I didn't get invited to the Sony E3 briefing, but I did get to watch the stream as many of you that are stuck at your day job did not get to do.
What follows will be my accounting of the live feed that I watched with the few other soldiers of game reporting truth [meaning other non-invitees] today.
I wish I could tell you that the stream was awesome, and made up for my not (1) not being invited to the real festivities, and (2) make the gamers not able to attend to feel in the loop. This was not the case. They glossed over PS2 info to jump into building up the PSP to showcase some upcoming titles for the platform. I was actually kinda looking forward to them, except the view of the trailers was all in widescreen, so you couldn't see squat but some of the text of the titles. Yippie freakin' skippy!
They did announce a new PSP [flogging a dead freaking horse maybe?] that was lighter, thinner, and supported video out, and will be in Black, Ice Silver, and then a really bad Chewbacca came out onto the stage to announce the StarWars Battlefront Renegade Squadron PSP edition. Oh, it was painful to watch the fake Bacca try to pantomime to the canned Wookie vocals.
The next step was the Playstation Network. Phil Harrison popped out to lead the cheer about the PSON. The first game they showed off was a black and white puzzle game that featured a stick like figure navigating some weird geometric shapes. It sounds weird, but looks damn cool.
And now on to home... the only Sony PS3 technology that has piqued my interest enough to possibly need a towel. Home looks to be even more expansive that I first imagined. The environments that they showed as under construction looked great, but the entire walkthrough it just kept looking like a gigantic Sims title to me and I don't know if that's good or bad. I will leave the proof to be in the pudding. The ability to launch a game title from within home gives me more hope that it won't suck out loud, and should give you hope as well.
I could tell you about the montage [BECAUSE YOU GOTTA HAVE A MONTAGE!!] but you've already got the idea that the video montages have been par for the course. What I will tell that struck me as odd was that there was no mention of Final Fantasy games at all. Nearly all of the game titles and enhancements to the system were all making their debut in 08'. Heavenly Sword didn't even have any real game play to show and it's supposed to hit for holiday.
What did look and sound amazing was Metal Gear Solid 4. And if the hot sweet sexiness that was the MGS4 footage didn't get your heart pumping, the promise that it is the final title in the series that will answer all of MGS questions should. The MGS4 trailer should be hitting GameTrailers.com should be dropping soon.
I don't know if it's because I went to the MS event last night so a lot of the 3rd party games didn't seem as impressive to me having seen them the night before, but many of the titles shown at the Sony briefing just felt like slightly tweaked versions of existing game titles. Haze looks like Halo. Infamous looks like Crackdown and Grand Theft Auto had a one night stand, and Crackdown wound up preggers. Oh, guess what game KillZone2 looks like? Yeap, you guessed it, Halo. It's obvious that Sony wants to declare war on XB360 in the FPS genre. KillZone if the game runs like the video they showed today [which they SWORE was actual gameplay] they may stand a chance of wooing some Halo players over to the darkside of the floss.
Again, I'll wait for the pudding to cool before I eat it. NinJaSistah... OUT!
What follows will be my accounting of the live feed that I watched with the few other soldiers of game reporting truth [meaning other non-invitees] today.
I wish I could tell you that the stream was awesome, and made up for my not (1) not being invited to the real festivities, and (2) make the gamers not able to attend to feel in the loop. This was not the case. They glossed over PS2 info to jump into building up the PSP to showcase some upcoming titles for the platform. I was actually kinda looking forward to them, except the view of the trailers was all in widescreen, so you couldn't see squat but some of the text of the titles. Yippie freakin' skippy!
They did announce a new PSP [flogging a dead freaking horse maybe?] that was lighter, thinner, and supported video out, and will be in Black, Ice Silver, and then a really bad Chewbacca came out onto the stage to announce the StarWars Battlefront Renegade Squadron PSP edition. Oh, it was painful to watch the fake Bacca try to pantomime to the canned Wookie vocals.
The next step was the Playstation Network. Phil Harrison popped out to lead the cheer about the PSON. The first game they showed off was a black and white puzzle game that featured a stick like figure navigating some weird geometric shapes. It sounds weird, but looks damn cool.
And now on to home... the only Sony PS3 technology that has piqued my interest enough to possibly need a towel. Home looks to be even more expansive that I first imagined. The environments that they showed as under construction looked great, but the entire walkthrough it just kept looking like a gigantic Sims title to me and I don't know if that's good or bad. I will leave the proof to be in the pudding. The ability to launch a game title from within home gives me more hope that it won't suck out loud, and should give you hope as well.
I could tell you about the montage [BECAUSE YOU GOTTA HAVE A MONTAGE!!] but you've already got the idea that the video montages have been par for the course. What I will tell that struck me as odd was that there was no mention of Final Fantasy games at all. Nearly all of the game titles and enhancements to the system were all making their debut in 08'. Heavenly Sword didn't even have any real game play to show and it's supposed to hit for holiday.
What did look and sound amazing was Metal Gear Solid 4. And if the hot sweet sexiness that was the MGS4 footage didn't get your heart pumping, the promise that it is the final title in the series that will answer all of MGS questions should. The MGS4 trailer should be hitting GameTrailers.com should be dropping soon.
I don't know if it's because I went to the MS event last night so a lot of the 3rd party games didn't seem as impressive to me having seen them the night before, but many of the titles shown at the Sony briefing just felt like slightly tweaked versions of existing game titles. Haze looks like Halo. Infamous looks like Crackdown and Grand Theft Auto had a one night stand, and Crackdown wound up preggers. Oh, guess what game KillZone2 looks like? Yeap, you guessed it, Halo. It's obvious that Sony wants to declare war on XB360 in the FPS genre. KillZone if the game runs like the video they showed today [which they SWORE was actual gameplay] they may stand a chance of wooing some Halo players over to the darkside of the floss.
Again, I'll wait for the pudding to cool before I eat it. NinJaSistah... OUT!
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