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16 jul. 2008

E3 2008: Day 2

I only realize now: Animal Crossing is the inspiration for GTA IV’s most annoying feature, isn’t it? “But if you don’t show your face back home for too long, your neighbors will miss you.

I can’t believe the “Wii Motion Plus” (ugh) unapologetically does just what the wiimote was originally supposed to be designed for, and it ends up being an accessory that you have to buy and plug into your wiimote — and it doesn’t seem like Nintendo intends to build this new technology into future wiimotes, either. What the hell? Not to mention that I don’t think the Wii actually needed more precise motion control; unless you’re using the wiimote to control a real-life robotic arm that handles plutonium bars, precision isn’t really that compatible with efficient gameplay, does it? Don’t Wii Sports or Wii Music work precisely because you can make very approximative gestures?

On the other hand, it’s nice that Nintendo finally realizes that there’s a value to voice chat in games. Especially when you’re not on Xbox Live, but safely within the confines of your redundant friend codes. Wonder how good the quality can be with an omni-directional mic sitting on top of the TV, though.

 

The Infamous visuals look a lot like GTA IV, don’t they? It’s a much better camera view (and the graphics are infinitely nicer) than Prototype, but I can’t quite imagine from the videos what it would be like to play, and that’s not usually a very good sign.

Resistance 2 still doesn’t hook me. In the same way as Bioshock didn’t appeal to me until I played the demo, now that I think about it.

I Am Alive has a cool introduction trailer, although the main character’s face is a little weird. I hope there are no monsters in the game; it would be a nice break. (But I can’t help but expect radioactive mutants somewhere down the line.)

The Ghostbusters trailer has to be the worst I’ve seen in a long while (well, actually, the Haze male model in futuristic armor wasn’t so long ago): mixing gameplay footage with real-life movie clips is a big no-no, as it focuses attention on the fact that video games still don’t look real; and it’s only made worse by the fact that the original Ghostbusters footage from 1984 actually looks like shit. Comedies weren’t entitled to professional directors of photography at the time.

I have no idea what fl0wer is about (or maybe you control a gust of wind?), but it’s got to take a lot of CPU to animate all those blades of grass.

I’m not linking to the God of War 3 trailer because it’s all CG and really doesn’t say anything at all (oh my god, there’s Kratos! and he’s angry!); and I’m so not buying Spore for iPhone.

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