stingu
05-22-2002, 10:38 PM
I fortunately had the opportunity to attend E3 today (only one day because of my work and it cost me $250 for exhibits only -- but it was worth it). I live close -- Las Vegas. Anyway, I wish I could have stayed for another day, but I'm exhausted anyway.
Some preliminaries -- XBox' booth appeared to be slightly smaller than Playstation. Nintendo had the biggest. ALSO -- there were just as many people standing in line and playing Xbox games as there were Sony players!!!
Let me start off with XBOX LIVE -- which I had been dying to play. XBox had two games running with the voice communicator -- Unreal Championship and NFL Fever. These games were enclosed so you could hear (???) (that place is NOISEY). Unreal ran great -- although I got my A$$ kicked. The voice was pretty clear but I did have a hard time hearing -- because of outside noise to most extent. I didn't know how to turn up the volume. In any event, some of the voices were changed to a deep, robotic mean voice -- extremely cool!!!
I didn't get to play NFL Fever because of the line. However, when the two people were playing the game monitor was also outside above their respective booths and it ran damn smooth!!!
XBOX LIVE IS GONNA ROCK .... they also had two Beta Tester sign up computers there.
Some games: well, there were a ton, and Brute Force looked pretty darn good. Let me tell you -- Mech Assault is gonna rock. It will be online, but it was not running online today.
If you are into Sports....the Sega games (football and basketball) looked great. I hope if you are an EA fan you don't get upset, by NFL Fever and Sega Football 2k3 looked better to me and ran better.
Now, Sony had Madden online as well as Socom: US Navy Seals. I played Socom (they didn't make an enclosed booth so there was no voice chat). They had tournaments running where the people at E3 (4 to a team) would team up with 2 people on the internet at an outside undisclosed location. In other words, the terrorist team, made up of 4 people, had 2 at E3 and 2 presumably in their homes. The same with the other team. To me the game ran pretty smooth but Xbox seemed to run a bit smoother. In fact, I noticed no lag at all with Xbox Live.
I didn't get to play Madden but watched others play it.
Medal of Honor Frontline looked very good on PS2 -- in my opinion.
As to GameCube, I peaked in and most games looked kiddish to me so I didn't even bother to stay.
As for a couple of computer games, well, Age of Mythology is awesome. There's another RTS game by Microsoft coming out in early 2003 called Impossible Creatures. Finally, another RTS is Rise of Nations -- which is probably better than Empire Earth.
Hope you enjoyed this...but let me make one thing clear: when it comes to online, XBox knows what it's doing and it is going to rock much better than Sony online.
Some preliminaries -- XBox' booth appeared to be slightly smaller than Playstation. Nintendo had the biggest. ALSO -- there were just as many people standing in line and playing Xbox games as there were Sony players!!!
Let me start off with XBOX LIVE -- which I had been dying to play. XBox had two games running with the voice communicator -- Unreal Championship and NFL Fever. These games were enclosed so you could hear (???) (that place is NOISEY). Unreal ran great -- although I got my A$$ kicked. The voice was pretty clear but I did have a hard time hearing -- because of outside noise to most extent. I didn't know how to turn up the volume. In any event, some of the voices were changed to a deep, robotic mean voice -- extremely cool!!!
I didn't get to play NFL Fever because of the line. However, when the two people were playing the game monitor was also outside above their respective booths and it ran damn smooth!!!
XBOX LIVE IS GONNA ROCK .... they also had two Beta Tester sign up computers there.
Some games: well, there were a ton, and Brute Force looked pretty darn good. Let me tell you -- Mech Assault is gonna rock. It will be online, but it was not running online today.
If you are into Sports....the Sega games (football and basketball) looked great. I hope if you are an EA fan you don't get upset, by NFL Fever and Sega Football 2k3 looked better to me and ran better.
Now, Sony had Madden online as well as Socom: US Navy Seals. I played Socom (they didn't make an enclosed booth so there was no voice chat). They had tournaments running where the people at E3 (4 to a team) would team up with 2 people on the internet at an outside undisclosed location. In other words, the terrorist team, made up of 4 people, had 2 at E3 and 2 presumably in their homes. The same with the other team. To me the game ran pretty smooth but Xbox seemed to run a bit smoother. In fact, I noticed no lag at all with Xbox Live.
I didn't get to play Madden but watched others play it.
Medal of Honor Frontline looked very good on PS2 -- in my opinion.
As to GameCube, I peaked in and most games looked kiddish to me so I didn't even bother to stay.
As for a couple of computer games, well, Age of Mythology is awesome. There's another RTS game by Microsoft coming out in early 2003 called Impossible Creatures. Finally, another RTS is Rise of Nations -- which is probably better than Empire Earth.
Hope you enjoyed this...but let me make one thing clear: when it comes to online, XBox knows what it's doing and it is going to rock much better than Sony online.