IF YOU’RE NOT INTERESTED in the play-by-play of the whole Microsoft press conference below, here’s the quick version of what they showed today:
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 gameplay
- New Tomb Raider game
- Four EA Sports games will support Kinect: Madden, Tiger, FIFA and one more TBA.
- Mass Effect 3 demo. Voice commands via Kinect shown.
- New Tom Clancy franchise: Future Warrior. Supports Kinect. Cool “gunsmith†feature lets you complete disassemble weapons and build new ones.
- Xbox Live: YouTube and Bing integration on the way.
- Ultimate Fighting game.
- Gears of War 3 demo with Cliffy B and Ice-T.
- Trailer for new Crytek game called Ryse, featuring gladiatorial combat in Rome.
- Halo: Anniversary, an HD remake of the first game with online and co-op support.
- Forza Motorsport 4 demo.
- Peter Molyneux shows off Fable: The Journey, with Kinect support.
- Kinect stuff: Minecraft with Kinect is coming; Kinect Disneyland Adventures (sort of a theme-park explorer); Kinect Star Wars; Tim Schafer demos Sesame Street: Once Upon A Monster; some stuff about “finger tracking,†Kinect Sports, Season 2; Harmonix demos Dance Central 2.
- Halo 4 trailer, “the dawn of a new trilogy for Xbox 360,†holiday 2012.
So in short, an extremely underwhelming showing. A lot of blather about Kinect, and a lot of games with 3 or 4 in the title.
E3 2011: Microsoft’s Presser, Condensed
IF YOU’RE NOT INTERESTED in the play-by-play of the whole Microsoft press conference below, here’s the quick version of what they showed today:
So in short, an extremely underwhelming showing. A lot of blather about Kinect, and a lot of games with 3 or 4 in the title.