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| EddyT
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|  "E3 impressions Day 1"
, posted Thu 15 May 02:12:
I spent most of the day in the West Hall. I'll try to avoid repeating stuff that other sites would have possibly gone over already with their reviews.
Pac-Man Gamecube: This game was way fun! You have heard about how 3 players play the ghosts on the GC and 1 player plays the Pac-Man on the GBA, right? Well, what happens is that the 4th player always starts as Pac-Man. When the Pac-Man player gets eaten by the ghost, he loses 1600 points and must trade his GBA to the GC player. The ghost who eats Pac-Man also earns 1600 points. Once the controller and GBA are exchanged, the GBA player can press start to resume. The maze resets the dots when a new Pac-Man player starts his game. Eating the fruit on the maze can either increase the viewing area for the ghost who eats it... or shrinks it for all 3 ghosts if Pac-Man eats it. The fruit icon will flash in the middle of the screen for the ghost players to get a heads-up. Games have an overall timer of about 400 seconds long.
Four Swords Gamecube: Much different than the GB version, and you only need the GBA/GC cable to play for each GBA system (no cart needed). You play in a Link To The Past environment with cool Wind Waker effects when you kill enemies (they die in a puff of swirly purple smoke). When you go inside a house or a hole in the ground, you will be able to look at your GBA screen to find hidden rupees. In this mode, you can pick up others and throw them, much like Four Swords GBA. When you kill all enemies on screen, all four players must go to the designated exit side of the screen to continue, and it will be denoted by 4 arrows on a side of the screen.
Resident Evil Outbreak: One of my favorite games at the show. You can choose from 8 different characters in the beginning. It was so cool to see other peoples' screens and see how the realtime intro was different depending on who you chose. You start off stuck in a bar and getting raided by zombies. Weapons such as pistols or brooms can be equipped. Having no weapon only allowed you to push zombies away from you, which isn't very effective because you don't knock them down. You also cannot run like you could in other RE games... you can only walk. The game seemed to employ the usual RE presentation... fixed camera angles that shift to different perspectives when you walk out of an area. I didn't see any typing or headset support, but you could hear other online characters scream preset sayings when attacked or doing other stuff. The problem I encountered with the game was the difficulty of finding items before everyone else picked them up. And even when I watched others play, I couldn't tell where items were laid out. It had a weird mix of Japanese and English subtitles, so it was confusing to understand what was going on half the time. Otherwise, it seemed to be fun. I believe it will use the new PS2 HDD.
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| EddyT
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| "Re(1):E3 impressions Day 1" , posted Thu 15 May 02:38:
Metroid Zero Mission: This GBA game looks to be a redone version of the original Metroid, with a few new twists and a lot of moves from Metroid Fusion. For instance, you can grab edges of cliffs and climb them and triangle jump off them, just like in Fusion. The suit you wear in Zero Mission is similar to the stripped down Prime suit (a new sprite, not similar to the Super Metroid Samus sprite), and like original Metroid... you have to get power dots and missle icons to replenish your stock. Wasn't playable, but had a running demo using GBA hardware.
Gran Turismo 4: I am not knowledgeable of cars, but boy is this game very nice looking. The fact that it they had it set up for online play will make it worthwhile to own. I'm guessing that any GT fan will not be disappointed by this title.
Metal Gear Solid 3: The running demo really kicked arse! Seeing Snake shoot someone in the water, and watching their blood spill downstream was a really well-done technical feat. Graphically, it looks very nice and is very busy looking like a jungle is supposed to be. Only nitpick was that the wolves (or dogs... couldn't tell) seemed to be really odd looking compared to the detail of the soldiers in the game. This trailer really got me hyped about this game.
Tecmo: Did not see any Ninja Gaiden stuff at all, surprisingly enough. Unfortunately, Tecmo never has any playable prototypes of their unreleased games at E3, and this year was no exception. No Ninja Gaiden playable game or movie, from what I could see... which was odd because they gave out bags advertising the new Ninja Gaiden. Footage of DOA Online is sure to make any DOA fan crave this game even more. For instance, the one rooftop stage in DOA2 Hardcore (where you're on the rooftop and there's telephone lines and stuff all around), you can knock them into a small room with a hallway that looks similar to a typical small apartment room in The Matrix. What irony that Ein/Hayate was in his trenchcoat garb while the stage was being demoed. DOA Online was not publically playable.
SNK: No playable SvC Chaos, and no demo, footage or screenshots at all of the Metal Slug Advance game. All they had playable was KOF 2001 and Metal Slug 3 demos for PS2. A representative confirmed that Metal Slug Advance has a release date for November.
Sega: Updated sports games, a weird game in Billy Hatcher, Sonic Heroes looks promising and VF4Evo was there. Other than that and NFL 2K4 having a layout makeover that looks nice... nothing really caught my eye. Will look again soon.
That's all I can think of at the moment... will post any more notables within the next day or two.
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| EddyT
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| "Re(1):Eddy, about RE Outbreak." , posted Thu 15 May 02:49
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It was mentioned on other sites that all players had the ability to access each other's inventories. They did did not specify if they could only view each others inventories or actually share and use the items. Sorry if its a silly question but just wanted to clarify, this could break the game badly.
Also, did they talk about any possible charges for playing the game?
I played it at the Sony booth only. I will visit the Capcom booth and try to ask questions about the pricing and inventory sharing tomorrow. Now that you mention it, I'd bet that you can share items because the item screen displays what all 4 players are holding.
But like it said, it was confusing to understand what was going on w/o any help from booth assistants. A bunch of Japanese guys who were not working for the Sony booth were running from person to person to try and help us get items or show us where to go. It was pretty funny to see them get really excited about it and try to help the guys who couldn't read Japanese at all.
Forgot to mention that I was somehow able to headlock a zombie cop. I tried to do something after doing that, but all it did was release him afterward. Also, if one of your comrades loses stamina and falls to the ground, but doesn't die, you must go over their bodies and pick them up. Otherwise they will have to wait on the ground and cannot move. Apparently, you can die... but I don't know how that is achieved yet.
Forgot to mention that the zombies can now either chew you or swipe you with their hands and knock you down. They also can gang up on you and chew on your body. I'm talking about multiple zombies... not just one of them chewing on ya.
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| HazZan 1250th Post
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| "Re(1):E3 impressions Day 1" , posted Sat 17 May 00:14
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I spent most of the day in the West Hall. I'll try to avoid repeating stuff that other sites would have possibly gone over already with their reviews.
Pac-Man Gamecube: This game was way fun! You have heard about how 3 players play the ghosts on the GC and 1 player plays the Pac-Man on the GBA, right? Well, what happens is that the 4th player always starts as Pac-Man. When the Pac-Man player gets eaten by the ghost, he loses 1600 points and must trade his GBA to the GC player. The ghost who eats Pac-Man also earns 1600 points. Once the controller and GBA are exchanged, the GBA player can press start to resume. The maze resets the dots when a new Pac-Man player starts his game. Eating the fruit on the maze can either increase the viewing area for the ghost who eats it... or shrinks it for all 3 ghosts if Pac-Man eats it. The fruit icon will flash in the middle of the screen for the ghost players to get a heads-up. Games have an overall timer of about 400 seconds long.
Four Swords Gamecube: Much different than the GB version, and you only need the GBA/GC cable to play for each GBA system (no cart needed). You play in a Link To The Past environment with cool Wind Waker effects when you kill enemies (they die in a puff of swirly purple smoke). When you go inside a house or a hole in the ground, you will be able to look at your GBA screen to find hidden rupees. In this mode, you can pick up others and throw them, much like Four Swords GBA. When you kill all enemies on screen, all four players must go to the designated exit side of the screen to continue, and it will be denoted by 4 arrows on a side of the screen.
Resident Evil Outbreak: One of my favorite games at the show. You can choose from 8 different characters in the beginning. It was so cool to see other peoples' screens and see how the realtime intro was different depending on who you chose. You start off stuck in a bar and getting raided by zombies. Weapons such as pistols or brooms can be equipped. Having no weapon only allowed you to push zombies away from you, which isn't very effective because you don't knock them down. You also cannot run like you could in other RE games... you can only walk. The game seemed to employ the usual RE presentation... fixed camera angles that shift to different perspectives when you walk out of an area. I didn't see any typing or headset support, but you could hear other online characters scream preset sayings when attacked or doing other stuff. The problem I encountered with the game was the difficulty of finding items before everyone else picked them up. And even when I watched others play, I couldn't tell where items were laid out. It had a weird mix of Japanese and English subtitles, so it was confusing to understand what was going on half the time. Otherwise, it seemed to be fun. I believe it will use the new PS2 HDD.
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They said that the gaming industry is a 8 billion dollar industry and it's getting bigger.
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| EddyT
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| "Re(4):Naruto" , posted Tue 20 May 09:19
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Cool, thanks for the info Eddy.
Its a relief, I couldnt get this image from my head of some moron in my party just using up everyone's ammo and other stuff, then dropping out of the game. I do hope that they make their online menus and GUI better for this game, the ones used in PS2 Auto Modellista and X-Box CvS2 are very unfriendly and confusing.
Another question if you dont mind (probably too late to ask hehe)are there different stages to play in or are they planning to use only one city/stage only? does the replay value mainly come from using different characters?
I can also imagine someone hogging all the important items and then dropping... they should make it so that if someone drops, they drop ALL their items in the process. It would make sense, because if you need a key to proceed... how will you be able to do so? Thank God that you can only hold so many things... but I think they should have a few more items and/or weapons laying around.
The menus were in Japanese mostly... so I couldn't tell if they were user-friendly or not. I would hope it would be easier to tell what's going on. So I can't really judge, but I can guess if you're not a veteran of RE games... you'll have a tough time playing Outbreak.
I would assume that there are different areas to explore... but I am not certain if the game will randomize locations or anything like that. The demo only showed the same area each time you played. I would assume that the replay value will lie with the different characters you play as well, since they all have different intros when you start a game.
TalbainEric: Unfortunately, I didn't see much Ratchet & Clank 2... saw people play it but didn't get to try it myself. I would have tried it if I saw your post earlier. Konami's booth had a lot of interesting things... MGS Gamecube looks promising, although it's a bit choppy and unoptimized right now. I would love to try to play that new Kojima game that involves playing out in the sun (there was a pretty nifty cartoon short they showed at the booth explaining the game).
TMNT: I really really want to play more of this game. The PS2/GC/XBox version is really fun in terms of looks and control... very solid movement and it is very reminiscent of old TMNT games. The Game Boy Advance one was a little of a disappointment for me. There's some parts where you're stuck on one plane of attack (can't move from foreground to background) and I miss being able to grab and throw your opponents like TMNT arcade. Hopefully they'll work out the kinks before the final.
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