Wednesday, July 8, 2015

E3 2015 - Square Enix

The conference starts off with Phil Rogers, the CEO of Square Enix, being introduced to show off "Just Cause 3" and noting that this is the first time that Square Enix has had one of their own press conferences at E3.  However, during the beginning of the press conference there is a notably lack of claps and applause that you can notice at the beginning of most of the other press conferences. 

Here is a copy of the press conference taken from the YouTube channel for IGN:
Roland Lesterlin from Avalon Studios, who is responsible for Just Cause 3, is introduced to show off the changes in this new open-world game.  The game was announced to be released December 1, 2015, just in time for the beginning of the Holiday Rush.  Truthfully in my thoughts, this game is just about seeing how you can destroy the world in however many ways you can.  I'm sure there is a story within the game, but like GTA, the idea looks like it is to cause mischief and mayhem.

An odd thing with this press conference is when Mr. Saito from Business Division VI is introduced, they require a translator, which is understood since Square started off as a Japanese game company, but is the only one that required a translator.  He introduces a video of a new IP from Square called NieR New Project, from the creators of many highly acclained games, like Dragon Warrior and Tekken.

Followed by the introduction of Rise of the Tomb Raider with the original cinematic that was aired showing Lara being captured during one of her investigations into a lost civilization.  After the cinematic, we were given a tour of Crystal Dynamics, meeting some of the people that helped create the new Lara Croft, showing off some of the intricate details that they show in the game to make her more "lifelike".

Square Enix Montreal is introduced showing that they are heading into the mobile world with two new Hitman games, Hitman GO and Hitman Sniper.  Followed by a new Tomb Raider for the mobile system. 

Final Fantasy VII Remake is shown off again being introduced by the producer of the Kingdom Hearts Series. 

Kingdom Hearts III is introduced with some gameplay demo, showing that one again you are playing as Sora, Goofy, and Donald with introductions to the original Keyblade War and new universes to play in. 

Hitman is introduced by iO Interactive, showing new targets that may only be available for a limited time, but each target can be killed in many different ways depending on your skills at that time.  Total completion will mean to achieve every kill possible.




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