there's a new Star Wars game coming to Kinect. Doesn't look amazing judging by comments.
Okay, since then I've watched both the EA and the Ubisoft conferences and I can deduce these things:
EA are going to make so many sports games that you'll be crying through your teeth. Same as every year really.
EA are also releasing Battlefield 3, which looks like just about the best shooter ever of all time. I must admit this is almost solely based on the graphics and animation engines, but still, it looks fucking awesome. I'll withhold details for Dukey's sake since he needs to catch up.
The only thing worth talking about with Ubisoft is of course the new Assassin's Creed Revelations in which you follow the story of Ezio and Altaier once again to defeat the Templars. What looks good about this game is that there's Desmond's story happening but he's in a coma this game so it doesn't really matter, and then there's Ezio's story in which he's trying to stop the Templars somehow and to do that he somehow accesses the memories of his ancestor Altaier to help him. No idea what Altaier's story is about though, probably something else to do with defeating the Templars as this game is all about anyway. But still, massive graphics improvement, combat system doesn't look as easy as it was in Brotherhood, but it's not like a game to simply take things away from a game when making a new one so they'll probably keep all the "make your life easier" options apart from I hope the mega-convenient arrow storm which, while cool, made the game insanely easy. They've added a super power smoke bomb though which is also cool. So yeah, that's that.
Again, apologies to my readers who came here looking for wit and humour. This was necessary so deal with it.
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