[E3 2010] Electronic Arts Press Conference, June 14th 2pm PT/5pm ET

[AgtFox]

This is our coverage of the EA Press Conference on Monday, June 14th at 2pm PT/5pm ET.

Feel free to reply to this thread, but be sure to leave this specific post open to watch the Cover it Live as it happens.

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[AgtFox]

This should be interesting

1. If Insomniac's game is already in development, we may see the unveiling of the name and type of game it is and maybe when it will be coming and to what systems.

2. They will show off games that will use Move (already out technically with Tiger 11) and Natal. I think they are tipping towards Move at this point and I expect more sports games this year to have the ability to use it. Not sure about Natal.

3. Medal of Honor, Dead Space 2, Bulletstorm, Crysis 2, EA Sports MMA, Madden, NBA Jam, Risk: Factions and many others will be shown.

4. Criterion's next game will be shown. Rumor is it is the next NFS game, but who really knows.

5. Hopefully Battlefield 3 will finally be unveiled

[AgtFox]

Presser is about 10 minutes away.

[Vigil80]

I think this is the conference I'm most looking forward to, moreso than any of the console presentations.

[Jackel]

Best place to watch this one ?

[Rogue_hunter]

Best place to watch this one ?

http://www.ea.com/1/e3-live

[DoctorFinger]

Unfortunately it looks like Ea's own stream is down. I'm watching on YouTube's E3 channel (http://www.youtube.com/E3).

[Vigil80]

I'm at GT.
http://www.gametrailers.com/e3/livefeed/ea

[Rogue_hunter]

I'm watching ea.com's stream with Jeff Green liveblogging.

Need for Speed by Criterion, November 16th release date

[Vigil80]

New NFS might pull me back into a racing game. First time since the first NFS Underground.

[Seika]

PS3 lead platform on both games so far?

[Vigil80]

Looks that way.

Edit:
Said after the Dead Space 2 demo...
If that looked like a cliffhanger, it's because it was. Find out how it ends tomorrow at the Sony show.

[Seika]

MOH on PS3s.

[Vigil80]

With respect to the fact that all we saw was a minute or two of people shooting each other, it looks rather like CoD: MW.

[Rogue_hunter]

All versions of Medal of Honor will have a beta starting next week. MoH looks even better than Bad Company 2.

[Rogue_hunter]

Bad Company 2 expansion pack, Vietnam, Fall 2010

[Seika]

Oh Snap!

BC2: Vietnam, Expansion!

Take that Activision!

[Spectre-7]

With respect to the fact that all we saw was a minute or two of people shooting each other, it looks rather like CoD: MW.

That was precisely the impression I got. Granted, I wasn't watching too closely, but it didn't seem like there was much reason to.

Interesting to see them going back to Vietnam with Battlefield. Last time wasn't exactly a smashing success, although I happen to think it was a bit underrated.

[Seika]

This is already waaayy better than the Microsoft conference.

[Spectre-7]

Crysis 2 looked pretty, although the gameplay didn't set my pants on fire. I'd really hoped they were going to show some of the claimed vertical aspects, but no such luck.

Now, it's Bulletstorm time. Yeee! Hey, that's Spike Spiegel's voice!

[OldJadedGamer]

Bad Company 2 expansion pack, Vietnam, Fall 2010

I missed this news.

[Seika]

Bulletstorm looks like it could be good, a la Painkiller.

[OldJadedGamer]

Star Wars MMO... yawn.

[Spectre-7]

Bulletstorm looks like it could be good, a la Painkiller.

I'm expecting a lot of stupid fun. Movement seemed a little more sluggish than I'd prefer, and I was disappointed at how little damage the enemies seemed to do (never looked like the player was in danger) but that was probably just for the demo.

[Spectre-7]

Star Wars MMO... yawn.

And more trailers that play nothing at all like anything we've seen in-game. Gotta love the adrenaline pumping, shaky-cam war documentary style footage, advertising a game where players stand still as statues and blast each other until someone falls.

Yawn seconded.

[Press Ninja]

Gotta say, Bulletstorm looked awesome. I didn't care about it before, but now it's looking like a day 1 grab for me.

[Vigil80]

I enjoyed the vid, but I suppose we are just watching the sort of thing that plays the first time a player visits a zone, before he sets off on his first fetch quest for the area. :(

[Spectre-7]

I enjoyed the vid, but I suppose we are just watching the sort of thing that plays the first time a player visits a zone, before he sets off on his first fetch quest for the area. :(

"Greetings traveler! Look upon the riven landscape of Alderaan and despair. Each day, the battlefront grinds another mile of our world into dust, and soon the whole planet shall be a ruined wasteland... yet hope remains alive! We can halt the holocaust, you and I, if only I had 15 Bantha skins..."

[RandoM51]

Need For Speed Hot Pursuit looked sweeeeeet. I love Criterion.

Dead Space II looks like it has added just what it needed to spice up the monotonous gameplay of the first while beefing up the weapons across the board.

MoH looks like a CoD/KZ2 clone with a slightly different palette. Sweet mp onstage demo, though.

Bulletstorm looks like it might be one of those games that are so over the top and so goofy that they end up incredibly cool. It almost made my dick fall off there at the end.

You know something is horribly wrong with the Star Wars MMO when all they show is a CGI trailer.

[Vigil80]

MoH looks like a CoD/KZ2 clone with a slightly different palette.
I'm actually rather ok with that. It wasn't CoD's gameplay that turned me off, but the meta-crap with the PC version's matchmaking, the many preventable epxloits, and so on. MoH can use and improve the formula. I'll still check it out.

I've been trying to look into the EA Gun Club thing, but the site seems predictably slammed. Probably be a few hours before it's usable.

[[Jez]]

Not being a fan of racing, sports or fps games they didn't seem to be much for me but I'll keep an eye on Dead Space 2 & Bulletstorm

[MagGnome]

Is there going to be a summary of what was announced, ala the MS press conference? Reading though a liveblog after the fact is kind of dull. :p

Keep up the good work, guys!

[Vigil80]

I'm looking forward to seeing more about player ships in SW:TOR. That could be rather fun if they develop it enough.

[DoctorFinger]

Is there going to be a summary of what was announced, ala the MS press conference? Reading though a liveblog after the fact is kind of dull. :p

Keep up the good work, guys!Ask, and you shall receive (http://www.colonyofgamers.com/cogforums/showthread.php?t=18000).

[MagGnome]

You are the man. :D

[Kielaran]

The Bad Company expansion is good to hear, but it is too late. They needed it to be now. By then they will have missed their optimal window of opportunity.

[DoctorFinger]

It looks like the Nam expn may ship after MoH does. I don't get the point of that.

[Xerxes]

Sweet, EA Sports Active 2.

[Jason]

Madden 11 will feature 3 on 3 co-op play, as well as a whole new way to handle play calling/playbooks utilizing the headset.

Innovation from Madden? Another sign of the apocalypse!

[Inspector Fowler]

So....weirdness. Because Fortunate Son is used so often in Vietnam movies, I use it as my dad's ringtone. He flew the Huey UH-1H in Vietnam, and I honestly can't hear that song without hearing Huey blades.

So the trailer started up, I could hear the Huey, and then the song, just a few minutes after talking to my dad.

I dunno, there is some negativity, but I'm totally sold.

[J Arcane]

That was precisely the impression I got. Granted, I wasn't watching too closely, but it didn't seem like there was much reason to.

Interesting to see them going back to Vietnam with Battlefield. Last time wasn't exactly a smashing success, although I happen to think it was a bit underrated.

Vietnam was fucking great. I put more hours into that game than any in the series so far.

The Bad Company expansion is good to hear, but it is too late. They needed it to be now. By then they will have missed their optimal window of opportunity.

It looks like the Nam expn may ship after MoH does. I don't get the point of that.

How about because it's awesome?

The audience for this is all about the PC anyway, BF:V never hit consoles.

[Generation ABXY]

I liked the look of a lot of those games, especially Hot Pursuit (I used to love Most Wanted, back on the GameCube). Certainly made for a more enjoyable conference, I think.

[H.Bogard]

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[Generation ABXY]

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m255/HarryBogard/dick.jpg

I have to say, even as fun as the gameplay looked at times, the dialogue in Bulletstorm pained me. I get that it's supposed to be over-the-top, but given what I saw today, I'd probably still have to mute the damn thing.

[MagGnome]

Who still uses Windows Live Messenger? :p

[H.Bogard]

Who still uses Windows Live Messenger? :p

Everyone I know, thus... the usage.

[Wraith]

...and I have a new avatar (at least for a while). What better way to celebrate E3 than with XBL Avatars riding, mid-heroic-pose, in the mouth of a giant, smiling shark?

http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/176418-/Shark_Shot-noscale.jpg

*edit* oops, this should be in the MS conference thread. Must have hit the wrong link on the front page.

[Karak]

...and I have a new avatar (at least for a while). What better way to celebrate E3 than with XBL Avatars riding, mid-heroic-pose, in the mouth of a giant, smiling shark?

http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/176418-/Shark_Shot-noscale.jpg

Awesome Avatar. And is it sad that...that little pic makes me sort of want to check out the game?
Most likely.

[Wraith]

Awesome Avatar. And is it sad that...that little pic makes me sort of want to check out the game?
Most likely.I dunno, it looks like something that might be fun to play exactly once. At least if you're sober, or over 10 years old.

[Karak]

I dunno, it looks like something that might be fun to play exactly once. At least if you're sober, or over 10 years old.

I enjoy games. If its fun its fun. Overthinking it...not so much for me anymore. I will give almost anything a try, and lately have really been the better for it.

[MagGnome]

Everyone I know, thus... the usage.

I know, I was only teasing you. ;)

[kyrieee]

Hey look, they turned Crysis 2 into a scripted ADD game á la CoD. I'm not surprised but it sucks that they're not making a sequel to the part of the game that was actually (very) good.

Who still uses Windows Live Messenger? :p

Pretty much everyone outside the US

[Widgetcraft]

Is Windows Live Messenger the same as MSN? Because I pretty much had to stop logging into that with Trillian; too much spam.

[nabokovfan87]

Is Windows Live Messenger the same as MSN? Because I pretty much had to stop logging into that with Trillian; too much spam.

Yes, and voice chat is terribly bugged on it too.