With an almost no show at E3 I was very dissapointed with Eidos. No Batman Arkham Asylum 2 trailer, no Thief 4 info and worst of all, no Deus Ex: Human Revolution footage. After showing that pre E3 trailer (which is fucking awesome by the way), you think they would of gave even 30 seconds of footage to mull over! Well, they must of seen their mistake and have released some sweet looking screenshots to appease us. And if you're wondering how they look so sweet,it is the fact the game is built using cryengine, yes the one from Crysis.
After last year's press conference, we expected a friggin firestorm of games, what do we get? Games we already know about, a camp man and his friends dancing on stage and two middle aged women getting an adrenaline rush from an imaginary raft. Thanks microsoft. Thanks a Bunch.
I feel that offended I might file a complaint against myself to get kicked off xbox live.
This just in from Microsoft, Natal has a name change and is officially a gimmick. Project Natal is no more and "Kinectz (z optional)" is born, also out of the ashes a list of games was released including:
Kinectimals-lets you train and play with 20 different virtual cats, including a lion, cheetah and tiger (if the lion rips your face off then it may be interesting). Joyride-a racing game letting players hold an imaginary steering wheel - pull your hands towards you and push back out for an acceleration boost - and their bodies to execute jumps and tricks (wow! this will be great for Mario Ka.....oh wait). Kinect Sports-has six activities including boxing. bowling, beach volleyball, track and field, soccer and table tennis (boxing, a game when you can actually hit the person next to you in the face and score points!). Kinect Adventures-includes a raft river time trial and an obstacle course, playable by up to four players (yep it can be played by four players, but who would want to?). Dance Central-in development by MTV Games (oh god no, please no....well i guess we've found the most embarrassing moment at E3). Star Wars-characters and iconic Disney favourites will be featured in seperate new games being developed at Microsoft in conjunction with LucasArts and Disney (maybe the only hope left in this list of horrors).
Well it's not off to a good start but we've only got a days wait until we learn the official line up of games, here is hoping for a gears of war game that lets you chainsaw through locust in a variety of patterns and shapes!
Don't get me wrong, i'm crossing me fingers that Natal won't be a flop and will be the future of gaming - duh duh de duh duh. Saying that, looking at this magazine writing testing the system out, it's not looking good.
In the event that you own an Audi R8, possess a high speed camera and have a red orb (of the heatseeking/carflipping variety), do not try this at home.
With E3 only a little over week away, a new trailer from Square Enix has been leaked (luckly, a possible chinese tourist was taking a film of whatever they tend to film, happened to catch it all). The trailer shows that people who wear bluetooth headsets will have a more, lets say, useful place in the future - if you don't count looking like an idiot that is - by having the ability to control minds and make civilians do their dirty work, muahahahaha*cough*haha!
