E3 – Lungfishopolis.com https://greghowley.com/lungfish Video games on our minds Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:49:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Highlights from the first half of E3 2009 https://greghowley.com/lungfish/2009/06/highlights-from-the-first-half-of-e3-2009/ https://greghowley.com/lungfish/2009/06/highlights-from-the-first-half-of-e3-2009/#comments Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:49:23 +0000 http://lungfishopolis.com/?p=1160 Okay, so the week isn’t even over yet, but they’ve announced some pretty cool things at E3. I’ve been browsing reports, and here are the items that jumped out at me.

  • Project Natal 
Project Natal for the XBox 360 seems to be taking the idea of the Wii remote and improving it by using a camera rather than a controller. Will it work? I don’t know. Holding your arms upright for long periods to steer a car using an invisible steering wheel could quickly get tiring. I guess I could envision it replacing a mouse interface on consoles, enabling RTS games to work better than they ever have by creating a Minority Report kind of interface. Also, maybe some kind of dance game that uses your whole body rather than just the dance pad.
  • Mario Galaxy 2
Hooray! This is actually awesome. I loved Mario Galaxy, and I welcome more of the same. This game adds Yoshi, and Yoshi gets his own freaky power-ups to match Mario’s freaky power-ups.
  • The Last Guardian
We’ve known for a while that Team Ico, who developed Ico, and then Shadow of the Colossus, has been working on another game. Today we found out that the game is The Last Guardian. It features stealth gameplay, which excited me quite a bit. There’s also some weird feline dragon thing.
  • Left 4 Dead 2
In true Valve style, this game seems less a true sequel and more of an expansion on the original. Which is not a bad thing. New characters, new setting in New Orleans, and five new level maps. I wouldn’t be shocked to see new infected appear at some point.
  • DSi photo sharing to Facebook
This fall, you’ll be able to share photos from your DSi directly to Facebook. Maybe no big deal to some people, but I’ve never owned a phone that had this capability. To me, it’s the future. There’s also a Facebook connect for XBox 360, but since I don’t own one, I find it to be no biggie.
I know there are things that I missed, but these were the things I saw that interested me the most. 
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