Sony's E3 Press Conference - The Review

After Sony's conference at E3 2010 all there is to say is WOW! With Sony's focus on the start of 3D gaming there is clear indicators of Sony's intentions on their gaming future. Here is what went down in the conference today.

• The conference kicked it off with a 3D Killzone 3 live demo that featured cool glasses, jet packs, greta visuals, and the release date being February 2011.
• Next was a trailer featuring many 3D games that are to come including Eyepet, Motorstorm: Apocalypse, The Sly Collection, and Gran Tourismo 5.
• Sony is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the PS2 this year. They indicated that it is still a high selling console despite it not being a current generation console.
• Sony's motion capture gaming the Playstation Move was shown off and it's 1 to 1 movement is absolutely incredible. It will be released September 19th in North America and the controller will cost roughly 50 dollars American.
• Sorcery live demo is phenomenal. Amazing motion gameplay which was my favorite part of the conference.
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour '11 will also have a add on to support the Playstation Move at it's launch.
• A trailer for Heroes on the Move (working title) features your favorite Sony heroes Sly Cooper, Ratchet and Clank, and Jak and Daxter.
• Kevin Butler showed up and there were plenty of lawls to be had. He delivered to us a very inspirational speech on how much he loves gaming.
• A new ad campaign for the PSP is revealed featuring Marcus Rivers from the movie Role Models. What is done so far is very funny and will soon be seen on your TV.
• A trailer for God of War: Ghosts of Sparta reveals a new God of War title for the PSP.
• Playstation Home has recreated the Sony booth at E3 this year for all who couldn't be there so if you would like to experience the booth, check it out on Playstation Home.
• Little Big Planet 2 is shown in a live demo and features new competitive scoring and new mini games.
• There will be Playstation Plus subscriptions for roughly 50 bucks American for extra features to the Playstation Network.
• Medal of Honour will be a PS3 exclusive coming out 2010. A snazzy trailer of the game was shown, it has left it's World War 2 setting and gone into modern day Afghanistan warfare. The BETA will be released June 21st.
• A live demo of Dead Space 2 shows off it's pretty graphics and blows away the crowd.
• A Portal 2 trailer is shown but does not reveal very much to viewers.
• Final Fantasty 14 has a new trailer as well to tease the franchise's many fans.
• Assassin's Creed Brotherhood will feature PS3 exclusive missions and we were shown a first look at the new multiplayer mode.
• Gran Tourismo 5 keeps with its totally realistic look in it's trailer and will be available November 2, 2010 in 3D if you have the 3D TV ready by that time.
• InFamous 2 shows off a new trailer and a release date set for sometime in 2011.
• A big surprise hits us for the end of the conference...HOLY SHIT TWISTED METAL IS COMIGN TO PS3!!! Yes the car combat franchise is coming to Playstation 3 in 2011. The makers showed off some new team deathmatch that includes helicopter on top of group vehicles and a new multiplayer game mode called Nuke.

Overall

Sony's E3 conference blew me away and even though the Playstation products aren't really my fanboy region, I am seriously excited for what Sony is bringing in the coming year and CAN'T WAIT to get my hands on Twisted Metal in current generation gaming. Sony knows exactly what they want for the future of gaing.

-Jeremy M.