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E3 2005 - A Look Back
Last week was so interesting I caught the plague and died for two days. Now that I've gotten a rez and E3 has wrapped up, a look back is in order. Ferrago takes a look at E3 no-shows, like STALKER, while GamesIndustry.biz has a look at statistics. The big three PR conferences were some of the highlights of the Expo, and Gamespot tells us who 'won'. The best way to get a feel for what happened last week, though, is to get it firsthand. The Casual Gamer Experiment is over, with his impressions now available. Personal accounts are available at Press the Buttons, GamersInfo.net, CliffyB.com, Grimwell.com, John Davison's Blog, and Jeremy Parish's Blog. Was there any firsthand E3 coverage that you particularly liked this year? What did you think of G4's live broadcasting, if you caught it? Update: 05/23 18:56 GMT by Z : Obligitory PA link. From the post: "I don't believe there is any such thing as a 'Playstation 3' yet, and I don't believe in the Killzone video. What I do believe is that Sony harnessed the media and then rode it from place to place, one hand on the bridle while the other waved madly in the air."
Of all things to show off ... Killzone. Perhaps they can add a tagline to Killzone 2 of something like "Now with actual gameplay!".
.. basically you sit there and shoot targets, and occasionally a scene plays where you're told to move to the next area or defend the next objective.
... for WWI-style trench warfare.
I played Killzone in the playstation store at the Metreon. Basically, you have a lane like a trench or a path that you're forced to go down, while enemies parade in front of you or come at you and you shoot them down. It's like one of those arcade shooters with the lightgun
It's actually fairly realistic
I don't trust Sony's claims either, but I do trust them to deliver a good-enough gaming system with truckloads of games, about half of which will be shovelware, but the remaining half will still swamp competing systems in terms of variety. So yes, I'll probably take the PS3 over the XBox360 unless the 360 can really dazzle me with its lineup.
I am no longer wasting my time with slashdot
Anyone read this article? Seems IGN thinks the 360 will be a superior gaming machine. http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/617/617951p1.html
" Yeah, don't you hate it when companies pass stuff done on their development computers as the final results? Sooo.... How about those Xbox360 demos/games? Looking *great* for a system that is going to be released in about 7-months."
I don't know if I'm just misreading you or what, but I think you've got it backwards....
It's fairly impressive that the 360 stuff we've seen is running on alpha hardware that's got 2/3s the processing power and probably less than half the GPU in realtime compared to pre-rendered stuff that's just theoretical. I'm pretty surprised MS is being more open and honest about their performance than Sony...lol
"A truly wise man realizes he knows nothing."