Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay have nothing on this sort of action. The video contains the full Microsoft E3 Modern Warfare 2 presentation with a trailer at the beginning and gameplay following.
Of course you know that E3 is this week, and the big three game companies all had press conferences. In case you missed out on them or just want to refresh yourself on what went on, we blogged them and have them available for you. Between Microsoft's announcement of their Natal motion sensing camera, Nintendo's surprise announcements of new Super Mario Galaxy and Metroid games, Sony's new motion controller and all the other general craziness, you don't want to miss out.
Microsoft uses a similar technology as Sony for their new motion controller but seems to chose for a different approach in selling it to us. First off, Microsoft's version does not require you to use any controller in your hand, it all works through the camera in front of the screen. An interesting take but we wonder how the camera will distinguish between two players excitedly flailing their arms through the air while they are in a race or in a fight to defeat a horde of angry orcs... The presentation is geared more towards family as well as communication with the Xbox and with others -through- the Xbox.
While it's still a blatant copy of Nintendo's Wiimote, this definitely looks like fun to us. We're not sure if this, as the demonstraters say, will open up RTS gaming to consoles though. Console game makers will keep trying, but nothing properly replaces the mouse for strategy. On the other hand, the bow feature is extremely cool. We can definitely see oursleves taking to ranged combat in RPG's. :)
Nintendo isn't going to sit around like last E3 and toot their own horn, that's for sure. At Nintendo's E3 Press Conference, the Big N announced three new titles based off of two of their biggest franchises, Mario and Metroid.
There will be two Mario games coming to the Wii in the next two years, with the first coming later this year. Titled New Super Mario Bros! for Wii (the same title as the DS game from a few years ago), will be classic 2D Mario with up to 4 players, and will be released this holiday. The second is the sequel to 2007 game of the year winner Super Mario Galaxy. In the sequel, Bee Mario is back as well as Yoshi!
In what was easily the oddest of all announcements, Nintendo announced that they were partnering with Team Ninja (devlopers behind Ninja Gaiden) for a new Metroid game called Metroid: Other M. This was revealed as alongside other "harder" games previously announced like The Conduit and Darkside Chronicles.
It's been a good E3 for Metal Gear fans so far, with two games in one of the greatest gaming series announced at Microsoft's and Sony's Press Conferences. The first, coming to the Xbox 360 marking it's debut on the console is Metal Gear Rising. Details are scarce, but it is an "entirely new direction for the franchise".
The second game will release the same day as the freshly announced PSP GO!, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker will take place 10 years after the events of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, and feature Big Boss and the events surronding the creation of Outer Haven. Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker will be available October 1st
Edit: Oops, my bad. It appears Peace Walker will be releasing in 2010. Sorry for the confusion
1UP has some new details about combat and one of the bosses players will encounter in God of War 3:
Kicking things off, lead combat designer Adam Puhl goes into detail on the game's Spider-Man-style grappling ability, which essentially takes the grapple points from God of War 2 and places them on the game's enemies. "At any point, if there's an enemy on the ground, in the air, wherever, Kratos can throw his blades at them, pull himself into that enemy [or pull the enemy over, or toss the enemy left or right], and perform a shoulder ram," he says. "When it hits, the game slows down, so you get this impactful attack, and you can continue to combo after that...the combat grapple is a linker for the entire combat system."
PTOM also had a chance to see a few new scenarios from the game for their story, the most newsworthy being the boss fight with Hades. As Dun describes it, the fight takes place in a "circular space" surrounded by souls that Hades can pick up and throw at Kratos, and at one point in the battle Hades tries to steal Kratos' soul from his body in a button-mashing tug of war.
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