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slowmo on 01 June 2009
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I love how we switched from Sony fans purely running damage control to now Nintendo fans desperately playing down Natal cradling their wiimote to their chests whimpering.

I really enjoyed the show personally, I thought Crackdown 2, Splinter Cell and Halo ODST looked amazing, although full judgement will not be passed until I see some better qiality captures.

Forza 3 looked fantastic, I fully expect GT5 to have another boat load of features attached to the "will be added in a patch later" list as they fall further behind.

Alan Wake confirmed as not being vapour ware at last, I don't get those people who dismissed it's graphics earlier in the thread as I very much doubt they're watching a 720p (minimum) capture to make that judgement.

MGS is a big announcement but to be honest I didn't enjoy MGS4 that much so I wasn't fussed either way, still it's good for fans of the series to finally have the choice.

Project Natal was amazing, I didn't expect all the facial/speech recognition and it to be so advanced on full body motion capture. Imagine what a developer could do if they got you to scan your own animation routines into games using this technology. It would take character personalisation to a whole new level. What if they utilize Natal in conjuction with a traditional controller, head tracking for example in racing and shooters. The concepts that the technology offers is staggering and it's quite sad we have so many pathetic fanboys on these site unable to think outside the box. I guess they want gaming to become stagnated with old ideas, Wii was a catalyst for gaming to evolve and Microsoft may have just taken the next huge step.

Finally the live interaction stuff got boring, I think they could have cut a lot of that from the presentation (especially facebook) but I guess it is really another big innovation so it was always going to get air time.

I don't do who won e3 personally but Sony and Nintendo will need good presentations as this was impressive (facebook aside).