The Official E3 2009 Thread
 

Since E3 is merely days away, I think it's time we got the official E3 thread going. Like every year, I'm sure as soon as something breaks, someone will end up posting it up quick-time. The time honored tradition continues, friends!

I'm gonna try and edit this post as much as possible when E3 rolls around so that we have a quick link to everything big when it goes down, as well. That way we won't have to swim through a bunch of posts to find specific things, and we can just point stragglers to the front of the thread for the latest stuff.

WHO'S EXCITED!?

Edit for announcements

Announcements

Sony

First God of War 3 gameplay shown. On-stage demo - Part 1 , Part 2

The Last Guardian (Trico) announced. Trailer

PSP Go! officially announced. A smaller, UMD-less PSP. Conference reveal video

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker announced for PSP. Trailer

New Final Fantasy XIII trailer show. Trailer

Final Fantasy XV announced, another online game. Exclusive to PS3.

Sony shows off a prototype of a camera/wand motion sensor. On-stage demo - Part 1, Part 2

New game from Rockstar called Agent announced. Exclusive to PS3.

MAG, the 256-player FPS announced last year, shows up with a live demo. On-stage demo

Nintendo

New Super Mario Bros Wii announced, a 4-player multiplayer NSMB. Comes out in the Fall. Trailer

New DS Golden Sun announced. Trailer

Super Mario Galaxy 2 announced. Looks identical to the first Galaxy. Has Yoshi in it. G4 says 2010? Trailer

Metroid: Other M announced. 2.5D(?), maybe third-person w/ FPS elements, Metroid on the Wii developed by Nintendo and Team Ninja. 2010 Trailer

Microsoft

Crackdown 2 announced. Trailer

Left 4 Dead 2 announced (PC and 360 exclusive) with a November 17th release date. Trailer

Final Fantasy XIII has a Spring 2010 release date on the 360. On-stage demo

Metal Gear Solid: Rising (Metal Gear game starring Raiden) announced. Teaser

Halo 3: ODST is coming this year, comes with a beta-key for Reach multiplayer. On-stage demo

Halo: Reach announced (no details yet) Teaser

Alan Wake actually exists and should be out in 2009. On-stage demo

Epic Games is making an XBLA title called Shadow Complex, a Metroidvania style game. Trailer

Splinter Cell: Conviction is out in the fall as a 360 exclusive. Gameplay

Project "Natal" is announced. A full-body motion-sensing camera/microphone that lets you play games without any type of controller. On-stage demo and Creepy little kid by Lionhead thing

XBLA Upcoming Titles, which was missing from the conference for some reason. Trailer Includes Spolsion Man, Shadow Complex, Turtles in Time Re-Shelled, MVC2, Battlefield 1943, Joy Ride, and Trails HD.

Other stuff

Monkey Island "Special Edition" remake coming to XBLA, and probably other places, plus new episodic Monkey Island stuff coming in the future. GiantBomb had a video up, but it doesn't seem to be working. Here's the link anyways in case it comes back.

Red Steel 2 will come with Wii-Motion Plus. On-stage demo

Modern Warfare 2 has a November 10th release date, 360 will get 2 (timed) exclusive map packs. On-stage demo

Star Wars: The Old Republic has a trailer that blows away all three prequel movies combined. Here

Crysis 2 will be released on the 360 and PS3, as well as the PC.

Assassin's Creed 2 trailer. Sony conference on-stage demo

I'm pretty excited that it should be closer to what it used to be as opposed to what it has been the last couple years. We have an awesome booth this year! So if you're going, even if you aren't a fan of Disney games, come check out Disney Interactive Studios!! Split Second (brought to you by the developers of PURE) will be on display at the booth! From what I played, it is lining itself up to be a BurnOut killer! I'm really proud of it! Can't wait for you all to see for yourselves!

No one cares. Kingdom Hearts III or GTFO.

That would be up to Square. We just do brand approvals for that title.

Oh. Hahaha. But yeah, from what I've seen, Split Second does seem sweet. I got Pure recently, too, and I like that as well. I was just trying to get something outta ya. :P

Wish I had more I could give ya :-) Unfortunately for you KH fans, I really like my job, so I can only comment on things that have been publicly released (I even double checked on Split Second before I mentioned it :-P).

I'm ready for the awesome! I'd love to see more stuff for Kingdom Hearts, plus other random stuff. I'm also expecting Nintendo's conference to be as boring as last year's.

Do we have access to a premium account to somewhere like before for HQ streams?

Being an MMO player, and DYING for a quality Sci-Fi MMO (I'm tired of killing bats, rats, and goblins) The Old Republic is #1 on my personal list of games I want more on. For those not familiar http://www.swtor.com/

There was a game called Neocron that was released years back, and that had a sci-fi/cyberpunk feel to it. I played it for a bit, and it was pretty interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neocron

If you haven't already, check it out.

Fixed.

I'm seein' a lot of good stuff being revealed pre-E3, what with Tatsunoko vs. Capcom confirmed for North America, plus Gladiator A.D., a new GTA DLC episode, the new Battlefront (although I'm not particularly into Star Wars nor own the handhelds it'll go to), and near-confirmation of another Metal Gear.

I'm not sure if we even need one, but Gamespot has all their stuff again this year, and we've got an account over there, so we'll have to hit them up. The first press conference is Microsoft at 10:30 am on Monday, so I'll probably take the day off to watch it.

Really hoping they announce New SMB2 for DS. I want something to look foward to this year.

I've been completely out of gaming for the last couple of months bacause of work and my move to another city. Nevertheless I'm really excited about this year's E3. It can't be worse than last year's anyway.

I'm betting that half of Nintendo's conference will be Nintendogs (Obama dog crap) and Wii Sports Resort, but there should be some goodies here and there. I heard a rumor that Kuju Entertainment was doing a Star Fox, but who the hell knows. There's also Retro. They've been working on something for going on a couple of years now. Also, Intelligent Systems has been idle for some time. They've got three teams: Team Emblem who just does an endless stream of Fire Emblem games. Then there's Team Battle Clash and another one whose name I can't remember (Paper Mario team). Save for that Wario Ware game on DSi, I can't think of anything either have put out since Super Paper Mario.

Part of me prays they dig up a real sequel to Metroid Fusion, but the cynical and realistic half of me knows that 2D Metroid is probably done. LucasArts is probably doing a compilation of the (fu*king amazing) Rogue Squadron games, but I'm still burned over the cancellation of Battlefront 3.

They really have no excuse. I mean, for God's sake, the game actually dethroned Super Mario Bros. 3.

Exact same thing with me. It's coming to an end now though.

It wasn't canceled, it changed development teams. Count on that.

I wouldn't count on a Kingdom Hearts 3 this generation. Tetsuya Nomura and his team are too busy with Final Fantasy Versus XIII and overseeing Birth by Sleep and 358/2 Days on the handhelds. By the time all these games hit the shelves, the next console cycle will probably be right around the corner.

The Microsoft conference is very soon! PUMPED!

Beatles Rock Band. Not a good start.

More like Modern TERRIBLE.

L4D 2!!!!!

L4d2! Nice.

Checking out facebook-pictures of other people's dogs on my 360. Finally.

Sour that your precious Sony lost yet another of their "exclusive" titles?

That sh*t was dumb, but the conference was pretty good. Nothing from Rare, which was a huge disappointment, and not much on the XBLA front, but that's ok. They showed a lot of neat stuff.

My precious Sony? My PS3 has practically been demoted to Bluray player ever since I bought a 360. I can only hope Sony releases some surprises from Japanese developers at their conference tomorrow to change that.

The conference was decent, but I'm not sold on the eyetoy thing. It looked neat for navigating the menus, but incredibly rough and inaccurate in most of their other live demonstrations. All this motion nonsense better not rob developers away from normal games. Playing through Nuts and Bolts right now made the absence of Rare disappointing too. :(

I am very glad to see the new Metal Gear game isn't for a handheld tho. Rumors had it pinned for a PSP release and while the PSP MG games were great, they're just not the same.

So all the Sony defense you used to come in here with took the boot once you got a 360. Nice to know.

Edit: Microsoft just announced that they're going to doing digital distribution on full 360 games. So far, Mass Effect, Assassin's Creed and BioShock were mentioned, but they said the service will launch with at least 30 titles.

The no download streaming deal is pretty sweet, and the Lionhead tech demo of natal was pretty wicked provided that those reactions from the boy weren't scripted. I just hope the tech works better than the eyetoy.

I'm pretty pleased. L4D was awesome, and pretty unexpected. Its not Dead Rising 2, but its zombies and its great.

Yeah, that was my impression of MS' showing this year, as well. Don't get me wrong... I thought it had it's appeal, but I wasn't blown away by anything. I'll give MS props for being extremely aggressive with its game lineup early on, although I personally could have used a better balance in genres and the kind of games that were displayed. As someone that has been looking into getting an Xbox 360 one day, I can't say I was terribly excited to see that many of the games shown were sequels and/or follow-ups to the same or similar games the system has pushed the most since day one. A Rare title would have probably helped, but they were a no-show this year.


As for Project Naval, while it's sure to get it's fair share of hype, it didn't make me fall out of my seat or anything. Considering how comfortable many third party developers are with the Xbox 360, being almost four years old, I don't know how many of them will be willing to branch away to create games with the add-on in mind. I think that's a huge key as to how successful this thing will become. I'm also glad I wasn't the only one that thought the project still appears to be a little rough around the edges. It's not too difficult to see what MS is trying to do, but I don't know if it's going to be as easy as they might think.

Overall, I actually enjoyed this year's conference more than their showing last year. As far as my personal tastes go, I wasn't so thrilled, but I can't take away the fact that MS' approach was solid. It's just too bad I didn't have speakers to hear anything... :P

L4D2 was very surprising. Not sure how I feel about it yet though.

Oh Wow. The Star Wars:Old Republic trailer just f*cking pwned!!!!

Where is that trailer at?

Right here. It's indeed very well directed.

Wow, that was amazing. If I wasn't already stoked for that game, I would be now.

do want!!!

Yeah, seriously. I got shivers while watching that during the presser. Absolutely fantastic.

holy god could James Cameron talk any more? *hangs self*

Thank God I missed Cameron and tuned in just in time for Red Steel 2. I'm likin' it.

And this awesome Pele soccer game. SO AMAZING!

Looks better than the Atari version, at least. A lot more movement.

EDIT: Oh... so there actually is a trailer.

This is easily the worst conference of the day, thus far. I was really looking forward to seeing what they had, but this is painful. Even EA's 30 minutes of games for little girls didn't suck this bad.

G4's choice of abbreviation for "Standard Rates" (I hope it's not a global abbreviation) is abysmal...

"STD RTS".

New Splinter Cell looks somewhat interesting, but I'll probably never play it.