Couple Gaming

OK, there are about 2,000+ reviews of what is going on at E3 right now.  If you’re not following someone on twitter, or their live blog, or blah blah blah, then you’re obviously a very busy monkey… Which is why I’m going to recap some of the highlights!

Here’s just a few of the things that have come up so far:

XBOX:

• Rock Band: Beatles will be out 9-9-09.
• “Joyride”: a free game that uses the Avatars
• Lots of new Sequel games :
  • Left 4 Dead 2
  • Crackdown 2
  • Halo: ODST & Halo: Reach Multiplayer Beta
  • Final Fantasy XIII
  • new Tony Hawk
  • Forza Motorsport III
  • Modern Warfare 2
  • Metal Gear Solid Rising
• Zune Video Marketplace
• Netflix: Add movies to your queue w/ Xbox, instead of just watching what has been added.
• Twitter, Facebook, & LastFM will be on Xbox.
• Project Natal: Making your body the controller with full body tracking
  • Use your face to log in, navigate the screen with your hands, actually maneuver a ball with your feet, and paint with any part of your body
• 1vs100 BETA started last night for 50,000 lucky players.  Ymiris & I played it for a good hour, fully addicted.  WAY too much fun, and highly suggested as a couple game!!!

Nintendo

• Multiplayer Super Mario Bros. released Holiday ‘09.  Excited about this as a Couple Game, with the same fun feeling of the original Mario Bros, with a smart camera that will pan out & in as players separate.
• Wii Fit Plus – Fall 2009
• *NOTE* UBISOFT announced “Your Shape” for the Wii, which will include a camera & analyze how well you do the exercises.  Looks a bit more advanced than the Wii Fit title.  We’re more excited about this one.
• A new controller “extender” called Wii Motion Plus that detects angle & precision in motion, released with Wii Sports Resort.
• New Final Fantasy: The Crystal Bearers.. more Shooter than Turn-based.
• New Kingdom Hearts 3.
• Mario & Luigi get microscopic & invade Bowsers body in the cheesy DS “Bowsers Inside Story”.  Looks cute, but I’m ashamed to say it just screams Rental.
• Nintendo Sun DS
• James Pattersons’ Womens Murder Club – DS game that plays like a book.  Unfortunately, this feels like a cheesy pandering to women, pulling together my favorite Room 219 with Nancy Drew.
• C.O.P: The Recruit, a racer much like a good-guy version of GTA.
• Style Savvy, which actually looks like a good Tween/Teen Clothes Shopping/Accessorizing game… one of the things I keep praying Imagine would be, but never is.  I’ll keep my fingers crossed & probably buy this one.
• NOTE: Ubisoft announced yesterday more Imagine games, including a “make crappy bead necklaces that you can buy from us”.  I DESPISE IMAGINE & KNOW THERE IS A PLACE IN HELL FOR THESE DAMNED GAMES.
• Super Mario Galaxy 2
• Finally, some Adult games!  All of look fairly delicious…
  • The Conduit
  • Resident Evil: Dark Side Chronicles
  • Dead Space: Extraction
• Metroid: Other M .  Very wild-cardy, but we’ll see what happens as they release more.  I’ve always wanted more Samus.

SONY:

• Uncharted 2, which looks like a pretty & intense watch-your-mate-play game.
• MAG
• PSP
  • Hannah Montana lilac PSP
  • Patapon 2
  • Rock Band (? — just touched on)
• PSP GO — pretty slide-out controls, tiny, light, Wifi, 16G memory, and SO sexy.  Do Want! 80% reduction in price for applications, more titles are digitally distributed.  You know I’m not a graphics girl.. but I’m seriously amazed by how good the graphics are for such a small, portable gaming system.
• • “Sense Me” analyzes your music library to create playlist moods.
  • Grant Turismo for PSP GO
  • Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
  • Little Big Planet
  • Harry Potter / Hannah Montana
  • Resident Evil (!)
  • Ratchet & Clank
  • Rock Band Unplugged
• Final Fantasy VII will be on PSN