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Tyranitar24 | July 18, 2008 | News | Playstation 2 Playstation 3 E3 2008

... Then all you have to do is follow the key ingredients from this year's E3. GamesRadar takes a look at what happened at this year's E3, what the important stuff was, and how it affected us all.

So E3 '08 is finally over, and what a largely underwhelming week of drama and disappointment it was. But every show is a mixed bag and every show has its own personality, so over the next few pages you'll find our rundown of what happened, what was important, and how it affected our overall impression of the show this year. Snark and cynicism abounds!

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Omegaplib | July 19, 2008

wrong,"wii music is more interesting and than a trash","OMFG,Do not Save me!"
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Bale Fire | July 19, 2008

I don't see why everyone is so pessimistic about this year's E3, there was some good stuff this year. Better than last year's surely.

Though the stuff not showing up really confused me. Halo brushed under the rug and then quietly mentioned in one small interview, a very quick mention of Pikmin 3, announcements of a new Zelda but nothing to back it up, a super awesome PS3 exclusive that they won't tell anyone about? Man the executives are weird
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Tenken | July 19, 2008

This year's E3 was bad? I'm more psyched about the upcoming titles now than before by a mile.

Fallout 3? Gears 2? FFXIII? HAWX? EndWar? How was this E3 bad?
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kspiess | July 19, 2008

E3 was awesome IMHO. There were tons of amazing videos that came out of it.

http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Games/Reports/e308d2/
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  RabidChinaGirl | July 20, 2008
  
  Get your cursors away from that Thumbs Down icon already!
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TurMoiL911 | July 19, 2008

A lot of druggies seem to be judging this year's E3, huh ?

This E3 was great. The only people who were pissed were PS3 owners who lost one of their biggest exclusive titles.
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  Koloth | July 19, 2008
  
  No, not PS3 owners. PS3 fanboys. Remember there is a difference.
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    Final Blade | July 19, 2008
    
    _{Im a PS3 owner and Im pissed. So its not all fanboys.}
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Game Hawk | July 19, 2008

This year's E3 was awesome (even though I only watched the Microsoft Conference).

Now I desperately want to buy Fallout 3, Resident Evil 5 (Co-Op? Holy shit! The other RE's were awesome, but this one blows them out of the water!), Fable 2 (while they basically wasted Microsoft's time at E3 revealing facts we already knew, I still want to get this game), and, of course, no doubt about it, Gears of War 2. So, I don't see what was so bad about E3 '08...
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Marshal Loss | July 19, 2008

Why is everyone insulting this years E3? It was better than last year and alot of the games that have been shown there, frankly, look freaking awesome. Fable 2 looks awesome and as Game Hawk yes Resident Evil 5 looks unbelieveable.
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BlackLabel | July 19, 2008

Resident Evil 5 looks really bad and i'll say why, co-op isn't scary i mean Resi was about scares and absolute horror, its not horror anymore, that stupid woman ruins the whole mechanic. Resi was looking good until they introduced her, "oh you can't get past certain things without someone else" oh i am sure you can they just won't let you to make the co-op a worthy addition. It will only work online but even then you will always find people that know nothing of team work, and single player you get lumped with an AI that is probably really unresponsive and dumb ala. Army of Two.
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TurMoiL911 | July 19, 2008

I'm just glad they released a Too Human demo for it. God, I felt in love with that game. I haven't played an RPG that awesome since Mass Effect.
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Mario_1 | July 19, 2008

LoL, just a bunch of biased nerd rage. This year's E3 wasn't all that bad.
As for FFXIII? I'm a PS3 owner since recently, and I don't care much. FF Versus XIII clearly looks like the better game so far, and that one will almost definitely stay an exclusive. Besides, God of War III is comin' as well.
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Gothic Girl | July 19, 2008

If you shovel out the awful moments, E3 delivered some great game news.
... though there was a hell of a lot of awful moments to wade through before finding the good stuff. >_>
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  VeGiTAX2 | July 19, 2008
  
  Dismiss the Nintendo and Sony conferences and it was a lot easier to move along with news. Those who skipped out on the Konami conference also generally did better as well. Honestly it was one of those things where if you just did the appointments and met with the people making the games you were better off. I have such a pile of info to put out there for everyone still that it's taking a bit to compile.
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    Akira_EX | July 19, 2008
    
    Don't forget Capcom's conference, where they spent the whole time talking about the Lost Planet movie.
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      VeGiTAX2 | July 19, 2008
      
      Thanks... I tried to erase the repeated comments about that from my brain. >_< I just replaced it with being able to handle SFIV in person.
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    RabidChinaGirl | July 19, 2008
    
    Between the two of us, I had the *good fortune* of attending SCEA and Konami's conferences, saving Vegi a lot of precious time to explore some of the better aspects of E3. SCEA's conference had a lot of flash so it distracted you from the fact that they had NO substance. Konami, though, was just banking on die-hard Castlevania fans who will continue swallowing sequels and spin-offs as though they were holy scriptures written by the bodhisattva of gaming.
    
    NEIN, I say, NEEEEEEEIN!!!!
    
    That said, Vegi's right about the appointments and meeting rooms -- they had all the yummy goodies, not the huge publicized conferences.
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Zeta | July 19, 2008

I thought it was pretty good ^^ Great games coming =D
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Taker4ever | July 19, 2008

I'm just glad we got to see something from God Of War III. Screw losing Final Fantasy - God Of War III is the big-one.
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BANDITO ATTACK | July 19, 2008

e3 was going to be lame. we all knew it was going to be lame. we talked about how lame it was going to be long before it happened. it happened. it was lame. why are we still talking about it?
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Supernouva | July 20, 2008

Well, the Gears 2, Fallout 3, and the revamped Xbox 360 Dashboard footage, not to mention the FFXIII news, was enough to make this E3 satisfying for me.