Obscurities- E3 Day 3
E3 Day 3- 3rd Strike
No real big announcements today except for Dead Rising being ported to the Wii and Nintendo is working on Pikmin 3. That being said I think the real winner of E3 so far has been the 3rd parties. Especially EA and Capcom displayed interesting games. I now look forward to and plan to Pre-order/Purchase quite a few games I never even thought about before.
The unique games that really excited me were the creative Little Big Planet and the PSN game Fat Princess, which with its quirky charm and strategic class system really seems like a gem. Third person action/adventure and survival horror seems to be a new standard, games like Dead Space, Dark Void, Infamous, RE5, and SH: Homecoming all looked excellent in their own way. Dead Space and Dark Void especially surprised me, Dead Space for being a unique looking survival horror title and Dark Void for looking to accomplish action with jetpack fighting.
The other game I’m looking forward to is Dragon Age, the gameplay looks excellent. Bioware going back to their roots with a Baldur’s Gate style RPG except within their own universe gives an interesting number of awesome possibilities. Mass Effect was an interesting successor to KotOR, though it seems like Bioware might be secretly making a new KotOR anyway.
