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switch midway through the first big day of announcements here at e3 and EA just wrapped up its press conference sometimes this was incredibly exciting and exhilarating and sometimes you just wanted to turn it off and stop watching it was so dull so we're going to go ahead and try to cut out all the bad bits and just give you the best there's basically one thing that everybody came into this event wanting to see and that is star wars battlefront which is an online shooter set in the Star Wars universe in battlefront you can either join the Empire or the rebellion and he is compared it to a virtual toy box where you get to act out being in any battle you ever wanted to be in in Star Wars Battlefront always sounded pretty cool but we haven't gotten to see much of it until today when EA give us five minutes of what it calls pre-alpha battlefront footage and that footage seriously shows you a lot of stuff you can shoot down 80 80 s and shoot things down with a TIE fighter and use a lightsaber enforced hours and anything that you tried to act out with your friends after seeing the movie when you were a kid of course the problem is that we're not actually seeing a game when it says pre alpha footage it means they picked everything they thought would be cool and stuffed it into one level so whatever we end up seeing when it comes out later this year is going to be pretty different but this does show that ye a knows what is cool and it knows what we do want to see and hopefully they're going to be able to actually translate that into a game so unfortunately not everything was this much fun to watch if you like sports games EA has a lot of the best and they've refreshed just about every single one of them but they didn't manage to really communicate why you'd want these everything looks better everything has some new features you can scan your face and put it actually into the game with this new 3d scanning technology that hopefully won't look like a terrifying uncanny valley although we haven't gotten to try it out but the whole thing just ended up dragging on maybe because they spent way way too long in an interview with Pele and we wish we could just unsee that and it did bring back a couple of our old favorites just the games that have become modern classics that people love playing one of them is mass effect there's going to be a new game called Mass Effect Andromeda and it's set on the Mass Effect universe but it's not going to star commander shepard it's a new story we don't actually know a whole lot besides that except that apparently it looks really good with a Johnny Cash song which is a little bit of a change from the epic sci-fi space opera that we've gotten used to so we're going to be waiting for details on that and then there's a game that's kind of a personal favorite of mine which is Mirror's Edge music had a ton of flaws but it also just managed to be a fantastic experience when they got it right and now they've got another game that's a prequel called Mirror's Edge catalyst where they have a chance to do that and the trailer captures a lot of the things I really liked about the first game but we don't get to actually watch anybody play it so we don't know if they fix those flaws now sometimes III can just feel like a cavalcade of guns but es keynote was actually pretty varied there's this adorable little yarn creature and there's a new plants vs zombies garden warfare game and then there's racing and then there's all the sports but it looks like the thing we're going to be most excited for for this coming year is these big epic story experiences like Star Wars and mass effect and apparently we're going to be really excited about space too since that's both of those if you want more details you can check out our full write-up on the verge com or you can watch a far more watchable condensed supercut of this keynote on youtube so just stay with us for the rest of you three we're going to keep bringing you all of the news and all of the games that we're seeing here