I have either watched, or seen summaries of each of the press conferences from e3 of the big game consoles, so I thought I would give my opinion of what I liked and what I didn’t like so much.
Sony’s Best – ModNation Racers looked like the most fun thing they had to show, I really like the mix of the Mario-style kart racing with the do it yourself track building.
Sony’s Worst – Final Fantasy XIV was one of those moments of the show where you get really excited, till they say the word Online then you get sad again. I never played the first “online” Final Fantasy, so maybe I should give it a fare shake first – however I am more of a fan of the more traditional Final Fantasy series.
Nintendo’s Best – It would have to be a tie, because I am really excited about Super Mario Galaxy 2, New Super Mario Bros Wii (horrible name though) and Metroid: Other M.
Nintendo’s Worst – Wii Vitality Sensor is really weird. Being somebody that owns 4 nun-chucks, 2 classic controllers, a Wii Wheel, the Wii Zapper, and 4 Wii-motes – I am running out of places to store all these accessories. Also, why do I need a biorhythm sensor to play games?
Microsoft’s Best (and Worst) – Project Natal. Now I don’t have an Xbox 360, so I am not a fair judge here – however I see this full body motion control to be a real winner or a really big loser. Now, I understand where kicking a ball might be fun with this, but what about shooting a gun? Are they expecting me to yell, “pew! pew!” at the screen?
Overall, I think this year’s e3 show, from the point of view of the big three consoles will be, “Oh, you know that motion control stuff we made fun of from the Wii, we do that too… but better!”.
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