:01 -- Phil is back. And now, he's talking about two world-premier games.
The first is a game set out in the desert of Arizona. We now know where the Bullet Car demo and the exploding gas station demos came from. Shows a gas tanker exploding, shows realtime bullet effects and care deformation as the cars get damaged or crash. Lead character has some cool moves, can Dukes of Hazard over the car hood. He is also seen jumping through a window, and inside the station, he is shooting out at enemies. Then the gas rig crashes into the station (with an incredible amount of left-behind chaos -- if this is realtime, it's pretty rad how much "chunks of stuff" was left behind.) And finally, they blow up the gas tank as they drive away. The game is called Eight Days, and what we just witnessed was "Day 2".
The second is from Naughty Dog. It shows an amazing-looking forest (if it's realtime), looks like it might be Jak ... but then it shows a real-life character (normal-looking fellow) shooting and jumping and fighting. No name for it. It had the look of realtime gameplay, but it was not said exactly what it was. Certainly a departure for Naughty Dog!!
6:06 -- Ted Price wraps it up with a look at Resistance: Fall of Man. Ted says that the initial showing of Resistance (when it was "I-8" was just the start, and that the team has since taken a very close look at the system to get at its full capacities. The game is an alternate world, where WWII never happened, and the worst thing ever to happen to man was that aliens have invaded us. Gameplay looks much like Call of Duty, with explosions and bodies everywhere. Horn demons are running about, and you must blast them with WWII-era weapons as well as new weapons. At first, the game looks like a pretty normal next-gen shooter, but as it goes on, the level of chaos and cool weapons and stuff happening just goes through the roof. The game has multiplayer modes, including 32-player online play.
6:11 -- Phil takes the stage again. This, he says, wraps up the playable section. He talks a little bit more about tech, then turns it over to Kaz.
6:12 -- Third parties reel shown.
Assassin's Creed - A short version of the Assassin's trailer is shown. It, of course, looks awesome.
Gundam -- Some mechs and tanks are shown rolling in. Stuff explodes. It all looks shiny and nice, with one section that seems pretty clear to be realtime.
Coded Arms Assault -- PS3 version of PSP franchise.
Ridge Racer 7 -- Short trailer shown. Reiko!! Plus racing action, showing something of a toonshaded style and blurs out the ying-yang.
Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway -- A very short clip of action as a tank crushes a car.
Tekken 6 -- A fight shown. Not E3 2005-quality.
Sonic -- Fast action and tons of explosions and stuff happening. Looks like Sonic Adventure. Shadow is in it ... hope for the best.
Virtua Tennis 3 -- Nice faces and shadows on characters.
Virtua Fighter 5 -- Man, SEGA is working overtime. Looks like the arcade game, and looks really cool, with incredible lighting and animation synch.
John Woo Presents Stranglehold -- Chow Yun Fat unloads some bullets.
Fatal Inertia -- Racing action, looks like the E3 2005 trailer ...but is it realtime?
Bladestorm: The 100 Years War -- Koei's other game.
Armored Core 4 -- The mech action continues.
6:20 -- It's EA time. PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 comparison. Shows NBA Live 07. They show one fellow dunking on a court in a slam dunk contest. Confims that yes, it's realtime.
Next is a realtime Tiger Woods demo. Again, it's played with a PS2 controller. The cool thing here is that it uses U-Cap technology, capturing character animation better than ever before -- vocal synching, lip movements, and much more.
EA has 10 games in the works, including Army of Two, Madden 07, Tiger Woods, Fight Night and more. Madden will be playable on PS3 here at E3.
EA shows a demo reel of 2007 games, including Madden, NBA Live, Tiger Woods, Need for Speed Carbon, Army of Two, Medal of Honor Airborne (which looks awesome if it's realtime ... really awesome, even if only about 15 seconds were shown.)
6:28 -- Final Fantasy XIII is introduced. Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy XIII Versus is shown. Of course, everything but the train is realtime, as mentioned previously.
6:29 -- Next is Metal Gear 4. The crowd goes wild!
The concept of the game is "sense". Realtime footage of a warzone is shown. There are gigantic mechs walking around, with futuristic trucks and helicopters rolling about. Lighting and enemy numbers are amazing. Snake is seen in a depressed state, watching as action happens all around him. As he runs, Ninja appears and slices up a mech after it crushes a man to gooey bits. Naomi Hunter, Roy Campbell, Meryl, Otacon, and Liquid Snake / Ocelot are shown. Raiden was also shown, and he was shown in the Ninja suit -- for once, he looked bad-assed, with a helmet that snapped away from his face. It's not action-packed, surprisingly ... it's very sad. Snake looks older than ever (older than even the TGS trailer), with gray hair and no beard, and wrinkles all over. At the end, he swallows his own gun ... And to find out what happens next, we will have to wait until 2007.
6:33 -- Kuturagi takes the stage. He introduces the PS3 controlled ... and it's the PS3 controller?!? It looks exactly the same, but it has many new function. Most importantly, it has "6 degrees" of motion-sensing movement. (Um, Nintendo, what do you have to say about this?) You can move it up and down, you have pitch and yaw and roll movement, and it's all still wireless and, in fact, lighter than PS2's DualShock.
6:39 -- Finally, Phil Harrison and Dylan Jobe shows Warhawk for PS3. This is played live on a PS3 controller. He moves the controller like a flight stick, zooming and flying and turning and steering and going completely crazy, doing barrel rolls and quick turns and all kinds of moves. It's sure to looks silly when you play it, but playing the game, Dylan seems to have complete control over the Warhawk fighter, and is able to get close to capital ships and canyons without crashing. He even lands the ship on a ledge.
