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E3 Round-up
Jun 9th
With the 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo is now in the past, lets have a look at the highs and the lows of the event...
Nintendo made so many waves with the Wiimote 3 years ago, it's surprising it's taken Microsoft & Sony so long to get comparable technology out there, but this years E3 will be fondly remembered for both Microsoft's Project Natal and Sony's PS3-nis PlayStation Motion Controller.
Now too the games! For the first time since I can remember, there seem to be almost as many original IPs than sequels. Games such as Realtime World's APB, the clever and damn innovative Scribblenauts & Schafer's Brütal Legend (PC release plskthxbye?) all went down a storm.
Alas, nothing can compare really to the majesty & controversy of the sequels - Assassin's Creed II seems to (on the surface) have definitely made strides over the first game, Modern Warfare 2 looks to be a heart-pounding action game (but can it really step out of the cloud cast by COD4's mushroom cloud?) whilst Left 4 Dead 2 is generating all the wrong publicity - could it be Valve's un-doing?
Notable Trailers & Game/Device Listings after the cut...
“Are you man enough to fight with me?” – SF4 Japanese Intro released
Feb 8th
Everyone remembers the Street Fighter 2 intro...
Basically, it was two average joes have a boxing match in the middle of the street before the view pans up a massive skyscraper, revealing the Street Fighter logo. It was a ordinary and benign introduction to the absurdity that existed under the hood, what with the rubber armed yoga specialists, high-leaping sumo wrestlers and hadoukens.
Things have definitely progressed in the 17 years since then and Capcom have now released the full console introduction cinematic for everyones perusal. Featuring 3:15 of footage gleamed from the various ink versus trailers released over the past few months, the full jalopy is after the cut.
Street Fighter IV set for UK tour.
Jan 28th
It's usually rock stars that set off on long exhausting tours but now the world's favourite fighting game is set to travel the UK. Capcom will be wheeling a Street Fighter IV arcade cabinet around the country from the 29th of January.
At each stop along the way fans will be given a chance to win exclusive Street Fighter IV goodies as well as getting to try the game out.
The tour begins in the Princes Street branch of Gamestation in Edinburgh from the 29th of January to the 1st of February. The cabinet then heads off to Gamestation in Sheffield's Meadowhall Shopping Centre between the 5th and the 9th of February. For the release weekend (19th to 22nd February) the machine will be in HMV on Oxford Street in London. There will be a further stop at the Birmingham, New Street, Gamestation between the 29th of February and the 1st of March before the tour winds up in the Hull branch of Gamestation in the Prospect centre between the 5th and 8th of March.
