While no one can claim to handle this kind of thing perfectly, I get a warm gushy feeling (a G-RATED one, Beavis) about all the hullabaloo that gaming receives in this day and age.
Speaking of gargantuan press events for gaming alone, we’ve got:
CES
E3 (now in bite-sized variety!)
TGS
"X0#" Events
…and these are just the big ones! Indeed exciting times to be a gamer.
As an aside, I applaud Microsoft’s aggressive push to substantiate the Xbox Live Marketplace with oodles of content direct from the show. I still am giddy with glee over the demos and trailers that we get fed in near real-time that coincide with the events under discussion. But enough of the intro, already…
While there is certainly a multi-front assault on the gaming world establishing Microsoft’s solid position in the gaming market, I am most interested in the announcements regarding the new and existing IPs that are being brought to the 360. These include, but are not limited to:
Crossfire
Splinter Cell: Conviction
Assassin’s Creed (in-game footage FTW, ladies and germs!)
Bioshock (this needs to come out already)
Banjo & Kazooie (um…nah)
Mass Effect (I might never see my roommate again)
Gears of War (He probably won’t see me again)
Kane & Lynch
…and so on.
And the much discussed HD-DVD drive, with full 1080p support (thanks to the autumn dashboard update), at $200? Sounds pretty reasonable if it becomes the media of choice…
I think, beyond all the announcements, what interested me most was the sheer production values of the whole thing. I was not able to attend (only in spirit, thanks to Joystiq’s blow-by-blow), but the Peter Jackson visit is simply audacious! I love the man’s work, but it really just shows that a little money doesn’t go as far as a whole bunch…
Oh yeah, and let’s not forget this year’s most awesome transition:
HD-DVD pricing and release date
HD-DVD drive will include King-Kong HD-DVD
Peter Jackson walks out
Peter Jackson starts talking about Halo Franchise and future plans
(Best…segue…ever)
I guess my thesis statement on this rather meandering post is simply that there is a fervent backing (no doubt financially inspired…) in interactive entertainment, and it’s great to see the mediums finally converging in a much more direct way. I think I will uncontrollably vomit if I see one more "3rd Person Action" title based on a movie. It’s time that gaming as an art form is treated as such. After all, games like Half-Life 2 and Okami (which is garnering RAVE reviews all over the ‘Net) don’t need to be the only successful gaming entries, do they? Not to say every movie-based game (or extention of said IP) needs to be of that calibur…it just needs to reach a little more for the stars than say…I dunno..X-Men 3: The Last Stand…
What movie IP would you like to see translated? To what type of gaming genre? And what development house?
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