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Saturday 22 June 2013

E3 2013: Microsoft

 Xbox 360


Exclusives
World of Tanks

  • Port of the Free-to-Play PC game.
  • Will still be Free-To-Play.
Max: The Curse of Brotherhood
TitanFall

  • Respawn Entertainment’s first game. This is the team formed by many of the ex-Infinity Ward staffers.
  • No single player campaign, just multiplayer.
  • Also on Xbox One & PC.
LocoCycle

  • This game is basically an arcade vehicle combat game combined with a brawler. As you drive you can shoot at enemies or launch yourself into the air to fight them with your wheels.
  • The motorcycle will breakdown at specific times and you have to fix it with QTE style mini-games.
Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare

  • A 3rd person shooter where you can play as certain Plants and use others as items.
  • Has a Horde type mode.
  • Will launch exclusively on Xbox One and come to 360 later.
Zoo Tycoon

  • Also on Xbox One
Fantasia: Music Evolved

  • Also on Xbox One

Multiplatform
Dark Souls 2
Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara

  • Includes Tower of Doom and Shadow Over Mystara.
  • Available now.
Cloudberry Kingdom
Disney Infinity
Killer is Dead
Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director’s Cut

  • The Gamepad functionality added to this version of the game when it was going to be a Wii U exclusive is now compatible with SmartGlass.
Dying Light
Mickey Mouse: Castle of Illusions HD
Wolfenstein: The New Order

  • You can duel-wield most weapons in the game, but they have to be the same weapon. You cannot mix and match weapon combos.
  • There is a cool new tool that allows you to cut through metal in the environment in order to make holes that you can shoot through.
Pro Evolution Soccer 2014
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified

  • Tells the origin story of the XCOM project.
  • Features main and side quests including missions that you can’t partake in that are for leveling up your weaker squad members.
  • A pop-up menu, somewhat reminiscent of the one in the Mass Effect games, allows you to order your squad-mates to positions, to take cover, to designate targets and to use abilities.
  • Still has permanent death for your squad members, but not for you.
Skylanders: Swap Force
The Evil Within

  • Setting up and using traps on your enemies is said to be an important part of the gameplay.
  • You can choose to save bullets, which will be scarce, by lighting injured enemies on fire with matches. However, enemies can fake being wounded in order to lure you in close for your finisher before striking. 
Pac-Man Championship Edition DX +

  • A free update for Pac-Man Championship Edition DX that will improve the leaderboards and interface.
  • It will also add 4 optional paid map skins and achievements/trophies. Two of the skins are based on the upcoming TV show, Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures, one is from Dig Dug and the last one is from Rally-X. The Dig Dug and Rally-X map skins will also change your avatar and enemies to look like the characters from those games.
Lego Marvel Super Heroes
Call of Duty: Ghosts

  • Available November 5, 2013.
The Walking Dead 400 Days

  • DLC for Telltale’s The Walking Dead.
  • It is 1 episode consisting of 5 short stories about different characters at different times during the zombie apocalypse.
  • The stories are supposed to be interconnected, with your choices in one affecting the other, but you are able to play them in any order.
  • Choices in Season 1 can affect 400 Days and 400 Days can affect Season 2.
  • Available this summer.
Contrast
Murdered Soul Suspect

  • Can earn upgrades and new/improved supernatural abilities.
  • Available Early 2014.
Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z

  • Available Early 2014.
Brothers A Tale of Two Sons
Duck Tales: Remastered
Lost Planet 3
Rocksmith 2014

  • You can select a virtual band that plays along with you according to your performance.
Splinter Cell: Black List
Rayman Legends

  • Contains over 120 levels, musical maps and competitive modes
  • Available on September 3, 2013.
South Park: The Stick of Truth
Watch Dogs

  • Multiplayer consists of a smartphone/tablet app that allows people to interact with your game by hacking into the environment in order to either help or hinder you.
Just Dance 2014

  • Up to 6 players.
  • Can have primary and backup dancers.
Assassin’s Creed 4

  • Will contain specific isolated underwater scenes, you cannot just go underwater at any spot in the ocean.
  • You can no longer call in assassins to take out enemies for you.
Trials Fusion
Saints Row 4
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2

  • No more fixed camera angles.
Dragon Age Inqusition

  • Available Fall 2014.
Thief
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Batman: Arkham Origins
Destiny
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII

Xbox One

Exclusives
Ryse: Son of Rome

  • You can unlock different finishing moves that will give out different bonuses like restoring health or additional experience points.
  • The game will have a 2 player co-op mode in the Colosseum.
  • Using Kinect you can say the words that your character uses when issuing commands to activate them. For example if when pressing the ‘advance’ button your character says “march” then you can say “march” instead of pressing the button to make your allies advance.
  • Day 1 launch title.
Killer Instinct

  • Free-to-play fighting game.
  • You start off with only Jago as a playable character, but you have access to all of the game’s modes and features including the ability to fight any character. When you find an interesting character you can purchase it to play with or you can just buy a season pass that gives you all of the characters along with any additional characters up until a certain point.
  • Day 1 launch title.
Sunset Overdrive

  • The first exclusive game Insomniac has ever put on an Xbox console.
Forza Motorsport 5

  • Uses The Cloud to monitor every aspect of your play style in order to create an AI based on it, so that every race you play in single player is populated by racers as intelligent as real people.
Minecraft
D4

  • Appears to be a Kinect game although it wasn’t stated.
  • Designed by the guy responsible for Deadly Premonition.
Quantum Break

  • Has a live-action TV series tie-in that ships in the box with the game.
  • The story revolves around time breaking down and the possible end of time.
  • An open-ended game that you can influence with your decisions. Most of that influence (if not all of it) comes from playing as the lead antagonist in the game and making decisions as to what time rifts he will create and what challenges will face the heroes.
  • Speaking of heroes you have two different playable good characters that you will alternate between at certain points in the game.
  • You get your own ‘director’s cut’ of the show based on your decisions in the game.
  • The main characters in the show and game are different, but they are building towards the same point from different perspectives.
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Project Spark

  • Project Spark allows you create your own worlds and game play scenarios.
  • It is compatible with SmartGlass and also Kinect voice control for selecting and crafting your gameplay sessions.
  • You can upload any of your creations then other people can update & tweak them and send you new & improved or radically changed versions.
Crimson Dragon

  • From the creator of Panzer Dragoon.
Dead Rising 3

  • Has a remarkable amount of zombies on screen at a time and there are no load times in the whole open world even when entering buildings. Loading will only occur when there is a cutscene or something like that.
  • There is no longer a time limit in the standard version of the game, but you can play Nightmare mode which does have it.
  • SmartGlass is tied to a second character in the story that has control over some military tech.
  • Supports co-op in the campaign (two actual zombie killers not the SmartGlass guy).
  • Day 1 launch title.
Halo
TitanFall

  • Respawn Entertainment’s first game. This is the team formed by all the ex-Infinity Ward staffers.
  • No single player campaign, just multiplayer.
  • Also on Xbox 360 & PC
Kinect Sports Rivals
LocoCycle

  • This game is basically an arcade vehicle combat game combined with brawler. As you drive you can shoot at enemies or launch yourself into the air to fight them with your wheels.
  • The motorcycle will breakdown at specific times and you have to fix it with QTE style mini-games.
Rabbids Invasion

  • A TV show on Nickelodeon that can be ‘interacted’ with through your Xbox One using a layer over the show.
Plants vs Zombies Garden Warfare

  • A 3rd person shooter using where you can play as certain Plants and use others as items.
  • Has a Horde type mode.
  • Will launch exclusively on Xbox One and come to 360 later.
Zoo Tycoon

  • Also on Xbox 360
Fantasia: Music Evolved

  • Also on Xbox 360

Multiplatform
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

  • Includes multiplayer.
  • Offers SmartGlass support.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Battlefield 4

  • Enhanced destructible environments that let you collapse floors and take down certain buildings.
  • Boat combat has been added.
  • All DLC launches first on Xbox One.
The Elder Scrolls Online

  • Launches with Fighter & Mages guild, Thief and Assassins guilds will come later.
  • Offers the 1st person combat that the series is known for.
Dying Light
Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade

  • An MMO coming out in late 2013.
Wolfenstein: The New Order

  • You can duel-wield most weapons in the game, but they have to be the same weapon. You cannot mix and match weapon combos.
  • There is a cool new tool that allows you to cut through metal in the environment in order to make holes that you can shoot through.
Mad Max

  • Features an open-world.
Skylanders: Swap Force
Lego Marvel Super Heroes
Call of Duty: Ghosts

  • Available November 5, 2013 (possibly (we don’t know the Xbox One’s release date)).
Final Fantasy XV

  • Formally Final Fantasy Versus 13.
  • Will have direct sequels.
Kingdom Hearts 3

  • IT IS IN DEVELOPMENT!
Lords of the Fallen
The Crew

  • Can play co-op in every mission in the campaign.
  • Has other players populating your city, driving around, and you can battle other crews with your crew.
  • Can customize your car on your iPad.
  • Claims to let you drive through the whole USA. They also say that in a fast car you can go from New York to LA in 90-105 minutes when it actually takes 41 hours in a normal car. There is off roading, but it seems like they will have certain major cities spread out across the country that you can drive to with the area in-between drastically scaled down so you can’t just go to any random home town. The cities might be smaller than in real life also.
  • The story is about infiltrating a crime syndicate and is supposed to last around 20 hours.
  • Early 2014
Watch Dogs

  • Multiplayer consists of a smartphone/tablet app that allows people to interact with your game by hacking into the environment in order to either help or hinder you.
Just Dance 2014

  • Up to 6 players.
  • Can have primary and backup dancers.
Assassin’s Creed 4

  • Will contain specific isolated underwater scenes, you cannot just go underwater at any spot in the ocean.
  • You can no longer call in assassins to take out enemies for you.
Trials Fusion
Tom Clancy’s The Division

  • A new Tom Clancy series.
  • An open world RPG, 3rd person shooter.
  • Someone can play as a flying support device using a tablet.
  • You take over areas of the city and try to restore it back to how it was. The story also revolves around finding those responsible for the outbreak.
  • Has a max level, but will have end game content and be persistent with new updates.
  • Multiplayer won’t be separate, there will be places in the city called Dark Zones for PVP and PVE missions. When battling players if you win you can take items from them, but if you lose you will lose items. The game will support many other players roaming around your world doing their own things.
  • Customizable appearance and skills.
  • The game scales difficulty based on the number of people in your party.
Star Wars Battlefront
Mirror’s Edge
Dragon Age Inqusition

  • Available Fall 2014.
Thief
Need for Speed: Rivals

  • Can play as a racer or as a cop and drive around an open world filled with other players to escape or pursue, even while in an actual race.
NBA Live 14
Madden 25
FIFA 14

  • Exclusive Ultimate Team mode for Xbox One.
UFC

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Diablo 3
NBA 2K14
Destiny

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