Tuesday, June 2, 2009

E3 Day 2

Lets Do A Quick Recap of The E3 Day One Highlights:
  • EPIC'S NEW XBLA GAME: SHADOW COMPLEX REVEALED ( AMAZING)
  • More details on the new PsP Go! Here
  • Dante's Inferno Stage Demo Shown Off and New Trailer Here
  • Biggest Story Yet: Crackdown 2 ANNOUNCED HERE
  • Modern Warfare 2 Stage Demo / actual play-through level
  • Crysis 2 PS3 & 360 Bound (excellent!) Here
  • StarCraft II Releasing in 2009! Here
  • Beatles Rock Game Shown
  • Metal Gear Solid: Rising coming to the 360!!!!!
  • Left 4 Dead 2 announced - Releasing in November by Valve! Here
  • New Halo Project is in FULL Effect (Full Retail)
  • Microsoft Announces Fully Compatible Motion Control System For The 360!
  • Assassins Creed 2 Dated For Fall of This Year
  • A Brand New Monkey Island Game for all Systems
  • James Cameron's "Avatar" game shown off behind closed doors
  • Final Fantasy XIII shown off and dated (looks gorgeous)
  • FORZA 3 Announced and Dated
  • Alan Wake Shown Off (in-Game and Cut-Scenes)
  • APB Announced for All Major Systems - Not a PS3 Exclusive
  • Brutal Legend Preview by Tim Shaffer (Creator/CEO of Double Fine)
  • Splinter Cell: Conviction Shown off and Played!
  • UbiSoft Enters The All Things Media Business (not just making games anymore)
Today's Wii Happenings as of 2:13pm Eastern:
  • Nintendo Press Conference
  • Wii Sports Resort in depth look
  • Wii Motion Plus Demo with Wii Sports Resort
  • Brand New Mario IP Announced-Multiplayer Mode shown-off!
  • Stats of Wii Fit Discussed (boring)
  • BREAKING: Super Mario Galaxy 2 Revealed!
  • BREAKING: GOLDEN SUN FOR THE DS ANNOUNCED!
  • Wii Fit Plus will come out this Fall. The first game is the best selling game in America.
SONY PRESS CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS:
  • God of War III Demo Shown - Playable on E3 Show Floor
  • Team Ico's new project shown off - Trico
  • Final Fantasy XIV - Sony Exclusive & Dated for 2010!
  • MAG shown off - 256 players online at once (LIVE!)
  • New Motion Controls Revealed to be compatible with Eye-Toy
Today's cupe-de-grace includes press conferences from Sony as well as Nintendo, press hearings for Atlus, Capcom as well as Suda51 (No More Heroes Developers) and Bethesda. So far, this year's E3 has already surpassed everyone's expectations (read any other blog or web site and they'll say the same thing). Announcements, new IP's, demos, brand spanking new game footage...I'm out of breath.


Here's to hoping for some Diablo III Release Date news!
-Game Hard-