You can tell a lot about a company’s presentation by what they choose as their intro video. I don’t know what this one says… Behold, South Park: The Fractured, But Whole
SOUTH PARK: FRACTURED, BUT WHOLE
Hey, look! It’s Aisha Tyler! She brings out Matt Stone and Trey Parker to talk about their new game.
Next up, we get to take a look at a new IP, For Honor. It looks like an epic melee battlefield combat game. They show off 4v4 multiplayer on stage and it seems pretty intense. Players are able to choose between viking, knight and samurai warriors.
FOR HONOR
The Crew: Wild Run Expansion is unveiled today. I’m not familiar with the original, but it looks like it could be fun.
THE CREW: WILD RUN
The Trials Fusion: Awesome Level Max Expansion Pack is crazy! It is a game where you are normally on a dirt bike, so if you are suddenly a gun-toting cat on a fire-breathing unicorn, things have clearly taken a turn.
TRIALS FUSION: AWESOME LEVEL MAX
Tom Clancy’s The Division (co-op online open world action rpg) has a March 16th, 2016 release date!
TOM CLANCY’S THE DIVISION – DARK ZONE
Aisha shows off a new city building game that also takes you to the moon to build a colony.
ANNO 2205
Just Dance 2016 will now let you use your smart phone to control the game, no longer requiring a console camera. Sorry, there is no video, they went with live entertainment instead. They also announced Just Dance Unlimited, a subscription stream service that works through Just Dance 2016 on Xbox One, PS4 and Wii-U.
Sweeeeeeeet! Angela Bassett plays Six, the deputy director of the counter-terrorism unit. The Terrorist Hunt mode is back and looks great. The beta is coming September 24th of this year.
RAINBOW SIX: SIEGE – TERROR HUNT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvApSM10x-4
Trackmania Turbo has a ton of tracks onboard and also a random track generator, if that is not enough.
TRACKMANIA TURBO
ASSASSIN’S CREED: SYNDICATE
Yves Guillemot takes the stage for the finale of the show, Ghost Recon: Wildlands!
GHOST RECON: WILDLANDS
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EA starts it off with a bang, by leading in with a trailer for Mass Effect: Andromeda. It looks really good!
MASS EFFECT: ANDROMEDA
The new Need for Speed has gone open world and includes a very deep customization system. Their game types are shown as Speed, Style, Build, Crew and Outlaw. These games have historically been more arcade racer than simulation, so it serves as an alternative to the Forza Motorsport series.
NEED FOR SPEED
NEED FOR SPEED GAMEPLAY
Star Wars: The Old Republic is an MMORPG set in the Star Wars universe. It is a solid title, but for some reason didn’t hit the mark for me. I may check out this newly announced expansion, as they are saying that they are bringing back the storytelling style of Knights of the Old Republic games. Take a peek and let us know what you think.
STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC – KNIGHTS OF THE FALLEN EMPIRE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCmvm_hiRzY
Two new IPs announced: Unravel, an interesting platformer and Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare 2. We already put up a video for GW2 in the MS Briefing, but this one is the gameplay trailer.
UNRAVEL
PLANTS VS ZOMBIES: GARDEN WARFARE 2 GAMEPLAY
It’s sports time! I’m a little out of my depth on the sports games, but here it goes.. First up is hockey and NHL 16 and EASHL. Next, we take a look at Rory Macklemore PGA Tour. EA Sports Ultimate Team has received multiple upgrades. NBA Live 16 focuses on self-expression and works with the GameFace app to put your face into the game.
NHL 16
RORY MCILROY PGA TOUR
NBA LIVE 16
EA Mobile had over 715 downloads last year. That’s really impressive. Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes is a collectible card game coming to EA Mobile. Minions Paradise is a new builder game.
Pele is on hand to help present FIFA 16. It’s great to see the guy. He was such a huge part of my early love of soccer.
FIFA 16
Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst is an origin story for our hero. I never played the others, but I loved the idea of them and thought that they looked great.
MIRROR’S EDGE: CATALYST
Draft Champions allows you to draft your own team from current and past teams and take them online to challenge other players.
MADDEN 16 DRAFT CHAMPIONS MODE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHiEz87MEEo
Peter Moore is out on stage to begin the Star Wars: Battlefront presentation. The footage shown is in-game, captured on a Playstation 4. It looks fantastic, to be sure. This one will do very well.
STAR WARS: BATTLEFRONT GAMEPLAY
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Backwards compatibility was a huge announcement this year for Microsoft. People cheered like crazy when it was announced. Add to that the ability to download the games and the fact that you don’t have to re-buy games and it sounds like a hit.
Odd though that backwards compatibility was a big no at the start. I’m curious about what changed.
I still have 360 games that I haven’t played but it has been 3 years now and I’m not sure I will go back and play them. Partly because I’m not sure the graphics will have held up but mostly because I don’t have time. I’m so behind on Xbox One games already I’m not sure I will be able to find time to play older games either.
What do you all think? Am I the only one this backed up that I probably won’t play older games?
The stakes are high this year, being so far behind Sony, and Microsoft did not disappoint. They began the show with a video compilation of previously announced exclusive titles.
They didn’t waste any time getting into the Halo 5: Guardians segment. There wasn’t too much new to hear, but they did spend a little more time talking about the multi-player. 24 player with AI bots was a good step.
HALO 5: GUARDIANS
Next up was a new game by Keiji Inafune, which is a good way to start a trailer, by the way. It is called ReCore and looks like a futuristic action adventure title. Your companion in this adventure is an AI core that you can move from robotic frame to robotic frame. It’s an interesting concept that has a lot of promise.
ReCore
Phil Spencer popped out for a bit to throw down some backwards compatibility news. They will have around 100 360 titles up and running by this holiday, with more to follow. Xbox Preview members will have some games starting today.
And then, the unveiling of the new controller. No, not the one from last week. This one is highly customizible. It features swappable D-pads and thumbsticks, duplicated buttons on the bottom side of the controller in the form of paddles, trigger locks for shooters, and more. This is worth a look!
Todd Howard comes out to give the crowd another Fallout 4 feature. Mods created on Windows 10 will be playable and free on Xbox 1. Drops mic. Not really, but he could have.
Not to be upstaged, Peter Moore walks out and announces that Dragon Age: Inquisition is coming to EA Access’s Vault and that the Vault will be accessible for free by Xbox Live Gold members all this week. And something about Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare 2. I didn’t know that this was a thing.
Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare 2
Henry Ford III jumps in for the announcement for Forza MotorSport 6. I wish that I was better at these games. They are gorgeous!
Forza Motorsport 6
Next up are videos for Dark Souls III and Tom Clancy’s The Division. Laurant Detoc of UbiSoft announces that the beta for The Division will be on Xbox 1 first and that Rainbow Six: Siege will have Vegas and Vegas 2 bundled in. Those two 360 titles will be on the backwards compatibility list, if you already have physical copies.
Dark Souls III
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA69xxVPyO0
Tom Clancy’s The Division
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege
They decide to break up all of that realistic violence with some good old-fashioned cartoonish violence. It’s Gigantic, exclusive to Xbox 1 and Win10.
Gigantic
Chris Charla, of ID@Xbox, is here to show off some more of the independent titles in development for Xbox 1 and Win10. I am pretty excited about Cuphead. I love the art style!
ID@Xbox Montage
Cuphead
Brian Horton, of Crystal Dynamics is out to show off more Rise of the Tomb Raider with a new trailer.
Rise of the Tomb Raider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-if1QhnhMY
For fans of retro gaming, Rare reveals Rare Replay, an exclusive for Xbox 1. 30 games for $30, which is a great deal for everything that you are getting. Included are: Jetpac, Atic Atac, Lunar Jetman, Sabre Wulf, Underwurlde, Knight Lore, Gunfright, Slalom, R.C. Pro-Am, Battletoads (NES), Cobra Triangle, Snake Rattle N Roll, Digger T. Rock, Solar Jetman, R.C. Pro-Am II, Battletoads Arcade, Killer Instinct Gold, Blast Corps, Banjo-Kazooie, Jet Force Gemini, Perfect Dark, Banjo-Tooie, Conker’s Bad Fur Day, Grabbed by the Ghoulies, Perfect Dark Zero, Kameo: Elements of Power, Viva Piñata, Jetpac Refuelled, Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts and Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise.
Rare Replay
And then something for the pirate in each of us: Sea of Thieves, also exclusive to Xbox 1. The video shows pirate ship crews made up of individual players having battles on the high seas. Who could possibly resist that?
Sea of Thieves
Fable: Legends will be free to play for those on
Win10 and Xbox Live Gold members. The game will be cross-platform.
Fable: Legends
If there is one part of this presentation I would want everyone to see, it would be this one. It shows what you, as a player, will see while playing the Halolens version of Minecraft. It starts out slow, but it gets immensely more interesting at 1:08.
Minecraft on Halolens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETzQWXuKQZQ
The last two bits are Gears of War related. There is the upcoming Ultimate Edition, the beta for which goes live today, and also the Gears 4 premiere trailer.
Gears of War: Ultimate Edition
Gears 4
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