Microsoft 2011 E3 Press Conference Live Thread!

[Bayli]

pretty cool teaser

[Newman]

343 studios? Yikes.

[Logan]

Ok guys, thanks for participating. This press conference was just as boring as last year. I'm locking it. Divert all discussion/reactions to the E3 2011 thread in the general forum. I'm also opening the EA thread. See you guys around!

[Logan]

Here's a recap of the Microsoft Conference for those who missed it:

Modern Warfare 3:
+ Nothing
- Looks like all the old games, who cares.

Mass Effect 3:
+ Kinect features looked neat, gameplay looked great and familiar.
- A lot of placeholder in this demo, no Reapers, no new music, etc.

Tomb Raider:
+ Animations, graphics, presentation all looked phenomenal.
- No combat shown, mostly showcased a "survival" aspect of things.

Ghost Recon:
+ ???
- Only showed Kinect features.

Halo CE Anniversary
+ 40 dollars
- Framerate issues

Gears of War 3
+ Great setpieces
- Not much new really

KINECT
+ Ryse, Neat new Xbox Dashboard with Bing integration, Kinect Sports 2
- A lot of kids games, a lot of onrails games, Star Wars Kinect looked horrible.

Other tidbits

- Halo 4 (and 5+6) announced. Halo 4 slated for holiday 2012.
- Live TV on Xbox this fall.
- Kinect fun labs (a lot of kinect tech things)

Bottom line, this was better than last years, but not really by much.