We just finished watching the Microsoft Conference/media briefing.  Below is our running commentary on the conference while we watched.  Did Microsoft bring it?

Call of Duty Blackops

– There better be vehicles in multiplayer and the levels better be that big and realized.  Single player looks great but multiplayer will probably be a cop out.  Looked nice and we’ll be getting it on console for Graev and PC for Keen.

Metal Gear Solid Rising (Zan Katsu)

– That cutting stuff was wacky! Kinda cool how the cutting angle could be chosen and the dismemberment was crazy.

Gears of War 3

– Okay the commentary and token girl were goofy.  We’d rather hear Cliffy B tell us about the game and what’s new.

– The new mutated lambent enemies looked really sweet.   We like how they mutated differently and spawned things.

– “Guys… guys… we added girls!  Isn’t this cool?!” (Quoting Graev here.  We were in tears laughing so hard.)

Fable 3

– Peter Molyneux incoming!  Get your hyperbole filter ready.

– We’d rather they keep the same graphics engine and just expand the game and make it awesome.  That video was neat looking but… nothing really new from Fable 2 other than perhaps a few graphical upgrades.

– The look at Fable 3 was way too short.

Codename: Kingdoms

– Crytek. Mmk.  Looks like an answer to God of War but without anything other than a teaser video showing three dudes in gladiator armaments there’s not much to say.

Halo Reach

– Open your jacket a little more guy.  We can’t see that Bungie logo placement well enough.

– There’s not a lot new here that we haven’t seen in every other Hal… ohh shhh is that playable starfighter battles?!  Okay, if that’s playable we got a winner.

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