Opening with MW3 playable demo of the underwater mission. Once disabling the sub, you then make your way inside. It’s Modern Warfare people… it’s not reinventing the wheel here.
Crystal Dynamics shows off the Demo for the latest reboot (there have been several) of Tomb Raider. This one looks to be quite a bit darker. Laura is trying to make her way out of a collapsing. Yup, sounds like a Tomb Raider game.
Peter Moore pops up on stage… really doesn’t say a lot except that pretty much ALL of the new EA games will have Kinect support. TVs EVERY WHERE are in danger of being destroyed.
Doctor Ray is up next with a demo of Mass Effect 3… with Kinect support as well. Talking to Mordin seems kinda neat. Fingers crossed for a sing-a-long. Also part of the demo you can control your other squad-mates a la SOCOM from PS2.
Ghost Recon Future Soldier is demoed. Just a FMV at first then the “Gunsmith” demo. “Gunsmith” is a way to field strip your weapon and swap out just about every part of your weapon, and guess what… it’s done with Kinect support. Looks fun for equipment but worthless for actual gameplay. Also “All Tom Clancy games will have Kinect support from here on.”
Don Mattrick comes out. Reveals the new NEW Xbox Live dash. Key features:
YouTube on 360
Live TV
Voice recognition for just about everything
In-dash browser
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Dana White shows up to tell us all about the new UFC interface with 360. Get PPVs and the be able to virtually interact with them. Call the fights by guessing who will win, see polls.
Next up is Cliff Blezenski with a demo of Gears 3… with Ice “Mutha Fuckin” T! Great looking game, seriously. Much like MW3… it’s Gears and that is usually all that needs to be said for fans. That being said… it had mechs this time.
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Then we see the Crytek logo. This is the demo for “Ryse”. A first person game with, you guessed it, Kinect support. Looks decent (it is Crytek) but looks don’t always mean a lot of fun (it is Crytek).
Halo: 10th Anniversary shown. That is probably all I need to say. Oh wait not it isn’t. It’s doesn’t feature ANY multiplayer component except Co-Op. Ha!
Forza 4 is shown with Kanye in the back ground. Looks AMAZING, and features the “Top Gear” test track. One can only hope that either Jeremy Clarkson or “The Stig” will somehow be integrated into the game in some way.
Peter Molyneux is on stage talking about another “Amazing” Fable game. This one is called Fable: The Journey. It looks to be a Kinect enabled (shocking I know) on rails magic shooter. Sort of in the vein of the last Harry Potter game of the same type. That doesn’t bode well for the game at all.
Apparently Minecraft is coming to the 360 with Kinect support. Aaaaaand that was pretty much all they said.
Next up Disneyland Adventures. Walk the park, “ride” the rides and interact with pretty much the entire park. Sounds interesting but could go horribly wrong. Also, FIST BUMP!
Starwars Kinect is shown. Now you will be able to swing a virtual lightsaber and then watch it move on screen… seconds later. Quickly devolves into a waggle-fest minus the Wii-mote.
Tim Schaffer up next and talks about and walks us through Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster. Will be a lot of fun to play with the kids.
Kudo Tsunoda is up on stage. BAM! Actually no he didn’t do it this year. Showing off “Kinect: Fun Lab”… it’s hard to explain but looks to be pretty cool. The one thing to take away from it is that you will now finally be able to scan in your wang. Also there will now be “finger recognition”. So take those two items and do what you will with them. Also, it is available RIGHT NOW for everyone with a Xbox Live account.
Then there was a really “Bro-tastic” demo of Kinect Sports Season 2. It made the kids look like totally trained actors.
Dance Party 2 is up next. Two big announcements for this one; Import all your DC1 songs and the second will now finally feature simultaneous dancing with a friend.
Finally Don Mattrick shows back up to close the show with *shocker* Halo 4. Introducing a “new trilogy” in the Halo universe. It has Master Chief in it, you probably fight covenant, what else needs to be said to make the fanboys cream their collective panties? Coming Holiday 2012.
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