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Need for Speed: The Run is the latest version of EA’s classic racing game franchise. But it isn’t easy to tell if the story will be awesome. The game play and the graphics are average. The game will rise or fall on the quality of that story. The trailer suggest that this massively multiplayer online game will have a great story. Star Wars: The Old Republic had an awesome trailer, but EA didn’t show off much game play. The game looks solid, but it’s pretty far off, since it won’t come out until March 6, 2012.

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The game looks beautiful and it’s full of action and role-playing elements. Mass Effect 3 got a lot of air time at Microsoft’s press conference and at EA’s event as well. To me, this was the best demo of the day. (Activision Blizzard plans to charge for its Call of Duty Elite social network).

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The game looks like it will have better vehicles (tanks!) than MW 3, and it will have a gamer’s social network that will be available free of charge.

The highlight was Battlefield 3, the first-person combat shooter that will do battle with Modern Warfare 3. But it didn’t seem like it had a broad line-up of exclusives.ĮA showed off nine major games that were very impressive. Microsoft has clearly been investing a lot of money in its core hardcore games - Halo and Gears of War - and its Kinect titles.

Microsoft also took its cause of taking over the living room further with the announcement of new Xbox Live features, such as YouTube on Xbox Live and Bing voice search. Maybe it didn’t say anything about it since Sony made that announcement on the PSN first. And Kinect Fun Labs looked pretty funny.Ĭuriously, Microsoft didn’t even mention at its event that it has launched cloud storage for gamers on Xbox Live so that players can store their saved games. The Star Wars Kinect game also looked like it worked pretty well. For instance, Mass Effect 3 uses Kinect voice commands so you can dispatch your companion characters to attack enemies. But today, the company trotted out hardcore Kinect games.

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So while they looked good, they don’t help Microsoft’s cause of exclusivity.

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Those titles will be available on the PS and PC as well. Microsoft devoted a lot of time to Mass Effect 3, Ghost Recon Future Soldier, Minecraft, and Tomb Raider as well. Many of the titles it showed, from Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 to UFC Undisputed, will be on other platforms. But the company was pretty light on exclusives for the Xbox 360. With so many leaks, it was hard to say we learned anything new at the Microsoft event.Įpic Games also showed a good demo of Gears of War 3. Microsoft also leaked a Disney Adventures Kinect game and Star Wars Kinect the night before. The Halo 4 game picks up where Halo 3 left off and includes Master Chief and Cortana. The highlight of the day was that Microsoft announced that it will launch Halo 4 in 2012 and will launch a remake of the classic Halo Combat Evolved game from 2001 later this year. Microsoft had some great announcements, but most of them leaked out.

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