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32 Mins at time of posting
Watch it here:
Microsoft Press Conference - E3 09 Live Video Game Demos at GameSpot
I might sum it up later
32 Mins at time of posting
Watch it here:
Microsoft Press Conference - E3 09 Live Video Game Demos at GameSpot
I might sum it up later
Abe Adding Info On The Fly For Major Talking Points
- Beatles Rock Band launches 9/9/09 and "looks cool." Will ship with 45 songs and studio chat from the Beatles. It will feature full albums as DLC. The 1st one available will be Abbey Road. Paul McCartney and Ringo came out for a few minutes.
- New motion control skateboard controller being shown by Tony Hawk. "Tony Hawk Ride"
James Addition
-MW2 Trailer!
In-game footage (There was a "Checkpoint Reached" in the corner)
--10.10.09 release.
--Showing gameplay. "Cliffhanger" level. Character is on a cliff edge, starts to climb the ice.
Very realistic from what I can see with the stream
--Drivable Snowmobile
-FF13 Now
--Gameplay being shown (360 gameplay, world exclusive)
Every Game shown from now on is Only on Xbox 360
-Cliffy B and Epic Games
--Shadow Complex (XBLA Game)
---Uses environment. Very good graphics for Arcade.
---10 hours of campaign.
-Joy Ride.
--Driving avatar game. Cartoon like.
-- FREE to download. Buy addons such as cars/track. Tracks can be shared regardless of friends purchases.
-Crackdown 2!!
--Orb glowing sound. "City is infected. You are the Cure."
Zombies. [STRIKE]Still Crackdown?[/STRIKE] Nope
-L4D2 - November 17th
--Using other items such as chainsaw?
-Splinter Cell Conviction
--"Sam is on a personal mission" Fight in a bathroom
--Pretty damn good cutscenes
--Story is "real-time"
--Fall 09 release.
-Racing Games
-Forza 3, this October
--Real car is on stage.
--Game looks *amazing*
--400 cars. New online features.
--Upload "High-Def" video
--Looks amazing again. Slow motion, moving camera.
--"Best graphics and Physics"
-Halo 3: ODST
--"Buckle up and prepare to drop"
--In game orbital drop. "Way off course"
--Immediatly after Halo 2 "Jump" to the halo.
--"You are the rookie"
--Unexpected help. New items that spartans don't get. Pistol with zoom!
--HUD is way better.
--"Great stories will be told in original ways". Flash back to new ODST called Dutch. Playable.
--New Co-op game. Firefight.
--22nd September.
-New Game from Bungie. Halo: Reach anyone?
--Yup. Halo: Reach. "Falls 2010"
--When you buy ODST, you get a beta invite to Reach multiplayer beta
-Alan Wake. In-game.
--"Use The Light"
--Light kills(?) bad guys
--Spring 2010
New innovation for xbox live.
-Music on xbl, partnership with last.fm
--Made for living room.
--Free for gold members later this year.
-Add Netfilx to queue on 360.
--Just Press play
-Live TV from sky.
--No additional hardware needed
-Relaunching Live Video
--Zune Video. 1080p. Instanly accessable
--From 8 countries, to 18.
-Movies, TV and Music coming to parties
-Facebook on 360
--Living Room experience
--Friend linker, xbox and facebook friends together.
--View photos from Facebook on 360
--Status updates in friend list style screen
--Facebook connect - send screenshot.
-Twitter on 360!
--But for living room (Bit of a theme, eh?)
--Tweet from 360
Both coming this fall
"Seen all on one box. Xbox."
-Kojima snuck onto stage.
--MGS on 360.
--Metal Gear Solid Rising, development underway.
--"Didnt say anything about solid snake"
-Trailer
--"Raiden is back."
NATAL (Big Section)
-Motion Controller
--"Can we add a motion controller? Of course"
--"Can we go beyond a controller?"
--"Can we make you the controller?"
--"We can."
--Holy Shit. Fighting game, racing game WITHOUT controller.
--Detects sound.
--"Use your own gear"
--Boy "scans" skateboard.
--Facial recognition
--Video Chat
--1 v 100. Buzzing with hand.
-"The only experience you need is life experience."
-Project Natal.
-You seen minority report? Just like that.
-Works with EVERY Xbox 360 sold so far.
-Just got better. Spielberg is helping with Natal.
--He saw Natal 2 months ago.
--"it's not about reinventing the wheel. It's about no wheel at all."
-Signs in automatically.
--Dashboard demo.
--Avatar does what he does
--Uses gestures to move through menus
--Actual demo here. The Real Deal
--Punch and Kick balls. Awesome.
--Looks tiring. Great idea.
--Paint party. 3D art demo.
--Throwing paint at screen, one and two handed getures.
--Make stencil. Use 1 or more people. Say "cheese" to confirm stencil.
--Epic
-Dev kits arriving now.
-Fable 2 creator, talks about Natal
--Milo Demo
--Imaginary friend much?
--Amazing AI.
--Goggles thrown. Claire (Demoer in video) "picks" them up.
--Puts hands in water to catch fish. Holy Shit
--Drawing of fish, put into the game.
--"This works today."
--Showed behind closed doors.
--"Best controller ever invented. You"
------ End ------
- Beatles Rock Band launches 9/9/09 and "looks cool." Will ship with 45 songs and studio chat from the Beatles. It will feature full albums as DLC. The 1st one available will be Abbey Road. Paul McCartney and Ringo came out for a few minutes.
- New motion control skateboard controller being shown by Tony Hawk. "Tony Hawk Ride"
James Addition
-MW2 Trailer!
In-game footage (There was a "Checkpoint Reached" in the corner)
--10.10.09 release.
--Showing gameplay. "Cliffhanger" level. Character is on a cliff edge, starts to climb the ice.
Very realistic from what I can see with the stream
--Drivable Snowmobile
-FF13 Now
--Gameplay being shown (360 gameplay, world exclusive)
Every Game shown from now on is Only on Xbox 360
-Cliffy B and Epic Games
--Shadow Complex (XBLA Game)
---Uses environment. Very good graphics for Arcade.
---10 hours of campaign.
-Joy Ride.
--Driving avatar game. Cartoon like.
-- FREE to download. Buy addons such as cars/track. Tracks can be shared regardless of friends purchases.
-Crackdown 2!!
--Orb glowing sound. "City is infected. You are the Cure."
Zombies. [STRIKE]Still Crackdown?[/STRIKE] Nope
-L4D2 - November 17th
--Using other items such as chainsaw?
-Splinter Cell Conviction
--"Sam is on a personal mission" Fight in a bathroom
--Pretty damn good cutscenes
--Story is "real-time"
--Fall 09 release.
-Racing Games
-Forza 3, this October
--Real car is on stage.
--Game looks *amazing*
--400 cars. New online features.
--Upload "High-Def" video
--Looks amazing again. Slow motion, moving camera.
--"Best graphics and Physics"
-Halo 3: ODST
--"Buckle up and prepare to drop"
--In game orbital drop. "Way off course"
--Immediatly after Halo 2 "Jump" to the halo.
--"You are the rookie"
--Unexpected help. New items that spartans don't get. Pistol with zoom!
--HUD is way better.
--"Great stories will be told in original ways". Flash back to new ODST called Dutch. Playable.
--New Co-op game. Firefight.
--22nd September.
-New Game from Bungie. Halo: Reach anyone?
--Yup. Halo: Reach. "Falls 2010"
--When you buy ODST, you get a beta invite to Reach multiplayer beta
-Alan Wake. In-game.
--"Use The Light"
--Light kills(?) bad guys
--Spring 2010
New innovation for xbox live.
-Music on xbl, partnership with last.fm
--Made for living room.
--Free for gold members later this year.
-Add Netfilx to queue on 360.
--Just Press play
-Live TV from sky.
--No additional hardware needed
-Relaunching Live Video
--Zune Video. 1080p. Instanly accessable
--From 8 countries, to 18.
-Movies, TV and Music coming to parties
-Facebook on 360
--Living Room experience
--Friend linker, xbox and facebook friends together.
--View photos from Facebook on 360
--Status updates in friend list style screen
--Facebook connect - send screenshot.
-Twitter on 360!
--But for living room (Bit of a theme, eh?)
--Tweet from 360
Both coming this fall
"Seen all on one box. Xbox."
-Kojima snuck onto stage.
--MGS on 360.
--Metal Gear Solid Rising, development underway.
--"Didnt say anything about solid snake"
-Trailer
--"Raiden is back."
NATAL (Big Section)
-Motion Controller
--"Can we add a motion controller? Of course"
--"Can we go beyond a controller?"
--"Can we make you the controller?"
--"We can."
--Holy Shit. Fighting game, racing game WITHOUT controller.
--Detects sound.
--"Use your own gear"
--Boy "scans" skateboard.
--Facial recognition
--Video Chat
--1 v 100. Buzzing with hand.
-"The only experience you need is life experience."
-Project Natal.
-You seen minority report? Just like that.
-Works with EVERY Xbox 360 sold so far.
-Just got better. Spielberg is helping with Natal.
--He saw Natal 2 months ago.
--"it's not about reinventing the wheel. It's about no wheel at all."
-Signs in automatically.
--Dashboard demo.
--Avatar does what he does
--Uses gestures to move through menus
--Actual demo here. The Real Deal
--Punch and Kick balls. Awesome.
--Looks tiring. Great idea.
--Paint party. 3D art demo.
--Throwing paint at screen, one and two handed getures.
--Make stencil. Use 1 or more people. Say "cheese" to confirm stencil.
--Epic
-Dev kits arriving now.
-Fable 2 creator, talks about Natal
--Milo Demo
--Imaginary friend much?
--Amazing AI.
--Goggles thrown. Claire (Demoer in video) "picks" them up.
--Puts hands in water to catch fish. Holy Shit
--Drawing of fish, put into the game.
--"This works today."
--Showed behind closed doors.
--"Best controller ever invented. You"
------ End ------
Well, in my opinion, Sony and Nintendo cannot follow that. Project Natal stole the show with it's 3D motion sensing, facial recognition, voice recogintion and - what appears - small size. Milo - a computer generater character - acted seemlessly with a person, from having a conversation to thowing some goggles at her to put on so they could fish.
Other notable highlights were: the appearance of MGS on the 360, sans Solid Snake; Twitter, Facebook and Last.fm on the 360; Halo 3: ODST and Halo: Reach; Forza 3 with awesome graphics and an amazing Video editor; The Beatles: Rock Band with full album downloads; Alan Wake finally shown and much more. I could type forever on all the fantastic new games/features coming to the 360 this year and early next year. One quote from the conference sums it up:
"Seen all on one box. Xbox."
