It's Over!

The Electronics Entertainment Expo 2005 has ended after three great days in Las Vegas. The show gave us pictures of games I was waiting to see and information that wasn’t all that exciting. The PS3 looks great but the press conference was so boring. At least they showed some demos that slightly resembled games but I imagine the final products will look completely different. The biggest draw seemed to be the Spider Man/Gran Turismo realtime render orgy mixing game racing, the spider-man CG model from the movie and some real acting footage of Tobey Maguire saving some children, but it didn’t really impress me. I’m sick of hearing talk, show us the games!

Nintendo had quite a showing with the Nintendo Revolution and the latest incarnation of Zelda: The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess which I am buying on launch day and staying in the house for 4 days to finish. Sorry friends…

Microsoft was the worst of the bunch in my opinion for a couple of reasons. Like I said earlier the Xbox basically blew, with the exception of a few games. The Xbox360 seems to be doing the same thing, simply taking the most powerful PC hardware on the market and cramming it into a decidated game machine. Which also means the majority of Xbox360 games will be available on the PC within a few months in a higher resolution. And yes, I’ll buy one for Halo 3, which was a no show at the game show, but that the ever arrogant Bill Gates claims will destroy the PS3 when they are released simultaneously. Too bad Bungie was bought by those fuckers.

Anyway, here’s the rest of my recommendations from the show, happy clicking.

PS2:
Kingdom Hearts II

Final Fantasy XII

Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence

Soul Calibur III

Castlevania: Curse of Darkness

PS3:
Metal Gear Solid 4

FFVII Tech Demo

Dark Sector

Sony Press Conference

Nintendo:
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

Nintendo Conference

Xbox360:
Perfect Dark Zero

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

Gears of War

Wisdom of the Day: You can never go home again, but you can always go back to IHOP