The Top 10 Trailers of E3 2008, And Ninja Commentary
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July 29th, 2008 by /images/author.gif)
TheMissingNin
This is what… 2 weeks late? Nevermind. It’s done now. I suggest you watch them ALL, and watch some of them in HD, should your bandwith allow.
I suppose, if anything, I was surprised that this isn’t a multiplatform title. First item on the list is a PS3 exclusive. Looks like Heroes meets Crackdown, which doesn’t sound bad at all. I saw a gameplay demo over at gamespot, and yeah, it looks amazing. I’ll post the link if I can find it.
This is the new game that Jade Raymond’s all up in. She’s the former Assasin’s Creed lead attractive designer, and also had some sue-able hentai comic drawn of her come the assasin’s creed launch. How I know that - the internet. I know the trailer doesn’t say much gameplay wise, but it’s got apocalypse and dudes fighting over evian, and those are never bad start off points. I predict action adventure, with emphasis on exploration and puzzle-solving, in an I-Am-Legend-minus-zombies New york. Yum. And more developer interviews with Jade ofc.
Shinier Prince, New Story, weird Yorda woman, pretty flowers. Sure I’ll bite. But isn’t that the cleanest cell shading you’ve ever seen! Hot damn. Not quite Naruto PS3, but certainly different and appealing.
I’ve never been sold on resistance. There was some resistance between me and playing the first one, pardon the obvious pun, and I just loathed what I played of it. This time, it’s set in america, which always looks better destroyed than britain does. And it also looks like they’ve found the freaking colour pallete in photoshop. I might bite on this, if a sufficient demo is produced. It’s in this list for one thing and one thing only - the closing scene of the trailer, with the Motherships hanging over San Fran. Watch in High Def if you can, and no, it’s not prerendered.
This one’s a no-brainer really. whilst the gameplay doesn’t show off alot, again here, the final scene with the vault guy and the dog walking the wasteland is enough to sell me on that, the live-action stuff is really what entrigues me. The overall feel of that, and the super change in tone when the guy goes “seems perfect, but what if it’s not“, sells me on the humor. I hope that something like this makes it into the final game, for the opening cinematic or something. Fallout 3 was the game of the show for many, but part of that might be due to it coming out rather soon. Fall is just around the corner.
The Final Fantasy 13 console jump was probably the ‘Megaton’ of the show. Though for me, it felt somewhat lacking. The XBLive crew need to get this trailer up on marketplace quick, so we can see how this all looks in hi-def. I think I’ll still play it on the PS3 tho. It just… feels right.
I get a little choked up whenever I see some footage from this game, in the same way I did with bioshock. I look at Mirror’s Edge, and I see GOTY material. I suggest you watch this one in HD, or if possible, get the trailer off your console of choise’s marketplace and watch it on your HDTV. It looks GORGEOUS. And a small bit of info, the game’s only HUD is a small dot in the centre of the screen, and it’s purpose is not as a crosshair. It’s a point of reference to prevent a player’s motion sickness. I shit you not.
If anything, Gears 2 is pretty much a safe game. We don’t need to hear about it, it will most likely be an 8/9/10 out of 10 game, and it will be awesome. So here’s some nice pre-rendered, possibly cut-scene, to remind you that it’s coming out this pwnmas, and you’d better have £50 ready. note- also looks awesome in HD.
I’m going to make a storyline prediction here - the girl in the trailer, the one not stuck to a wall with a billion new tentacles, GHOST. There, I said it. Deadspace looks really good though. And I’m usually not one for survival horror’s. There’s some gameplay footage out there somewhere, dev interview or live demo, If I find something I’ll post it up. Right now I’m just satisfied with a horror game being on my radar.
Endwar gets my award for awesome tech. Voice > waggle-wand. THERE, I said it. I’ve heard anything bad about the game. A contact of mine got into the beta, and apparantly it’s awesome. My watching of a live demo only reinforced this statement. If Endwar works, it could be the voice-control revolution we’ve all been waiting for.
This was certainly the year of post-apocalypticism. About half the videos here featured that as the main premice, whether it’s alien invasion or A-bomb. Though some might be rather filed under Orwellian. The point being, it’s pretty predominant.
There were a couple of other games that might’ve made the list, but were obscure, not at the show, or riddled with pre-rendered footage that it wasn’t worth the hype. These games include MAG, God of War 2, Darksiders, and Dawn of War 2.
I’m going to go sleep now, chances are high that I’ll be scumming the harbour for fucking lazy fisherman rubbish tomorrow, and I’d like to be awake enough to multitask between doing the job and pretending I’m not actually there. Next post whenever there’s something worth commenting on, or whenever I feel like it.
As a final side-note, I had a really fucked up dream last night, where I was being shown a game that was basically House meets TF2. Wilson had a flaming index finger that when he poked an enemy with would deal damage. As awesome as that would be, I don’t think it would sell IRL. Maybe in my dreams.
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