E3 - First Day Shows Multitude Of New Games

Thanks to Eurogamer for its in-depth E3 coverage, as well as GameDaily's detailed write-ups and Ferrago's similarly wide-ranging coverage, as they add to previously-mentioned gaming websites covering the E3 Expo in Los Angeles. Highlights of the first day include hands-on impressions of Conker: Live and Reloaded for Xbox, a seriously in-depth Half-Life 2 interview, some first impressions of Myst IV, confirmation that Sega's signing of The Matrix Online was their 'big announcement', though Phantasy Star Universe was also announced, the list of songs for Donkey Konga, and a hands-on look at Final Fantasy XII. What other software are you most impressed by?

Comments

SEGA's "big announcement"

[buffer-overflowed]

Was just positively small and insignificant. Yay, another MMORPG. Wooo. Excitement. I was really hoping for another SEGA console(return of pure gaming companies!), but I knew it wasn't coming and I knew it was going to either be disappointing or it would piss me off(like MS buying out SEGA or something).

Heck a lot of things were overshadowed by Sony and Nintendo. Some of the eyetoy stuff is just neat, wild new speculation about the PSP(will it manage to play games longer than it can play video[2.5 hours]!? Time will tell!), and the DS is confirmed as nifty.

Watching the XBox fanboys tout some of the Halo 2 stuff is proving to be amusing though. I love how it's like most of them never played Marathon or any of the better PC FPSs to hear some of them talk about all the revolutionary new features. The game looks really good, but comeon now.

Metroid Prime 2 looks like more of the same, only now with multiplayer. That's kinda neat I guess.

The new Zelda looks like it'll be really cool, but that's not til 2005.

Square-Enix once again moves the line between masculine and feminine with their FF character designs.

I'm just all curmudgeony right now.