E3 is back, featured live via the stream, offering free entry for everyone to catch up on another year without the show’s wild cosplay. If there was one dominant theme of this show, it was the pandemic delay: a lot of the games we’ve been brooding about are further away than expected or haven’t made any appearances. If you haven’t managed to attend all of the conferences from the comfort of your office chair, don’t worry, sit back in relative comfort and browse through this roundup of the best E3s had to offer.
Breath of the Wild 2
Undoubtedly at the time of the show, Nintendo finally (finally) released gameplay footage from the sequel to its 2017 masterpiece. Link was shown falling towards cloud-covered islands, while Nintendo had confirmed that much of the game would take place in the sky, much like in Skyward sword, which, related, also gets an HD remake. We hope this sequel will retain Breath of the wildis green plains and don’t trade them for The sword of heaven rather stunted linearity. The release date was a slight disappointment, a wave 2022, which extinguished any hope of gamers who wanted to get it by Christmas. It’s still a new Zelda– it’s going to be awesome.
Infinite halo
A beginning Infinite halo The trailer was mocked for showcasing an alien now dubbed Craig, whose sad, ill-rendered face the community cited as an example that the latest in this long line of first-person shooter games had last-gen graphics. . The new trailers have allayed those fears somewhat. A high-octane story trailer showed Master Chief reuniting Cortana to kick his ass, while a deep dive into the game’s multiplayer seeks to make the most of the previous titles. 343 Studios has promised an Academy training mode, to encourage new players to get started Halo without fear of being destroyed by the old game community. Classic matches such as 4v4 Arena and 12v12 big team battle are also back. No release date yet, as even Master Chief has not been proven successful for Covid lockdowns.
The Outer Worlds 2
The outer worlds was a sleeper shot, a kind of Fallout: New Vegas in space which has sold over 3 million copies. Now a sequel is in the works, as this hilarious trailer reveals, which pokes fun at the conventions of most of the trailers we saw at E3. As the developers admit, they haven’t completed any gameplay, or anything really “other than the title”. A sequel will be a great opportunity to harness the enormous potential of the first game: basically, polishing and expanding its living world.
Terror Metroid
Terror Metroid came with an apology; Nintendo is sorry you had to wait so long for Metroid Prime 4, and sorry, he can’t show you the game yet. It has had a troubled development: Nintendo snatched the game from Bandai Namco in 2019 and asked Retro Studios, responsible for the original series, to start it over from zero. Instead, we get the first 2D Metroid in 19 years. In the trailer, Samus runs away from a red-eyed robot: as Portal’s Glados grew lizard paws. Metroid has a rich history of survival horror chases: older players will remember the pound sterling Metroid Fusion on Gameboy Advance. Dread will be released on October 8, 2021.
Advance Wars 1 + 2: Restart Camp
Advance Wars 1 and 2 were two of the greatest Game Boy Advance games ever made: a kind of cartoonish chess, where you take turns with your opponent to capture towns and build armies to crush their opposing forces. Now these two games return with remasters for the Switch, “built from scratch” in the cartoon style of Link’s Awakening. Many questions remain: will this add enough to re-attract gamers who have presumably spent hundreds of hours on the Game Boy Advance originals? Is Kanbei going to nerf? Only time will tell. Expect this in December.
Starfield
It was a disappointing trailer, if we’re honest: it’s included here because we’ve been so hungry for any news from Bethesda, be it this one or Ancient scrolls. It’s hard to know what Starfield is about: The trailer showed a generic-looking rocky alien planet mixed in with moon landing footage and a space pilot preparing for takeoff. The November 2022 release date means fans of Ancient scrolls will likely have grandchildren by the time the next game in the series is released.
Replaced
Stunning game that isn’t a sequel or another entry into a long-running franchise? Replaced is gorgeous – a mix of high-res moody and pixel art in the vein of Super Brothers: Sword and Witchcraft. The trailer shows the protagonist climbing up neon signs, wandering through dark and dystopian cities, and typically kicking himself in the ass. There’s not much to say about the game yet: its developers describe it as a “sci-fi retro-futuristic action platformer” where players control an artificial intelligence trapped in a human body. It’s an Xbox exclusive, and it’s coming in 2022.
WarioWare Gather
the WarioWare The series has always provided some of the best games for the holidays – fast-paced, hilarious mini-games you can jump in and out of. This new game, which offers more than 200 mini-games, will also allow you to play locally with a friend. This, with Mario Party Superstars, which includes classic boards from the series’ past, such as Mario party 2Classic Space World’s, should be a staple for post-pandemic reunion parties. WarioWare releases September 10, 2021.
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy
The recent Avengers The game attempted to build on the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, albeit without the rights to the actor likenesses, resulting in a weirdly staid experience that was further hampered as it was oozing DLC and microtransactions. Superhero game guardians of the galaxy has the first problem, but not the second – made by Eidos Montreal and published by Square Enix (who was also behind this Avengers game), it’s an all-solo experience. You play exclusively as Star-Lord, the leader of the band of misfit heroes who also includes the green-skinned alien Gamora, the buff-blue murderer Drax, the sentient cybernetic raccoon Rocket and Groot, a walking tree who can only tell the words “I am Groot. It will be released on October 26, 2021.
Far cry 6
Far cry 5, which featured a murderous American family and religious fanatic, was decidedly not a political statement, according to Ubisoft. He changed course for the new game, saying it is political “as all games about revolution must be.” It seems unlikely Far cry 6 will offer a nuanced take on the armed class struggle: the trailer promises players that they will Far cry mind, always being able to “blow up the shit”. Even more strikingly, the game will feature the fantastic Giancarlo Esposito of breaking Bad, with full voice work and motion capture.
Avatar: Pandora’s Borders
Avatar occupies a somewhat strange place in popular culture. The 2009 James Cameron movie was a huge hit – it’s the second highest grossing title ever when you adjust for inflation – but when was the last time you heard someone mention it? It was the biggest thing in the world for about six months and then vanished from the face of the earth. This could change in 2022 with the release of Pandora Borders, a game taking place in the Avatar universe developed by Ubisoft and Massive, which worked on Far cry 3 and The division; and programmed to coincide with the release of Avatar 2 in December of next year. The trailer certainly looks like the play, but there is little clue about the gameplay – all we really know is that you will play as a Na’vi and “embark on a journey” in a new game. of Pandora.
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