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Ana

E306 - Last day!

The day started off as usual, we decided to go pick up Godfree at the MS bloggers bus. Again, that guy practically lived there all these days, I think he was scared of the crowd, which was very aggressive. So anyone that is planning on going next year get prepared to get pushed around, etc...

We had an appointment that my proclaimed to be CF boss Kleaner set up for us to play the Gears of Wars demo. We had to wait in line for a while for this, unfortunately they didn't allow us to take any pictures, and I got to be spectator for this time. Since, they only allowed two people from each staff to play the game. Even the G4 crew had to follow these rules. Surprisingly, I find out from Godfree that our MVP Lead Tony had arranged for the MVPs to play the Gears of War demo. First most, the controls are a bit funky to adjust but once you adjust to them you will love it. I had a blast doing melee attacks with the chainsaw, may I say it was bloody. Sadly that Godfree was in my team or else it would've been a lot better. The multiplayer gameplay was really fun, somehow you can't away with the whole run and gun. The graphics looked amazing; well they are using that Unreal 3 engine, so no doubt that graphics will play a big factor. I would've like to have gotten a feel of the single player just compared the differences between the multiplayer. I guess I will have to wait and see just like all of us. Sadly to say my team lost, I blame it on Godfree...

After that depressing loss we decided to go check out a few other games that where demonstrated. I first went to checkout Mass Effect. By the looks of the game the graphics look pretty solid. I am not much into sci-fi games, but from what I noticed it looked like it had a lot of possibilities. Even though, the game is still being developed. They did share with us to expect to see some downloadable content such as customization of your character. Unfortunately they didn't give us details about kind of achievements we will need to achieve. As far as multiplayer we didn't get a definite answer to this. So we shall see... Then we headed to the Crackdown room, the graphics looked cartoony, but no doubt that would be a fun and easy game. It reminded me of a futuristic version of GTA. They shared with us that the achievements will definitely be worth your time. So anyone seeking to get some easy points, this might be the game to go for. We decided to go checkout Too Human, one of the neat things that caught my attention was. You flip foes in the air with your sword. Some of the goodies to expect to see are aerial combat, four player co-op play over xbox live and other surprises. They did share with us that they will make good use of the marketplace, so we shall see...

Last game we went to checkout was Luminus Live, we got to meet Tetsuya Mizuguchi he was a very noble person. He shared with us some of the new things to expect on Lumines Live. It will feature music videos in the background of the playing field. At the MS Press Briefing Madonna's was featured in the background as blocks where shifted and dropped into place. Expect to see downloadable content and more...I will be sure playing this game on my 360. Anyone that wants a challenge it's on!

 

Later that day it was party time, the Xbox Live party. It was being hosted at the stylish Social Hollywood with entertainment provided by DJ Z-Trip. I didn;t dare to try the food there. Some of the familiar faces that I saw where some of the MVPs, Dirty Diva, Godfree PsychoSkitten and E. The Xbox community staff was also there (of course) Trixie, John Porcaro, Tony Hynes, Cezar Menendez, some of the Frag Dolls: Rhoulette, Katscratch, Seppuku, Calyber and Psyche, as well as other gamers Gypse, Stratford, Lady and some of the crew of Teamxbox and others from the online world. They had a full bar with basically anything you wanted to drink. Speaking of that, godfree and I where so out of it. He had too much Bacardi and Cola and I had too many apple martinis. I tried to play some games there but sadly people where hogging the controllers everywhere. We did managed to snatch some audios of the party so check them out at the GTR site. Overall my experience at E306 was a bit of a surprise the way things turned out. A good portion of the time I was stressed out over the amount of people that where there, the elbowing, pushing around and awkward moments, I just wasn't too thrill to go thru. I had some surprises from people that I never knew they where that way, but hey I am nobody to judge on people peculiar behaviors. But in general it was a pleasure meeting new people and some of the people that I know from xbox live. If you plan to go there I say save up some $$$ first, because you will need enough cash for food, transportation, etc... Next year plans, I will try to make more changes in regards to planning. I was unable to enjoy everything from E3. Hopefully some things will improve for next year and please no more awkward moments for those of you that know what I mean. Laterz! Lastly, I have sorted out a list of the best of E306:
  • Xbox: Splinter Cell Double Agent
  • Xbox 360 Game: Gears of War
  • PS2: God of War 2
  • PS3: Assasin's Creed
  • Wii: Wii Sports
  • PC: Crysis
  • PSP: Tekken: Dark Resurrection
  • DS: Yoshi's Island 2
  • Mobile: Lumines
  • Action: Gears of War [Xbox 360]
  • Adventure: Too Human [Xbox 360]
  • Shooting: Gears of War [Xbox 360]
  • Racing: MotoGP07 [Xbox 360]
  • RPG: Mass Effect [Xbox 360]
  • Simulation: Sid Meier's Railroad [PC]
  • Strategy: Mediaval II: Total War [PC]
  • Sports: Madden Football '07 [Xbox 360]
  • Fighting: Tekken: Dark Resurrection [PSP]
  • Console Booth: Xbox 360
  • Community sites booth: 1up
  • Community Involvement: Xbox Live

You can check out more photos at the following...

Photography credits to John Porcaro, Godfree and Vision!

Posted: Wed, May 17 2006 20:34 by Ana
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