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All the most important and interesting about E3 2016
Microsoft held the third conference. Again almost without surprises, but this time the focus was perhaps the first information about the device, which, as they say, would put the end of the division of consoles into generation. And, which is still insanely important, almost all exclusives of Microsoft will now be on Windows 10.
As usual, we have collected for you all the most important news from the conference and commented on them.
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Xbox One S – Xbox One, but smaller
Microsoft began the presentation on E3 2016 with the announcement of the updated version of the Xbox One console. The game console is called Xbox One S and differs from the original noticeably more modest dimensions: the novelty is 40% more compact, and the power supply is located inside the case.
Xbox One S will be delivered with a capacity of up to 2 TB and a stand that allows you to install the prefix vertically. The console received support for 4K video, Blu-ray and HDR technology, as well as a new wireless controller with a textured handle, support for the Bluetooth interface and an enlarged radius of action.
Bluetooth will allow you to connect the controller to the PC, which will be very helpful: from now on when buying a digital version of the game, gamers will receive it for Xbox One and for Windows 10. At the same time, all the achievements of the player will be synchronized between two platforms, allowing you to continue the game on any device.
Xbox One S will go on sale in August at a price of $ 299.
Fedor Sivov: Xbox One S is a much more predictable step than Project Scorpio (about it later). The consoles usually update the design to attract new buyers and collectors. But this one looks much more sophisticated. It will be much nicer to put it under the TV than to hide on the lower shelf. But all minor improvements of the fillings do not touch the games at all, so, in fact, inside this is still the same Xbox One.
New shots from GEARS of WAR 4
The Coalition Studio has shown new gameplay personnel GEARS of WAR 4. In the video there was a place for the aged Marcus Phoenix – the main character of the classical trilogy.
The central character of the fourth part will be Jay Di Phoenix-the son of Marcus. GEARS of WAR 4 will unfold twenty -five years after the events of the first three parts. The fourth game, like all previous ones, can be held one or together with a friend in cooperative mode.
GEARS OF WAR 4 will be released on October 11 on Xbox One and Windows 10. Fans of the series will be able to buy the Xbox One controller, designed in the style of the fourth part.
Anton Daty: The fourth GEARS of WAR continues to move in the direction set by the trilogy. The battles became even more dynamic: in battles against the new type of “locust”, you can fully use the environment – for example, knock down the load from the crane arrow. Otherwise, these are all the same GEARS – bloody, perky and sharpened under the cooperative. I wonder what really new edits will make coalition to their first franchise project ..
Halo Wars 2 postponed the next year
The Halo Wars 2 strategy from Creative Assembly will be released on February 21, although they planned https://shiny-joker-casino.co.uk/ to release the game this fall. The developers announced that from June 13 to 20, open beta testing will be held at the Xbox One. Two modes will be available to players: Domination (until June 16) and Deathmatch (from June 17 to 20).
The full version of Halo Wars 2 will appear on Xbox One and Windows 10.
Fedor Sivov: Halo Wars 2 is noteworthy not even as a good game in the Halo universe, although this, too, as an affordable strategy in real time (!) on consoles. Last time, Ensemble Studios (alas, the declining) damn great adapted the gameplay under the gamepad. But whether Creative Assembly will manage to make at least no worse? Stormrise , Their only console strategy, to put it mildly, was unsuccessful. In the meantime, we carefully study the open Beto on Xbox One.
Huge (seriously, huge) boss in Scalebound
Hideki Kamia personally presented a five -minute skalebound trailer. The video was devoted to the battle with a huge boss, similar to a spider hybrid and crab. In addition, they showed a cooperative regime – the protagonist went to the battle with the monster with his friends. We will not retell, it is better to see once.
“The most scalebound is similar to the rethought Monster Hunter (there we also hunted fantasy beasts) with a large budget. This Capcom series has become a real social phenomenon in Japan, and it is not strange that Microsoft wants to repeat success, only in the global market. If so, then we have absolutely nothing against it, ”we wrote in preview.
Scalebound will be released next year on PC and Windows 10.
Anton Daty: After demonstrating the cooperative regime, comparison with Monster Hunter begs even more active, and it's good. Slowly but surely Hideki Kamia collects something grandiose, combining the wild proprietary dynamics of Platinum slasers and a measured spirit of adventure from Okami. And the joint passage here definitely won't hurt.
Continuation of State of Decay
Undead Labs studio announced the second part of the State of Decay zombie. Players will be alone or with comrades to survive in an open world, teeming with walking dead. Here you need to look for an overnight stay and organize a common base, equip it and strengthen it. To get water, food and weapons, you will have to leave an impromptu shelter for a while. In addition to the zombie, the danger is hostile to hostile survivors, which are not averse.
State of Decay 2 will be released on PC and Xbox One next year.
Anton Daty: While Bohemia is trying to understand where to click in order Dayz I earned on the consoles, and in Sony they persistently pretend that the company falling off with the online unit H1z1 Never existed, Undead Labs quickly collected reviews about the first (good) state of decay and took up the sequel. Polished social survival about zombies with even more capabilities? Yes, please.
Tekken 7 trailer with Akuma from Street Fighter and General Raam on Killer Instinct
Bandai Namco introduced the new Tekken 7 fighter trailer. The video shown a duel between the Akuma from Street Fighter and Heihati Misima. The authors added that the game will appear on the Xbox One at the beginning of next year, and then the playing will be released on PC and PS4 (last year Tekken 7 appeared on arcade machines).
Meanwhile, Killer Instinct will add General Raam from the first GEARS of War. Developers also made public statistics on the game. From the moment of the release, 7 million players have held more than 2.5 million matches. Killer Instinct has become the best -selling fighting on Xbox One. The game supports the Xbox Play Anywhere function, which allows you to launch the game both on the console and on PC.
Artemy Kozlov: First of all, of course, they thought that Bandai Namco decided to revive Tekken X Street Fighter, but also so good. Guest characters in fighting winging have never harmed anyone else.
Project Scorpio – New Xbox
In addition to the announcement of the “weighty” Xbox One S, Microsoft spoke about the new console under the code name Scorpio. The prefix will not relate to the new generation – all games and peripheral devices for it will work on Xbox One and Xbox One S (and vice versa).
Scorpio will be optimized for working with virtual reality and 4K resolution. Console performance – six teraflops, that is, it is significantly more powerful than Xbox One with its 1.32 teraflops. Technical characteristics have not yet been disclosed, but it is known that the console will appear on sale at the end of 2017.
Anton Daty: Microsoft continues to correct Xbox One release errors, and the announcement of Project Scorpio is a very correct step. Like Apple, the Redmonds abandon the notorious "console generations" and form a single developing ecosystem. Do you want Halo 6 to look five times more beautiful and work with Oculus Rift? Buy Scorpio. But no one forbids to launch the game on an old One – after all, architecture will not change, and this is the main thing. If such a scheme was implemented by Steve Jobs, then why Phil Spencer is worse?
Minecraft will be cross -platform
Minecraft will soon become truly cross-platform: as part of Minecraft Realms, gamers will be able to play with any devices, including Xbox One, PC with Windows 10, gadgets on iOS and Android. In addition, the developers have implemented the support of Oculus Rift. Another innovation was the appearance in the console versions of the “Texture Packs”-roughly speaking, this is an attempt to give console versions at least some mods. As an example, the developers turned zombies into an alien from X-Com.
Anton Daty: Mobile platforms account for most of the Minecraft audience. Combining iOS and Android users (and the update is aimed primarily on this) is a logical stage in the life of the most popular game of recent years.
Well, modifications – the basis of minecraft. Minecraft does not play PC in the "naked", it seems, no one.
Inside and another 18 independent games
In one video cutting, Microsoft showed eighteen games from independent developers. All of them will soon go out on the Xbox One. Here is a complete list of projects:
- Cuphead;
- Outlast 2;
- Deliver us the moon;
- FLINT HOOK;
- Far;
- Slime Rancher;
- Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun;
- Figment;
- The Culling;
- For the king;
- Beacon;
- Stardew Valley;
- Hand of Fate 2;
- Below;
- Raiders of the Broken Planet;
- BloodStained: Ritual of the Night;
- YOOKA-LAYLEE;
- EVERSPACE.
In addition, they presented a full trailer Inside – new game from the studio Playdead ( Limbo ). The main character of the project will be a little boy who is fighting against the evil power experimenting on people. On July 7, Inside will be released on PC, and on June 29 will appear on Xbox One.
Anton Daty: Little -known indie, appearing in a half -minute selection at each conference, are described by one phrase: “I don’t know what is happening here, but it seems cool”. Standing out, it seems to me, hardcore Cuphead , YOOKA-LAYLEE From the creators of Banjo-Kazooie, a descendant of the "same Casloviniya" BloodStained and exploding the Internet Stardew Valley , which expectedly get to the consoles. But we are waiting for the rest too!
Sea of Thieves gameplay
Before the start of E3 about Sea of Thieves, little was known. Those grains of information that leaked to the network did not allow to add a whole picture. And today Rare introduced the first gameplay video.
Sea of Thieves – a multi -user adventure game about pirates and their free life. Team interaction is a key element of the game. The crew (players) members must work harmoniously, for example, anchor and sail and go sail to the nearest island in search of treasures.
Each player has his own role: one controls the ship, the other stands behind the gun, and the third is patching holes. If it is not possible to work harmoniously, the chance of becoming fish is increased.
Sea of Thieves will be released on PC and Xbox One.
Anton Daty: Judging by the trailer, Rare strive to withstand the balance between PVE and PVP. Although at the presentation they showed only the sea battle between the players, the Sea of Thieves will also be joint campaigns in the dungeons in search of treasures and adventure. This intrigues no less than cooperative trips under sail. It was already in projects like Guns of icarus , But here it should be done at a fundamentally different level.
DEAD RISING 4 Announcement
Rumors were confirmed, and at the Microsoft conference announced the fourth part of the Dead Riding zombie. In the title role, we will again see the journalist Frank West. The story will unfold sixteen years after the events of the first part. Frank will face new types of zombies (Fresh and Evo) and put on an exoskeleton that gives unprecedented power. The game will have a cooperative for four.
Dead Rising 4 will be released on PC and Xbox One at the end of this year.
Artemy Kozlov: What can I say? Dead Riding 4 looks like Dead Riding. The authors seem to have completely discarded the thought of making it at least some serious, and this is fine.
Guint from the third “Witcher” – now a full -fledged game
CD Projekt Red, as expected, introduced an independent card game Gwent: The Witcher Card Game. Fans "Witcher 3" She is well known.
“I want to thank all Gwint fans who prompted us to turn it into a separate game. We received thousands of letters, they called us, wrote on the forums, fans created more than forty amateur versions of the game, and we simply could not pass by this, ”explained the co -founder of CD Projekt Red Markin Ivinsky.
Four decks are expected: Szya’taeli, the northern kingdoms, monsters and Skellig. Most likely, the authors will gradually add new maps of cards to the game. The game will be conditionally paid. You can already sign up for closed beta testing. Gwent: The Witcher Card Game will be released on PC, PS4 and Xbox One.
Artemy Kotov: Gwint was a magnificent mini-game, but no more, with a full-fledged card soil, he could not compete either in depth or in a verified balance. The outcome of the battle was decided by the "golden" cards and spies, against which the ordinary deck was simply powerless. But there were interesting finds that are sorry to miss.
Judging by the trailer, they thoroughly worked on the mechanics. The system of "specialization" of troops and weather conditions remained, and each card has additional features that will add tactical diversity and are quite capable of balancing the decks. And then Gwintu may well find a place somewhere next to Hearthstone.
Curious shots from We Happy Few
Compulsion Games brought to E3 a long gameplay video of the adventure action of We Happy Few. Events unfold in alternative England in the 1960s. The government has developed “pills of joy”, which all citizens should accept, like the heroes of the novel “On the Word New World”.
The authors do not call the release of We Happy Few.
Artemy Kozlov: I have been following this game for a very long time. A lot of different things were mixed in it: it looks like a “mor. Utopia ", on Bioshock, on Sir, You are Being Hunted and God the news to what else. The world seems to be anti -utopian, but indicatively frivolous, wild and therefore even more frightening. Very intriguing.
Trailer and release date Recore
The new trailer Recore showed robots that will help the main character. Recore events take place in a deserted world, where cars almost destroyed humanity. But the main character, Julie Adams, apparently, managed to "tame" several. Now one of the robots helps the girl climb into hard -to -reach places, while others support in battle.
Recore will be released on September 13 on Windows 10 and Xbox One.
Anton Daty: The trailer shows the abundance of interconnected mechanics: each of the four robots can be used in different ways to fight with enemies and study levels. Nothing radically new, but the success of such projects directly depends on the quality of level design and puzzle. Well, we also hope for an interesting story – it is not without reason that the heroine hunts for these blue spheres.
Announcement Forza Horizon 3
And finally, Microsoft announced the new part of Forza Horizon, allowing players to traveled on Australia on many cars. IN Forza Horizon 3 Players will be able to master ordinary sports cars, SUVs, Buggies and Supercars. On the latter, it seems, it will be especially interesting to drive around the desert. The developers recalled the cross -platform and demonstrated the possibilities of multiplayer on Windows 10 and Xbox One. Cooperative mode supports up to four players.
The release of Forza Horizon 3 on PC and Xbox One will take place on September 27.
Fedor Sivov: Forza Horizon 3 will be very helpful at the end of September. When the leaves fall, the clouds tighten the sky, and rains and winds come to the sun-that is, when the summer almost left, but something still remains of it in the shower. At this time, an immensely bright and perky race will become a balm for the soul. After all, in it it will be possible to ride with a breeze on the Australian beaches, knead the dirt on the buggy in the forests, drive through the deserts and beat the speed records on the highways. And extend the summer at least for a while, to amuse your inner romance.
EA | Bethesda | Ubisoft | Sony
All the most important and interesting about E3 2016