EA and Ubisoft Press Conferences

Aside from the pretty awesome Microsoft's Press Conference yesterday, both Electronic Arts and Ubisoft had theirs as well. Nothing much to talk about in those however, most of what they showed, we have already seen in one form or another. In no particular order mind you, the thing was yesterday, how am I supposed to remember the order.

EA showed trailers for the BioWare triple Dragon Age: Origins, Mass Effect 2 and Star Wars: The Old Republic MMORPG. Triple impact! They still look like they will be awesome, not much new footage though. Mass Effect 2 showed a brief glimpse of some familiar faces from the first game that I don't think we saw in any of the earlier trailers.
The Saboteur is coming along nicely, and they showed a little gameplay along with the trailer we have already seen. Could be good I guess, hard to say at this point.
Crysis 2 trailer, maximum strength, maximum availability at PS3, Xbox 360 and PC.
Brutal Legend still looks awesome and will be the well deserved huge success for Tim Schafer. They showed more gameplay and another goof video from Jack Black. Also revealed that Ozzy Osbourne will do some voice work for the game. That's right, the Prince of Darkness himself.
Need for Speed Shift was also shown, but I really couldn't care less about that.
APB (All Points Bulletin), some kind of a new MMORPG thing with cops and robbers.
Oh yeah, and Peter Moore popped on the stage at some point with EA Sports stuff, Fight Night Round 4, some Mixed Martial Arts game, some Madden things, and some basketball things. I forget, clearly I'm not too interested in these things. Fight Night has still pretty impressive sweat. Sweat, yeah! They probably showed something else as well, but I forget what. Maybe it wasn't important.

Then at Ubisoft, well, Ubisoft conference was pretty lame.

The highlight and the end of the event was Assassin's Creed II trailer, and that's that.
Red Steel 2 was played on stage, seems to be working quite nicely with the Motion Plus.
Other things that Ubi had was some soccer game for kids called Academy of Champions, Pele was on stage to present it.
They also showed Splinter Cell: Conviction, but seeing it earlier on Microsoft's event kind of took the punch out of this one.
A Turtles brawl game, makes no sense to me mind you. Why would Turtles fight against April, for example. Just no.
James Cameron came on stage and talked for ages about his movie Avatar (not the anime), which Ubisoft is making the game for, and how they do it in sync and whatnot. Nothing was actually shown, just a lot of talk.
Showed a trailer of R.U.S.E, seems like it might be an interesting game for strategy people.
A new Rabbids game, collectathon by the looks of things. Lots of time wasted on "Tween Games", I can't believe that's what they are calling them. Stuff for girls yay.
And lastly they also showed a fitness game called Your Shape, which works with a camera. Their own camera, mind you, and it's coming for the Wii.

So not very interesting thing from either of the two. Today, in about 50 minutes, Nintendo will have their event, and Sony's event is about 2 hours and 50 minutes away. I expect that Nintendo will pull out some new peripheral and a game that goes with it for the mass market, printing more money as they go. But on the other hand, they can't ignore the normal gamer audience anymore, they absolutely have to show a Zelda game for the Wii. It's that time of the console's life that it needs it. Afterall, Twilight Princess wasn't a Wii game really, it was a Cube game that they also made for the Wii with some additional controls.

So, looking forward for a new Zelda at Nintendo today!

Posted in Gaming by Kilu on June 02nd 2009 at 10:17am