It’s been more than a week since a talked about E3 at Sean Lemme.com, and even more than a week since the show ended. Despite being pretty disappointing, I’ll still relive last week to help you find the diamonds in the rough.
So on Tuesday Sony and Nintendo had their press conferences. Sony didn’t announce anything that unexpected, save for M.A.G. (Massive Action Game). It sounds kind of interesting, but I need to hear more on the execution there. Overall a fine show, albeit a somewhat boring one.
Nintendo, on the other hand, fucked up. The Wii Motion Plus thing, which I guess adds 1:1 motion to the WiiMote, but where were the games? All we got was the new Wii Sports, which doesn’t look like they are trying very hard. The only real games they announced were the DS GTA (which they revealed nothing about) and the new Animal Crossing, which looks identical to the Gamecube game, except it has a city now. Bullshit! The other announcements were Wii Music, which looks like something for toddlers.
Press Conference Scorecard:
Microsoft: B
Sony: B-
Nintendo: F
The only other press conference worth noting was the EA one, which was a glorified parade of all their great game developers. Can’t wait for Spore, Mirror’s Edge, Rock Band 2, all that stuff.
I can’t really say any new games caught my eye, but I did enjoy getting a better look at some titles that we didn’t know too much about. The new Prince of Persia looks great, but maybe I’m biased towards games that use Sigur Ros music in the trailer. If I had a PS3 I’d be stoked about Resistance 2 and Killzone 2. Fable 2, Gears of War 2, Fallout 3, Resident Evil 5, all that shit looks great.
Guitar Hero World Tour just doesn’t impress me. They have a couple sweet songs announced so far, but the interface itself, along with the note charts, just doesn’t look good. I get the feeling that Rock Band 2 is a perfecting of RB1, while Guitar Hero 4 is just Neversoft trying to catch up and pander to the fans.
Ultimately, there’s not that much that I can report to you. The best thing to do is go to a site like GameTrailers or Kotaku and dig in.