Sony took stage last night and we here at Illegal Games,
didn’t expect much from them. They were quiet leading up to E3 and with that,
the gamer in me thought that they might have an ace up their sleeve with what
they were showing at the event. Man was I wrong. Last night event was dull and
boring. They came unprepared to impress the audience in any kind of way and I
say that from knowing what the last game of the conference was going to be.
Allow me to run down the events last night, so you can understand where I am
coming from. Keep score.
They started with the first look at Quantic Dream new game
“Beyond”. Beyond looks fantastic. The realistic look to the characters and the
Sci-Fi elements that was shown makes this game look interesting. QD also
announced that the main character “Jody Holmes” will be played by actress Ellen
Page. If you don’t recognize the name, she has played in such films like Juno,
X-Men: The Last Stand and Inception. This surely wowed the audience with
visuals but there was one problem. There wasn’t any gameplay in the real time presentation
until the very end, with an action packed cut scene. I am a big fan of Quantic
Dream, but I need to see more about this game before I can talk fairly about
it.
Next up to bat was “Playstation All-Stars: Battle Royal”,
presented by Chan Park of SuperBot Entertainment. I will not sugar coat
anything to you guys, this is a direct rip off of Super Smash Brothers. So
direct that it if you put the screen shots side by side they look exactly the
same. Now they did do something interesting as they played the game. They
showed the power of the Playstation Vita. Two of the four players that were
playing the game were playing on the Vita playing against players on the PS3.
They call this feature “Cross-Play”.
Awesome, now back to the game. We could hardly keep up with what was
going on while PS All-Stars was being presented. I would guess that the
presenter had a hard time as well, as he said, “I’m not sure who is winning…
let’s see who wins”. It was Fat Princess by the way, I don’t fully understand how
but I guess I have to play it. Chan Park ended his presentation with the
announcement that Nathan Drake from Uncharted and Big Daddy from Bioshock will
be playable characters as well.
Now let me state something. We are 30 minutes in to this
presentation and they have shown two games. One, which didn’t have any gameplay
and the other, is a rip off of Super Smash Brothers. Lets continue.
During intermission, they started to talk about PSN. A
redesign? Nope, Playstation Plus stuff. Everyone in the audience got a free
year of Playstation Plus. This doesn’t help any of us, so I’ll keep going. No
wait, I forgot if you join Playstation plus you can download Saints Row 2 for
free!! Not Impressed by that, this one will make you harder than a hand full of
Viagra. PS Vita will get PSone Classics, like Tomb Radier 1 and Final Fantasy
VII!!! Its 2012 and yes they are classics, but you are almost at the end of a
console cycle. It is time you show something new.
40 minutes, 2 games.
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified was announced with no
game play so we can skip that. They did show the spin-off game to Assassin
Creed 3, titled “Assassin Creed 3: Liberation” which features a female assassin.
The game comes bundled with a White PS Vita (I will pick that up). Sony showed
some more gameplay of Assassin Creed 3 proper and the multiplayer campaign to
Far Cry 3. At this point Sony has lost me. Here is why.
1 game with no gameplay,
1 rip off of smash brothers, 1 spinoff to a game that isn’t out yet that
belongs to a handheld that isn’t selling and 2 games that was shown twice already.
Moving on.
To discuss Playstation
Move, Andrew House appeared on stage and gave the longest presentation of the
new interactive “Wonderbook”. Wonderbook uses the Playstation Move and Eye
camera to interact with books on your lap. J.K. Rowling of Harry Potter fame,
gave “The Book of Spells” to demo along with the new interactive IP. It looks
cool for what it is worth. You can open a book and practice spells and interact
with the words on the page. This doesn’t need a fifteen-minute presentation and
you just put everyone to bed.
God of War 4 was shown
and it’s more God of War. Not much to say about it. Kratos does have a new
power that allows his enemies to float in the air for a period of time and he
did fight a half man half elephant and that is always great.
The last game in this
presentation pretty much saved Sony. Lucky for them, this is the only thing
they will remember from this long dry conference. “The Last of Us” is and will
be a pure success. From the makers of Uncharted, Naughty Dog has shown that a
mixture of “I Am Legend” and “Resident Evil” does work. Along with their story
telling and unique gameplay, The Last of Us stole the show.
I hope I didn’t bore you
with this post as much as Sony bored me last night. Die hard fans of Sony will
come together and say that this won E3 but take that with a grain of salt.
Microsoft conference wasn’t much better but comparing that to this, Sony made
Microsoft look like they knew what they was doing. I came with a math equation
for this.
1 game with no gameplay
+ 1 rip off of smash brothers + 1 spinoff to a game that isn’t out yet + 2
games that was shown twice already + 1 storybook that no one cares about + 1 a
milked God of War + an impressive Last of Us Demo = a failed E3.
Sony has lost E3.
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