Highlights from the Sony Press Conference
6/5/12 12:30am
What you need to know
- More gameplay footage was provided for Little Big Planet on the PlayStation Vita. It looks like it'll be just as fun as its predecessors.
- Beyond: Two Souls looks to be a fascinating project being developed by Quantic Dream, the creators of Heavy Rain. The game features a powerful plot involving a psychic relationship, and the story is coupled by impressive facial animation and excellent lighting. Did we mention that Ellen Page is the main voice actress?
- PlayStation All-Stars continues to look impressive with its fighting gameplay. New characters were also revealed including Big Daddy and Nathan Drake.
- Assassin's Creed got a couple new announcements. A new entry, titled Assassin's Creed: Liberation, was talked about. There will also be new bundle available for the Vita featuring the game coupled with a memory card and white colored system.
- The Last of Us was featured for the first time with gameplay footage. It's looking to be quite dramatic with its presentation, and it was a strong addition to the conference.
- God of War: Ascension is revealed for the PlayStation Vita. The combat looks to be as engaging as ever with a few new twists, and how can you not like fighting giant elephants?
Stuff that isn't very interesting or just teases
- Black Ops: Liberation was revealed for the Vita... and almost no footage was actually shown.
- Sony spent over fifteen minutes talking about their new Move project: The Wonderbook. While the idea of having famous authors do some narrative writing is interesting, what's less interesting is the very slow and simple gameplay. At least JK Rowling is involved for an entry.
- The PlayStation Suite program has had its name changed to PlayStation Mobile. It was also revealed that some of the PlayStation library would be heading soon to HTC devices. Not too exciting to be honest.
Everything else
The conference took a good ten minutes before anything was actually shown, and the Wonderbook took up way too much time of the conference. There were some strong titles presented though.
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funk master fish
Out of the big 3, I feel that Sony certainly won E3
ExplodingLobster
I enjoyed most of it, then the fucking wonderbook ruined it, and it didn't help that they focused on it for so damn long. It had a great end with The Last of Us though.
Domino2097
God of War Ascension is for PS3 not Vita,
LunarZeal
They really dropped the ball this year. God of War: Ascension was more God of War. The Last of Us is a Naughty Dog game. Those two were nice for a Sony fan like me. However, they were both at the END of the conference... after I became depressed with how boring the other 80% of the conference was. Gotta love how Spike was running their audio over the God of War gameplay... Overall, where was the Vita news? No Vita price drop? No new games we hadn't expected? Did you guys really need THAT much time for Wonderbook? I would pick this year to be the first time I bothered to watch E3 live... I am disappoint.
Lipnox88
sony has some magic at showing great stuff and making me totally bored. Last of us seems great but that whole presentation made me fall asleep. If last of us is freeroam it will be great, if not it will be an uncharted escort mission so it could easily disappoint. and If I know anything about the Heavy rain developers its that there games take a long long time and this new one is likely to end up on ps4 not ps3.
If I hadn't already seen almost everything they showed before it might have had a more WOW effect.
FreightTrain XIII
I was blown away by the beginning and end of this. I watched some basketball while they were showing off the Wonderbook. Can't wait for The Last of Us. I wish they announced a release date.
bmcj199
Playstation All-stars was SO BORING to watch. I'm sure it will be fun to actually play it, but I think it should look fun too.
RazgrizInferno
Omar Kendall can make absolutely anything boring.
Izz
Got to think though this wonderbook thing does position them quite nicely for parents to look and think that ps3 will be good for their kids. And with the right authors/publishers I am sure a lot of people will find it cool