Phil Spencer took to stage and opened the conference day. Microsoft fired the first salvo, Rise of The Tomb Raider, coming holiday 2015 exclusive on Xbox. We also go a closer look at gameplay for Ori and The Blind Forest, beautiful platformer, dreamy art style, with a Rayman-feel. Several new IPs got introduced along side with staple Call of Duty, HALO, FORZA Horizons 2, Fable Legends and Sunset Overdrive. Microsoft also announced several hardware bundles: 1TB Call of Duty Advanced Warfare, Sunset Overdrive white XboxOne and FIFA 15 bundles. FIFA 15 also continued its exclusive FIFA Legends DLC on XBOX.
During the presser, we also got to see gameplay footage of Quantum Break from Remedy Entertainment. In short, the game is a 3rd person cover-based shooter with timecontrol mechanic. It also oozes a Max Payne vibe which is not surprising given Max Payne was Remedy's IP before it was sold off to Take2.
Here's the gameplay demo
Packed in somewhere in the middle of the presser is the ID@xbox section, which Escapist, Space Engineers, SMITE, SuperHot and Goat Simulator, were among the highlights. From the list of indie titles, Massive Chalice(Doublefine), Inside(Playdead) and Cuphead(SMHR) were some of the titles that piqued my interest. I hope they will come to PS4 eventually. Anyway, here's the ID@xbox games montage.
Overall, a strong showing from Microsoft, great variety of software from the 'indies' and 3rd party partners. HALO: The Masterchief Collection is a great way to play all of HALO story campaign and multiplayer on a single console and likely to be a great holiday gift for the XBOX gamer that will potentially move the XBOX360 player to upgrade to XBOX ONE.
The biggest news however that came out of the conference is Rise of Tomb Raider, coming Holiday 2015, exclusive on XBOX, which drew gasps from the live audience and thousands watching the livestream. This was later clarified as not an IP purchase and has a specific duration, further details were withheld.
Sony is next...
2 comments:
Luckily tr not exclusive forever.
Yeah, luckily for the developer Crystal Dynamics and gamers.
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