Despite Innumerable Game Leaks and Teasers, E3 2014 Still Surprises The jaws arent dropping at E3. Traditionally, the Electronic Entertainment Expo is the place where video game publishers reveal their biggest and boldest creations. Thats changed in recent years as game release dates have moved beyond the holiday season and leaks about upcoming titles have spread across the Internet. Its true that the Internet and social media are allowing ideas to fly quickly, said Yves Guillemot, CEO of Assassins Creed and Far Cry publisher Ubisoft. This year, we were able to keep Tom Clancys Rainbow Six: Siege a secret, so we were very happy with that. n the months leading up to this years trade show at the Los Angeles Convention Center, an unprecedented amount of both deliberate publicity campaigns announcing new games and seemingly unintentional breeches about upcoming titles meant that much of the typical E3 hype landed with a thud. Can game makers still astonish? I still think its possible to surprise people, said Matt Nava, the former Journey art director who wowed the crowd at Sonys press conference Tuesday with footage of Abzu, his undersea fantasy coming in 2016. Theres still so many places you can take people where they never imagined they could go before. A sampling of some big surprises at this years E3: Cuphead Despite receiving only a few seconds of screen time during Microsofts briefing on Monday, the old-school 1930s animated art style of this run-and-gun game from indie developer Studio MDHR captured attendees imaginations. Its coming to the Xbox One as part of Microsofts ID@Xbox indie initiative. Powers Since the Xbox Ones debut, Microsoft has touted the consoles entertainment prowess and invested heavily in a slate of original programming. However, it was rival Sony who used its E3 press conference to tout a show set for its online service: a live-action adaptation of the graphic novel by Brian Michael Bendis. LittleBigPlanet 3 It was assumed ahead of E3 that sequels to franchises like Tomb Raider, Crackdown and Uncharted would be teased, while the prospect of a new LittleBigPlanet was a long shot. That made the revelation of LBP 3 coming to PlayStation 4 later this year with playable sidekicks a bombshell. Splatoon Nintendo unveiling Skylanders-like figures or a Legend of Zelda installment for the Wii U on Tuesday didnt catch gamers off-guard, but no one guessed that the Mario Bros. maker was working on a zany online multiplayer shooter featuring an original crew of shape-shifting squids battling each other with paint guns. Alien Isolation: Buried in a press release announcing that former THQ president Jason Rubin had joined Oculus VR as the head of worldwide studios Tuesday was the shocker that Alien: Isolation, the upcoming survival game based on the original Alien film, would also be playable with the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. Other jolts this week included the procedurally generated indie game No Mans Sky bringing some gamers to tears at Sonys briefing, Ubisoft announcing plans to resurrect Tom Clancys Rainbow Six and Electronic Arts launching the multiplayer beta test for the cops-and-robbers game Battlefield Hardline.
Posted on: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 18:31:31 +0000
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