E3 2007

[HawkMan]

Well E3 2007 is starting and MS has allready released the first set of E3 trailers on the net and on XBLM. so what do you guys think ?


Halo3:
As was allready known it won't break ground visually as that wasn't really the goal either, but I guess it looks somewhat interesting, never been that much of a halo fan though.

Naruto:
Pretty damn awesome cell shading, the characters really do look drawn, even animated. The enviroment isn't early as good though, but that's to be expected since textures and cell shading never mix very well. it still works together thoug, and it looks like it could be an itnerestign game, if you only knew what type of game it was, dunno if it's a game I'd atually buy though. But I guess there will be a demo eventually.

witing for the next trailers to finish since the Too human trailer hung, gotta restart it after the others finish, my queue is full

[IRML]

I thought halo 3 was visually very impressive, if that's all in game anyway, and it's good to see post effects getting better now, rather than the crappy bloom games have had for a while now

[HawkMan]

PGR 4
Looking as awesoem as all the previus trailers, the bikes will spice things up, but hopefully you can choose to have only car races too. Audience look even better than in the third, cars are definately improved as is the enviroment. Not to mention the effects ofwather, rain espcially.

Of course unlike Forza this is an arcade racer with a high ocus on looks rather than simulation. just fun driving in awesome enviroments. YEah I'll be getting this for sure it'll be interesting to see hwo the bikes work too. They utterly sucked in TDU, wich otherwise was a really good game, with cool multiplayer setup


Lost Oddysey
WOW, this looks like it could be the RPG for the 360, for those more interested in the asian style rpg rather than the more western Mass effect. personally, I'll tak both

The visual style of this game is different from any RPG's I've seen before, besides form looking absolutely stunning. Definately a game to look out for as it ships.



Mass Effect
Well Looking as awesoem as ever this one, sill on the must have list


Bomberman Live
Wooot, classic Bomerman action on XBLA, could you possibly as for more.


Crash Bandicoot
Well the humour i certainly there, seems at least as funny as playing some of the good old adventure games like Simor the sorcerer or Sam and Max. But I can't help but feel that they went cheap with the polys, thinking that just because they go with a simplistic visual style and a game aimed more at the kids, that they could get away with abysa poly counts.

Same mistake Blizzard made with WoW, just because you have a simplistic semi cartoony visual style, doesn't mean you can'tuse smooth high poly objects and characters. IT would have been so much better if they had offered more polies on the characters, making them smoth and nic, not edgy. looks like an XBLA game. Definately wouldn't pay the same for this game as I would for most other games with much higher production costs.


COD4: Modern combat
I never much cared for Call of Duty, just another WWII shooter after I've been tired of WWII shooters for yeras, it seems like WWII have been the only shooters (as well as combat flight sims) o have been made in the last decade.

Taking CoD out of the old WWII ad into the modern world is possibly the bst thing they have done. this game look awesome. And form what I know of the story, they hired roffessional story writers to do that and in the single players you want play one single character/squad through the game. Instead each mision/Chapter will cover different parts of th whole store in different places of the world, so while one ission you may be a SEAL squad, the next you may be regular infantry, or Russian special ops or anything. Allowing you to get a much more complete view of the store than the usual single minded going from one op to the next with your squad style. Seems like a game to keep an eye on.

[HawkMan]

Originally Posted by IRML

I thought halo 3 was visually very impressive, if that's all in game anyway, and it's good to see post effects getting better now, rather than the crappy bloom games have had for a while now

compared to other games, and what the xbox360 i capable of, it could be much more. but havign the best graphics wasn't the main goal of H3 either.

[HawkMan]

oooh btw, MS is releaing new Demos on XBLM over E3. There's a special section fo the E3 demos under demos on XBLM.

So far Ace combat 6 and Blue Dragon is out.