Been watching most of the shows today, but dang, how many FPS games that are so incredibly similar, but what's worse is how there's practically no content that isn't all about overkill violence, Hollywood-like violence and presentation. It's as if that's what's the only thing. Even worse to me personally, some of those games seem to focus on war propaganda.
That said, I enjoyed the presentation of Halo 4 (Looks like it'll be a great singleplayer game and story), Black Ops 2 (Interesting scenario that some have been warning about, unmanned drone armies used against the army, too bad it's still the same old CoD formulae, but at least we know what to expect). Watch Dogs looks great, though surely a scary premise. Assassin's Creed 3 looks great as well, though I was less impressed with Revelations.
Dishonored looks like Half Life 2, Bioshock (Infinite) and Deus Ex put together, very interesting. Harvey Smith's one of the leads, one of the main developers of Deus Ex 1 (and 2...), but also Raf Colantonio, with games like Arx Fatalis and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic in his portfolio as well. Seems quite promising.
Crysis 3 failed to impress me particularly, it's like Crysis 2.5 for me, which doesn't interest me as much as Crysis 1's style. The weapons are the same, the music seems to be the same, the environment in the demo is practically the same, wonder what those '7 distinct areas' are like, I want to speed away from the very much limiting 'Urban Jungle' as soon as possible.
Hitman Absolution's pretty impressive technically, so many NPCs that actually seem to do something. In general it seems to be a solid title.
So, quite mixed feelings about this E3 indeed...
