The first E3 only online finished officially on Tuesday, but the complementary summer game (or competitor “has begun. While everything went with few hooks, there were not many huge ads, and the greatest revelation of E3 was not even In an official E3 event.
Even before the change to an online format this year, huge editors such as EA, Activision and Sony had moved away. Activity, for example, typically has its own events at other points of the year and gets its larger games that are presented in Microsoft or Sony Shows. Meanwhile, EA, it has traditionally maintained its own event at the same time across the city, but this year has a show scheduled for July as part of the Summer Game fest.
Regardless, a lot of games have been announced, and the end of E3 gives us a good opportunity to take a balance of what the main players have done well, and until now.
Summer summer game
The Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest was not the first Not-E3 event, which would be the 2242 battlefield revealed, but it was full of new games, and even the announcement of a new publisher. (Or, an editorial label of an editor who is owned by a larger editor. Video games!) While there was a lot to see, there were only two ads of truly important games: the wonders of Tiny Tina and the Ring of Elden.
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands is a spin-off of the Gearbox software Borderlands series, with the Tina tub that appears first in Borderlands 2. It is, as you imagine, a booty shooter with an infused style of cartoons, but this time it is He established in a fantasy world instead of a sci-fi scout.
Ring of Elden, if you were not on the Internet during last week, it is the last game of Hideta Miyazaki and fromSoftware, the team behind Demon Souls, Dark Souls, Blood and Skiro: Shadows die twice. It has been associated with an ice song and fire writer, George R. R. Martin in history, and, two years after his initial announcement E3 2019, we finally got to see what they have cooked. There was even a launch date on January 21, 2022. This was a whole coup to the Summer Game Fest, which only began last year in response to E3 2020 that was canceled.
Ubisoft.
The first E3 main event arrived on Saturday, 12, with Ubisoft Forward. Far Cry 6 is the tone release of Ubi this year, and we see ourselves well in the villain of Giancaro Esposito in the program. There was also a segment with classic villains with a difference from distant who had excited everyone, although in a somewhat predictable way it turned out to be a new game mode that was blocked behind the Far Cry 6 season.
Another title of 2021 is the rainbow of Tom Clancy Six Extraction, which was previously known as quarantine. And for some reason, that motto does not feel like a blow of blow. The opinion of our staff is divided so far, mainly because it is a cooperative shooter where you fight the extraterrestrials, which does not feel very, Tom Clancy. However, that does not mean that it can not be a good game, and if you buried that you could almost be playing Siege, always in a gap and against a very strange defense team.
The other “large” version 2021 is Riders Republic, a massively multiplayer extreme sports game. Definitely, it’s still a bit unknown, and often when a game tries to do this a lot, fails at least somehow, but the races against 63 players with alterations, mountain bikes, snowboard tables and the like look fun.
In other places, we obtained a new game from Rabbids Mario + Rabbids, Spark of Hope, which is naturally an exclusive switch, and seems to be bringing many of Mario Galaxy themes to the fold. In addition, Rocksmith +, an AS-A-Service service to learn / practice guitar or bass, had many very excited Engadgets editors.
The “one more thing” of the Ubi conference was not beyond good and evil, which was visible in its absence again. Instead, Ubisoft showed its last AAA title, based on the 2009 hot multimedia extravagance that was Avatar. It is being developed by massive (division 2) for a launch next year in the current gene consoles, the transmission and the PC.
Given the Pandora border trailer was only a prolonged series of cinematics (although in the engine), your hypothesis is as good as ours for what this game is and that it is good. Despite the 2009 Jab, Avatar 2 is planned for cinematographic liberation in December 2022, so if you think that will not be postponed again, maybe the moment chosen on it will be fair.
The notable absences included the remake of Prince of Persia: the sand sands, which were delayed until 2022; A new assassin belief, which on the usual pace of society should arrive next year too; Roller champions, which is always planned for “2021”; Skull and Os, who, who even know it more? And the game of Wars Startled Star of Massive, which is probably another.
Xbox
Microsoft has had a strong week. Outside the games themselves, he kicked Thursday, June 10 with the announcement that there will be Xbox Cloud game playback devices and smart TVs. Then on Thursday 17, he announced that the Xbox Design laboratory, Gamepad’s personalization service a lot, returned.
The big game show of the company – now called “Xbox and Bethesda Showcase” as a result of the acquisition of the latter – has been scheduled for Sunday 13. Things started on a strange note, as the game of OPENING – STARFIELD – was ruined on time that led to the presentation by a person at the Washington Post, who presented the trailer live, presumably by accident. With no gameplay on show in the new trailer, the biggest conversation point was the decision to make Starfield an Xbox, PC and exclusive streaming broadcast. It was not the biggest surprise, but it is disappointing PlayStation owners.
Maybe the game of the event for Xbox fans was Forza Horizon 5, which really presented beautiful graphics. We also saw a multiplayer movie in the Infinite Halo, as well as liberation dates for the psychonauts 2 and the version of the flight simulator console. Then, more new games, with the announcement of the Avalanche smuggling, external worlds of the obsidian and Redfall of Arkane Austin. Elsewhere, he was replaced magnificent, while Senua’s sacrifice: Hellblade II Sizzle coil at the second showcase was also very cool.
There is a long list of games we have not seen: confessed, Crossfire X, Teakhead: The delicious last course, Everwild, Fable 4, Forza Motorsport and perfect dark come immediately in mind. On the one hand, it’s a long list of disappointments. On the other, it demonstrates the amount of Microsoft on the rest of its purchase trip.
The Elder Scrolls VI is also in development, although it remains to be seen if it will eventually become an exclusive Microsoft. The head of the Xbox Phil Spencer said this series with a “inheritance on different platforms” may not be released exclusively and that the company would consider things on a “case-per case” basis. While the scrolls of seniors have a long history on Xbox – Morrowind was the first port of the Seniors’ scroll consoles, and it came to the original Xbox – Oblivion and especially Skyrim sold millions of copies on the consoles. Sony. We will see how true Microsoft is for its word now that it has the temptation to note great exclusive points on its console rival.
Apart from the exclusive, 2020 Game-Dependé Hades comes to the Xbox (and PlayStation) in August, a plague tale: Innocence will get a Next-Gen patch next month and his suite, a plague tale: Requiem, Arrival in 2022. If we had to put money on a future acquisition for Microsoft, Asobo Studio, which makes the tales series of the plague, but especially developed the Microsoft flight simulator of last year, would be a good bet .
All counted, it would always be a strong E3 for Microsoft: the company has so many studies that it is not surprising that it has a lot to show. As expected, all the first-party games in the show, and even many third-party titles, are coming directly to the passage of the game. With the impulse to get Xbox Cloud games in even more devices, and the fact that the vast majority of the titles of most games are also in the PC game step, the Microsoft Subscription Service will have a hearing wider than ever.