Sunday, June 28, 2015

E3 2015 - Microsoft

Continuing from the Bethesda Press Conference, we now head into the world of Microsoft.  As with the Bethesda information, here is a full copy that I have pulled from YouTube including the entire Xbox E3 Press Conference in its entire 90 minutes.
It starts with an introduction video showing most of the upcoming games including Tomb Raider, Gears of War, and Halo 5:  Guardians.

Halo 5:  Guardians - The video starts with the introduction of the Guardians in their search for Master Chief.  343 Studios is keeping up with the technology in graphics and during the play demo, they show off Guardians and more lovely destruction.  The main enemies are back for more from 343 Studios's Halo 4.  They also introduced a new multiplayer called Warzone, which pits the player versus everything else.  New weapons, new enemies, and of course more destruction brings this excellent game into the Halo franchise.

Recore - From Keiji Inafune and the creators of Metroid comes an Xbox exclusive which shows off a female lead character after destruction has occurred on the planet taking out "cores" from the enemies and reusing the core in other mechanical characters.  Phil Spencer introduces this game, along with the other new Xbox exclusive IPs that are coming out for the next couple years.

Phil Spencer also introduced the major information deal breaker in stating that Xbox One has now become backwards compatible with Xbox 360 games, which is something that I'm sure everyone has been wanting for years and years.  And to show it off, they played Mass Effect 1 on Xbox One, with all of the Xbox One new abilities.  This also gives everyone the ability to play on the Xbox One and play with people that are playing on an Xbox 360 around the world.

Fallout 4 was introduced with more of the same information from the Bethesda press conference in case you didn't get the information at the press Conference.

EA came out to introduce EA access which allows members to get early access to upcoming games, as well as access to some of EA's best games from Xbox 360.  Plants v Zombies Garden Warfare 2 was introduced in a world exclusive video.

Forza Motorsport 6 - It was as much a game show-off as well as showing off the new GT race car made by Ford Motor Company.  Introduced by Henry Ford III, they show off a beautifully crafted movie for Forza 6 and the new Ford GT that is showcased in the game.  To be released on September 15, 2015, just before the holiday rush.

From Bandai/Namco comes a world exclusive for Xbox shown in a well-crafted movie showing off Dark Souls III to be released in Early 2016.

Tom Clancy's The Division was shown in a movie, but I will go into that more when I cover the Ubisoft Press Conference later this weekend.

ID@Xbox - The idea behind this is to have Xbox exclusive games created by people for the people with independent game creators.  Games shown included Tacoma, Ashen, Beyond Eyes, Cuphead.

Finally Crystal Dynamics was there to show exclusive gameplay for "Rise of the Tomb Raider", which is exclusive to Xbox One and is to be released for Christmas of this year.  Keeping up with the last Tomb Raider game, the graphics is still beautiful along with the playability and control of previous Tomb Raiders and previous Uncharted Games.  During the gameplay, they showed off Lara and her partner trying to climb up some ice cliffs during a snow storm to find ruins of a lost civilization.  During the climb all hell breaks loose and you have to outrun an avalanche, as well as the mountain itself collapsing from an explosion.




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