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E3 Draws Close, Companies Reveal Games Ahead Of Time
Thanks to Planet GameCube for reprinting data revealing the amount and diversity of games to be shown at next week's E3 Expo in Los Angeles. It's noted: "Approximately 1,000 of the nearly 5,000 computer and video game products to be displayed at the 2004 Electronic Entertainment Expo... have never been seen before... survey results indicate that about 40% of products displayed will be for video game consoles, while about one-third will be for personal computers." Many companies are revealing titles before E3, though, with some highlights including most of Sega's line-up (including "SPIKEOUT: Battle Street... and Virtua Quest"), a list of 23 new EA titles, including new Timesplitters 3 details and a first look at Catwoman, THQ's new info on Destroy All Humans!, Rockstar's announcement of Midnight Club 3:DUB Edition, Activision's showing of X-Men Legends, and UbiSoft's announcement of Prince Of Persia 2.
If that crappy PoP game gets a sequal, the awesome Beyond Good and Evil has too
And after 4 years of living the LA area, I STILL haven't been able to get passes to E3. :(
I think next year I'll just save up and dump the $500 (or whatever it is) for a pass.
Well, I was going to read the article, but I stopped when I got to this line:
;)
100% of the people that click this news link will read the survey
Maybe that shows something about my personality
This is from Vivendi Universal Games' list. (after Half-Life 2, Men Of Valor, Blizzard's titles, etc.
Unnamed secret title, behind closed doors only, a FPS that can be described as "The Matrix meets The Ring" and developed by Monolith.
(Got that from Voodoo Extreme)
What the hell does that mean? Is the Matrix crossed with the Ring even a good thing?
Over the past decade, E3Expo has hosted exhibitors in a total of more than 4.5 million square feet of floor space, approximately 520 times the length of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Um, did that author just compare feet to square feet?
1,000 of the nearly 5,000 computer and video game products
5,000 video games. Five thousand. Assuming that this is an entire year's supply of games, this means that 14 games a *day* will be coming out over the next year. Does anyone else think that this might be a stupid number? (and odds are that less than 50% of the coming year's games are going to be showing at E3).
I might buy six games a year. 6/5000 = 0.12 percent. I like games, but how the hell is *anyone* supposed to keep up with this market?
other than that, i'm hoping for a Fallout 3 Announcement, news about Jade Empire, Fable, KOTOR2, and maybe a few more Details about FFXII.
i just hope this isn't just the year of Sequels and remakes, i'd like to see some good Honest Original Material, Jade Empire and Fable sound like a good start but i really hope some more devs start jumping into the unknown more this year.
oh, and there better be a Gran Turismo for the PSP, that would make me a Garanteed PSP Customer
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let it be known, for anything other than servers, a *nix OS sucks
1000 games on display, 900 of them are just sequels. It's becoming super obvious with the contents of E3.
Metal Gear games, doom III, and HL2 will wow the crowd with its graphics. They should just call it electronic graphics expo.
A good game for me has to be easy to learn and difficult to master. You can just pick up the classics and start having fun right away instead of reading a freaking 40 page manual first!
Not that all newer games are bad (Halo, Far Cry rocked) but the classics will always hold a special place in my heart!
-CyRo
http://www.nwcge.org
I am a hardcore PC gamer and live in L.A. area. Sheesh, I submit a lot of stories to Blue's News, slashdot, etc. and I still haven't been to ONE. I know people who aren't hardcore gamers were still able to go.
:(
Ugh! I must be a bad luck.
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
Come on, wake up. PRODUCTS means everything including controllers, steering wheels, video cables, PC hardware (video cards, sound cards), speakers, memory cards, and everything else under the sun. It does not say 5,000 GAMES. Geez, even the mods have trouble with reading comprehension.
Sands of Time was already POP 3. They going back in time now?
Timesplitters 2 (and 1) is a great game, with fun multiplay - you can hook up to 4 PS2's for up to 16 players in Golden Eye style play. So far I've only managed to do 2 PS2's (1 player each), but it was a blast - and TS2 is available cheap now (you need a copy for each PS2 obviously). It's a great FPS for quick, small dose play.
Over at the Guild Wars website you'll be able to download a pre-alpha build of the game on Wednesday, May 12! E3 for everyone, yay!
"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit." -Stephen Hawking
Wasn't the Phantom console supposed to have a booth? Did anyone see it?
Physics makes the world go 'round.
Interesting. Blizz South has WoW to demo, as well as Starcraft Ghost which they are advising on, but nothing from Blizzard North. It's been like 3 years or so since Diablo 2 came out, and they've been awfully quiet since then. Granted they did lose all of their top staff from that office, but one would think that by now they'd have something to tease us with.
/goes back to playing Project Gotham Racing 2... whoops.
And if you ARE in the industry, it is trivial to get free passes, because nVidia/ATI/MS/Sony/etc want the developers to see their cool new hardware and capabilities to have better games developed for their systems.
The companies that pay BIG money to show at E3 do not gain anything by having randoms off the street showing up. So they try to stop those people from coming. If some "adventuresome gamer" spends 30 minutes playing the new indie game that you are looking for, that is 30 minutes that the Best Buy or EBGames or GameSpot representative can't be playing the game, and putting in orders for millions of copies of the game to be displayed on endcaps to sell well, or for the reviews to be written on mass-market sites to build up demand.
If your E3 display convinces 1000 gamers that they want the game, but doesn't convince any retail buyers or website reviewers or game publishers, then the game won't ever even make it to market.