Games at e3 2012

Battlefield 3: Armored Kill. E3 The Big Games List. The Electronic Entertainment Expo E3 is quickly approaching. Press conferences begin on Monday, June 4th followed by the show on June 5th through June 7th. While we expect a ton of surprises to be revealed during the show, there are also plenty of games we know about ahead of time.

YES NO. Was this article informative? In This Article. Like, Diablo III long. Could you imagine the blow it would have delivered if Sony had unveiled this instead of Wonderbook at their press conference? E3 winner. Still, hopefully we get to see something soon from the game. The courtroom. IGN's E3 hub featured the live stream, all articles, videos, games, photos, and more.

So make it your homepage and get ready. Lacking any real new hardware announcements, and at the very end of a long hardware generation, E3 was generally received as a show that presented "more of the same. According to conventional wisdom, Ubisoft "won" E3 by showing off a wholly unexpected game: Watch Dogs. The game features a visually stunning open world game, with the clever hook of exploiting the vast network of technology that permeates our lives.

Epic was at the show with a big piece of next-generation technology, Unreal Engine 4, which will be used to power many games of the future. Likewise, Square Enix's next generation Agni's Philosophy demo attracted much attention. Running on the next-generation Luminous Studio engine, this is the same cutting-edge game technology that will be found in PlayStation 4 and the next-generation Xbox. On the console hardware front, Nintendo again showed Wii U, but was generally panned for not announcing launch details or showing off a varied lineup.

Susan Arendt: Your goal in the game is basic survival — find food, defend yourself against predators, and avoid toxins as you strive to live just one more year. I saw the pomeranian in action as he snuck up on bunnies before pouncing and ripping their throats out. Your hunger is constant in Tokyo Jungle , and if it drops too low, it will start impacting your health.

Joe Danger: The Movie has players suit up as Joe Danger, legendary Hollywood stuntman in a interesting mix of racing and platforming through various action movie scenes. The game is expected to hit XBLA sometime this fall. Sarah LeBoeuf : Joe Danger: The Movie includes a level editor called the Toybox that aims to be robust but intuitive, fun and easy to use.

There are tons of options — you can create a snow level and make an avalanche, make Joe a paperboy, put a monkey on a unicycle — but the developers wanted to create a level editor that was as enjoyable as the game itself.

Players will be able to upload and share their created levels, and they can make single-player or multiplayer tracks. The newest entry into the Rock Band series drops the plastic instruments and instead lets players match notes using their controllers. The game will only have 25 songs at launch, but players will be able to access any of their previously purchased Rock Band DLC.

Sarah LeBoeuf : Blitz has players taking control of all the instrumental tracks that make up a song, switching from track to track to hit the notes. Simple-but not easy. To mix things up even further, the game provides power-ups to help you get a higher score. Rockets clear notes, bombs blast them away, and a giant pinball increases your score when you can keep it from falling off the screen.

Players can choose between two factions, each with two separate classes, and pick from a variety of units to battle against other players in matches ranging from small 2 vs. The game is expected to arrive later this summer for the PC. The companies reminded me a bit of building a Magic: The Gathering deck; you have a certain number slots, and must balance what will be available to you for both offensive and defensive considerations.

Unlike a card game, however, players are able to build three separate companies that can be swapped out in battle. Instead of being helpless to fight back, hopefully you have an air or anti-air company ready to deploy. Picking up shortly after where Episode 1 left off, the survivors, lead by history teacher Lee Everett, are becoming more desperate as supplies dwindle and the undead Walkers grow in number.

Making tough decisions plays a big factor in who survives and who ends up zombie chow. The Walking Dead: Episode 2 is due to arrive soon. Sara LeBoeuf : The demo began three months after the events of the first episode.

The gang is still holed up at the motel, but things have gotten even more dire. Instead of food, Lee stumbles upon a teacher and two of his high school students. Dust players can then take that money and buy new gear, like weapons, buffs, and armors. So far, sounds pretty normal, right? The same goes for vehicles, purchased ahead of time from the extensive marketplace.

Performing these in the air, or while moving in a certain direction can sometimes cause variations, but the idea is almost always the same. As players wail on one another, meters beneath their names begin to fill. Each has three levels to build toward, requiring one bar per. As you can probably imagine, they vary in both range and effectiveness as the levels grow, moving from something akin to a simple body-length punch, to summoning a gigantic chicken ten times your size that insta-kills anything that comes in contact with it.

Tied together with a TV show launching on SyFY, Defiance depicts how in the near future, Earth has become a battleground between humans and a hostile alien race. It only took a few seconds to figure out what I was supposed to do. I saw a marker on my map in the distance, hopped on an ATV, and made my way over to a massive fight between humans and Hellbugs, the nightmarish creatures that are the result of decades of war between Earthlings and aliens.

I jumped into the action, helping my fellow humans take out the bugs and picking up some loot along the way. World of Warplanes will allow players to take to the skies in any of 60 flyable aircraft, ranging from pre-WWII biplanes through the jet age of the s and engage in fierce aerial dogfights with other players. Wherever realism gets in the way of fun, fun wins out in the end.

Steve Butts: Players can switch freely between Brian or Stewie, or even play both in local-only co-op. As an added bonus, the diapers can be ignited once they explode to literally add injury to insult. James Bond is back with Legends , a brand new GoldenEye -styled first person shooter featuring six missions inspired by some of the earlier, classic James Bond films.

Gameplay-wise, things seemed just as similar. Bond aims, shoots, and reloads. Sometimes he completes objectives. Bond can also earn XP by completing special optional objectives, then spend it on simple upgrades, such as gadgetry effectiveness, weapon proficiency, or physical improvements. Two things helped make up for my terrible driving. Rev up your engines! Need for Speed: Most Wanted offers up an intense racing experience as players pick their favorite hot rod or sports car and compete to see who can rack up the best time.

Just watch out for the police and pedestrians. Mike Kayatta : Jump in a car, and start driving. Explore, race, speed, or piss off the cops; do whatever you want in the city sandbox, and the gameplay elements come to you. You can meet up with some friends by the pier to begin a makeshift street race, or simply speed through the major intersections, letting traffic light snapshots catch your maximum speed and instantly spit out a comparison to your friends.

The whole of the game seems to work like this, non-invasive, no-pressure elements that never beg you to explore them, yet remain ready to provide you an experience if you choose to. Step right up! Up to five people can play at once, with one using the GamePad, and that player is the ghost.

Instead, the Wii Remote vibrates when the ghost is near, and players have to use their flashlights to defeat the ghost. If the ghost takes out all other players, it wins; if the players shine their lights on the ghost long enough, they win. A new first person shooter from Ubisoft, ZombiU is an upcoming first-person shooter exclusively for the Wii U.

Players assume the role of various survivors trying to survive the zombie apocalypse, where even one bite from a zombie spells game over. The undead player uses the GamePad to control a team of zombies, using the touch screen to place them throughout the area to stop the player from capturing each section. Zombies are also required to capture flags, and the GamePad player has to balance between capturing, defending the capturing zombie, and attacking the player.

Real-time strategy games have been the domain of fantasy and science fiction of late, but the squad-based fun of maneuvering troops around a World War II battlefield is set to return in Company of Heroes 2.

Company of Heroes 2 will be released in on the PC. It adds new mobility options to help solidify infantry as the queen on the chessboard of battle. Being able to vault over cover, rather than having to run around every low wall, shrub, or fence they find, makes infantry the most versatile and mobile unit on the battlefield now, which should help make rushes and retreats more manageable.

The new Essence 3 engine uses true line-of-sight, making forest ambushes and house to house fighting remarkably unpredictable affairs. The biggest compromise here seems to be that line of sight is universal.

In other words, anything that one unit sees, they all see. Fortunately, your blind spots are covered with a simple overlay, which allows you to see at a glance where trouble may be waiting. Deadlight is a new, unique 2d puzzle platformer that takes players back to , months after a deadly plague has decimated the country side. As Randall Wayne, a park ranger trying to find his family amidst, players must navigate a ruined landscape full of the ravenous undead, using the environment to their advantage.

The game is due out for the Xbox later this summer. In one section, I dropped a bunch of heavy boxes through some rotten floorboards, leaving a gaping pit for the lemming-like zombies to follow each other into. In another section, I taunted some zombies into shambling towards me — and right into the electrified puddle that stood between us. You must be logged in to post a comment. I'd much rather these…. Stevie-Marie Tyas: I'm guessing Yahtzee likes girls in bikinis on roller skates in outer space.

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