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E3 is done.
So here's the show in one big list, distilled to bullet points for the fan on the go:
- Fallout 3: Post apocalyptic living never looked so good, or as dangerous. Don't forget your blaster thingie.
- Fable 2: It's done! Now on with the swashbuclking fantasy fun.
- Gears of War 2: Honestly, does it ever really get boring to shoot Locust? No, no it does not.
- Avatars in Xbox Live: Microsoft does Nintendo Miis.
- Netflix integration with the Xbox 360: On demand movies from the biggest movie warehouse in the business equals a multimedia win for Microsoft.
- Banjo-Kazoo: Nuts and Bolts: Microsoft buys popular Nintendo brand developer. Microsoft offers cool Nintendo-style cartoon character adventure.
- Guitar Hero World Tour: Just like Rock Band, only Guitar Hero.
- Lips: Karaoke Revolution + light-up wireless microphone = love.
- Rock Band 2: A more accurate title might be I 1.1. Wireless drums, new song modes, more songs. Same classic Rock Band.
- Shaun White Snowbarding: At least one more thing you can do with the Wii Balance Board.
- Skate It: Shaun White snowboarding - Shaun White + Tony Hawk.
- Animal Crossing: City Folks: Animal Crossing on the Wii. Oh, it includes some city locations.
- Star Wars Clone Wars: A new cartoon movie ushers in the long awaited era of Wii-based light saber battling.
- Wii Motion Plus: Nintendo admits the Wii control is wonky and asks you to pay to attach a small piece of hardware that makes the Wiimote better.
- Wii Music: Fun. For about 3 minutes. Unless you are 5-years-old. Rock Band anyone?
- Resistance 2: It's no Gears of War. But you do get to shoot aliens. Which apparently never gets boring.
- LittleBigPlanet: Game moding tool + arts and craft design + action platforming tool + I-wanna--have it-visuals = gaming genius
- DC Universe: With no launch date in site, it will be ahrd to wait for this MMO based on the DC comics universe.
- inFamous: From the guys who brough the world Sly Cooper, a new take on the superhero. Think Allen Moore + Grand Theft Auto.
- Onechanbra: Popular Japanese property about zombie-killing girls in cowboy hats and bikinis. Seriously, bikinis.
- Resident Evil 5: Does it ever really get boring to shoot zombies? No, no it does not.
- SimCity Creator: Finally,ma SimCity game we can play on the console. And, look mom!, curvey roads!
- Free Realms: The coolest massively multiplayer online game in years is targeted at kids. So what, I want to deleiver the mail in world, own a cat and be a ninja. Don't you?
- de Blob: Like Katamari Damacy in reverse, you must roll across a white city to paint it with color.
- Viva Pinata: An Xbox classic brings its cute charm to the DS. Or maybe the girl demoing the game was just cute and charming.
- Spore: After years of waiting, the excitement has faded. But Spore will be fun.
- Mirror's Edge: Not since Super Mario Bros. has running and jumping looked like so much fun.
- Hasbro Family Game Night: Tired of looking for your Yahtzee dice? Your Battleship pegs? Your Connect 4 checkers. On the Wii, clean up is a snap.
- Nerf nStrike: While not shown at the floor, the whole idea of a Nerf videogame that comes with a Nerf gun is too cool to pass up.
- Deadspace: Doom 3 + Bioshock.
- Monster Lab: Kill things and make their parts into robots. Kids will love it.
- Battlefield Pacific: WWII Pacific history + an arcade game = fun and educational.
- Fracture: The SimCity terrain tool + any shooter game you care to name = a novel take on a tired genre.
- Flower: Lava lamp + falling in love + back rub = a truly wonderful game about playing the wind in a flower's dream.
- Fat Princess: Cute, politically incorrect and bloody multiplayer causal chaos.
- Pain: Amusement Park: Fling people out of a catapult and see how much damage you can cause him, and the world. Really, really stupid. And that why it's fun.
- SOCOM: Confrontation: Online only play let's you live life as a grunt on the ground in hostile territory.
- Ion Audio Rock Band drum kit: For $300, you too can pay Rock Band on a pre-line set of electronic drums.
- Castlevania: Judgement: Castlevania + Soul Caliber = Fighting for Castlevania fans.
- Rock Band Revolution: Rock Band - vocals + Guitar Hero World Tour = An odd offering that does offer a fancy drum kit you can use with other games.
- Boarderlands: Self described as "Indiana Jones meets the Road Warrior". Level grind at the end of civilization.
- BioShock PS3: Bioshock + PlayStation 3 + extra missions = an interesting retread.
- What's Cooking Jamie Olver: The naked chef + cooking mama + a cookbook = a game that actually might teach you a think or two about cooking.
- Witcher: Enhanced Edition: Witcher - bugs and bad dialog + other goodies = The game as it should have been in the first place.
- Zoo Hospital: Kids help animals.
- Major Minor's Magestic March: Art game + marching band simulator from the guys that brough the world Parappa the Rapper.
- Left for Dead: Which is scarier, fast zombies or slow zombies? Valve make the case for speed.
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