Because I’m a lazy prick then I’m just gonna copy/paste what I wrote on Mapcore
Its strange, they showed a lot of really cool stuff, but somehow none of it really made it a homerun for me. The Natal stuff was really cool, its for the Wii crowd and not for me, but cool enough. I LOVED the bit where he was showing off the Avatar with Natal, and wanted too show the underside of his shoes, and the Avatar just spasm’ed all over the place, comedy gold!
The Kojima bit was kinda unexpected, although it would’ve been so much more impactful had it been last E3
. I bet the Raiden game is for the 360, and the PS3 will get a new Big Boss MGS (They gotta stay friendly with their sugar daddy Sony
). Even though he was finally kinda cool in MGS4, then I doubt having a full on game about him will bear fruit :G
The beginning and end of the MW2 presentation were fucking epic! The middle, incredibly meh. And speaking of Epic, that entire presentation of their XBLA just had epic FAIL written all over it. I feel for them though, having both your microphone be fucked up AND have the collision betray you like that? Dayyymnee son!
Forza 3 is probably gonna be ace. Couldn’t tell that it was much better looking from the stream quality, but if its got better physics and more cars then its good. Played Forza 2 more than what was healthy for me
Apart from that, Crackdown 2? Cool. Alan Wake? Meh. I’ll play it, but seriously that game just needs to come out so they can start doing something new. Gameplay doesn’t really look all that interesting from what I’ve seen, but who knows. And although Splinter Cell looked really cool (Much more Hitman’ish open level stuff?), then I’m just way too burned out on the franchise, baditude and stylish level objectives aren’t gonna change that. And ODST? WTF? I figured it was gonna be like an add-on kinda thing for Halo 3, but it really didn’t look like they bothered to put in any polish on what they showed off there. I certainly hope Bungie are spending their energy on something else. Left 4 Dead 2 is kinda early, but alright
I also loved the bits where they were showing the home like “watch a movie with your friends….online” and you could just hear a fucking pin drop while there was no applause, what the hell did they expect?
And the Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr appearance bit in the beginning was just sooo embarrassing, them just standing there not knowing what to say.
Anyway, fell kinda flat overall for me even with all these pretty big time things revealed. I kinda hope Sony will outdo them, but I kinda doubt it also.