* e3 2008 Live Coverage Discussion *

Moonpie2 said:
Has this extended one already been posted ? :)

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haha yeah haha, gotta love this GIF rofl
 
So according to netflix you still have to pay at least $9 a month and be a gold member (no austin powers jokes!), can anyone confirm this to be true or not?
 
Egde Magazine have posted there review of the Big 3 press events,

Offering a personal view, Edge-Online editor-in-chief Colin Campbell reviews this year’s console manufacturer press conferences…


MICROSOFT
7/10

Everyone agrees that the new Xbox Live dashboard is slick, smart and pleasing to the eye. That’s also the verdict on Don Mattrick, whose cheeky, boyish smile is something of a departure from the lupine grin of his predecessor.

Mattrick made no mention of Moore and you get the sense of a new era, following the senior staff reshuffle at Xbox Towers. Mattrick’s team looks like the collective offspring of a departed big-personality parent; stretching their own personalities and finding they’ve more to offer than they thought. Good for them.

Because this is Microsoft we’re talking about, you can pretty much guarantee a few duff dancing-uncle-at-wedding moments in any presentation. The video of young people at a party playing Lips rang false for me. It wasn’t the absence of booze and drugs so much as the presence of a Zune. Someone really ought to have picked up on that howler.

There was also the potentially gruesome spectacle of Microsoft employees playing You're in the Movies on a faked up couch. In fact, they dodged any awkwardness by being convincingly awkward and funny in a natural way. It turned out to be a nice moment.

Microsoft had plenty of talk about, albeit not as much about hardcore games of the future as you’d hope. Apart from Xbox Live and the Party thing, there was a bunch of movie content deals including NetFlix, now, bizarrely, doing the rounds of E3 as this year’s smartest deal.

What makes Microsoft look strong is a line-up of hardcore games for the near-future that includes Gears of War 2, Fable 2, Resident Evil 5 and Fallout 3. They all impressed the hell out of me during their presentations, although Peter Molyneux might want to take some tips from a kindly sales rep about the difference between features and benefits, and, although Bethesda’s Todd Howard was an excellent host, I didn’t think the Fallout 3 demo showed off the game’s exploration and communication RPGness sufficiently; and the music was plain irritating.

We need a session at GDC next year on ‘How to Present a Demo’ because it’s a science which, as a business, I don’t think we’ve perfected.
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NINTENDO
6/10

Nintendo pumped up the happy smiles to Mary Hart proportions. So cheesy was the presentation that it felt, at times, as if Donny Osmond might well bound onto the stage at any moment.

This over-scripting and nervy humor approach, one felt, didn’t play half as well as the straight-talking we’ve seen in the past from Reggie Fils-Aime or, for that matter, the more informal approach that Cammie Dunaway handled so expertly earlier in the year, when presenting Wii Fit to the media.

The games journo audience may seem like normal people but we’re really only a few steps further up the social ladder than the bedroom dwelling, black-T-shirt wearing, lip-curled snarlers from whence we came. Toothsome grins and suits creep us out.

These events are all about showing off, so there’s always the danger of showing off just a bit too much. Sony in its heyday, like some outta-control, coke-fuelled party girl, never could resist going way over the top.

But Nintendo is usually more discreet and so was careful not to appear too bombastic. Fils-Aime went out of his way to talk about the challenges the company faces, but this self-effacing style was only partially convincing. Reggie’s line on maintaining Wii’s success went along the lines of, ‘Look, it ain’t easy being this smart’.

Even Satoru Iwata, not a man given to self-indulgent egotism, appeared to suggest that he’d dreamed up the industry’s paradigm shift five years ago, as embodied by Wii, while the rest of us mooned about in gluey ignorance. Of course, that’s exactly what happened. But we could have lived without being reminded of our second-class intellects.

In substance, I thought this was only a fair-to-middling presentation. Wii Music lacks the immediate impact of previous Nintendo E3 stars and doesn’t feel AAA. There was nothing of note from its character franchises (Pokemon bores me rigid). Animal Crossing will, of course, be huge. But it looks exactly as you’d expect an Animal Crossing Wii game to look. The sequel to Wii Sports was spiced up by the Wii MotionPlus gizmo thingy and represents an actual, bona fide innovation. Even so, it seemed like the biggest cheer of the day went to Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, a DS third-party game.
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SONY
8/10

You can drop Jack Tretton anywhere. Jacobean Scotland, the Trenches of WW1, a suburban dinner party circa 1958. He’ll do fine.

He’s not about to start sweating or shaking at the prospect of a stage presentation which (and let’s not forget this folks) would scare the crap out of you and me.

He made us laugh and he carried an entire 1.5 hour presentation, right through those long bar-graph moments or PlayStation 2 presentations, when the mind begins to wander.

I thought this presentation could have been condensed into a much shorter span, but even so, we did get a hell of a lot for our time-investment.

There was the potentially tedious announcement of the PS3 download store. Obviously PSN interface is nothing special in and of itself but the PSP connectivity seems like an exclusive benefit. The new 80GB PS3 is also good news as is mini-games for PSN and Greatest Hits.

Sony is all about legacy and, as usual, comparisons were made between previous generations and this generation. But we’re still a long, long way from being convinced that PS3 is just fine and will work out just like the other generations, and it may be time to lay this code to rest.

Tretton, I think, reminded us that Sony knows how to deliver good content, and we saw some games that are genuinely innovative and exciting, lead by LittleBigPlanet, Resistance 2, DC Universe Online (okay, we’ll give it the benefit of the doubt, for now), God of War III and the astonishing MAG.

You’ll note that Sony gets the highest score for E3 presentations, but Tretton, Fils-Aime and Mattrick are all hard-bitten pragmatists. They’ll put a lot of energy into pleasing the media once a year, and then they’ll be glad it’s over for another 12 months. E3 is just a part, and not really a very big part, of the job of shifting consoles and selling content.
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http://www.edge-online.com/features/we-review-e3-big-three?page=0,0

Edge hard to please as ever lol!
 
Hmmm, having watched more Prince of Persia stuff, its looking a little less appealing. You can't die in the friggin game. You mess up somehow and that girl that follows you everywhere saves you.

Theres no learning, trying to figure out what to do. Theres no penalty for getting somehting wrong, and therefore am worried the gameplay will not be very rewarding. If the game holds your hand that much, it could get old very quickly.
 
Mullman said:
Yeah, Sony's was yesterday, Nothing much really from them, just announce a few new games (of which we already knew about), and talked a bit about Home, and then the rest was talking about figures and sales (and PS1, 2 & PSP).


They also shown a CGI trailer of a new game called MAG (which PS3 are calling their exclusive) which can be a 256 online battle. the CGI trailer looked pretty good.

Also shown Infamous which looked okay, again this was a CGI trailer, shown God of War 3, again CGI, erm... DC Universe, again CGI. :0(

Little Big Planet looked good, they actually used LBP in their presentation. which was pretty slick.

Edit: and how could I forget they did also show Resistance 2, which does look pretty sweet.
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Thanks for this, save me watching hours of footage :)

I have seen resistance 2, looks pretty good....but to be honest I have already seen lots of material on this game. CGI doesn't show well after the 2006 CGI trailers letting everyone down.

Reasons to get a PS3:
Blu ray
*Record tv
*Killzone 2
Resistance 1/2*
Wipeout HD
MGS4

3 of those things aren't out yet, so I will stick with my 360 tbh. Give it another year and I might get one.

MAG sounds cool, I will go check it out now...

Littlebigplanet and Home - two things that I don't "get"? Could somebody sell them to me?
 
NEW HALO GAME

Bungie making new Halo title
News by Kristan Reed

Today 09:49

Xbox 360 boss Don Mattrick has confirmed that Bungie is making a new Halo game.

Speaking in an interview with MTV Multiplayer, Mattrick explained it was held back from the Microsoft E3 conference because the briefing was already "loaded" with content.

He went on to promise that announcements are planned for the Bungie project and Halo Wars - another notable absentee from the conference.

Mattrick also revealed that this Bungie title was in no way related to the mysterious Peter Jackson project we've still heard nothing about.

Perhaps everyone is waiting for the Leipzig Games Convention.
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http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=185546

I know that it was "loaded with content", but it's kinda weird to hold back the biggest hitting game news like Bungie. I mean they sold the Xbox with Halo, cemented it with Halo 2 and boosted the 360 with Halo 3. They were going to announce a new halo game...seems weird to say "sorry, you can't because we haven't got time as we are talking about some movie game thing and also showing more footage from Gears 2, (which the world has already heard about)". :confused:
 
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Are those Edge reviews for real? Were they not watching the same thing as everyone else?

Realisticly - MS - 6/10, Sony - 5/10, Nintendo - 4/10 .. all over quite poor, neither of them held my attention like previous years.
 
I haven't seen any of them, but so far the Microsoft one holds the most interest with me, the Nintendo one just confirms that I wasted my money on the Wii and the PS3 still hasn't been sold to me.
 
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