I managed to catch Ubi's presentation live, and also was able to see EA's presentation. There was this retro version of some games, a sort of special being 25 years in the gaming scene. What would games have looked like if they had been released 20 years ago. It was a nice touch.
The game's announced/talked about were:
Driver: San Francisco
FarCry 3: The villain was awesome! As was the lush jungle graphics!
Brothers in Arms Furious Four: Say hello to Inglorious Bastards meets Brothers in Arms
Tintin: A small bit of gameplay, nothing more, except the fact that the game world will change based on the choices you make.
Ghost Recon Future soldier: Synchronized kills, drones deployment and the likes of Tom Clancy's kinck-knacks.
Ghost Recon Online: Free multiplayer for all.
Rayman: A kinetified version of the Rayman. The fill-up the shapes was quite fun to look at, though!
Just Dance 3
RockSmith: Gives you the ability to plug in a real guitar and start playing/learning.
Your Shape: Fitness Evolved 2012
Now, the only game that interested me was Assassin's Creed Revelations.
They showed the trailer, where Ezio was cornered by around a 100 guards, with one of his Hidden blade being broken just like his father's was in the film, and then led up to the platform from where Altair had first performed the leap of faith. And just before jumping, a noose was put around his neck. Following this trailer, there was a live demo, depicting a memory sequence in Constantinople. In the demo, the player is given some grenades and asked to escape the Janissaries' blockade. From the demo, the graphics seems to have been further improved, featuring a much more believable city, with an earthy feel to it. The people don't just move about, or murmur, they also greet each other. In the combat front, all the things seems to be unchanged with a new Grenade addition, whose destination you can select. Nothing was told about the multiplayer.
EA's showcased 9 games, both from studios that EA owned as well as independent studios.
EA kicked off the presentation with a trailer of earth under attack by reapers of Mass Effect 3. Following this, there was a live Demo from a mission concerning a Reaper base, which turned out to be a Reaper itself. Many faces returned, like Legion, Garrus, Wrex and surprise surprise, Liara!! There was air-strikes, new enemies, that seemed like indoctrinated people, as well as a new feature, the close combats. In ME 3 not only does your Tech-tool cracks, hacks and heals, but it can also transform into a dagger with which you can kill any enemy that is foolish enough to come near you! Bioware sure does know how to craft a hit! The game looks to be focusing on scales too this time around, which is appropriate, since after all it's all-out war. There still wasn't any mention of the new weapon system or the crafting for that matter. It's going to hit the shelves on 6th March 2012.
Following this was NFS The Run. The most talked about feature here was the Auto-Log which now encompasses the career. Also this time around, there are off-car sequences, where the driver has to out run and even fight off cops, though the interactions seems limited to quick time events only. The game looks quite promising. I might give it a try if there's a demo out. And yeah, this game's powered by Frostbite 2 engine, with some really good visuals.
Then there was Bioware again, with SW TOR. But disappointingly, there wasn't any gameplay demo, just a trailer that was released earlier, highlighting the different classes. I was looking forward to seeing something here.
38 Studios then took stage for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, an open-ended RPG with Elder Scroll elements, having the lead Director of Oblivion and Morrowind. The game looked quite nice with some good fluid combat. Very interesting.
Insomniac's newest game OverStrike was announced too. It's a TPS squad based shooter, consisting of 4 agents, assassins, spies, thieves, and scientists. I would recommend seeing the trailer of this game, just for the laughs. It's targeted towards Xbox 360, but I do hope a PC version comes along.
The Sims Social was announced to be a free facebook game, that'll allow the player to integrate Simming and social networking. The graphics are similar to those of Sims 1, that is an isometric view, and it seems you can do everything that you could do in the Sims, atleast in the vanilla sims. No official date was mentioned, only a coming soon.
2 sports game was announced SSX and FIFA 2012. FIFA's focus will be on community this time, with the ability to play matches based on the real world football scenes. So, if your favourite club lost a match, you could re-write virtual history by winning for that club. Not only that, but you also could put your favourite club on top of the virtual leader board, if enough community members win with that club. Apart from these, there's a new player collision system, that simulates realistic injuries and collisions. Plus, there's more realistic dribbling and blocking.
Finally there was Battlefield 3. Also powered by FrostBite 2 engine, this is one good looking game. The demo included a short footage of multiplayer set in Paris, and a long tank battle scene from the single player. Both looked great.
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