Post-E3 hype!

Evening guys! E3 just ended and there were some mad crazy announcements! Tonight I'll be covering my top 3 announcements from E3 this year!

FAAALLLLLOOOOUUUUTTTTTTTTTT

"I'll take all of them!"

Firstly, as many of you may know, I am a huge Fallout fan! So you guys should understand when I say I was hugely excited for Bethesda's conference on Monday! And quite frankly, it didn't disappoint. Not only did we get to see 35 minutes of gameplay, Todd Howard, Game Director at Bethesda announced that a free-to-play, game called 'Fallout Shelter' is to be released on mobile devices. So not only do we get one Fallout game, we get another free Fallout game too! Bethesda also revealed that a collectors edition of the game was to be released, containing a number of different items, most notably a working Pip-Boy! For those of you who have no idea what that is, it is basically a wearable watch/tablet. You can fit your phone inside of it and use it as an external device for your phone!

The 35 minutes of gameplay that was shown looked amazing. Just to name a few of the cooler looking features, Bethesda has seemed to added a brand new colour-palette. So no more bleak and depressing scenes and locale. A voice-acted main character, so you too can actually talk in the wasteland! And finally, probably one of the biggest surprises, Minecraft-esque customisation. No I don't mean everything is blocky and square, I mean that you can build! They showed in the demo the player building a home from scratch, collection resources and materials from the surrounding environment and putting together a structure. Fallout is known for its heavy customisation, but Fallout 4 looks to completely change the game and what we know of Fallout, and I'm looking forward to it!

Much customisation...

Even more ways to play!

As previously mentioned, it was announced that a mobile game, 'Fallout Shelter' was to be released. The app was released as soon as the conference ended and is only available on iOS devices currently. The game sets you the task of being an Overseer in a vault of your choice (an Overseer is like the Head of the vault). You have to set each person in your vault different tasks and slowly build up your vault. Not a new concept by any means, but already, the game can be seen as a success, as it has
already knocked Candy Crush Saga out of the top 3 in the AppStore. If you have an iOS device, go download the game and give it a play!

To top it all off, we also got a release date for Fallout 4. November 10th 2015. This definitely came as a surprise, as many believed that the game would come out some time in 2016, but hey, I ain't complaining!

Here's the full Fallout 4 conference from E3 if you haven't already seen it:

Star Wars Battlefront looks AMAZING!!!

Next up, Star Wars Battlefront. A brief gameplay demo was put on show during EA's conference at E3, and, it looked amazing.
Star Wars Battlefront was a game that I grew up with as a child. As most children were, I was a Star Wars fan and Battlefront allowed me to play as my favourite characters on my favourite planets and locations such as Tatooine and Hoth. Such sweet memories!

SWWWOOOOOOOSSSSHHHHHHHH

From the E3 demo, I can say that the new Battlefront looks fantastic!
The demo was set on the snowy planet of Hoth. Yes, we're back. The demo perfectly captured the feel of the previous two games, but in a HD next-gen kinda way. There were AT-AT's (the big walker things), AT-ST's (the leggy walker things) and Arc Starfighters (fighter planes!!). Everyone I loved is back! However, not only did vehicles make an appearance, but so did my favourite characters! We saw a glimpse of both Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker, doing their thing with the lightsabers.

BIG SPACE THINGS YYEEEEAAAAHHHHH

I thought that the gameplay looked very Battlefield-yy? There seemed to be a number of different objectives that players had to either go and capture and/or destroy, depending on what side you're fighting for. There also seemed to be side objectives within the match. In the demo, the Rebels had the opportunity to take down the AT-AT by using cable ties attached to the rear of the Snowspeeders, much like how it happened in the film. It all seemed very real and genuine, which is what you want to seem from a Star Wars game!

Much like Fallout, a release date was also announced during the conference . Keep November 20th 2015 free Ladies and Gentleman, Star Wars is back!

Here's the Battlefront gameplay if you haven't already seen it:

HoloLens. I want.

Finally, HoloLens. Do you remember that we talked about it a while back, say Monday 2nd March? No, well click here to remind yourself quickly! Done? Okay let's continue. 

It was so cool!

I said that you could, and I quote "Look down at the table, and you can play a game of checkers with the computer". Now they didn't play checkers, however, they did play a game of Minecraft! That guy wearing the HoloLens (left) was in a game with another presenter and he had full viewing of the structure they built within the map! The guy simply looked down at the table, and boom, Minecraft appeared! He even poked his head around the map and put his head inside the structure! 

$84 million and counting...

This is exciting stuff, simply because us video gamers are often left disappointed by video games. For example, look at Kickstarter. Kickstarter is a website that allows people with ideas to post their ideas, and then people give them money to fund the product and make it succeed. Now, of course, not every Kickstarter project is a failure, look at Star Citizen. The game has over 900,000 backers and has raised a whop
ping $84,228,549 (accurate as of 19th June). It is known as one of the most successful Kickstarter projects ever.

However, majority of the time, you see a game that looks to have high potential, then does not deliver. The video gaming industry is full of broken promises unfortunately.

The fact that we saw the HoloLens live in action and it looked to work shows Microsoft have actually been trying to make a decent, working VR headset, which I commend. Currently, there is no scheduled release date, and it will probably cost a great deal. Even so, I still want one.
Plz can I have??

Here's the HoloLens demo if you haven't already seen it:

So guys, these are my top picks from E3 this year. It was rather difficult to come up with top 3 as soooooo many tremendous announcements were made this year.
Do you agree with my top 3 picks? What were your favourite announcements from E3 this year? Let me know in the comments down below!

As always, thanks for taking time out of your day to have a read of my blog! I hope it's worth your time!

Connor :)