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Monday, June 10, 2013

E3 2013: Microsoft Press Conference Highlights, Reveals, & Hype

  • Opening scene is beautiful, Metal Gear Solid 5 set in Afghanistan and it is gorgeous
    • Open world game game
    • Military shooters aren’t my thing but it looks intriguing
  • 13 exclusive titles to Xbox One
  • Xbox 360 Upcoming titles
    • new console design coming
      • available starting today, it’s smaller
    • Gold Membership
      • New Program begins July1 thru XboxOne release: two new game downloads for free --
        • Assassin’s Creed 2 and Halo 3 given as examples
    • GTA 5
    • World of Tanks exclusive to Xbox360
      • 15 v 15 team based tank warfare
      • Adapted and tailored to the 360, integrated with Live
      • Free download and free to play
    • Max the Curse of Brotherhood from Press Play
      • looks fun and entertaining
      • bright, colorful, puzzle platformer
    • Dark Souls II
    • Crimson Dragon
      • looks like a dragon based shooter
    • Dead Rising 3
      • Open world zombie game
      • Zombies are much scarier looking
      • no load times
      • massive world
      • ok I’m very interested and I don’t generally like zombie games
      • hundreds of weapons to discover and customize
      • driving critical part of exploration (CRAP on a stick lol) but zombies are still a threat
      • smart glass compatible (shown using a windows phone!)
      • Available this holiday
    • What Lie Below
    • Black Tusk Studio Game
      • more coming
      • game play footage shown
      • Franchise builder game
    • HALO
      • EPIC scene featuring Master Chief
      • 60 frames per second on the console
      • 2014 game
  • Non Exclusive Games
    • Witcher 3: Wild Hunt  from CD Projekt Red
      • combat rebuilt from ground up
      • free roaming, open world
      • non-linear questing
      • optional voice commands
    • Battlefield 4
      • game play footage shown, 60 frames per second
      • Second Assault (map pack) releases first to the Xbox One
  • Xbox One
    • more titles in development now than ever before in Xbox history
    • New Franchises:
      • Ryse: Son of Rome
        • first impression, I’m ALL over this!
        • graphic violent images, not recommended for children (personal opinion)
        • Roman General Marius Titus is the lead character you play as
        • Exclusive and available at launch
      • KIller Instinct
        • Exclusive to One
      • INsominac Games: Sunset Overdrive
        • Exclusive to One
        • Stylized shooter
        • Open world, living game
        • looks like fun
        • Weapon that fires records!!  Looks crazy fun
      • Forza Motorsport 5
        • Pimping MacLauren racing
          • MacLauren P1 is on stage!
        • footage showing on screen looks like real life footage, not like previous versions of Forza
          • God Rays are truly impressive
        • Drive-atar
          • opponents drive like people not AI
          • Learns and adapt based on how you drive
          • Races against the world while you are offline, away from the game and you get credit for those races
          • World Premiere trailer with all in-game footage
            • beautiful, detailed and again the god rays are stunning
        • Launch title
      •   Titanfall
        • shooter, mech fighting – definitely mech fighting
        • Spring 2014 release
    • Indie Titles published under Microsoft Studios
      • Minecraft, exclusive
      • Quantum Break, exclusive
        • works with the television show
        • actual gameplay footage shown
        • Looks fascinating, again a me type of game
      • D4
      • Project Spark
        • Making a game, is the game
        • OMG
        • uses smart glass
        • ALL over this!!!!!!!
        • Game you can create, can be shared with the community
  • Xbox Live
    • Smart glass, smart match, Upload Studio
    • Smart Glass with Rye, Son of Rome
      • if you can do it on the console, you can do it from the smart glass device --- exception of course for actual game play
    • Smart match
      • can play one game while waiting for another match in a different game
      • Upload Studio
        • records, uploads, and shares game play
        • commentary, personalization available
      • Twitch partnership announced
        • built into One
        • Live streaming
      • Friends list no longer limited to 100
      • No more points, real money in your local currency
      • Household no benefits from gold membership

Launches November 2013 for $499 in the US and can be reserved starting today

 

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