Last day of E3 is upon us, it came and went so fast.
What I want to do is talk about the big 3 (Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo) conferences. The games or features that the companies covered very well and their disappointments or faults during the briefing. This will be a 3 part blog so lets start off with Microsoft first.
Microsoft started out by showing Rock Band: Beatles which visually looked amazing. I was worried and wondered how Harmonix would accomplish the three part vocal harmonies but was immediately relieved to see how great it worked. I forgot the executive's (Microsoft) name but he looked out of place with his red leather jacket. I don't know it seemed odd to me... Anyway, another thing that stood out to me was their showing instead of telling mentality. For the most part they showed their games and demoed them for the crowd. All the big games that you would expect were there. Halo: ODST, Halo: Reach, Alan Wake, Splinter Cell: Convictions and Crackdown 2. The most interesting thing to come out their conference was their new camera/controller peripheral called Natal, think Ps3's Eye Toy but with more uses. The biggest use for Natal was the ability to navigate through menus and voice recognition. Microsoft looks like they want to try and break into the market place where the Wii is. I don't see it happening but I guess they believe they can do it with Natal. Another cool addition to Natal is what Peter Molyneux has been working on. Rather than explaining Milo, it would be easier to show you so I'll post the video of it at the end of this post.
On to the disappointments.
I was a little disappointed with Alan wake to be honest. I was expecting a little more out of the demo especially with all the hype surrounding it. The way to kill enemies is to shine any kind of light at them. Every time the flash light was pointed at the enemy, it looked like it took a while or it was in slow motion to show them disappearing. Whatever was happening the enemies got annoying very quickly. It was a very small slice of the game but it didn't excite me.
Am I the only one getting sick of Halo? Bungie showed a little more of ODST and a teaser of Halo: Reach but it failed to excite me once again. I know its Microsoft's flagship title but I don't know if they really need a Halo every year.
Microsoft has been famous for their online service; adding twitter and Facebook seems like a great idea but I think the majority of people do it on their computer or iphone. Its a good that its there but it may just be a small segment of people using it.
Milo
