E3 2010

You can just feel the creativity being unleashed

For the longest time, at least when I had G4—a channel that was formerly focused primarily on video games, I’ve always wanted to attend the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), one of the largest industry only gaming conventions.

Thanks to my ties with the Coast Report, I got to attend this year’s E3 Expo—technically the Electronic Entertainment Expo Expo—in June.

My initial impression of the expo was that of wide-eyed amazement. Going to E3, the actual convention and not the press conferences, was just about every video game junkie’s and here was I—a guy who hasn’t really played any games in the last year—standing in the middle of the Los Angeles Convention Center’s West Hall staring at games that aren’t going to be released for another couple of months.

Soon the amazement gave way to indifference, although that might be too strong of a word. After years of watching G4’s coverage E3 in the comfort of my own home, it was built up as this big, exciting video game Mecca.

But after actually attending it, I was a bit letdown. Maybe it was because I wasn’t that much of a gamer to begin with, but E3 left me wanting more.

It may have to do with my previous attendance of San Diego’s Comic-Con where, unlike E3, the general public can attend. At Comic-Con, attendees were more flamboyant and the convention itself had a certain flair that E3 lacked.

But don’t get me wrong, I had a lot of fun at E3 and I’d go back in a heartbeat. I just wished things were a bit livelier.

In any case, with that spiel out of the way, check out some of my thoughts on the games I played at E3 (in alphabetical order—and for the sake of my laziness, I’m not going to spend the time explaining the plot of each game or really go in depth about them, the former because that can be Googled and the latter because E3 was about a month ago.

Part 1


Part 2