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- He began to tell a story about how he doesn't want to just make games, he wants to make movies. Games that blur the line between movies and interactive experiences are the future of the industry. He talked about uPlay, a new system that will allow users to share content of Ubisoft's games with each other. They will once again join forces with Peter Jackson and Steven Speilberg to create better games complimentary to movies.
- He gave the floor to Yannis Mallat at Ubisoft Montreal. Mallat explained that the game, Avatar, based on the upcoming movie will allow the game to take advantage of special effects used by the movie itself.
- Assassin's Creed 2 will have a mini-series along with it to explain the story.
- James Cameron came out to talk about Avatar, which takes place on Pandora. Avatars are hybrids between humans and another race, and they allow humans to use the Avatars as almost second body. An out of body experience per say. A man comes back from war and uses an Avatar where he can once again walk. He has to eventually choose sides between the two races before a war breaks out and he's stuck in the middle. After talking for a good 20 minutes of mindless talking of the game, movie, and connections with Ubisoft, Cameron left the stage. (FINALLY!)
- McHale returned to the screen to talk about Lindsay Lohan and Red Steel 2. With WiiMotion Plus, this game could turn you into an actual Samurai master. And 30 minutes into the press conferences, we finally recieved a trailer. If only the actual game were that high of quality. Nonetheless, it looks amazing.
- Joel handed the chalice to Jason Vandenberghe, who clarified that the protagonist is a gunslinger/samurai hybrid assassin that has returned to his home town to realize that things are not as they seem. He proceeded to show us live gameplay of the first level in the game, where you are hogtied and drug by a motorcyclist through the desert. You shoot him, and then get up. He showed us a little swordplay and gunplay, and unlike the original, you need to be physically involved in the fighting, not just arm flailing. Before time is up, he Vanderberghe introduced us to his friend, the Heavy, who is basically a massive guy with a hammer. Red Steel 2 runs at 60 frames per second, and brings a sort of cel-shaded graphic concept to the table.
- Shaun White Snowboarding: World Stage announced.
- Academy of Champions is a soccer game developed by Ubisoft, and frankly, it looks terrible based on the character model of Pele alone. After technical difficults resulting in the showing of a picture instead of a trailer and many minutes of listening to Pele bable in Portugese and some chick translating, we finally got to the trailer. Basically you play a dude at a soccer academy and you have to beat some douchebaggy school from down the lane.
- Splinter Cell's producers tell us that other companies make you sacrifice strength to be a successful stealth assassin, but they want to keep him strong and stealthy, like a damn Uber-Assassin. We witness the Splinter Cell: Conviction trailer, and I have to say, it's some of the best CGI I've seen in a while, almost life-like. Wait, no, I just saw it earlier today at Microsoft's press conference, as well as the demo clip we were given, which was badass nonetheless.
- Joel took the stage once more after a pair of changed clothes just in time to show a trailer for the upcoming game, Ruse. It shows two men playing a land-field-battleship-esque game on a touch screen. Not really sure what the game's about, but it looks cool.
- Tony Key, VP of Marketing, jumped in from backstage and shot Joel and suicide bombed the audience. Wait, no, nevermind. He actually he showed that casual gaming was dominating the market on the DS. It takes the place of EA in sexism. Maybe some certain editors of Dancube Network wanted to put on makeup, jewelery, and interact with other girls. NO ONE UNDERSTANDS OUR STRUGGLE! Many graphs and charts later, he continued to bore the press about fitness games, and brought out Felicia Williams to explain how cameras will revolutionize fitness games. Appearantly the camera will scan my body and put me inside my TV. Creepy. Ubisoft thens now announced the first camera enabled fitness game called "Your Shape" which records you and then personalizes a program for you. *Waits for people to say that Tony can see them through camera*. This game is also the first camera enabled game on the Wii.
- Adrian Fernandez-Lacey was ushered onto the floor by a couple of Rabbids to promote Rabbids Go Home. Basically, they're gonna steal items from humans, put them in a shopping card, build a pile of crap, and climb to the moon. It didn't seem very fun until I saw gameplay on abusing and customizing your personal rabbid. After a masturbation joke, we got to the actual gameplay. Turns out this is a sort of Katamari game, you collect small objects and then move your way up to larger ones.
- As the snore fest drags on, Ubisoft North America Pres Laurent Detoc talks about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and continues his Frenchness to talk about some fighting game he's making. GameHUD (Who helped make Super Smash Bros.) appearantly worked on this title. His accent also makes his jokes hard. He can't say "Cowabunga" or "Shellibration", sorry Frenchie. He mentioned No More Heroes 2, but at this point no one (including our team) is paying attention anymore.
- Finally, 1 hour and 50 minutes in, we get to what people actually care about. Assassin's Creed 2, which will be out on November 17. The trailer for Assassin's Creed 2 definetly beats the CGI of Splinter Cell, and is almost equal to real life in my opinion. Ezio infiltrates a masquerade party and kills a man, and then another, and then several others. Post homicide, he tracks down one of the men responsible for his family's death. As the man is surrounded by guards, the Altair from the original Assassin's Creed would have had to either flee or risk his life at close range. Not Sr. Auditore di Firenze, however. No, he just holds up his gaunlet and fires a bullet out of it. Yeah, a bullet. Was this trailer worth sitting through 2 hours of horribleness? Probably. Was it worth having to pay attention and write everything down? No...
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