{"id":7601,"date":"2012-06-10T12:59:10","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T18:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamesanityblog.com\/?p=7601"},"modified":"2012-06-10T12:59:10","modified_gmt":"2012-06-10T18:59:10","slug":"carys-e3-universe-final-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/10\/carys-e3-universe-final-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Cary’s E3 Universe: Final Act"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>For my last article in my E3 coverage series, I wanted to conclude by talking about the companies and games I visited and played in between my main meetings. There\u2019s still a lot to cover, so let\u2019s get to it!<\/p>\n

One last time I\u2019d like to remind everyone: please forgive me if I don\u2019t cover certain games at the show. I\u2019m just one person, and can\u2019t cover EVERYTHING there is to see at E3. So for my coverage, I tried to narrow my focus a bit. Since I write for GamingWithChildren.com, I tried to focus on the family friendly games at E3. And the games that interested me, too. Luckily, most of the games I\u2019m interested in are family friendly! There are a couple of games I looked at that are for more mature gamers, but you\u2019ll know which ones I\u2019m talking about when I get there.<\/p>\n

Video Game History Museum<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nearly every year at E3, a group of folks sets up a booth displaying game consoles, arcade games, and other odds and ends showing off the history of video games. It\u2019s always fun to look at. I kind of miss when it was in Kentia Hall, though, because it was quieter. Oh well. Here\u2019s a pic of some of the game related toys and such.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s a sample of the classic game consoles on display. They didn\u2019t have the Atari 5200 out like last time.<\/p>\n

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Finally, here\u2019s one of the rows of arcade cabinets. I could\u2019ve stayed here all day.<\/p>\n

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Atlus<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I got my press badge, it came with this little laminated thing behind it telling you that you could get a free Persona T-Shirt at Atlus\u2019 booth. So I did that! They were showing off a new Persona fighting game there. I don\u2019t know much about Persona games, but I thought this little red guy looked pretty cool.<\/p>\n

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While I was waiting in line to get my T-shirt, I watched someone play a new 3DS game called Code of Princess. It looked pretty cool, kind of like a classic brawler adventure, so I took a picture of it.<\/p>\n

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Capcom<\/strong><\/p>\n

Even though they\u2019re one of my favorite game companies, Capcom didn\u2019t have anything shown at E3 this year that interested me. They were just showing off Resident Evil 6 and other stuff. No new Phoenix Wrights or Mega Mans or anything like that, so I kind of skipped out on them. At least I got to see some people I knew there.<\/p>\n

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Tecmo-Koei<\/strong><\/p>\n

This company makes the Dead or Alive fighters, and at E3 their main focus was showing off DOA5. I don\u2019t really know much about the DOA games, though; aside from the fact I know the DOA Volleyball games are dumb. I will say that both the PR folks and booth ladies at Tecmo-Koei were very nice and fun to talk to.<\/p>\n

I did play ONE game at Tecmo-Koei\u2019s booth. Koei makes a series of strategy games called Nobunaga\u2019sAmbition featuring people from feudal Japan. Recently they made a weird hybrid game where characters from Nobunaga team up with various Pokemon. That game is coming to the US soon as Pokemon Conquest for the DS, and Nintendo had set up a little demo station off in the corner of Tecmo-Koei\u2019s booth. It pretty much plays like a typical tactics RPG featuring Pokemon. But it was still weird seeing these historical figures commanding them. You could even play a little rhythm game to \u2018link up\u2019 and befriend new Pokemon. Pokemon Conquest will be out in a couple of weeks, and I think I\u2019ll probably get it out of curiosity. It\u2019ll be the first Nobunaga\u2019s Ambition game I ever buy!<\/p>\n

Ubisoft<\/strong><\/p>\n

Their booth was huge and had tons of games, but I skipped out on it because I had seen all of Ubisoft\u2019s games at Nintendo\u2019s press conference already. You can read about them in my Act 2 article.<\/p>\n

WarGaming.net<\/strong><\/p>\n

This company makes a popular online PC game called World of Wartanks, which my brothers love. For E3, they showed off two new entries: World of Warplanes and World of Battleships. Outside the convention hall, they even had a prop plane on display.<\/p>\n

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Disney Interactive<\/strong><\/p>\n

The House of Mouse had one of the best booths at E3. Their main focus was on Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two. It was really crowded, so I didn\u2019t get a chance to play it. But I do know it\u2019s two player simultaneous where one controls Mickey and the other Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. And it\u2019ll be for all the main consoles, not just the Wii this time. I tried to look for the 2-D Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion game for 3DS, too, but couldn\u2019t find it. The Epic Mickey 2 display also had a museum of sorts with all sorts of vintage toys and trinkets from Mickey\u2019s and Oswald\u2019s history. The Disney booth also had one of E3\u2019s most sought after swag item: hats that looked like the Mickey Mouse ears, except they were Oswald\u2019s rabbit ears! Good news is, I managed to get one! Yay! Disney also had a section to show off their Brave game, based on the upcoming Pixar movie that I hope to see soon.<\/p>\n

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Disney was also promoting their upcoming Wreck-It Ralph movie. It\u2019ll be out November 2, and I\u2019m totally going to see it. It\u2019s about a fictional video game villain from a pretend arcade game from the 80\u2019s who doesn\u2019t want to be the bad guy anymore and hops around to other game worlds. If you haven\u2019t seen the trailer yet, I recommend you check it out on YouTube now.<\/p>\n

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At E3, they even had a mock arcade cabinet made to look like \u201cFix-It Felix Jr.\u201d where Wreck-It Ralph lives. Over in Disney\u2019s iPad game section, they even had an iPad game that plays like what the old arcade game might\u2019ve been like. I could\u2019ve played it for hours. It\u2019ll be out in time for the movie in November, too.<\/p>\n

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Speaking of Disney\u2019s iPhone\/iPad section at E3, they also had another fun one called Where\u2019s My Water?, which is out now, actually. It\u2019s a puzzle game where you use your finger to dig in dirt to lead water to a pipe so a sewer alligator can take a shower. Soon they\u2019ll even make a version of it called Where\u2019s My Perry?, based on the popular Phineas and Ferb cartoon. I have to say that playing all the fun iPad games at E3 has convinced me that maybe I should look into investing in an iPad someday. What do you all think?<\/p>\n

Namco Bandai Games<\/strong><\/p>\n

The company responsible for Pac-Man is one of my favorite video game companies, and Namco\u2019s booth had not only a wide variety of games, but also a variety of areas at their booth that all looked different.<\/p>\n

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Namco\u2019s booth has the distinction of being the first place where I played my first Wii U game at E3. And that game was Tank! Tank! Tank! It\u2019s a port of the arcade game of the same name, and it\u2019s kind of like a more cartoony version of another Namco arcade tank game called Tokyo Wars. The Wii U version was fun, but I\u2019m not sure how the Wii U will make it better. Seems like it could\u2019ve been made on any console. But it was easy to get into and should have lots of fun co-op and competitive multiplayer modes. I was working together with three other tanks to destroy a three headed mechadragon destroying the city, for instance. As a fan of Namco arcade games, this\u2019ll be one of the first third party games I get when I buy my own Wii U. At that section of their booth, Namco had this costumed guy out to promote the game. Although he really just looked like a drum major with a toy tank on his head!<\/p>\n

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Now, look at that picture again. Look at the floor behind the tank guy. LOOK AT IT! Those who know me know how much I like Pac-Man, so you can imagine the expression on my face when I first saw that floor. I want to carpet my house with that. If I had my own arcade, that\u2019s the floor I\u2019d like to use. Games on the Pac-Man floor included a couple of the arcade versions of Tank! Tank! Tank!, Pac-Man Battle Royale (which is only the second place I\u2019ve seen it), and a few of the Pac-Man Arcade Party mini-cabinets.<\/p>\n

One of the other games they had was Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch. I didn\u2019t play this one too much because it\u2019s hard to get into an RPG at E3. But it has a vast overworld and I walked around it a bit and had a few battles. Fights remind me of Pokemon. You call out a monster, tell it what to do, then your critter runs around and attacks enemies for a short while before waiting for commands again. Graphics are very cartoony, but that should come as no surprise since the look and characters were designed by Hayao Miyazaki\u2019s Studio Ghibli. As a fan of their work, I\u2019ll definitely get this PS3 RPG next year! Namco also had some other stuff I didn\u2019t check out, like a Dragon Ball Z Kinect game.<\/p>\n

Namco had a big section to show off their new fighter: Tekken Tag Tournament 2. That part of their booth looked like a shiny car show, and they had people dressed as some of the female fighters in that series. Let\u2019s see if I can name the ones pictured below. From left to right we have Anna Williams, Asuka (one of my favorite characters to play as in the games, actually). The middle guy was just the announcer, he wasn\u2019t a character. Then we have Lilli, and, uh, gee I forget the name of that last one. Maybe one of you can help me out?<\/p>\n

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Over by one of the Tekken cars were some other costumed characters. On the right is Nina Williams, but I don\u2019t remember the name of the other lady. I always just called her Pink Haired Robot Lady in Tekken 6.<\/p>\n

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And here\u2019s a pic of just the car without all the eye candy getting in the way.<\/p>\n

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EA Games<\/strong><\/p>\n

They had a ton of games at their booth. I tried to look up some things about the new SimCity game for my brothers because they love that series. But EA\u2019s booth was so loud that after a few minutes there, my organs started to vibrate and I had to get out of there.<\/p>\n

WB Games<\/strong><\/p>\n

Warner Bros. also had a bunch of games. Some of them I looked at, and some I just skipped over. They had big LEGO guys made out of little bricks to promote LEGO Batman 2: DC Superheroes and LEGO Lord of the Rings. Here\u2019s Robin:<\/p>\n

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And here\u2019s Batman. Their sequel will be out in a couple of weeks, so I\u2019ll be getting it soon.<\/p>\n

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And I could never get into Lord of the Rings for some reason.<\/p>\n

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I also saw a new Spy Hunter game at WB\u2019s booth, but I\u2019m not sure what system it was on. But I did get to play a little bit of Scribblenauts Unlimited on Wii U. It was one of the best Wii U games I saw and played. It has more adventure elements, as you explore a vast world and talk with people to accept missions. In the game I met a lumberjack who needed something to chop down a tree. But rather than give him a boring old axe or chainsaw, I gave him a live beaver to hold, and he was able to chop down that tree just fine! I even got a couple of achievements for it! You can also make your own creations. I designed an orange cow with a robot head, and you can trade creations with friends online! The Wii U touch screen made doing all this very easy. This\u2019ll be another must-have Wii U title, and looked more interesting than even some of Nintendo\u2019s first party stuff.<\/p>\n

I probably won\u2019t get the last game I saw at WB\u2019s booth, and it\u2019s certainly not very family friendly. But I just have to laugh at the premise of Lollipop Chainsaw because it\u2019s just so silly. You play as a cheerleader and defeat hordes of zombies with a chainsaw. Here\u2019s someone dressed as the main character from that game.<\/p>\n

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Konami<\/strong><\/p>\n

The people responsible for Metal Gear and Castlevania games had new titles for those respective series at the show, too.<\/p>\n

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But what caught my eye most at Konami\u2019s booth was Frogger Pinball. It was just a Facebook game, so nothing to get excited about. But I just loved the display they had for it. I wish that\u2019s how the game really was!<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s another angle. I just like pinball, and Frogger, too.<\/p>\n

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Misc. Stuff and Conclusions<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019d like to conclude my E3 reports with a few random pics and things. In one of the hallways they had a section with indie games and live music, so I took a picture of a nearby giant invader there. Possibly from space.<\/p>\n

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Have you ever seen those chalk art drawings that use perspective tricks when you look at them at a certain angle. I\u2019m not sure if I got the angle right on this one, but here\u2019s some floor art promoting a new basketball game.<\/p>\n

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There are a lot of female models around the E3 booths to attract attention to whatever they\u2019re promoting. I try not to post too many pictures of them here, since this is more of a family oriented site (although I don\u2019t think I did such a good job of that this year, oh well). But I just had to show this lady because she cracked me up so much. Not sure what game she was promoting, but she was at GREE\u2019s booth (whatever that is). She was dressed as some kind of warrior with a chain whip thing. But she would do all these crazy poses when getting her picture taken, and she\u2019d swing that chain around. She looked like she was having fun with it. I imagine that it must get annoying to have to stand around all day at a loud convention center getting your picture taken all the time. So I commend her and others like her who were a good sport about it and made the best of the situation and just had fun. So for that, silly chain lady, you win the Cary\u2019s Best E3 Booth Lady Award (like there really is such a thing).<\/p>\n

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And that\u2019s all I feel like talking about this year\u2019s E3. I\u2019d like to thank my dad for coming with me again; it was a lot of fun. I\u2019d also like to thank Andrew, the GamerDad, who allows me to write here and go to these things. And I\u2019d like to thank all of you who read my stuff. If you have any comments or questions about my E3 coverage, please feel free to post in the comments section. I\u2019d really appreciate it. Later! –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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