The 1UP crew is here with their first impressions from E3 including opinions on the Microsoft, EA and Ubisoft press conferences.
Everyone was fairly pleased with the Microsoft conference. Splinter Cell and Alan Wake were the biggest winners with the guys with surprisingly little real excitement at the Project Natal stuff. If it works, Project Natal looks to possibly revolutionize the way we interface with our TVs and consoles. Molyneux really blew it out with Milo. In addition to all that, the 360 is getting Facebook, Twitter, 1080p movies and downloadable full titles.
The opinions are pretty positive on the EA stuff as well. The online EA Sports stuff looks great for those who are into that kind of thing. Outside of that there was disappointingly no signs of life from Dead Space 2 or Mirror’s Edge 2. Hopefully those games are in the works.
Ubisoft disappointed to a large extent. The 30 minutes of James Cameron was way long no matter how cool Avatar potentially is and there was only a short Assassin’s Creed 2 trailer. Red Steel looks decent, but we’ve been burned on that front before.
In our first daily E3 2009 special Matt Leone and Thierry Nguyen join David and Garnett to cover the major press conferences that launched E3 week. They get right into Microsoft noting highlights like Alan Wake and Splinter Cell Conviction as well as discussing the motion sensing control interface code named Project Natal. From EA there’s no doubt that the announcement of APB’s new home stole the show and despite an appearance by James Cameron Ubisoft’s briefing was most notable for Assassin’s Creed 2 only being shown as a trailer.
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