With the end of Nintendo's presentation this Tuesday, another cycle of conferences at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the biggest gaming event in the world, ends.
Bringing together industry giants such as EA Games, Bethesda, Microsoft, Square Enix, Ubisoft, Sony and Nintendo, this is the time of year when the most new games are announced, and where we know the likely candidates for "Game of the Year" from next years.
In case you missed the conferences or even want to know our opinion about them, check out our article with everything that happened, from best to worst, in this edition of E3.
E3 2018: EA Games
As usual, the first E3 conference again was EA's. We didn't have anything really new or big announcements, but the company fulfilled its most important objective: Apologize for having made so many pay to win games or simply broken in several DLCs, apparently it is willing to improve its reputation in the market.
Moving on to the presentation, we had the already announced Battlefield V and Anthem, which had gameplays released. We also saw the expected games: FIFA 19, NBA Live 19 and Madden 19, as well as a DLC for Star Wars Battlefront II that was also heavily anticipated.
Battlefield V: see the Multiplayer trailer and all available game modes The only real news presented by EA is unfortunately not as big as fans could expect, but we have among them Unreavel 2, the successor to an interesting indie that unfortunately didn't do as much success; Sea of Solitude, an interesting new indie that seems to approach solitude in a very creative way, but is unlikely to be as successful; and finally: a sequel to the Command and Conquer franchise (Rivals), which unfortunately will only be a mobile game.
E3 2018: Bethesda
This year's most "shameful" presentation award couldn't go to any other company if not Bethesda, after all, although E3 always has weird, embarrassed or even a little crazy presenters, this year only our much-loved Todd Howard can save Bethesda . But of course, in the games she wouldn't disappoint.
Among games that we already knew would come, like Rage 2 and Fallout 76, we also have new titles that seem quite interesting, like Doom Eternal, Wolfenstein Youngblood, a new franchise (after years without new franchises) called Starfield and the long-awaited The Elder Scrolls VI, certainly the summit of the conference.
It is worth giving a little highlight to Fallout 76, which although it is probably just a reinterpretation of Fallout 4 in terms of gameplay and graphics, will have a map 4 times larger than the previous title, as well as being able to be played online, in a kind of MMO with several other players setting up their own camps. The factor that drew the most attention was certainly that players will be able to complete quests to gain access to nuclear bomb launch stations capable of destroying enemy camps, something that will make the MMO factor much more interesting.
And to finish, of course, we had several announcements that (almost) nobody cares, like TES Legends, a cardgame to get on the wave of new games of the genre; a new update for TES Online; Quake Champions free for a limited time; a new update of Prey and TES Blades, a kind of Skyrim for mobile (why not?).
E3 2018: Microsoft
E3 2018: Microsoft's biggest announcements for Xbox The conference that presented the most new trailers for new games was Microsoft's, deserving the title of probably the best presentation of this E3, after all, what we all want are trailers for new games.
Among the titles that we already know before or that we already expected to win a sequel, we have the new Halo Infinite and Gears of War, after all, it wouldn't be a Microsoft conference without new titles for these franchises. We also had new games like Ori and The Will of The Wisps, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, a samurai game probably to counter Ghost of Tsushima from PlayStation 4, Metro Exodus, Devil May Cry 5 (which raised the crowd present at the conference), Jump Force, a fighting game that will bring together the main characters of famous anime, Dying Light 2, Just Cause 4 and the long-awaited Cyberpunk 2077, the new game from CD Projekt Red, announced -amazing- in 2012.
Other games we've been waiting for, but aren't so excited to see are Crackdown 3, which will feature Terry Crews, Forza Horizon 4, which appears every year at E3, Gears Pop, a smartphone version of Gears of War using Pop Funkos, The Division 2, a sequel to the game that created one of the biggest hypes in video game history and then proved to be an absurd disappointment and Captain Spirit, from the same universe as Life is Strange, an excellent game, but which is being sucked with games not so good to raise some more funds for the developer, as is the case with this one.
E3 2018: Square Enix
The weakest conference at this E3 was probably Square Enix. It's not that it doesn't have good titles, but we didn't have any new games that we weren't aware of with an exciting trailer or that showed off a lot. We were able to meet Babylon's Fall and The Quiet Man, two new franchises that look interesting, but with brief trailers being presented without much revelation.
Just Cause 4 we had already known previously at the Microsoft conference and Kingdom Hearts 3 had already been announced and appeared at other conferences, but at least it received a good trailer, probably one of the best in the company's presentation. The last game in the Lara Croft saga, Shadow of The Tomb Raider was also announced, leaving fans of the saga going crazy, but this is a franchise that has also been heavily explored by the publisher, which makes the "outsiders" not so excited. .
Other titles like Final Fantasy XIV Online and Dragon Quest XI also made their appearance, but we already expected that they would likely be at the conference, especially Dragon Quest, which is finally coming to the western world after being released in July last year in Japan.
E3 2018: Ubisoft
Ubisoft had another conference that lacked news: what we hadn't seen before, we expected or it wasn't a big deal. We had another trailer for Beyond Good and Evil 2, no gameplay this year, we saw more about Skull & Bones, a pirate game that seems to be leading a likely new wave of games in this style and a new update of For Honor, which is also temporarily for free on Uplay.
The only really new titles were Mario+Rabbids Kingdom Battle: Donkey Kong Adventure (what's all this for?), Just Dance 2019, Trials Rising and Transference, a live-action VR game. We also saw more of Starlink: Battle, which will have a special edition featuring Fox McCloud from Star Fox exclusive to Nintendo Switch and Assassin's Creed Odyssey, this year's title in Ubisoft's flagship franchise.
Finally, we had what has already been shown in other conferences The Division 2 and the racing game The Crew 2, two new games, but that were already expected and are not so awaited by the public after the average reception of their predecessor titles. In general, what caught the most attention at the conference was probably Beyond Good and Evil 2, which despite having a somewhat unknown predecessor, draws a lot of attention due to the look of its trailers.
E3 2018: Sony
E3 2018: What happened at the Sony conference After having the best E3 conferences year after year, this year Sony probably had its worst conference. At first, a new gameplay trailer for The Last of Us Part II was shown in a studio imitating a church that set the scene for the trailer, prepared exclusively for him, but after that the audience was moved to another larger amphitheater and this took a lot of time. time of the presentation, which featured a kind of talk show in this intermission, something that completely broke the incredible atmosphere that the end of the TLoU trailer created.
At least Sony recovered in the rest of the presentation, which featured gameplay from the highly anticipated Ghost of Tsushima, Marvel's Spider Man and the newest work by Hideo Kojima, one of the greatest game developers in history, Death Stranding, a game we didn't even get to understand what it's all about so far, but we already love it.
As for unexpected new announcements, we only had Nioh 2, the sequel to a Dark Souls-style samurai game Control, which looks a lot like the result of a cross between Quantum Break and Infamous (wtf) and Resident Evil 2, a remake that raised the audience at the Sony conference.
E3 2018: Nintendo
Nintendo's conference is not usually the most lively, mainly because it is very different from the others and recorded, however, it always has some new title that pleases its fans, this year was no different. The announcement of the new Super Smash Bros Ultimate was not only the highlight of the conference, but also took up half the time of the Japanese presentation. One of the main novelties of the game is that it can be played with a Game Cube controller.
Other new games announced were Daemon X Machina, a robot action game apparently heavily inspired by Transformers (but not so much); Killer Queen Black, which seems to be a smash bros-style multiplayer, but much simpler, and Super Mario Party, a multiplayer focused on groups of players, offering a wide variety of minigames set in the universe of Nintendo games.
Finally, Nintendo announced that the Switch will also be getting the portability of Fortnite and Hollow Knight games, as well as an expansion for Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and the release of Fire Emblem Three Houses, a title announced last year for the company's current console. .
