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what's up internet Kevin here now tomorrow is the beginning of III s floor show but today is just press conferences galore with four different companies we just finished the first two with Microsoft and EA and I wanted to take a moment to bring you guys a brief little recap of those two shows and their highlights what I liked about him what I got excited for or what just bored me and just my overall thoughts of the press conferences so far so to begin with there was microsoft's press conference which in all honesty in my opinion was one of the best one they've done in years at no point did they dedicate 30 minutes of the show to just watching people flail around in front of connects or take time talking about third-party deals they made for media or new UI functions on the Xbox one it was nothing but games after games after games now I wasn't a big fan of how they started things off with call of duty advanced warfare mainly because that is a multi-platform title and I was hoping to see more exclusive stuff right away but I will say it was really nice to see a new call of duty game that actually looked new and not just a reiteration of what we've seen for the past five years overall we saw a lot more trailers and gameplay for a lot of other multi-platform games you've heard about already including evolve we saw a SAS ins Creed unity announced its four player co-op mode dragon age inquisition the division and my personal favorite actual gameplay for the witcher 3 but the really big thing i think about this press conference were how many actual exclusive games they also announced and are actually going to get a holiday 2014 release in particular sunset overdrive looked like a ton of fun and i really like the gameplay they showed but i am just a little skeptical about whether or not the game will look like that at launch compared to today's demo i'm also mildly interested in fable legends despite how I felt about some of the later games in the series but I'm just a huge sucker for a symmetric game so the idea of having four player co-op with heroes fighting against one basically a digital dungeon master sounds really cool to me I just hope that they really addressed the combat issues from the earlier games and make it a lot more complex than just press X to win now of course there is the one gigantic microsoft exclusive elephant in the room which is halo 5 which we didn't really get that much more new info for outside of a couple of trailers but they did announce the halo master chief collection which is coming up this holiday which contains halos 1 through 4 for xbox one including an HD remake of my personal favorite halo 2 including the original multiplayer gameplay it will also be including a live-action series called halo nightfall and a bay for halo 5 which will be starting in december outside of that we did to get a couple other announcements in terms of games we got a nice little montage of a lot of different indie games which is not something Microsoft's done in a while especially one in particular that was really gorgeous called Ori we also got a couple games announced for 2015 including a sequel to the tomb raider reboot and a new action game from platinum games called scalebound which features a main character that's clearly not Dante fighting against an alongside really giant monsters that looks like it could be really interesting and I'm hoping to see real gameplay for soon overall it was a really solid press conference there wasn't anything particularly earth-shattering but it was just nice consistent announcement after announcement and easily in my opinion it was the best Microsoft press conference in quite a few years then there was a witch in all honesty I wasn't really as enthusiastic about now to be fair I am a bit biased when it comes to EA Sports I just really don't care that much about those games I'm not really interested in fifa madden or pga tour even the new criterion games featuring vehicles or UFC pretty much the only thing that can knock me out of the slumber as if they announced a new SSX game now there was one particular segment of the show dedicated to bioware games we finally got to see some actual gameplay of dragon age inquisition which at the moment I'm caught on the fence about I really loved dragon age origins and didn't care as much for dragon age 2 and it looks like the gameplay we saw really shows a very similar action focus like we saw in dragon age 2 which isn't necessarily a bad thing it could still be a major improvement it's just that there's not enough info to work on yet so it does have me a little more worried alongside that Bioware also announced two other projects we are for sure getting a new Mass Effect game though there wasn't really any new info outside of a focus on new environments and then another unnamed IP that is in the works that we really got no information on outside of the fact that it exists there is also a lot of time spent on sims 4 which basically just boiled down to a lot of gameplay showing a bro working out and obama dancing at a house party which to be honest I kind of blanked out on now EA also showed some more gameplay for their attempt at a MOBA game dangi which really didn't get a whole lot more new info on just a few behind the scenes interviews and seeing just a little snippets of gameplay now there were three actual big things that happened during the EA press conference that were peppered throughout basically one at the start the middle and the very end first up was a closer look at star wars battlefront 3 we finally got to see just a little bit of game play looking at environments but still not too much info yet second off we finally got to see some actual gameplay of mirrors edge 2 which does look very similar but we saw a lot more of the in-depth behind-the-scenes work of how they're trying to make the perk or as realistic as possible and really for me this was the highlight of the whole press conference now third up and last but not least we saw a really long gameplay segment that was clearly scripted of battlefield hardline but the really interesting thing is that they also announced that sign ups and the actual close to beta for it is starting today which also led to the website having just a few problems as a direct result overall I really didn't care that much for the e a press conference there were some highlights that I liked but it just felt really weak and slow especially considering what we saw at the microsoft press conference right before now these were just two out of the five press conferences planned for e3 we've still got Ubisoft and so need to deal with later today which i'll be posting a response bid for as well and tomorrow we'll have nintendo which depending on my schedule you might be putting up as well so don't miss that and make sure you subscribe so you can catch those videos and if you enjoyed this one please make sure hit that thumbs up button as well to let me know don't forget you can also follow me on my personal twitter at kevin kenson where i've been live tweeting my thoughts and all the different press conferences and announcements coming out of III so be seen guys later on but until then i'm kevin kenson and i'll see you later