The Xbox E3 Media Briefing today was quite an event. In one word, Awesome! Upon entering the media briefing you were given a wristband to get in. That said wrist band happened to turn out to be an LED wrist band. Now, the cool part is, this wristband reacted to the videos and were timed to specific key events during the Media Briefing which added a fun and dynamic element to the briefing. You can see them in action below in a quick video snippet.
In this article be prepared to see photos, get some game details and also see some video snippets. I even have some full trailers of games below to wet your appetite.
On to the games! Microsoft made a hard and explosive intro with Call of Duty Advanced Warfare, which was pretty awesome. It literally shook the whole arena. The graphics and teaser they showed was interesting, I didn’t take video of the whole thing as a HD trailer will be out soon and we’ll post that but below is a snippet to check out.
The next announcement was for Forza 5. This is exciting. Microsoft announced that today they are releasing the Nurburgring track for Forza 5 and its FREE. You can download it today.
After this they announced Forza Horizon 2. Forza Horizon 2 is an open world driving game, there will be over 200 cars available. This game is built on Forza’s driving engine and will be in 1080p. With Forza Horizon 2 your drivatar gets plugged in so you’re always racing and there will be no queue times. Forza Horizon 2 will be available on Xbox One exclusively on September 30th, 2014.
After Forza Microsoft showed a snippet teaser of Evolve, which looks pretty exciting.
Full Forza Horizon 2 Video here.
For all you Assassin Creed fans this will surely be exciting. I couldn’t sit still. The next announced game that was Assassins Creed Unity. In Assassins Creed Unity you form your own brotherhood and play with your friends on Xbox Live. In this video snippet below you’ll see the colored icons above each Assassins head. That indicates they are part of your brotherhood, and you will work together to accomplish a goal. This was one of the most exciting things to see, the fans have been wanting this feature for quite some time. Check out the co-op gameplay footage below.
Next up! Sunset Overdrive. People in California have been turning into zombie creatures after drinking this crazy energy drink. Our quirky cali hero dude is going to show us the ropes. This is a fun and colorful 3rd person adventure shooter.Ted Price from Insomiac games announced that you can play this game solo or co-op. Sunset Overdrive is an XBox One exclusive and will be hitting consoles October 28, 2014. The full trailer for Sunset Overdrive is below.
Fable Legends was also announced. It will be an Xbox One exclusive. You can play solo or co-op. Above in the photo at the press briefing they had 3 players play against a villain. That’s right as a player you can be a villain and gain top view access of the game and orchestrate all the enemies to demolish players. This is pretty cool and quite unique facet for multiplayer.
Last but not least on the list and hold on to your pants. Microsoft announced, Halo: The Master Chief Collection.
What is The Master Chief Collection you ask? Why all the Halo games of course in one seamless interface. This is awesome, because I missed a few along the way and I cannot wait to get this. You can literally make a cross game mission playlist of all the best moments in the games and play them through to experience the full story of Halo.
The collection comes with all 4 Halo Games, (Also, in Halo 2 all the multiplayer features are retained.) It also includes Halo: Nightfall (Executive Produced by Ridley Scott) and beta access to Halo 5: Guardians. This in itself is awesome and totally worth it.
The Master Chief Collection has over 100 multiplayer maps, and all maps are in 1080 p. This game also ships with a 4000 gamer score.
You can snag this awesome package deal November 11th, 2014 for $59.99. This is excellent for those who haven’t played the older Halo games or missed one in between and want to play all the best parts of the story and be entrenched in the Halo Universe. For a full trailer of Halo: The Master Chief Collection see below.
