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- A man thanked Paul and Ringo, and told everyone what they had been waiting for. This press conference would not be full of graphs and charts, but would be focused on demos, trailers, and things of that sort. 10 World Premieres were on their way. The crowed rejoiced with a dull w00t. They were screaming on the inside. Dancube Network could tell this year's E3 would be much different than last year.
- Why Tony Hawk entered stage right on his feet, I'll never know, but he did and began to show us Microsoft's new skateboard for "Tony Hawk: Ride". It looks pretty cool as you will control the game completely with this controller. Grabs, grinds, hops, and acceleration will all be adjustable with the sensors in this peripheral. The trailer for the game was shown afterwards featuring comments from real pro-skaters.
- We skipped directly to a Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 trailer, which looks pretty cool. Russians are killing people, so what do we do? We kill the Russians. They fulfilled more dreams by getting straight to the gameplay like everyone wants. The player climbs some icy mountain, jumps to a smaller ledge, falls, and then is saved by a teammate. A time lapse is taken, and we meet this player again, except he is now taking down members of an opposite faction in the cover of snow. The first two map packs for this CoD game will be released exclusively for the Xbox 360.
- Squeenix took the stage and talked about Final Fantasy's origins, and it's evolution over the past 20 years. Final Fantasy XIII footage was shown, and it appearantly there's a bird in this game. The battle footage in this game is beautiful. A summon was used to demo the power of them for non-FF players. The game should be out around Spring 2010.
- Epic Games slipped onto stage and showed us Shadow Complex, with a campaign similar to that of The Subspace Emissary from Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Shadow Complex will be out this summer on the Xbox 360 Arcade.
- Big Park is giving Xbox 360 users a cartoonish racing game based on your Avatar called Joy Ride. This title will be free, and is no doubt meant to combat the Wii's domination on casual gaming, and based on their progress in the past year, they may be able to make some gain.
- A Crackdown 2 trailer was shown, and will be bundled with a multiplayer beta for Halo 3: ODST. Wait, nevermind.
- Following said trailer, Valve gave us a sneak peak of Left 4 Dead 2, which will come out on November 17 and feature new locations, new characters, and CHAINSAWS!
- THIRD TRAILER IN A ROW! W00T! This time for Splinter Cell: Conviction. Once again, the action was got to, and we saw footage of interrogation. You are able to beat up people in order to gain information. The game's objectives are shown as scenery, to keep you focused on playing. This game also adds the Mark and Execute function to take out multiple enemies quickly and silently. The game will be released exclusively for the Xbox 360.
- Microsoft would also like to take over the Racing genre. Forza Motorsport 3 will be released in October and is hoped to win them their console a home for racing. A demo was shown until the guy running it flipped. Whoops. Forza 3 will feature car designs, and trading of cars between the Xbox Live Community. It also features a video editor that allows players to make stunning visuals based on a video game engine alone.
- Joe Staten from Bungie made the trip to Los Angeles to show us some exclusive footage of Halo 3: ODST. It features Rookie talking suiting up and dropping feet first into Hell with the rest of his team, one of whom happens to be wearing Recon armor. The Prophet of Truth's ship ruptures Slipspace and kills the majority of the ODSTs. You, the Rookie, happen to survive. You get help from The Superintendant, the artificial intelligence that controls the city of New Mombasa. It is the equivalent to Master Chief's Cortana. ODSTs have a sound suppressed SMG and pistol (similar to the Halo: CE Magnum), and a visor that allows you to see in low light. As you progress through the story, you flash back as other ODSTs trying to find out what happened to them. ODST drops September 22, and features a new Co-op mode called "Fire Fight".
- Bungie has also been at work on a new game called "Halo: Reach". It takes place before Halo: CE, and describes the events of the book Halo: Fall of Reach where the Covenent start to take over the planet of Reach and wage war on Humanity. When you preorder Halo 3: ODST, you will recieve a code for the Halo: Reach Multiplayer Beta.
- Alan Wake is a game in which a writer's wife has been kidnapped and me must find her. His latest supernatural thriller is now coming true, and he must find the missing pages of the book to make sense of it all. Alan narrates the story himself, just as if the player were reading the book. It will hit stores in Spring 2010.
- With NXE and Netflix announced last year, this year Xbox Live sees the addition of last.fm, which will be added later this year for Gold subscribers. Now, Xbox Live adds the ability to change your Netflix queue directly from your Xbox. For the UK and Ireland, users now have "Sky TV". Microsoft is relaunching their video library, with items now available in 1080p, instant viewing, and the addition of 10 countries to the list of supported nations. Remember last year when Microsoft announced the ability to watch movies, TV Shows, and other things with friends? That was cut from NXE but is now making a return. Facebook is also been added to Xbox as shown by Felicia Day, allowing obsessive people to game and check on Britney's relationship status at the same time to steal her boyfriend. With Facebook Connect, you will be able to post screenshots of certain games to teh interwebz. She also announced Twitter for Xbox for the even more obsessive. Life Dominated by Social Networks - 25G - Achievement Unlocked.
- Hideo Kojima popped up behind Don Mattrick as he explained that all Xbox 360 users wanted their hands on Metal Gear Solid 4. Kojima announced that the Metal Gear Solid series back to the Xbox 360. The next game would be called "Metal Gear Solid: Rising", and it would NOT include Solid Snake, but instead, Raiden.
- Project Natal will be Microsoft's attempt to beat Wii's motion controls. Instead of using infrared lights on a controller, it senses your arms, legs, and everything else to bring you a completely life-like experience to gaming. It also includes facial and vocal recognition, and you can imagine the air infront of you as a touch screen, scrolling through scrollable things. Steven Speilberg is a supporter of Project Natal. Everyone loves music, movies, and other media like that, but some are intimidated by games. He thinks that by creating simpler entertainment, the technology will become invisible; breaking down barriers of intimidation. Mattrick brought out the Creative Director of the Project, Kudo Tsunoda. Natal allows players to jump infront of the screen and get signed in. That's right, Project Natal will be able to recognize the faces of gamers and sign them in automatically. The player can move around and the avatar moves with him. He can swipe up and down, left and right to look through the menus. Tsunoda showed us a game called "Ricochet", a human version of Break Out. After making fun of the Wii by saying it only uses predecided waggle motions (which was somewhat justified), he told us that Natal would truly bring motion controls to gaming. Another game was called "Paint Party" and allows users to use their bodies to paint pictures on the screen. He showed many varied ways to paint pictures, and after sodomizing some Asian chick, they formed the picture of an elephant in Kenya. Peter Molyneux was brought in front of the audience to describe that if we can remove controllers from gaming, we will truly revolutionize it. He showed a video of Project Natal being worked with at Lionhead Studios. Milo is a complex AI that can understand voices, recognize faces, and understand sentences designed to work with Project Natal. At one point, we start to see the dip in the Uncanny Valley where the person working with Milo reaches down to get a pair of goggles that Milo threw at her, even though the game never told her to. She could have simply done the movement to put goggles on her head but didn't. No matter how Project Natal plays out, I think we can agree that it will revolutionize gaming for years to come.
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