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Microsoft: Entertainment Evolved Recap

Posted this to the wrong blog earlier. Cause I’m so cool.

Halo 4

UNSC ship is seen crashing into a planet that Master Chief is on
Chief attempts to trek through the jungle and make it to the crash site
Finds covenant and unknown enemies using guns that are noted as forerunner technology.

Splinter Cell: Blacklist

Sam Fisher now head of Fourth Echelon
Infiltrating terrorist camp trying to interrogate terrorist leader
Sam calls in a tactical strike of some sort on a machine gun position
Freeflowing combat. Moving through the field quickly and efficiently and with stealth.
Enchanced by kinect voice recognition.
Shipping Spring 2013

EA Sports FIFA 13 and NFL 13

Kinect functionality with both games to call plays and help manage your teams
Can also use mid-play to setup plays.

Bing Search on XBox

Allows you to search by genre now
Spreading the XBox experience to 12 other languages
New entertainment providers: Nickelodeon, Paramount, Machinima and Univision
24/7 ESPN Live TV. Including ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3 and ESPNU
Expanding sports coverage to other mobile devices.

XBox Music

New music store/player for XBox
Going to be on XBox as well as other mobile devices and PCs

Nike+ Kinect

Training regimes personalized to you
Can share training and exercise with friends
Gives you instant feedback making sure you are doing everything just right

XBox Smartglass

Your devices will work together to immerse you further into your movies, games and music
Send a movie from tablet to your tv with the touch of a screen
Pick up where you left off
Use your tablet to pick and create plays in NHL 13
Halo Waypoint updates on your tablet as you play Halo 4
Works with all your current devices.

Tomb Raider

Lara moving through the environment taking out enemies with a bow and shotgun
Can light arrows on fire to set off explosions
Survival Action Adventure
Cinematic gameplay

Resident Evil 6

Leon and other returning characters fighting through a city
Similar gameplay to RE4 and RE5
Demo had quite a few QTEs

Wreckateer

Kinect game where you control cannons and ballistae to destroy castles
Launches with Summer of Arcade on XBLA

South Park: The Stick of Truth

RPG game where you create your own South Park character
Wants you to feel like you are in an episode of South Park

Dance Central 3

Using actual dance moves from Usher’s performance and new single

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2

Call of Duty franchise in the near future
Demo/Preview
Mason escorting president through a ruined highway to a nearby bunker
Sniping through walls
Firing anti-air turret
Fighting through Downtown Plaza with small UAVs to help
Getting into a fighter jet and providing Air Support for a convoy

Trailers

Gears of War: Judgement
Fable: The Journey
Forza Horizon
Ascend: New Gods
LocoCycle
Matter

Ubisoft Media Conference Recap

Woke up from my nap late so missed the Just Dance 4 info.

Far Cry 3

The game will include a whole archipelago of islands to explore
Natives causing trippy hallucinations
Bows, guns and tigers. Oh my!

Rayman Legends

For the WiiU. Supports up to 5 players
One player uses the touch pad to control the flying character Murphy to help other players through the level
Played through a musical level where character actions affected the music

Assassin’s Creed 3

Trailer and Demo
Connor moving seamlessly through the trees and snow
Hunting a stag and ends up having to fight off a wolfpack
Goes to a nearby camp to hand in quest objectives and pick up new ones
Combat is as seamless as the movement
Enemies on both sides of the Revolutionary War as well as hostile fauna in the wild

Shootmania

From the makers of Trackmania
An FPS for the eSports generation
Has an elite mode with 3vs1 capture the pole
Fast paced. Best out of 5 system

Watch_Dogs

Cities are run by a single computer
Tap into the network and hack/jam and use the network to your advantage to gain intel on your targets and to keep you alive
Excellent atmosphere and graphics
Infiltrate a club in the city by jamming guard cell phones
Learn where your target is by tapping phone calls between henchmen
Multiplayer/Group objectives

Trailers

ZombiU (M Rated FPS title for the WiiU)
Assassin’s Creed 3
Watch_Dogs
The Settlers Online
Far Cry 3
Splinter Cell: Blacklist

Opinion Note: As far as I am concerned Ubisoft is winning E3 at the moment. Watch Dogs looks super amazing.

My Side of the Internet: Just had the most amazing Journey.

zippy761:

So I just finished playing through Thatgamecompany’s sensational game Journey. I was skeptical at first because it didn’t sound like anything I would ever play. I’m glad I did end up playing it though. I just love the way the exploration felt and meeting people along your adventure. I’d like to…

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