Best/Worst of E3 2010 - Ryan P.

So E3 ended yesterday and its time to look back on everything. With some of the biggest news this year and the new technology that was demoed its finally time to take a look and see the best and who failed miserably.

Best Game: Rage

The new game by Id software is shaping up to be one of the most promising games of next year. From the looks up the game will run first of all on one of the best engines (if not the best) courtesy of John Carmack of course. It includes car combat (don't worry its still a first person shooter first and foremost), different factions with their own behaviours, and a story that might actually be good. To put it simply everything in the game is unique including the textures! It most certainly is the game I'm personally looking forwards too next year but that's the problem everyone has to wait till then.

Best Announcement: The brand new Kid Icarus game

Nintendo finally announced what people wanted a brand new Kid Icarus game. This is the reason to own a 3DS not because you can take something like Ocarina of Time around with you. It's this. I just hope it doesn't disappoint.

Best Conference: Nintendo

They finally fought back this year and focused on one thing the games. This was the year they're finally trying to bring the core audience back or at least instill nostalgia. With the new Zelda, Donkey Kong Country, Kirby and Kid Icarus game all announced just in the span of around an hour and a half Nintendo just kept delivering the entire time. Even the 3DS part was impressive even though it basically was just what game series was coming to the system. This was Nintendo's E3 it just took them a lot of years to finally make it so.

Best... Thing: Kinect

Kinect gets this not because of its games but because of what it can actually do. Giving you the ability to videochat, command your 360 through your voice and it's hands free interface clearly makes more of a useful tool then something you'd use for gaming. The only problem is that there isn't a price for it yet.

Now for the bottom of the barrel

Worst Game: Wii Party

This abomination should be called Wii Music 2 because that's exactly what it is. Its the next Wii Music because its going to be just that bad. Hey it Mario Party but with miis instead and that party turned to shit about 5 games ago. Not even the fact that any mii in the world can join in can save it even though thats a completely useless feature. This unoriginal, boring piece of shit will make the wii still maintain it's shovelware mentality. Think about it even a first party Nintendo game has to take that title at a certain point.

Worst Announcement: The new 360

Sure it looks nice, is quieter, cooler and has built in wi-fi but it's still a kick in the face of all the people who has a 360 and the wireless adapter which is everyone that has Xbox Live. Hey you spent like $400 on just getting the console and the Internet you should've waited and just bought it for $299. Microsoft you've brought out Vista no need to give 360 users a kick in the face as well.

Worst Conference: Ubisoft

Ubisoft decided to take the bad to a whole new level. With a host whose main points was using the word awesome, being punchable in the face the entire time, and the worst humour in the history of man how the audience laughed I'll never know. One other thing that made it the worst conference they're making a laser tag a video game. Toys exist for that and your not confined to your television with those. The Ubisoft press conference was one of the worst things at E3 while making you want to destroy whatever was near you.

Worst...Thing: Kinect Games

Well yeah its more the games for Kinect are among the lines of the worst things I have every seen. Imagine a system where all the games are shovelware and you'd get Kinect. Every single game looked like the most casual piece of shit I've ever seen. From Kinectimals to that stupid car racing game (first of all you can only play it as long as you can keep your arms up) everything disappointed. I know its Microsoft's play for all the casual gamers but it makes Kinect seem like extremely pointless version of the Wii. They really need to rethink their approach to the casual market.

Bonus! Worst Name At E3: A Tiger Named Skittles

A tiger is meant to be called (insert scream here) not Skittles!

-Ryan P.