E3 2009: It’s that time again.
June means a lot of different things to everyone: summer vacation, trips to the water park, sweating your ass off in blistering 94˚F degree weather (this may vary on where you live). To a small mass of people (and everyone that owns a PS3/Wii/Xbox 360/PC/etc.), it means something else: E3.
The Electronic Entertainment Expo is back again this year, and with it comes the various announcements, financial reports, exclusive reveals, and so on. The big difference between this year and last is the overall format: requirements on those able to attend have been loosened up slightly (damn credentials, if I only had any), while companies participating have fewer restrictions placed on their respective areas/booths. What does that translate to? The return of booth babes (booth people, if you want to be politically correct about it), but enough about that: that is not why people attend.
It’s all about the games.
With rumors floating around that Sony will announce a redesign on the Playstation 3, Nintendo hopefully revealing the long-awaited Kid Icarus game for Wii, and Microsoft most likely teasing Alan Wake once again (it’s like a running joke now!), this year looks to be better that the previous two shows. Add to that the next Metal Gear project that Kojima Productions has teased with numerous countdown clocks, Platinum Games bringing Bayonetta (and hopefully more info regarding Red Steel 2), Neversoft dropping more details behind Tony Hawk: Ride….the list just keeps on going.
The games to look out for this year:
Alan Wake
Aliens vs. Predator
APB
Army of Two: The 40th Day
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Bioshock 2
Blur
BlazBlue
Borderlands
Brutal Legend
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
The Conduit
Crimecraft (no relation to Warcraft)
Dante’s Inferno
Dark Void
DC Universe Online
Dead Rising 2
Dead Space: Extraction
Def Jam: Rapstar
DJ Hero
Final Fantasy XIII
Fuel
Ghostbusters
God of War 3
Guitar Hero 5
Halo: ODST
Heavy Rain
King of Fighters XII
LEGO Rock Band
LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues
Lost Planet 2
Madden NFL 10
MAG
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2
Mass Effect 2
Monster Hunter 3
Monster Hunter Freedom Unite
Motorstorm: Arctic Edge
Need for Speed: Shift
Need for Speed: Nitro
Need for Speed: World
No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle
Project TRICO (tentative title)
Quantum Theory
Rage
Red Dead Redemption
Red Steel 2
Rock Band: The Beatles
Scratch: The Ultimate DJ
Singularity
Splinter Cell: Conviction
Split/Second
Tatsunoko vs. Capcom
Tekken 6
Tony Hawk: Ride
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Trauma Team
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Wet
Wolfenstein
Zombie Apocalypse
Now, for the list of possible rumors that might come true:
Sony unveiling a PS3 Slim
Forza 3 finally revealed
Gran Turismo 5 will finally come out
Nintendo unveils Pikmin 3
Sony debuts a new PSP (not a redesign, a completely different PSP)
Kojima Productions will formally announce Metal Gear 5
Valve will show……something (please let them reveal Half-Life 2: Episode 3)
New Kirby game for the Wii
NOTE: This was supposed to be up over the weekend, so my apologies for the tardiness.
