Ok so it's a tad belated - wifi access at the event was clogged up, and there were too many people to use mobile data. Still, here's my blow by blow reactions to the event, all timestamped and pretty.
We'll be talking about the highlights from the event on the next episode of the
The GA Podcast.
9:25 - Looks like no Liveblogging from me, the wifi is all clogged up and we can't get any data through phone networks.
9:26 - Content Warning! The content has not been rated and may contain intense scenes. Way to blow your own horn there MS.
9:28 - Ok let's start.
9:31 - It begins. MW3 up first.
9:32 scuba mission in mw3
controller disconnected.
back to swimming. more swimming
using like a mini sub
9:33 dodging mines and swiming under boats.
9:34 a sub powers overhead
9:35 new york is burning as we surface
still just loks like modern warfare.
inside submarine. it looks like boat levels from every other COD
9:36 we skip forward through the level
9:37 slow mo explosion!
9:38 launching missiles from the sub. Robert Bowling is playing on stage
driving boat. waves look good.
9:39 massive boat explosion
drove the boat onto a chopper, as you do.
not sure what the missiles did. so...
9:40 clapping.
glen schofield from Sledgehammer Games and Robert Bowling from IW
9:41 Don Mattrick from MS.
he's reading off any of three massive screens.
9:42 I'm looking behind the curtain! <
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A better way to enjoy television?
Crystal Dynamic Daniel Neuberger and david Gallagher
9:43 Tomb Raider
She's looking like Luke in the ice cave.
9:44 she burned the rope.
she got boned lol
seriously though she had a bone in her side.
wandering through caves.
9:45 very close camera
guy attacks her from behind and she squeals.
9:46 fire looks pretty good.
highlighting using 'survival instincts'
puzzlessiimilar to previous games
9:47 i hate it when people who know how to solve puzzles just solve em without looking around.
9:48 a running away sequence.
qtes.
9:49 was a very heavy qte experience :/
Peter Moore is on stage now
EA Sports
bring on FIFA
oh god kinect
four ea sports titles
9:50 madden, tiger woods and FIFA
i can't work out how it will work in FIFA
sims 3 pets with kinect voice control.
9:51 Dr Ray Muzicki
Mass Effect 3 yo
kick ass action, choices with consequence
9:52 kinect with ME3 - voice recognition
ummm there's still no voice control in Australia
ok we get to see the game in action
wooo mordon
you say what it says on the conversation wheel.
it looks like it works well
not just for conversation. order party members as well
9:54 it looks awesome
9:56 ubisoft is up now
ghost recon future soldier
haha this is a pretty epic trailer
yves guillemot
9:58 gun smith uses kinect
pulls gun apart using gestures. it's pretty impressive. uses voice as well.
20 million guns
9:59 optimisation for different
1000 random weapon config
plays it using gestures
again pretty impressive
says you can't do it with a controller, but you absolutely can.
10:01 all future tom clancy titles will use Kinect
Marc Whitten from Xbox Live
10:02 voice controls.
new xbox 'experience'
no buttons
wasn't this what kinect was supposed to do in the first place?
10:03 controller, gesture or voice
content stuff that's probably irrelevant to Australia
youtube on xbox live
10:04 bing is on xbox?
search. so what?
10:05 there are too many lego games
what happens if you want to search xbox bing?
10:06 live tv? around the world?
Foxtel in Australia
10:07 xbox experience launches in Autumn
man that dude just sits there and lets his gf decide what they're watching.
is that couch huge or what
10:08 Dana White is on stage
he's such a trumpet blower
10:09 holy crap its doing like achievements and ****
10:10 that looks awesome. i wonder how long it takes to get to australia
phil spencer from MS Studios
UFC and ESPN named
10:11 Gears of War 3
War Pigs is such a mad song
10:12 CliffyB is on stage
He recovered well
Cop Killa is on the stage
10:13 massive sea creature
ice t and cliffy b are playing together
10:14 haven't heard Ice talk in game yet
10:15 power armour?
damn that's nasty they blew its eye out
this is how you make a game that's basically the same but you get it looking different
10:17 hahaha Ice T is reuniting Bodycount
crytek?
10:18 a crytek powered ancient rome game?
a kinect controlled ancient rome game
Ryse
10:19 Halo music
Halo CE remastered
10:20 it lookes the same...
Halo CE Anniversary
November 15
10:21 Dan Greenawalt
Forza 4
god damn that is a sexy god damn car
10:22 Something tells me Kanye's Power is gonna be the song of this E3.
10:23 monthly expansions?
October 11
Peter Molyneux
Fable The Journey
100 times more involved
power and control at your very fingertips
10:24 oh no its the black smoke monster
she has buttons for eyes
10:25 he's controlling the horse.
10:26 he's not even aiming it seems.
it just hits the enemy
10:27 this honestly doesn't look great
that seemed unnecessary
20:12
Phil Spencer
10:28 Minecraft?
minecraft and kinect?
10:29 disneyland adventures kinect
queuing simulator
10:31 ummm
alice and wonderland
lol the little girl is terrible
10:32 kinect star wars
10:33 ok this looks cool. but a little... too much eps 1 2 and 3
10:34 imperial march but why? no sith?
10:35 chopping up robots.
looks a bit awkward
moves by thrusting body forward
10:36 what the heck is your partner doing?
here we go, sith
10:37 dual lightsabers
didn't fight them
Tim Schaffer
Sesame Street Once Upon a Monster
Kinect game
10:38 waggling
10:39 copying the thing on the screen
10:40 this sure is a waggling game
10:41 out in Autumn
Kudo Tsunoda
10:42 Kinect Fun Labs?
a permanent addition to the XBox Dash
10:43 it made her avatar.
good thing they had that shirt!
10:44 kinect Sparkler?
10:45 Kinect Googly Eyes
i give this game 10 seconds before someone scans in a dildo
10:46 how can you scan in a ****** car?
10:47 kinect fun labs live today(all regions?)
10:48 kinect sports Season 2
baseball skiing golf darts tennis football
10:49 a big F U to EA
Nicole Makila
10:50 i don't understand this. if i wanted to play sports like i'm actually playing sports, why wouldn't i just play sports?
10:51 you can't see the hole through your own head?
football. voice and motion controls
10:52 woo the whole world loves NFL RIGHT?! RIGHT!?
10:53 best selling kinect dance game.
all songs can be imported from the first game
simultaneous MP dancing
10:54 i hope they don't do the whole song.
10:55 Don Mattrick again
10:57 new trilogy
new halo game
Halo 4 343 Industries
Holiday 2012
10:58 And that's it - the show is over. Halo 4 was a bit of an obvious closer. I'm excited to see more Future Soldier and pumped to see what exactly EA Sports is going to do with Kinect. Hopefully it's not just pointless waggling.
Of course, a lot of what Microsoft has announced hinges heavily on them actually bringing voice control to Australia - which still hasn't happened.
I know it's not a game, but my highlight from the event was easily the UFC system. That's absolutely the future of TV right there - watching with friends, calling outcomes and earning what looked like achivements just for being there.
