Official MerchandiseE3 Wrap Up
Well, E3 is over. But it was a very exciting week. And although the show might be over, the fun isn’t done quite yet. GameTrailers has recap movies available that summarize the week, and G4 will be airing a “Best of E3″ show this evening, that I’ll be watching. Yup, I’ll be spending a Friday night as a true gamer does: Playing video games, watching video game news on TV, and reading about games on the net.
Anyway, I’ve rounded up a couple more trailers for you all to cap off the week, this time for Far Cry 2 and Wolfenstein.
Left 4 Dead Multiplayer Footage
Three new multiplayer videos of the upcoming zombie killing spree game, Left 4 Dead, have been posted over @ Kotaku.
Check them out here.
This game should be wild. From the videos I’ve seen so far, it reminds me somewhat of a faster paced COD with zombies. You can’t really go wrong there.
Look for this one to drop in November for the Xbox 360. The PS3 release date has not been confirmed yet.
Alone in the Dark
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[July 16, 2008]
For anyone who may be interested (and I’m honestly not sure if any of you are!), Alone in the Dark does not offer any alternative control layouts.
You are able to switch to inverted aiming, but Southpaw and Legacy players are, well, left in the dark. There is only one button layout available as well.
Alt-control players will definitely miss their control styles of choice when using the first person perspective, which you can switch to on the fly. And it’s honestly the best way to play through this game, as the camera angles make it difficult to navigate when you’re playing in the third person mode.
So, in case you were wondering about this one, there you have it. I wasn’t overly impressed by what I saw, but I’ll spare you of yet another Alone in the Dark bashing. You can find those all over the internet, and besides, it’s E3 week, so that’s much more interesting!
RE5: Gears/COD Style Controls?
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[July 16, 2008]
It looks like Capcom might be working on a new control system for Resident Evil 5…
Via Kotaku:
The Resident 5 footage shown here at E3 is gorgeous. Jaw dropping, even. The game really looks like what people have been waiting for. What’s not to like? The criticism level against the game has been the fact it uses Resident 4’s controls. That’s not necessarily a bad thing if you liked Resident Evil 4! But as RE5 producer Jun Takeuchi pointed out:
“It’s possible that a lot of people who play Resident Evil 5 may not have played Resident Evil 4. But they might have played Gears of Wars or Call of Duty. Those are both games that I and our team really, really like. So don’t be surprised if at the Tokyo Game Show, the controls are different. For now, we have the control set up for RE4. I’m not confirming or denying anything, but we like to surprise people.”
I’ve been cautiously optimistic about RE5, as the graphics look great, but the controls had me a little worried since I was not expecting alternative controls to be included. But this could be very good news for us, as Southpaw and Legacy configurations may be on the horizon as well if Capcom ends up utilizing a control style similar to Gears of War. It could also be bad news as well because the possible new control style also has the potential to omit our play styles of choice.
We definitely have our eyes on this game now. Thanks go to SAKY for the tip.
It Wouldn’t Be E3 Without Killzone 2!
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[July 15, 2008]
Killzone 2. Yes, you remember this one. Who could forget E3 2005 when we were first shown footage from what we thought was Killzone 2 in action on the PS3. Of course, that was just CG, not actual game play, as we all know.
Two years later, Killzone 2 made another appearance at E3 2007 and this time, Sony had learned from their previous PR blunder and provided the public with some actual footage from the game. It looked solid, but it certainly didn’t look like the original footage shown in 2005. Read the rest of this entry »
More E3 Highlights
Here are some more highlights from this year’s exciting E3 show. Our intention of course is not to cover every single announcement and new game, but just to show off some of the highlights that folks around here may find interesting. That said, here are some more great trailers for Mirror’s Edge, Rage and Resistance 2.
Microsoft E3 Press Conference Round Up
I’m not even going to bother trying to summarize all the exciting announcements at the Microsoft E3 Press Conference. Instead, I thought I would round up some of the highlights from the alt-control player’s perspective. Or in other words, show you a bunch of trailers that our community should find interesting… after the click, of course!
Next Halo Game: No Master Chief
Now here is the first of many surprises that the gaming world will be in store for this week: The next Halo game is supposedly going to feature a more tactical style of game play reminiscent of Ghost Recon and Gears of War. The vibe is also apparently going to be much darker, which should be interesting.
And here is the big shocker: Master Chief may be MIA.
I tend to think that Halo fans at this point would embrace a new approach after three games that followed the same format, but no Master Chief? It should be very interesting to see how gamers (and Halo freaks like SQU1FFY) respond to this!
Source: Joystiq
E3!!
It’s that time of year again, folks. E3 will be taking place from July 14 – 17 and are we ever excited.
Most online gaming publications will be attending the show to provide their readers with up to the minute news of all the big announcements and upcoming games. The editors of Alt-Controls.com, however, were not invited. Not that we expected to be, anyway. 
But for all your E3 news, you can check out GameTrailers.com where all the new videos will be posted, and G4 TV will be providing live coverage from the floor. Additionally, you’ll be able to check out live press conferences from Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo and more right here.
Expect to see demonstrations of Gears of War 2, Fallout 3, Resident Evil 5 and much more. And what surprises will we be in store for this year? Will this be the last E3 appearance of Killzone 2 before it finally comes out? We’ll find out this week.
Mirror’s Edge
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[July 13, 2008]
By now you are all very probably familiar with EA and DICE’s upcoming first person action game, Mirror’s Edge. A number of fresh screen shots have recently been circulating around the net, and you all know that this is EA and DICE’s innovative attempt at creating a first person, action oriented game where you’ll need to rely more on acrobatics and hand to hand combat instead of your trigger finger.
Seems like an interesting approach, sure. Although around here, it’s usually a letdown for us when games are made by EA and DICE. Based on the controls present in Battlefield: Bad Company, I think it’s a fair assumption that this game will not support alternative or customizable controls. I could be wrong of course, but I’m sure many of you are also not encouraged based on EA and DICE’s past titles. Read the rest of this entry »
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