3/5

Some stuff was amazing, some was not, simple as that.

In my opinion it did. MS has been extremely silent in the months leading up the E3 and they were even saying it was going to be bigger than last year's E3 but it failed to impress me and I'm a fairly die hard 360 fan. Sure they had the expected greatness of core games that were known of well in advance (which got it the score it did from me) and they showed off the Kinect tech working great (which was also expected), but nothing to really wow us. I'd say 3 is an average score (much like many consider a 7.5 for games). Anything higher needed more.

Their press briefing was neither good nor bad. It was a solid presentation of pretty much everything that most expected. I hope they still have a few surprises left sprinkled around the show.

3...

For Gears 3, Halo Reach...

Rest was, umm not my thang. But it should sell like crazy.

What's the point? I can go ahead and answer that question right now.

Did everyone just completely ignore the Crytek exclusive? How is that not a megaton?

i'd say first 30 mins was a 4-5, pretty much what i expected crytec was a big surprise (i'm from germany, so there is a little crytec bias ) and the announce trailer looked decent (albeit a little too god of war-ish)

last hour or so a 1... or even lower. espn will not be available where i live. dance game, fitness game, pet game, sports game (running on the spot... anyone remember the avgn "NES gadget" video?)  are already available, and as with guitar hero or rockband and so on there is no real need to re-buy them just for upgraded graphics and two new features in my opinion. racing... erm yeah i will much rather use my wheel and the star wars game looked pretty bland. in addition some of the performances were pretty awkward/embarrassing.

overall feeling: pretty much a gigantic letdown. biggest part of the show was not aimed at me i guess, but i expected at least ONE good "hardcore" natal game (not shooting, but something with game-play/mechanics depth). voted 2... for the pretty good demos in the first third.

Lets see

Kinect (awful name, seen someone say its like one of those gamertags you make fun of because they 'kant speel') was a good concept but the software line up wont appeal to the majority of the userbase. Personally only vaguely interested in Kinect Sports but very under-whelmed.

Heard nothing about Kinect Adeventures, Kinectimals makes me want to puke, JoyRide and Forza Kinect sound stupid because because you use an Air-Wheel.

The only titles that interest me are 3rd one. Star Wars sounds decent (so far) and Im waiting to hear to what extent MGS Rising uses the camera. Dance Central sounds good but Ive never been a dancer so the game is not for me.

Honestly I would rather use a controller. Getting more and more tempted to defect to the PlayStation

I gave it a zero.

It was astonishingly bad.

There was almost no kinect gameplay. Wii sports resort. Bad kinect recognition, from the tiger not understanding orders to things not jumping properly. Espn for nearly 10 minutes with stupid interface like "who do you think is going to win" crap. Fitness games for nearly half an hour. Only highlights were reach and black ops, and we already knew about those.

MGS Rising was cool to finally see, but it's not exclusive and there was no kinect support. Joyride was MNR without the flair.

No price on kinect, fable 3 looked downgraded.

This conference destroyed my hype and my purchasing interest. Nothing interesting that I can't get somewhere else.

with just about nothing shown about a new IP, this barely registered with anyone. It's from the makers of crysis, but that's the extent of the hype.

Eh, I can't get excited over a trailer like that.  I'd like to see a little more first.

What was funny though is there was a large group of us watching it and we were all trying to figure out if it was God of War or a God of War knockoff.  :-p