urgo2 daily PC talk
Wow, what a rush. The 2006 Electronic Entertainment Expo is over, done, finito. As always, it flew by in a flash, at least for me, since my time was filled moving puzzle pieces around behind the scenes and then running around like mad covering games once the show actually started. We got a close-up look at a lot of great PC games last week, so let me go ahead and highlight a few of them.
Spore was the very first game I saw once the show started on Wednesday morning, and sure enough, it looked pretty incredible. Not that I go into these types of demonstrations expecting to be impressed, but I'm a longtime admirer of Will Wright's games (ever since I was playing SimCity for the Mac in grammar school), and knew this one was going to be very ambitious. So I got to see a full-fledged demo of many of the game's features, but also dabbled with the unique creature creator. I certainly don't know yet how Spore is going to finally end up, but what was shown of it at E3 looked really intriguing.
If out-and-out action is more your speed, you might want to check out the
latest we've got on Crysis, which was easily one of the most visually impressive games shown at E3. While some have argued that this next first-person shooter from the makers of Far Cry is pushing graphical detail for the sake of it, I think it's fairly evident how pushing environmental interactivity to this new extreme will directly benefit gameplay. Can you imagine playing a shooter without rag-doll physics in it in this day and age? Far Cry is taking a lot of this type of stuff to the next level. It's almost mind-blowing how rapidly the technology of games continues moving forward from year to year.
Another game that got a lot of urgo2 editors talking during the show was World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, the highly anticipated expansion for Blizzard's ridiculously popular online role-playing game. Blizzard finally announced the new playable race for the Alliance and also gave us a good look at some of the new features and content to be expected from this add-on. As for me, I had to kick the WoW habit in order to make time for real life. But I can see Burning Crusade sucking me right back in.
While PC gaming didn't get as much attention as the next-generation console
systems did at E3, I think games like these--and many others--served to show that PC gaming is alive and well overall. I didn't even get into the great real-time strategy showing from games like Supreme Commander, Command & Conquer 3, Company of Heroes, and World in Conflict...that stuff looked fantastic. Up-and-coming massively multiplayer games like Age of Conan, Warhammer Online, and Tabula Rasa looked great, too. And though BioShock was demoed specifically on the Xbox 360, it's coming to the PC as well as was definitely one of the highlights of the show for me. And Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. That game was awesome. So much to cover...check out all our coverage of E3 2006 here.
There's a lot to take in, but you've got all the time in the world, right?
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