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| Microsoft`s E3 2011 mission is all about Kinect with traditional AAA games and their diva producers taking a back seat this year |
, so no , there is no sign at this point that M$ is going to rule this E3 . Modern Warfare 3 is going to run so much nicer on my laptops , tablets and gaming rig all from one cheaper than console purchase from Steam.Towards the end of the Modern Warfare demo we are on a boat doing a Michael Bay in what looks a lot llke that Medal of Honor Pacific (PC) level that is also a total Michael Bay rip... errh homage .... here watch some video and compare it with the level for Modern Warfare 3 ....well Infinity Ward members used to work on Medal Of Honor games if I remember correctly.
Next up it is Don with another respected developer this time Crystal Dynamics , with another multi platform release the Tomb Raider rehash . So again not going to call it for Microsoft .. another brown third person adventure . The problem with Crystal Dynamics takes on Tomb Raider is that they are too short , go back to the Core coded ones and they are vast sprawling adventures , the tighter puzzle oriented Crystal Dynamics games lose all the elegance of the acrobatic Ms Croft and also her awesomely effete snobbish upper class aristo Pippa like charm(s)... And I see more Michael Bay influences , seriously people I like his films too but does every game have to involve falling debris barely missing our heroes/heroines .. Tomb Raider Rehash is not all that and I this gives me an excuse to go back to trying to finish Tomb Raider 3 on the psone.....
Then we have one of those famously English CEO types with fake American accents .. with yet more multiplatform releases , but with added kinect functions... that`s the games not the CEO ...
Who`s this stepping up to the stage....? ...one of the Docs from Bioware ( they were all medics once) and another Multiplatform game Mass Effect 3 , set of course in the future , the problem is it is also going to be released in the far off future on the dark side of 2012 , hopefully before the World is due to end again. You can chose dialogue with Kinect , command your squad with speech , which is great but seriously who in your house is gonna let you do that in real life ?
This would be totally awesome in a tactical squad based FPS like Ghost Recon ... and lo and behold that is what we have up next , it`s also multiplatform so still no cigar for Micosrosoft .
Ubisofts awesome CEO is up next and Ghost Recon Future Soldier , and the oobies like to innovate , with kinect controlled weapon customisation with Gunsmith - something which draws the most cheers in the conference and the loudest applause , and even more when the demo dude uses it with hand gestures - this is AWESOME....and the cheers go on .
Finally we have something that Kinect makes stand out from the other platforms .......
Kinect also will have limited Bing search facilities , basically you get to look at stuff M$ and Xbox want to let you , but still no full Internet Browser. Live TV , is not a game , and really at 2 am in the morning you do not want to be shouting Xbox Adult Channel in your room so your parents and or dorm friends can hear ... .or do you .........?
Skipping some banal fighting game , we get to Cliffy B announcing the first real exclusive for the 360 , Gears of War 3
, and Ice T! to play it ok again that E3 2011 meme : infinite shades of brown in third person games in their 3rd iteration , Uncharted 3 is brown , Resistance 3 is the Godfather of Brown , and Gears 3 is also down with the brown .... of course it could just be that this generation of consoles limited colour and texture palettes are starting to reveal ...yes their true brown colours....Joking aside this must be the next iteration of the Unreal 3 engine , and hopefully the last...
Well that was as about impressive as Gears of War 2 .....
Next Crytek have their Kratos wannabee Ryse , only this is Kinect controlled , and it is impressive if it is indeed real ....
Halo remastered should be a nice little diversion, hopefully they will release it on the PC too at some point , it would do wonders for the Games For Windows Live store , Xbox fans get it Nov 15 th ...
then boring car stuff , ok nap over it is time to rip into that perennially easy target Peter I Promised you a Miracle Molyneux .. More Fable ...please how about some more Syndicate
? or Powermonger ? or Populous touch for iOS or Android? Still Pete must do as he is told and making the first Kinect child simulator ( now cancelled indefinitely) did nothing for his kudos ... Fable the Journey is an on rails Kinect game , kind of like the Harry Potter Kinect levels exclusive to the 360 version , thing is you are so going to get tired .. of opening yet another Fable games box ...zzzzzzzzzzzzzz sorry dosed off again ...
But hey we got Minecraft Kinect this winter .. now that is a kool Microsoft Exclusive ... but still not entirely earth shattering ...
ok time for another nap there is some Disney stuff ....zzzzzzzzz.....wooah nap over ... 90 minutes and we still have no show stealer ......and it is highly unlikely to be Kinect Star Wars although thegameveda will be playing this to death ..even though like most of us thegameveda does not need a games console to play Star Wars ...this should be something to kinect with , although I feel they missed the boat on an Ewok slapping mini game.. or whack a Gungan depending on how you prefer your Episodes....
There is clear latency at this stage in the light sabre moves , but force push looks impressive , OK there is SERIOUS latency in the light sabre swings but this looks almost as much fun as ...well play acting Jedi fights when we were 7 ....almost... well not any where near as fun actually ...
oh my gaming Gods its Tim Shafer with Sesame Street , Tim delivers the first intentional jokes of E3 2011 ( Sony's CEOS tie was a good joke) , Once Upon a Monster is something I am totally going to have too much fun with ...but don`t tell anyone..
Kinect Fun Labs looks pretty cool . almost as cool as Kudo in his shades and hopefully as soothing as Abigails voice and instant Kinect me presentation...and we have some major cheers...
finger tracking in 3d is very nice and object capture .. are demoed .. that last one is going to be very dodgy !
Kinect Sports 2 is as expected , so there is really no jaw dropping game ... even the final announcement of Halo 4 which hits winter 2012.
In conclusion over the next year Xbox 360 may be the best selling console , but this will be in an overall shrinking console market , as millions turn to tablets and phones for their games . Or just join the PC and Apple evolution ...
It will be Apple and not Microsoft that see the greatest growth , so Dons final boast is really a hollow one , 360 may be the top dog of the old dogs but so what? What we needed was the announcement of new technology the next 360 , and this will have to come soon if Microsoft and the other console manufactures want to keep hold of their market ...
All in all too much brown , too many sequels , Kinect still lags , NO Japanese exclusives for 360 this year , now that is interesting considering Microsoft's prior obsession with breaking Japan.
And there is NO new significant IP ... still I got some sleep . I dozed off several times in this one , though not completely as I did for the Sony one.
So far Nintendo take the presentation crown simply for having Miyamoto san and the eternally jovial Iwata san , Sony need to try harder.... and from the lack of new content I could swear Microsoft is hiding something ...
check out the conference below : and the best part of Microsofts E3 2011 ... the Windows 8 style tiles on the official website here
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