Jun 6, 2012
If I were to tell you what Microsoft showed during their E3 press conference for 2012, you’d swear I was confusing it with a previous year. Hell, I’d even question myself. What we were given was new installments for popular franchises like Halo, Gears of War, Fable, Madden, FIFA, Forza, Splinter Cell, Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, Dance Central, and Call of Duty. These are all games we expect to see at this point. Thankfully, they did show us a few new IPs. However, they were hardly anything to get excited over, except for maybe the South Park game. There was LocoCycle (which was strictly a teaser), Ascend: New Gods, and Matter (which was also a teaser). They also showed off Wreckateer, which is essentially Angry Birds with the Kinect.
“Wait, you mean to tell me they’re still trying to cram the Kinect down our throat?” Yes, that’s exactly what I’m telling you. We get it, Microsoft. You can talk to your Xbox 360 and tell it to do things. I can also just as easily do the same thing by pressing a button on a controller that I already own. I don’t need to shout at my Netflix to play an episode of Archer, nor do I want to. Of course, they also tried to showcase the Kinect and how it can be integrated in upcoming popular games, but again: buttons.
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Tags: Ascend: New Gods, call of duty, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, dance central, e3, e3 2012, Fable, Fable Journey, fifa, forza, gears of war, Gears of War: Judgement, halo, halo 4, kinect, LocoCycle, madden, Matter, microsoft, resident evil, resident evil 6, South Park, splinter cell, Splinter Cell: Blacklist, tomb raider, Wreckateer, Xbox Smart Glass
