Here are all the pictures i took today. My camera blows, but here they are. if you have questions or want to see larger pics, let me know.
Ok remember that crazy Nazi guy from CoD at E3 2003? Activision got him again accept now he plays an MP. He walked up to me and said something to the effect of "are you in line?" :roll:
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Namco had a stage for Soul Calibur III. Periodically these dancers came out and drew a big crowd. i could only manage a pic of the jumbotron.
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Pac Man booth babes? erm...maybe just cute Namco employees suckered into wearing funny Pac Man head garb?
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Quake 4's booth looked like it was right out of the game. Good booth, good presentation inside.
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my only lame picture of THQ's hotties. They had some good ones so if anyone else is going to the show, try to get some better pics.
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Activision
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Call of Duty 2 was showing at Microsoft's area on the Xbox 360. Looks petty good for a first generation Xbox360 game. Seems like it plays pretty well, anyway. Drew a big crowd.
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Isn't the NGAGE dead? :roll:
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NFSU will come to the Xbox360. These next two pics don't show it well but many onlookers were commenting it looked like Half Life 2. :-/
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NFSU on X360
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One of THQ's new X360 games is The Outfit by Relic. It's an amped up WWII 3rd person action game that borrows elements from RTS. Check it out on Gamespot and IGN.
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Howard Lederer, famous poker player, has his own game now and was playing at E3!!!
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heeeeeere's Howard
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EA had this huge circular jumbotron you went inside of...360 degrees of gametrailers. It made you feel like you were in the game...very interesting booth concept. There I saw the Maddeen 2006 trailer (all CG), the Godfather (all CG?), Burnout 3....some Fight Night game. It was a cool booth...damn cool booth. Hope the games live up to it. :roll:
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I made it over to Sony's booth...but honestly wasn't there long. Here's some PSP signage.
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Eh, this pic came out like crap but if you look closely you can see that Starcraft Ghost is still alive. It was up and running on an Xbox or PS2 here.
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Crappy pic of the Enemy Territory: Quake Wars trailer on an HD screen.
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Yahoo! Games was pushing this new Phil Helmuth poker game. Phil was there and they had this tournament where all the finalist got a shot at playing him heads up in no limit Texas Hold'em.
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Here's Phil
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This is one of my friends who made it as a finalist...and my friend won!!! Only took two hands to beat Phil. Woot!
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MOJO is back!
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24...the game! Actually I saw this close up and the presentation level is dead on. It feels just like the TV show and they got all the critical voices including Keifer's. TBD on how good the final gameplay will be. Def one to watch if you are a fan of the show.
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WOW this was TopSpin2 on X360. It's only a tennis game, but the environments looked amazing. Characters weren't as good. It plays pretty cool too.
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Dawn of War: Winter Assault at THQ's booth.
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Look! THQ is putting out a girls game. :roll:
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TRUE CRIME 2 had a rapper/dj set up. Seems like everyone had an urban or "street" game whether a GTA type game or a racing game. Urban is the new WWII right now.
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Top of the COD2 theater where Activision showed the d-day level from CoD2 on PC. Friggin tight as shit...and i swear the voice acting was very very familiar...
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I guess Far Cry Instincts for Xbox isn't dead.
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here is a picture of someone using the map editor for the Xbox version. Pretty cool. I wonder how capable it will be and if Xbox gamers will really take to it. Could be a whole new world for modding...though I wouldn't expect it to take off until X360 gets going when more/better/newer games come with editors.
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This guy was his own TV studio. At first I thought he was dressed up like a Ghostbuster or something.
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Finally, outside at the end of the day. What a mess.
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