I look forward to this show every year cause of the announcements but this year almost all the announcements were all "leaked" out.... I will be going most of what happened so if you have DVR and have not watched it well then.... don't read...
As for winners you all can goto the website or www.gametrailers.com to find those out but i will say one thing i am very happy for is that Red Dead Redemption won game of the year and not that cookie cutter FPS black Ops (not that it's not a good game just saying), i esspecially like how the Dev made a crack at what i can assume was EA and Activision in saying and i'm paraphrasing 'this is for all the developers who want to do something different'. which says alot for the current state of games it's either Sequals or remakes lately...
Anyway onto the announcements
Mass Effect 3....
Ok DUH how is this an announcement it was "leaked" by EA earlier in the week and the only thing it did was give us the whole cinematic and a release date of 11/11. This is not news anyway who knew of Mass effect knew there was a third and it will be a good game with bioware at the helm. nuff said!
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
Ok i figured they would announce this game and i am looking forward to it also, not alot of information but will be released in 2011
Batman Arkham City
Now i knew they would show a cinematic of this and i was looking forward to this cause the first game was outstanding and looks to be on track to be a Game of the year for
2011
Resistance 3
I'm sorry but this was "leaked" like a day after Resistance 2 came out or whatever..... this wasnt' news just more information but this should not have been a huge announcement along the same lines as the mass effect 3 announcement .
Mortal kombat w/Kratos for ps3 edition
This was "leaked" a week before and dont be surprised if either master chief (halo) or Marcus (Gears of war) are on the Xbox 360. Still looking forward to this lets hope this will do as well as SF4 did.
Forza 4
I figured with GT5 finally coming out that Forza 4 was going to be announced soon i'm not a racing gamer but looks good.
Prototype 2
DUH was announced earlier this year only news is a vioce over of the bad guy in this game i guess.....
Portal 2
This was just a Cinematic and the game is still delayed but either way will be a winner of a game.
Insane by Guillermo Del Toro
Not alot just his saying he's making the game but just a title screen cinematic can't say much TBH.
Elder Scrolls V :Skyrim
This was the OMFG moment cause i didnt' hear any rumors of this prior to the event and i am extremely looking forward to this next year
other noted announcements
SSX: Deadly Decents, Deadliest Warrior DLC, Thor, Journey
Now for my critique of the show itself....
Neil Patrick Harris hosting was pretty good just did alot of non game things that i think took away from the show, don't get me wrong about NPH he's a great actor and i like his shows just didnt' feel right him hosting he seemed unconfrontable in the enviroment.
Olivia Munn, where to start with this train wreck...... i can't say i honestly like her. Even looks she's pretty but her voice and attitude just isn't for me.
Tony Hawk made a appearance and thankfully he was not trying to promote a stupid game with a plastic board when will activision learn from Skate series but maybe it's best for him to just not make games anymore with Shawn White and Skate as his competition unless he does something amazing i dont see a good Tony hawk game anymore.
as for the other appearances some were good but my head was down in shame cause they had some actress from 90210 do a award.... yeah that says gaming as having some woman on a show that has nothing todo with gaming do it.... i guess thats practically the whole thing really
So my overall review of the show as a B-, it seemed forced the stupid effect for the home viewers was dumb and over all Geoff from game trailers is a producer of the show and i just dont' get it how much money did Activision pay him and Gametrailers.com to promote COD: black ops that was all over the show..... i'm not saying it's a bad game but wow just wow....
