E3 2011 - The Big Three - Who Won?

Sega come back

Ubisoft for Mr Caffeine !

In all seriousness they did have some good games Ghost recon, Driver and Assassins creed as well as some surprises like Far Cry 3.

I don't get the dismissal of Microsoft's it was way better than last year and they showed 17 games. Only 5 Kinect games and one was Star Wars and one was Seseme Street by Tim Schaffer !

Granted they showed nothing new but we all knew they had nothing new to show and of course Kinect would feature heavily they spent 1/2 billion on promoting it of course they are going to try implement it into the big games in some way.

These are the games they showed

. “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3”
· “Dance Central 2” (Harmonix Music Systems Inc., Microsoft Studios).
· “Fable: The Journey” (Lionhead Studios, Microsoft Studios).
· “Forza Motorsport 4” (Turn 10 Studios, Microsoft Studios).
· “Gears of War 3” (Epic Games, Microsoft Studios).
· “Halo 4” (343 Industries, Microsoft Studios).
· “Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary” (343 Industries/Microsoft Studios, Saber Interactive, Certain Affinity).
· “Kinect Sports: Season Two” (Rare, Big Park Games, Microsoft Studios).
· “Kinect Star Wars” (Terminal Reality, LucasArts/Microsoft Studios).
· “Kinect: Disneyland Adventures” (Frontier Developments Ltd., Microsoft Studios).
· “Mass Effect 3” (BioWare, Electronic Arts).
· “Minecraft” (Mojang, Microsoft Studios).
· “Ryse” (Crytek, Microsoft Studios).
· “Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster”
· “Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Future Soldier”
· “Tomb Raider”
. UFC

Sony for me but it wasn't anything groundbreaking. Their new hardware (3D TV and Vita) hooked me instantly which unfortunately can't be said about Nintendo's Wii U. It's early days but I don't feel that they sold it to me properly. They seemed quite vague in the details which is a major pity because they had the perfect opportunity to steal the show.

Microsoft's was pretty awful. To be fair they were all pretty awful but Microsoft's one was probably the worst.

The Gears Of War demo was probably the only thing that was remotely interesting. That and Halo 4 I guess.

Everything else was a bit meh.

Grumpypants wrote: »

Ubisoft for Mr Caffeine !

In all seriousness they did have some good games Ghost recon, Driver and Assassins creed as well as some surprises like Far Cry 3.

I don't get the dismissal of Microsoft's it was way better than last year and they showed 17 games. Only 5 Kinect games and one was Star Wars and one was Seseme Street by Tim Schaffer !

Granted they showed nothing new but we all knew they had nothing new to show and of course Kinect would feature heavily they spent 1/2 billion on promoting it of course they are going to try implement it into the big games in some way.

These are the games they showed

. “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3”
· “Dance Central 2” (Harmonix Music Systems Inc., Microsoft Studios).
· “Fable: The Journey” (Lionhead Studios, Microsoft Studios).
· “Forza Motorsport 4” (Turn 10 Studios, Microsoft Studios).
· “Gears of War 3” (Epic Games, Microsoft Studios).
· “Halo 4” (343 Industries, Microsoft Studios).
· “Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary” (343 Industries/Microsoft Studios, Saber Interactive, Certain Affinity).
· “Kinect Sports: Season Two” (Rare, Big Park Games, Microsoft Studios).
· “Kinect Star Wars” (Terminal Reality, LucasArts/Microsoft Studios).
· “Kinect: Disneyland Adventures” (Frontier Developments Ltd., Microsoft Studios).
· “Mass Effect 3” (BioWare, Electronic Arts).
· “Minecraft” (Mojang, Microsoft Studios).
· “Ryse” (Crytek, Microsoft Studios).
· “Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster”
· “Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Future Soldier”
· “Tomb Raider”
. UFC

Microsoft's show after the ME3 demo was really painful to watch. Those scripted presentations they use year after year with the fake as hell banter are awful. The amount of kinect ****e that not only looked pretty unfun to play and seemed to to either an on the rails type game (Star Wars), didn't look like a valid reason to use kenect (Ghost Recon) or just looked like the person demoing it was syncing to what was happening on the screen (Star Wars).

The only valid kinect use for games were ME3 for voice commands and Forza 4 for head tracking.

GTR63 wrote: »

Can't help but feel a bit of Deja vu with Vita it reminds me of the psp reveal.It looks great but offers slightly worse versions of console games,hope Sony learned a lot from the psp.Uncharted looked great as always but the lack of new game announcements was very un-e3.There was more exciting reveals at the Spike VGA's last december.I was expecting Resi 6,Gta V or Half Life 3/episode 3 to be announced but none turned up.Probably holding them back for the next gen systems.Don't think anyone unanimously won e3 but the 3rd Party games like Batman,Skyrim & ME3 made a great impact.

It would be kind of silly to announce anything new really, at least from sonys PoV, in my opinion (Even tho Starhawk and Dust are more or less new).

Their lineup for the next year is pretty jammed packed, likewise the 3rd party scene is busting with great games being released between now and next year so i guess a lot of developers are holding out until it starts to thin out a bit. Lineup wise it has been incredibly solid, just nothing that we haven't heard of in the last few months.

Sony, but not by much. The affordable 3D TV and PS Vita were quite impressive.

Whatever guy Ubisoft had presenting was so goddamn annoying.
Nintendo could have won with a few more BIG games. They didn't even show the new console, just went on and on about the controller.
The less said about Kinectosoft the better.

I've gotta say that Ubisoft, for me, was the 'most exciting' one to watch. A slow start but they showed some really good games, a few surprises too to boot.

Helix wrote: »

sonys was the most interesting

but in general, all three were dull as hell

It's been a good few years since the big three press conferences were in any way exciting. I actually cant remember when it was truly exciting to watch one of these.

Speaking of which, when was the last time any of us remember it actually being exciting to watch one of these?

Nintendo won after less than 10 minutes of their conference, but by the end it was close to Sony.
Nintendo: A
Sony: A-
Microsoft: D
Ubisoft: B
EA: B-

I'm generous because I like video games.

Going on what interests me the most, Sony. The Vita just looks amazing.