E3 is the biggest video game conference and showcase in the entire industry.
Game Reveals/Announcements
Starfield AKA Bethesda's Sci-Fi RPG.95% likely.
Ever since the release of Fallout 4, Bethesda the game developer has said they have ideas for 3 new IPs they wanna do before doing Elder Scrolls 6. There's been whispers of it since late 2015.
Wolfenstein 3 tease. 60%
Wolfenstein: The New Colossus sold well and was liked by critics and fans alike. The final chapter will be coming (the sun gun needs to happen!), either this E3 or E3 2019.
Respawn Entertainment (Titanfall makers) new Star Wars game. 60%
A Star Wars first-person shooter. They're currently busy with a virtual reality project due for 2019.
Rocksteady Studios (Batman Arkham games) with a DC game. 70%
Rocksteady hasn't done anything since Arkham Knight, released in 2015, unless you count Arkham VR in 2016. It's likely a Justice League game.
Saints Row V/5aints Row. Will go back to roots of Saints Row 2. 70%
THQ Nordic bought Volition and said in a press release that they will be making a new Triple A game.
Doom 2. 60%
Likely a teaser. First one sold well and was very well received.
Borderlands 3 reveal. 80%
After Battleborn's quick death, Gearbox needs to be resurrected, and this will likely be the jump the company needs. Also will turn out better than Destiny 2.
New IP from Retro Studios (Metroid Prime). 60%
Watch Dogs 3 cinematic trailer. Or just a tease. 50%
Watch Dogs 2 sold even better than 1 and was even more liked.
Splinter Cell resurrected. February/March 2019 release. 80%
If Ubisoft can bring Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six back, Splinter Cell is next.
Dying Light 2 reveal. 60%
The original game is randomly getting monthly DLC's starting in January of this year, it will likely end with the reveal of a second one. Also, their Battle Royale game will be canned.
Creative Assembly game. Possibly Alien Isolation sequel but not likely. 50%
Alien: Isolation sold decently but was well loved for the aesthetics and atmosphere.
Halo Master Chief Collection PC announcement. 55%
With 343 randomly working on the game again this year, it's likely an Xbox One X patch plus release for PC.
Halo 6/ODST-like spinoff announced, for Xbox One and PC. 50%
Halo 6 will likely be shown to exist, after the mixed reception of 5.
Microsoft, big focus on backwards compatibility and Game Pass. 90%
They will show how cheap Game Pass, and say it's "the Netflix of gaming" over and over.
Fable 4 trailer. No gameplay. 70%
It's been rumored Playground Games, known for Forza Horizon series, is making the new Fable 4/reboot.
Crackdown 3, with a huge difference than before. 60%
First shown at E3 2014, and having huge promises and mixed reception since then, it will likely have been heavily reworked with a big emphasis on the destruction physics.
Bloodborne 2 announcement and trailer. 50%
First one sold incredibly well and got good reviews.
Last of Us 2 gameplay, of an emotional and action-packed scene. 90%
One of Sony's babies, this will get good coverage.
Days Gone, more gameplay. Shown more than Last of Us 2. 80%
Pokemon game for Switch. 90%
Animal Crossing Switch. 60%
Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay and cinematic. And no specific release date besides "2018/2019". 60%
It's CD Projekt Red's next big game, they'll show something.
Prey DLC. 50%
Prey was hailed as a System Shock 2 successor and will likely get more.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider gameplay. 95%
Square Enix will show Lara becoming hardened like you wouldn't believe.
Red Dead Redemption 2 multiplayer battle royale announced and shown. 30%
Rockstar doesn't do E3, but possibly Sony might advertise it.
Shenmue 3 gameplay. 70%
Anthem. Loot boxes and micro-transactions de-emphasized. 50%
EA is in the garbage and they're trying to crawl out since Battlefront 2.
Beyond Good & Evil 2 gameplay. 40%
Likely still on the backburner, but we'll see.
The Division 2 in Los Angeles. 60%
A sequel has been announced, but no location.
Rage 2 gameplay. Might be a reboot similar to Prey and Doom. 60%
We'll first get something on May 14, then see what happens from there.
Death Stranding trailer #3, gameplay, release date. Will be surprisingly close. 50%
With Hideo Kojima, who knows. He just does what he wants with the blank cheques he's given.
No Xbox One 2 or Playstation 5 announcements. 95%
With the existence of Xbox One X and PS4 Pro refreshes, there will be no new console generation starting up so soon.
Avengers gameplay (Crystal Dynamics). Comes out just before Avengers 3 Part 2. 70%
They'll want to get as much money and promotion out of it as possible.
Skull and Bones. More gameplay shown but looks really bad. 70%
Will end up looking like a lazy cash-grab.
Red Dead Redemption remastered/remade from ground up. 20%
With the heavy rumors of the RDR game code being spaghetti/Frankenstein, it's very unlikely.
Hello and welcome back! Here are my personal highlights of E3 2017.
A Way Out
An online or couch split-screen action game starting in a prison and trying to get out. It's from the same makers as Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons but more AA than that.
It's a really cool idea, and I'll be keeping my eye on it.
Release date: Q1/Q2 2018. Platforms: PC, Xbox One, and PS4.
Life is Strange: Before the Storm
The 3-episode prequel series to hold us over until the "real" season 2 hits, most likely end of February 2018.
It is set 3 years before the first game, with playable character being Chloe, and her relationship with Rachel Amber, the one who is missing in the original Life is Strange.
Release date: First episode is August 31, 2017. Platforms: PC, Xbox One and PS4.
Sea of Thieves
Sea of Thieves, an open-world co-op optional pirate game, Windows 10 and Xbox One crossplay. Wanna explore? Drink rum? Do story missions? Fight other players? You can do that all in this game.
Release date: Early 2018 Platforms: PC and Xbox One.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance
After an extremely successful crowd-funding in 2014, it is now ready to be shown and played. Basically it's The Witcher 3 without magic spells or supernatural monsters, completely realistic.
Release date: February 13, 2018.
Platforms: PC, Xbox One and PS4.
Special Mentions:
Anthem, a Destiny 2-like game from Electronic Arts. PC, Xbox One and PS4.
Crackdown 3, a destruction simulator for Xbox One and Windows 10.
Days Gone, think of Last Of Us, but zombies and open-world. PS4 exclusive.
Detroit Become Human, a game with multiple playable characters where your conversation and action choices matter. PS4 exclusive unfortunately.
A few more things...
- Bethesda is bad for making paid mods a thing.
- Bethesda is too obsessed with Doom, Skyrim and Fallout VR.
- Microsoft had no Halo announcement of any kind? Weird.
- Microsoft's E3 2018 will be much much better.
- State of Decay 2, Spider-Man, Middle-earth: Shadow of War, The Last Night and Agents of Mayhem were cut from the list above.
- I'll be keeping an eye out for Beyond Good & Evil 2, I'd like to see gameplay first.
- Cuphead has a nice art-style, but the gameplay will make it flop.
- Red Dead Redemption 2 will be released mid-November 2018 on PC.
- Bethesda had the worst conference, while Sony had the best. Everyone else was in the middle.
- Xbox One X won't get 4k 60 FPS on even 50% of the games released for it. It'll be the new big 1080p 60 FPS machine.
E3, Electronic Entertainment Expo, is a trade fair where the video game industry shows off and/or reveals their newest games once a year for 4 days in June.
These are the ones I'm interested in. I will try to show gameplay trailer/videos whenever possible.
The stars mean chance of purchase, with 1 star being less likely buying, 5 stars being yes will absolutely buy.
Mafia III
I'm currently playing through Mafia II on PC, and it is surprisingly good. Coincidentally enough, Mafia III is coming out and is set roughly 20 years after, in 1968.
This will not be a day one purchase for me, I will wait for reviews and around the 30-dollar range.
Genre: Open world, action
Platforms: PC, Xbox One, PS4
Release: October 7, 2016.
Agents of Mayhem
After watching the cinematic trailer (not linked above), I was excited, but then I saw the gameplay (linked above) and thought it was just... okay.
It's from the creators of Saints Row and looks to have it mashed up with Overwatch, with each playable character having their own ability. I wish it was co-op rather than single-player only.
I am keeping this on my radar until release though.
Genre: Open world, action, shooter
Platforms: PC, Xbox One, PS4
Release: 2017
Titanfall 2
I don't typically go for multiplayer team-based-but-not-really shooters (last Call of Duty I own is Black Ops 2 and hardly play it, same with Battlefield 4), but this seems really cool for the single-player alone, something the first was very much lacking, which was too bad because Titanfall has a really interesting universe. That, plus the multiplayer will keep the game alive longer than the first one for sure.
As I've mentioned, I will wait for reviews before jumping in.
Genre: First-person shooter, action
Platforms: PC, Xbox One, PS4
Release: October 28, 2016
Dead Rising 4
Dead Rising 4 would be my first step into the franchise. I own none of them, and have only played about an hour across all the previous ones combined on various consoles.
Stupid but fun combos, zombie killing and just plain old fun are what I like. Buuuut, Dead Rising 3 had a terrible PC port which still runs poorly to this day AND I still need to beat Dying Light: The Following, and Dead Island: Definitive Edition before I can focus attention on this, which thankfully releases a long ways away.
Genre: Open world, survival horror, beat-em-up
Platforms: PC, Xbox One
Release: December 6, 2016
Halo Wars 2
Halo on PC! Kinda. It's a real-time-strategy game. I'm very selective about what I like for RTS and this seems intriguing. Apparently buying Ultimate Edition includes the first one.
The game is currently in beta for Xbox One and PC so I will keep an eye on it.
This is not a day one or even week one purchase for me though.
Genre: Real-time-strategy
Platforms: PC, Xbox One
Release: February 21, 2017
ReCore
ReCore, the platforming game about a girl and her robot-dog in a post-apocalypse with machines that have taken over. Gameplay seems a bit rough considering it's releasing this September, but I still have it in my sights.
Genre: Platforming, adventure
Platforms: PC, Xbox One
Release: September 13, 2016
Sea of Thieves
This game looks great with friends. Not by yourself I imagine. Good thing it's crossplay between PC and Xbox which is a very good move by Microsoft.
You be a pirate, work the boat, drink rum and it's basically a Jack Sparrow simulator. If some friends get it, or it has a healthy online population, I will get it, for the right price of course, which is rumored to be 40 bucks Canadian.
Genre: Open world, adventure
Platforms: PC, Xbox One
Release: Spring 2017
Death Stranding
Hideo Kojima's first game since being fired from Konami. He is best known for the influential and popular Metal Gear series. Now that he's free from the constraints he's able to do what he wants with his creative mind, which is the trailer above.
There is no gameplay in it, but still a really cool trailer. Nothing else is known of it except that it has Norman Reedus (Daryl Dixon), and that it will be a timed PS4 exclusive.
Genre: Spooky
Platforms: PS4, PC
Release: 2017
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands
Do you remember Star Wars Republic Commando? Where you order around 3 other computer players? There hasn't really been anything like that until this game. Of course, there's 4-player online co-op now, but it's also single-player which is really nice.
It doesn't have "The Division" MMO-thing to it at all, nor is it cover-based shooter-like (that game has lost 93% of it's playerbase and has 55% ratings by the way).
The trailer dialogue is cringe but funny. Wildlands is a huge open world with missions that can be done in any order, single-player or with friends/randoms.
Genre: Open world, tactical, third-person shooter
Platforms: PC, Xbox One, Playstation 4
Release: March 7, 2017
Grow Up
Yes. I'm serious. This is a sequel to Grow Home, a VERY under-rated cute single-player game. It's 9 bucks on PC and PS4, and very short, took me 8 hours to 100% complete it.
The red robot, BUD, is trying to get back to his spaceship where his boss MOM is, and has to collect things and grow the plant to get home (Grow home! Get it!).
In the expanded sequel (Xbox One is included this time), the world is bigger, more ways to traverse the area and fly, and more things to collect. Apparently MOM and the spaceship have disappeared, and BUD must make his way from the planet to the moon.
I will of course wait for reviews (hoping for co-op but not betting on it), then likely buy it. This is a day two purchase for me.
Genre: Open world, platforming
Platforms: PC, Xbox One, PS4
Release: August 2016
BONUS: GAMES I WILL NEVER GET BUT SEEM COOL
"Wait, you like the games but you won't get them?!?!?" you may ask. That's because they're console-exclusive. And buying a console just for a few games is never a good idea.
Detroit: Become Human
LA Noire 3000 amirite. Choices change your story and character interactions which is always interesting. The player plays Connor, an android whose job it is to hunt down a newfound-sentient android Kara, whom you also play. Characters may survive or die depending on your choices.
So it's like Until Dawn and LA Noire mashed up.
If it were on PC
Genre: Thriller
Platforms: PS4
Release: 2017
Horizon Zero Dawn
Interesting world of an Earth inhabited by robots who were left by the majority of the humans. It's set 1,000 years in the future. The main character, Aloy, is a human-robot hybrid I'm predicting.
If it were on PC
Genre: Action, RPG
Platforms: PS4
Release: February 28, 2017
Spider-Man
The last Spider-Man I bought and played was Spider-Man 2: The Game way back in 2004 for the original Xbox. My balloon!
Obviously it's a huge upgrade from what I last played and it's too bad it is PS4-exclusive, I would have loved to try it out.
If it were on PC
Genre: Action, beat-em-up
Platforms: PS4
Release: 2017 (likely June up to mid-July because Marvel Spider-Man movie comes out July 7, 2017)
Wrap up
Well, that was quite a few videos, if you got this far, thanks for looking and reading. A few things:
Where was the Red Dead 3 announcement? Rockstar likes to announce whenever they like, I bet they'll announce in November.
Halo Master Chief Collection and Halo 5 on PC. It's coming. Halo 6 will definitely come to PC.
Good for Bethesda to give Skyrim Special Edition free for anyone that has all DLC/Legendary edition. Also 64-bit engine will be amazing for modding.
Watch Dogs 2 looks to be MUCH better than the first.
Gun to my head, if I had to choose Battlefield 1 or Infinite Warfare, I'd do Battlefield 1.
Dontnod's next game, Twin Mirrors is shown.
