So it's that time of year, the razzmatazz of E3, where all the latest hardware, software
and games are shown off to the world, in all their glory.
This year it kicked of EA- which was great!
If you liked sports games and Star Wars.
We had Bethesda which was pretty much hated by everyone and, to me, seemed entirely pointless-
although it did give us The Evil Within 2 and Wolfenstein II to look forward to, which
both look f****** bananas.
Both Microsoft and Ubisoft put on good shows, showing a lot of new gameplay getting people
excited, including Metro 3, South Park Fractured But Whole, a new pirate game called Skull
and Bones and of course Beyond Good and Evil 2.
And then came...
So once again Sony kicked off the show with some live music people to introduce the latest
trailer Uncharted Lost Legacy.
It appeared to have large, open areas to explore, just like in Uncharted 4 and a story as good
as anything else in the Uncharted universe.
If I wasn't excited about getting to play as Chloe before, well now I am.
Horizon: Zero Dawn's getting some DLC too.
Frozen Wilds coming later this year, so that's two games I'm now looking forward to dusting
off my shelf and getting back into.
And speaking of Horizon, Bend showed some more of their upcoming game, Days Gone, which
looked a lot like Horizon, with all the sneaking around in tall grass and setting traps.
Saying that, I cannot wait for this game- because rather than giant, metal, robot dinosaurs,
you got zombies.
A shit ton of zombies!
They maybe cliche by now, but here, they look kind of unique.
Kind of like in The Last Of Us, where they're zombie like creatures, but it's more about
the story and the world than just trying not to get your brains eaten.
Monster Hunter World is something I know nothing about, but I do know it has a huge following
round the world, especially in Japan and the trailer looked pretty cool, so I'm happy about
that.
Japan Studio then announced that they are remaking Shadow Of The Colossus, coming 2018-
yeah like fuck.
Don't forget they took almost 78 years to make The Last Guardian.
I've recently wanted to get into a fighting game.
It's never really been something I've been interested in before, but Marvel vs Capcom
Infinite looks good!
It seems to have a nice story, some great characters that I know.
And the story demo can be downloaded right now, yeah!
It's COD time!
Now, I've not played a Call Of Duty game since Black Ops III, but this looks just what I
need to get back into it.
More grounded.
Realistic, gritty settings.
Expect some COD content coming from me in the future.
So next up was a collection of upcoming VR titles to look forward to.
It seems that Supermassive games is getting balls deep into them, and it's getting more
and more tempting to buy a headset, as each new game is announced.
Although, I've got a question.
Why do two of the games announced, Moss and Starchild look like third person side scrollers?
It's like they're making the mistakes that the Virtual Boy made- they may be great games,
but have no place being VR.
Take a Mega Man game, for example.
Sure it would be cool on this stage to be able to look down and see the ground, but
really you only want to be watching what Mega Man's doing, because that's where the action
is.
So having it on a TV works perfectly fine, making VR kind of unnecessary.
So there was a little ripple of applause at the reveal of Kratos, for God Of War.
Again, I'll be new to this series, but I have seen them being played a lot.
They just didn't grab me enough to make me want to go out and buy them for myself.
That is, until now.
Kratos seems to now have a much deeper character.
The world looks rich, the action looks fast paced, the enemies seem to have a lot of variety-
count me in.
I consider this the Rambo 4 of the God Of War universe, where our action hero has matured
and had time to reflect, but in the end, war is in your blood.
When you're pushed, killing's as easy as breathing.
Oop!
Time for the talk about the Vita to begin.
The problem with trailers to a David Cage game, is that you can never tell what's gameplay
and what's cutscene.
It appears that there's a little more to this game than some of his previous work, with
stuff to do other than just make choices and hit quick time events.
I'm a fan of Fahrenheit and Heavy Rain, still not round to Beyond yet, so I'm looking forward
to Detroit Become Human.
Destiny!
Now Destiny 2's got a much more serious trailer than we've had so far.
I've got some awesome memories from the first game.
In fact it was the first ever game I reviewed, so I'm really looking forward to this one.
Now time for the "And just one more thing moment" which is of course...
Spider-man?
How's he get his eyes to widen and narrow when he's in a suit.
Anyway, this looks the best Spider-Man game yet, which isn't really saying much.
The combat looks fun, very acrobatic and it looks like it gives you a lot of options.
The swinging looks fun.
There are a lot of set piece moments and quick time events in this trailer, which I guess
is just because it's a story mission and so of course it's scripted.
But to be honest, I look forward more in this game to just swinging around and exploring by myself.
But throw in a good story and it should be fun.
And that's it!
There wasn't a whole of new stuff announced, but that's not to say we haven't got lots
to look forward to in the future.
My highlights were probably Days Gone and God Of War, but let me know what you thought
of the conference in the comments below.
Hopefully this was useful, especially if you couldn't see the show yourself- perhaps you're
in, I don't know, Italy digging up Pompeii or something.
Anyway, until next time- thanks for watching and happy E3!