I’d have to say that the final day of E3 is my second favorite part of E3 (only behind the press conferences that are held by the Big 3 during the first day). That’s because you learn so many cool things on this day. During the first day all the big announcements happen. Not much happens on day 2 that we didn’t already know about, but every year on the 3rd day a number of cool little announcements get released and this year was no different.
We found this on the UK’s Mirror News page earlier today. It looks like the Wii will not be that far behind the Xbox in terms of competing with Project Natal. Actually, it looks like the Wii may be a little ahead of the Xbox with the brand new Your Shape fitness game; a game that will ship with a camera that can track your body’s shape and movements.
The Your Shape game doesn’t seem to be offer the same level of camera control sophistication that Microsoft’s Natal does, but from what we can see in the trailer below, this camera already has the basics of something like Natal built in. With this amount of control already built into the camera, I can imagine that it will not be that hard or take that long for Nintendo to truly get on even ground with Project Natal.
That’s not the only jockeying that happened today. In a strange turn of events it was announced that the Wii and PSP Go will be exchanging skins… in a sense. Today Nintendo said that a black Wii will go on sale sometime after August 1st. However, for now it seems like this new black Wii will only be sold in Japan. Sony on the other hand will drop a white PSP GO on the inhabitants of North America, but if you are afraid of change (like I am) a standard black version of the GO will be avaliable for sale as well.
Fallout 3 will get even more DLC with 2 new expansion packs being added to the 3 already released. Along with Operation Anchorage, The Pitt, and Broken Steel; players can look forward to Point Lookout, and Mothership Zeta. While only surface details are available at this point it looks like Point Lookout will take you into a swamp to fight never before seen enemies and find brand new allies. Mothership Zeta on the other hand will be your standard alien abduction affair. You can look forward to Point Lookout coming out on June 23rd, and for Mothership Zeta to invade our planet sometime in late July.
Some other quick notes are:
- Microsoft chose the last day of E3 to let the cat out of their 10 year console life span bag. Xbox360 support is expected to last until at least 2015.
- 2K Sports officially declared that Kobe Bryant of the Lakers will be on the cover of NBA 2K10.
- Activision is suing EA over who has the rights to release Brutal Legend.
There were also some games announced at this E3 that you may want keep an eye on for many different reasons:
1. Wet (short for wetwork or spywork) is a game were you kill with style. Acrobatics is a big part of how you get around the game, and pick off the bad guys. However, everything I have seen of this game has reminded me of John Woo Presents Stranglehold. In Stranglehold, acrobatics are also a huge part of how you move around, but don’t jump for joy yet because that game managed to make shooting a guy while jumping over a table boring. So while I am willing to hold back my final judgment until I play this game; I can’t really find it in my heart to get excited about Wet just yet.
2. Scribblenauts is a DS game that is… well to be honest I don’t know what it is. At least I don’t know how to classify it. This is a game so unique that it is a genre in and of itself. A game so original that there is no single word to describe it.
The basic idea is that you use nouns to summon objects to help you solve puzzles, and from what little I have gotten my hands on it, looks like an extremely fun time that anyone can enjoy.
3. M.A.G. (or Massive Action Game) is not your standard military based first person shooter (FPS). It’s like the Battlefield franchise in many ways, except for the fact that this is the first FPS to let up to 256 people play together in one game on one map at one time.
4. APB (short for All Points Bulletin) can basically be boiled down to an online game of cops and robbers. There is a little more to it then that, but not much. The game certainly has a GTA 4 feel to it, but could only be compared to GTA, if GTA had a co-op mode for the campaign.
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I wasn’t expecting the MAG game to be as good as the FPS titles that are currently out. A member of my website posted the link to get the beta key on my website so I recently downloaded the MAG beta for the ps3 and gave it a shot. Or rather I was given the shots to my dome. This game takes a little getting used to, but it can get pretty fun. There’s no running around the outskirts of the battlefield to flan your enemy when there are several 32 vs 32 battles going on at the same time. It gets hectic, but stick with your squad and you’ll do much better.
- CaptainCheck out the forum at Cdeezgames.com to start discussing the beta now.