Day one of E3 brings us gifts from third parties, first off Ninja Gaiden 3, the first mainline Ninja Gaiden without Itagaki, and it’s bloodier than ever. Graphically it looks like it might be a bit improved over the Sigma games, but not by much, especially given the canned nature of this trailer.
A Forbes representative John Geudiosi spent some time with Sony’s E3 lineup, and felt free to blog about an new God of War game to be shown off at the Sony E3 press conference. He describes it as a new God of War 3D adventure, but he was probably just shown the game on a 3D TV or some such garbage, the game will likely be nothing more than what you’d expect out of a God of War 4.
These newly released Hitman Absolution screens, show off some very nice visuals, especially for the Hitman series, though 47 being on a small ledge in the sky is slightly troubling given that he’s not supposed to be an acrobat like that Creed guy, but we can assume there’s a hatch above that ledge or something that he dropped down from.
What’s truly troubling is that, while Hitman will be appearing at E3, it will only be behind closed doors to the press.
Now of course this could simply be what they think is the best way to build the hype, it could also mean they don’t have full confidence in their game, and need to limit any public scrutiny, and god forbid take notes from the biggest dumbest members of the press, IGN employees for example.
If they screw up this series I say we dig up Aeris and kill her again.
It’s been a while since there’s been a really good attempt at a decent Star Trek game, aside from the waste of effort MMO Star Trek Online, but with the new versions of the characters in the movies maybe somebody can make it work again. Paramount hopes so, according to VentureBeat, they’ve enlisted Digital Extremes to create a new Star Trek game for home consoles.
Even the worst Star Trek games had some good in them, and while there’s no way this can live up to the greats like 25th Anniversary, or Birth of the Federation, they should at least be able to match the likes of the Voyager FPS, for those of us who dare to dream, the Deanna Troi text adventure.
Warner Bros. put out their E3 trailer for Lord of the Rings: War in the North a little early to get out of the way of the oncoming hypewave for bigger titles and announcements, and it looks pretty nice for a licensed title, it’s not quite Dragon’s Dogma, but the big creatures are looking pretty cool.
Somebody somewhere was kind enough to provide this early look at Capcom’s upcoming answer to Left 4 Dead, Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City. This trailer focuses on the team for the Umbrella corporation, I assume Capcom will release a couple more trailers before the end of E3 focusing on the other sides of the fight.
EA put out a new video from their upcoming SSX reboot, and while it still seems to be missing a lot of charm, and proper level design, at least some of the mechanics on display seem to be working right here, though this new terrain reshaping gimmick they have, hopefully on in Trick It mode, seems to be a significant misstep. It certainly looks cool, and technologically impressive, but in the flow of gameplay it seems to be the equivalent of poor load streaming.
Hopefully they’ll continue to show more of the game throughout E3, perhaps a map with some actual designed elements, rather than big open nothingness with the same jump littered all over the place.
Prototype 2 is coming, and it looks a whole lot like Prototype 1, except for the main character being dumped because some of the more vocal members of the games press didn’t like him.
The first game was a pretty solid HD follow-up to The Incredible Hulk, though it got slagged for not having a more hipster vibe to it like Infamous, the only thing that was really lacking from the first were the number of set pieces that were so frequent in Hulk.
I look forward to running up buildings real fast with this new bald guy.
With their many network troubles behind them Sony now feels like they can begin announcing some upcoming games for PSN, first Papo & Yo, a puzzle platformerish game with some strange looking red rhino demon thing, looks interesting at least, and is scheduled for an early 2012 release.
Here’s the trailer:
Sony better be holding back something interesting for their E3 presentation, because they seem to be dumping everything we know they have in the days before the event. Here they show off the multiplayer for the 3rd entry in the Resistance series for the Playstation 3.
It doesn’t look half bad for a console FPS, visually at least, though those skinny aliens just look ridiculous walking around the map like models prancing around in high heels.