The first line E3 only online has been officially completed on Tuesday, but the complementary (or competitive summer game festival) has just begun. While everything went with few hitchings, there were not many huge ads and the biggest revealed of E3 was not even an official event E3.
Even before the switch on an online format this year, huge publishers like EA, Activision and Sony were gone. Activision, for example, usually holds its own events at other points of the year and gets its largest games presented at Microsoft or Sony. EA, meanwhile, has traditionally detained his own event in parallel on the other side of the city, but this year has a scheduled show for July as part of the day of the game.
Anyway, a group of games has been announced and the end of E3 gives us a good opportunity to take stock of what the main actors have done well, and badly, so far.
Summer Game Fest kick off
Geoff Keighley’s summer gaming festival was not quite the first NOT-E3 event – it would be the battlefield 2042, but it was packed with new games, and even the announcement of a new publisher . (Or, a publisher’s publisher who belongs to a larger publisher. Video games!) Although there is a lot to see, there were only two really major game announcements: Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands and Elden Ring.
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands is a Spin-Off of the Bordlandlands Series of the Gearbox Software, with the Human Tina appearing first at Borderlands 2. It’s, as you imagine, a booty shooter with an infused style Cartoon, but this time in a world fantasy rather than a sci-fi friche.
Elden ring, if you were not on the Internet since last week, is the last game of Hidetaka Miyazaki and Dowsoftware, the team behind the souls of Demon, Souland Souls, Bloodborne and Sekiro: the shadows die twice. It is associated with an ice and fire song George R. R. Martin on history and, two years of his initial announcement of E3 2019, we were finally able to see what they have prepared. There was even a date of publication of January 21, 2022. It was a boost for the summer gaming party, which only started last year in response to E3 2020 being canceled.
The first E3 major event came on Saturday 12, with Ubisoft ahead. Far Cry 6 is the release of Tentpole of Ubi this year and we have consulted a lot the nasty of Giancarlo Esposito at the show. There was also a segment featuring the classic wicked Far Play who had everyone excited, although somewhat predictable, it turned out to be a new mode of play that was locked behind the pass of the Season of Far Cry 6.
Another 2021 title is Tom Clancy’s rainbow at six extraction, which was previously known as quarantine. And for some reason, this slogan did not feel felt as a slam-dunk. The opinion of our staff is divided so far, mainly because it is a cooperative shooter where you fight the extraterrestrials, which does not feel very much Tom Clancy. This does not mean that it can not be a good game, however, and if you crush, you could almost play headquarters – simply on a very strange violation and defense team.
The other “Big” 2021 Liberation is the Republic Republic, an extremely extremely multiplayer sport game. It’s really a bit unknown and often when a match tries to do that a lot, it fails in a way of at least one way, but to run against 63 other players with winguits, mountain bikes, snowboards and Everything looks like fun.
Elsewhere, we had a new Mario + Rabbids game, Spark of Hope, which is naturally exclusive exclusive and seeks to bring a lot of Mario Galaxy themes to the fold. In addition, Rocksmith +, an AS-A-Service game for learning / guitar practice or bass, had a lot of very excited Engadget publishers.
The “one last thing” of the UBI conference was not beyond good and harm 2, which was remarkable again in its absence. Instead, Ubisoft showed his last AAA title, based on the HOT 2009 Multimedia Extravaganza which was Avatar. It is developed by Massive (Division 2) for release year release on the current Gen, Streaming and PC consoles.
Given the Pandora border trailer was only a prolonged series of cinematics (although in the engine), your hypothesis is as good as ours for what this game is and that it is good. Despite the 2009 Jab, Avatar 2 is planned for cinematographic liberation in December 2022, so if you think that will not be postponed again, maybe the moment chosen on it will be fair.
The notable absences included the remake of Prince of Persia: the sand sands, which were delayed until 2022; A new assassin belief, which on the usual pace of society should arrive next year too; Roller champions, which is always planned for “2021”; Skull and Os, who, who even know it more? And the game of Wars Startled Star of Massive, which is probably
Microsoft has had a strong week. Outside the games themselves, he kicked Thursday, June 10 with the announcement that there will be Xbox Cloud game playback devices and smart TVs. Then on Thursday 17, he announced that the Xbox Design laboratory, Gamepad’s personalization service a lot, returned.
The big game show of the company – now called “Xbox and Bethesda Showcase” as a result of the acquisition of the latter – has been scheduled for Sunday 13. Things started on a strange note, as the game of OPENING – STARFIELD – was ruined on time that led to the presentation by a person at the Washington Post, who presented the trailer live, presumably by accident. With no gameplay on show in the new trailer, the biggest conversation point was the decision to make Starfield an Xbox, PC and exclusive streaming broadcast. It was not the biggest surprise, but it is disappointing PlayStation owners.
Maybe the game of the event for Xbox fans was Forza Horizon 5, which really presented beautiful graphics. We also saw a multiplayer movie in the Infinite Halo, as well as liberation dates for the psychonauts 2 and the version of the flight simulator console. Then, more new games, with the announcement of the Avalanche smuggling, external worlds of the obsidian and Redfall of Arkane Austin. Elsewhere, he was replaced magnificent, while Senua’s sacrifice: Hellblade II Sizzle coil at the second showcase was also very cool.
There is a long list of games we have not seen: confessed, Crossfire X, Teakhead: The delicious last course, Everwild, Fable 4, Forza Motorsport and perfect dark come immediately in mind. On the one hand, it’s a long list of disappointments. On the other, it demonstrates the amount of Microsoft on the rest of its purchase trip.
The Elder Scrolls VI is also in development, although it remains to be seen if it will eventually become an exclusive Microsoft. The head of the Xbox Phil Spencer said this series with a “inheritance on different platforms” may not be released exclusively and that the company would consider things on a “case-per case” basis. While the scrolls of seniors have a long history on Xbox – Morrowind was the first port of the Seniors’ scroll consoles, and it came to the original Xbox – Oblivion and especially Skyrim sold millions of copies on the consoles. Sony. We will see how true Microsoft is for its word now that it has the temptation to note great exclusive points on its console rival.
Apart from the exclusive, 2020 Game-Dependé Hades comes to the Xbox (and PlayStation) in August, a plague tale: Innocence will get a Next-Gen patch next month and his suite, a plague tale: Requiem, Arrival in 2022. If we had to put money on a future acquisition for Microsoft, Asobo Studio, which makes the tales series of the plague, but especially developed the Microsoft flight simulator of last year, would be a good bet .
It all said it was always a strong E3 for Microsoft – the company has so many studios that there is no surprise that it has a lot to show. As you wait, all first part games at the show, and even many thirds thirds, go directly to the play pass. With the thrust to get an Xbox cloud game on even more devices, and the fact that the The vast majority of game gaming titles are also on PC game pass, the Microsoft subscription service will have a wider audience than ever before.