While waiting in line for the live demo of Assassins Creed 3, I realized there were a plethora of awards for “Best of E3” or “Most Anticipated”, you know, awards of that nature. Naturally, my expectations for the game were high and luckily I was not disappointed.E3 has come and gone. I have now placed my thougths and experiances of the show into podcast form, so stay awhile and listen.
E3 Special
So I was going to do a full write up on Planetside 2 at E3, but then I felt it would be much better explained by one of the game designers, John Wonders.
In the realm of extremely beautiful shooters there are many contenders, but only one has continually taken the cake for pushing the graphical boundaries of the system it has been on. Crysis is back, and it is more beautiful than ever. The nanosuit is spectacular, the water effects are amazing, and the entire world just looks alive. But if all we wanted in a game was graphics we would just watch movies and the indie scene would not see the great growth that is has. No a game needs good gameplay, and that was the real star of the demonstration at E3 this year.
When Day 2 rolled around for Assimilator and I, we had a plan of action in place to check out the West Hall which contained the big guns of the video gaming industry: Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony. Upon entering the hall, I immediately lost track of Assimilator because there was one game I really wanted to try for the Wii U and that was Zombi U.
Making a good puzzle game can be difficult. First you have to figure out a good mechanic for solving the puzzles. Then you have to design puzzles that can be solved with the mechanic, offers a challenge, but does not frustrate players. Quantum Conundrum, developed by Airtight Games and published by Square Enix, has done a good job in puzzling this together. In Quantum Conundrum you have been dropped off to visit uncle, only to find him missing. He is somewhere in his house as he helps you through the game, with varying degrees of usefulness, but does not know where in his house that he actually is (it is pretty big). Well, time to save the crazy scientist.So we are done with E3 Day 2, but have no time to write. As I speak we prepare to delve past a number of police blockades and LA Kings fans to reach the Nokia Theatre for Video Games Live. I do provide you though with the images we gathered from the show today. May they tide you over until we can start write ups on what we have seen this year.
Edit: So it appears I was again, not trigger happy for Day 3 of E3. As a result I combined Day 2 and Day 3 into one album at this location.
"Young Justice", the Cartoon Network TV series about the younger DC heroes, is getting its own game. This game is 100% canon with the TV series. To get more on this we sat down with the creators of Young Justice for details on how this will work.
First a little background on the series. "Young Justice" has reached the second season, and if you are following it you may have noticed their was a five year gap between season one and season two. A lot changed during that gap. Artimis and Kid Flash both left the super hero life style, Beast Boy and Blue Beetle joined the team, and Aqualad turned to the dark side and works for Black Manta, his father, now. But how did this all happen? When Little Orbit (the studio making the game) approached the creators they decided the game would be the perfect way to tell how what happened. The game focuses on what is initially a search for a missing archeologist, but turns into something much bigger. The mission takes team members to locations such as Greece and Siberia for this major event, and eventually involves members of the Justice League.
The creators of Young Justice (the TV Show).This game has been in production since October and is going to play a little like "Marvel Ultimate Alliance" where you choose your team and level them up. This allows you to fell as if you are growing them into the heroes you see in "Young Justice: Invasion". Robin (Dick Grayson) becomes Nightwing and Robin (Tim Drake) is introduced as an example. As you play this, you form these characters into what you see in the show. The game overall will have 12 playable heroes. They are Nightwing, Superboy, Miss Martian, Aqualad, Kid Flash, Artimis, Zataana, Beast Boy, Tempest, Robin (Tim Drake), Rocket and Batgirl. Together the will have to defeat 12 villains. The tag line for the game is "One will rise. One will fall. One will die". Given the series will see Dick Grayson rise to Nightwing, Aqualad fall, but the death is a mystery to me. I can guess that it may be Zatanna since I have not seen her in the series, but that is just a guess. Look for more on the game at http://www.youngjusticelegacy.com/.
Edit: Looks like I was wrong about who will die, the mystery is still alive! Thanks commenters!
Ok, we have been to E3, and honestly have not seen as much as we normally do by now. Now this does not mean we have not been busy though. We have write ups on three different games and the Nintendo Press conference. Follow the links below to get to them.
As for pictures, you can check out the image gallery HERE, or just slide show below.
I want to be clear with something before I give you my impressions on Hitman Absolution, I am a huge fan of the Hitman series. So, if my impressions of Hitman Absolution come off as “fan boyish” it’s because, yes, I am a Hitman fanboy.
Hitman Absolution takes place with our favorite assassin Agent 47.
