It seems everyone is into Halo 4, but as I am not a big Halo fan I won't talk about it here. It's a sequel. It's another cool shooter and the fans are talking. That's it.
What grabbed my attention? Assassin's Creed III. Sure it's another sequel, but I saw things in that that make it much more unique than previous sequels. It does take place during the Revolutionary War in our country, The U.S. What makes this unique as far as gameplay? Wilderness travel. All the games before featured anything outside cities as waypoints to other areas of the games. There is fighting of bears. There's hiding and running along the narrow branches of trees. Unique assassinations. If you watched the demo on E3, note the way Conner hangs the red coat from the tree.
One of the biggest presentations on E3 was brought to you by Ubisoft. They started out with a presentation on a world wide OS that runs everything in all cities and town, like electricity, street lights, etc and EVERYTHING has the potential to be hacked in reality, so the idea of one OS controlling everything is dangerous. When I saw this video presentation, I wondered where they were going with it. The next part was a description and title of a new IP called Watch_Dogs. This game is simply amazing. The character you play can hack into phones and spy on conversations. He can trap people with anything and everything that is controlled by this OS. For instance, the street lights, which he used to create an accident to get to his target. Truly a unique game.
Lollipop Chainsaw. First glance at this title screams bargain bin garbage. And at this point even with the show gameplay, I'm still skeptical, but they are really pushing this game, so there must be something to it. We'll see when the game comes out and is reviewed. Right now it looks like a flashy, gorey, and rainbowy action zombie brawler.
The Last of Us. This game looks simply amazing. Explore a world where a fungus has taken over people's brains and turned the into zombies. But what's a zombie world without renegades who are violently trying to survive by killing anyone that is barely a threat. Beware when you run into them. The action in the game isn't too simple. There's a lot of stealth like in many games now. Hold a man hostage. Use him as a shield. Gorgeous graphics. Can't wait to see this one.
So, what can I say about the Wii U. Well, like the original Wii, I'm initially skeptical. Wii won me over late in the game, but the only problem was the lack of 3rd party support. Hopefully that changes with the Wii U as this is much more like a ps3 or Xbox 360 and then some. Nintendo doesn't disappoint. It's been taking people by surprise and it probably will again.
No announcement of a new PS or XBox. Rumors people. Rumors. They mean nothing to me.
Oh, another game that has me intrigued is the new Dragon Ball Z game that uses the Kinect. Just make the motions for a kah may ah may ah and so on. A fighting game that uses motion control? Nice. Prepare to get tired. That is, of course, if this even works as it should.
Take note of another game. The new Tomb Raider. Gameplay looks superb. Can't wait to play.
So, are you an Elder Scrolls fan? Skyrim is the first one for me to actually be playable. I love it. Now, I'm not going to be play a subscription based MMO again, but it will be truly interesting how this will translate into an MMO next year when it comes out.
By now everyone knows that Ghibli studios made a game called Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch. It seems like another J-RPG, so if you're a fan of Miyazaki and JRPGs this is a game to look into and Ghibli being known for it's stories will not fail us. This comes out early next year. It has taken a long time to localize this game as they try hard to make the dialog and story fit English speaking countries such as ours.
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